Comprised of predicted bestsellers and promising debuts, Youth HITS (High Interest Title Selections) are monthly selection lists Ingram's librarians recommend our customers consider for purchase. Click here for a full listing of HITS titles.
Picture Books & Easy Readers
September is quite the colorful month with both Bear Sees Colors and Blue on Blue landing. Additionally, Louise Loves Art so she tries to Mix It Up! when she Draws a Circle, Square, Moose.
Following that, we can’t forget the holiday season! The Ghosts Go Haunting, then there is The Great Thanksgiving Escape. Next, Simon and the Bear celebrate Hanukkah, And Then Comes Christmas. Monster Needs a Christmas Tree in order to have a Chick ‘n’ Pug Christmas. And don’t forget to celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas, LeUyen Pham style.
Nonfiction
Nonfiction HITS for September include titles that begin a discussion of transgender and other gender identity issues: I Am Jazz, Some Assembly Required, Rethinking Normal, and a 20th anniversary edition of It’s Perfectly Normal (It’s So Amazing also has an anniversary edition, its 15th year). For more transgender titles publishing this fall, please see Monthly Musings in the book review section.
Fiction
September always sees the hottest releases of the year, and for juvenile fiction Holly Black and Cassie Clare combine their formidable fantastical talents in series-starter, The Iron Trial. Another interesting debut collaboration comes from actor Jason Segel (HIMYM) and Kirsten Miller (Kiki Strike) showcasing what happens when nightmares come to life. On the realistic fiction front, Christopher Paul Curtis follows up his Newbery Honor story Elijah of Buxton with The Madman of Piney Woods, and Newbery winner Kadohata explores the issues families face with troubled overseas adoptions in Half a World Away. Finally, for something completely different, a middle-grade moon mystery from Stuart Gibbs.
In YA fiction, the buzz around Westerfeld's Afterworlds will pull in fantasy readers, writers, and YA enthusiasts of all stripes because of its high-concept premise (see this month's author interview for the skinny.) And Hiaasen publishes his first YA novel with the show-stealing Skink as one half of a sleuthing duo bent on finding a truant teen. Master storyteller Gregory Maguire takes on Russian history and the legend of Baba Yaga in lush, complex fairy tale Egg & Spoon, and Andrew Smith's latest protagonist tries to emerge from a book character's shadow. Lastly, even reviewers like me are eagerly awaiting the release of Yancey's The Infinite Sea, as Penguin torturously decided to print no ARCs. Happy Fall!
Graphic Novels
September will see the publication of several juvenile titles; graphic memoir El Deafo is a stand-out as well as The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Presents Macbeth in which zoo animals put on Shakespeare and the second volume of The Graveyard Book. There are also a host of new volumes in series including: Lego Ninjago, Thea Stilton, Pokemon Adventures, and Adventure Time. In teen, there is the second volume of Battling Boy with Aurora coming more into play.
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