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
In picture books, Please! Open This Book! so you can read about The Race from A to Z, also known as Once Upon an Alphabet. It is all about a Bean, a Stalk and a Boy Named Jack.
In easy readers, Lion, Tiger, and Bear remind us about their Farm Days while Brownie & Pear Grab a Bite.
Nonfiction
Two blog-to-book projects for October are Tavi Gevinson’s third Rookie book and Brandon Stanton’s Little Humans from his Humans of New York blog. We go into space with Ken Jenkins and Carl Sagan. And we learn about animals with a book from Steve Jenkins about why animals look the way they look and one from Katherine Applegate about the real-life inspiration for her Newbery Medal winning novel.
Fiction
Riordan concludes both the Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series in a final and satisfying way with The Blood of Olympus, October's big laydown for juvenile fiction. ***Sparkle Slam!***Princess Pounce!***Twinkle Twinkle Little Smash!*** are the expert superhero moves of Hales' and Pham's new, positively delightful Princess in Black, who tradition-bucking attire and activities were inspired by the Hales' daughter declaiming at storytime, "princesses don't wear black!" Then, on a more serious note, Newbery Honor winner Eugene Yelchin, takes us back into cold, lonely, and achingly evocative Soviet Russia with Arcady's Goal. And saving the darkest and best for last, Neil Gaiman teams with illustrator and graphic novelist Lorenzo Mattotti to give us a shiver-inducing adaptation of Hansel and Gretel which Kirkus has already deemed as "absolutely necessary" for collections.
For YA fiction, high-concept science fiction James Frey style will be the huge October laydown, featuring an interactive puzzle designed by professional cryptographers, an augmented reality game tied to the book, and a valuable grand prize to the first reader to solve said puzzle. Then for your October chill-chasers, we have Becca Fitzpatrick's mystery-thriller Black Ice, which finds our protagonist hiking through the blizzard-laden woods with a kidnapper and a killer. And, Printz winner Bacigalupi gives us a different sort of thriller where modern villains can turn out to be the people you trusted most in The Doubt Factory. Finally, the book I was most excited to read this fall is a precursor to the Abhorsen Chronicles, in which we learn the making of a free-magic sorcerer and what can happen when a passion is thwarted.
Graphic Novels
October will see the publication of several juvenile titles; leading the pack is Big Nate: The Crowd Goes Wild!, followed by the highly anticipated first book in the Heroes of Olympus series, the third installment in the Explorer series, and the third Lego Legends of Chima. In teen, there is much excitement for Cory Doctorow’s In Real Life.
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