Picture Books & Easy Readers
Uh-Oh!, it looks like Pete the Cat’s Groovy Guide to Life didn’t tell us to Never Ask a Dinosaur to Dinner. Also, Tommy Can’t Stop! riding My Bike while I’m Outstanding in the Rain. By the way, Have You Seen My Monster? I wanted to bring him along to Chu’s Day at the Beach.
Splat the Cat is screaming for Ice Cream at Fancy Nancy’s Super Secret Surprise Party. Meanwhile Biscuit Goes Camping while Amelia Bedelia is interested in Birds.
Fiction
Big name YA authors Maggie Stiefvater and Jackson Pearce are teaming up to give us a new middle grade fantasy series about a young girl who finds herself working at a clinic for magical creatures. And from the masterful Rita Williams-Garcia, another tale of the Gaither Sisters, this time going down South in Gone Crazy in Alabama. Finally, from adult author Spencer Quinn (Chet & Bernie Mysteries) comes suspenseful novel Woof told from the canine POV--sure to be popular with mystery, humor, or animal fans--so pretty much every kid.
We're predicting the big YA title for April will be An Ember in the Ashes, a debut novel of note, despite the glut of dystopian fantasy. In contemporary realistic fiction one of my favorite writers, Courtney Summers, delivers a gut-wrenching, honest portrayal of a young woman and a small town in crisis--it's Speak for a new, more vulnerable generation. And from Neal Shusterman comes a very personal and haunting novel about mental illness in Challenger Deep. Lastly, I wanted to call out Margi Preus's latest offering, both because of her departure from historical fiction and being published by a university press--in Enchantment Lake a teen sleuth investigates a murder around her childhood vacation home in Minnesota.
Nonfiction
Teens get an interesting array of topics to read about with Mariel Hemingway’s memoir, an overview of the financial crisis of 2008-09, a new edition of What Color Is Your Parachute, and the story of pen pals from the U.S. and Zimbabwe.
Popular nonfiction authors Laurence Pringle, Seymour Simon, and Robert Burleigh are back with new titles.
Graphic Novels
April will see the publication of several juvenile and teen titles: in juvenile, Babymouse tries her hand at babysitting in volume 19, Benjamin Bear is back with more silliness, Last of the Sandwalkers which incorporates scientific principles into a beetle-y adventure tale, and volume 7 of Pokemon Adventures: Black and White.
In teen, we have Supermutant Magic Academy from co-creator of award-winning This One Summer, volume 74 of One Piece, the next volume of Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, this time taking on abolition, and volume two of Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Two.
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