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Paper Cage. By Tom Baragwanath. Feb. 2024. 320p. Knopf, $28 (9780593685105); e-book (9780593685112). This gritty debut novel is part thriller and part compelling analysis of the social tensions in a [...]

Under the Paper Moon. By Shaina Steinberg. Apr. 2024. 304p. Kensington, $27 (9781496747808); e-book (9781496747815). During World War II, aeronautics heiress Evelyn Bishop, desperate to find her brother in a [...]

Perfect Paper Cranes. By Melissa Iwai. Ulus, by the author. May 2024. 32p. Harper, $17.99 (9780063208155); paper, $5.99 (9780063208148). PreS-Gr. 2. In this story from the Gigi and Ojiji series, [...]

This announcement section offers readers a selected preview of notable new titles for young-adult, middle-grade, and young readers. All titles will be published in the spring or summer 2024 seasons. [...]

Focus on Brazil. By Natalie Hyde. 2023. 48p. illus. paper, $11.95 (9781039815476); lib. ed., $33.27 (9781039815216). 918.1. Focus on Cuba. By Heather C. Hudak. 2023. 48p. illus. paper, $11.95 (9781039815483); [...]

Exploring the National Parks. By Samantha Bell. 2023. 32p. illus. paper, $14.21 (9781668928431); lib. ed., $32.07 (9781668927380); e-book, $49.21 (9781668934340). 363.68. Nature's Monuments. By Samantha Bell. 2023. 32p. illus. paper, [...]

Much like the young humans it describes, tween, as a term, can be hard to pin down. Preteen sums it up physiologically, but in terms of literature, we at Booklist [...]

Animal Extinctions: A Graphic Guide. By Stephanie Loureiro. Art by Ash Stryker. 2024. 32p. paper, $10.99 (9798765623466); lib. ed., $33.32 (9781728476902). 591.68. Climate Activists: A Graphic Guide. By Stephanie Loureiro. [...]

Deb Haaland. By Laurel Goodluck. Illus. by Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint. 2023. 96p. $16.99 (9780593620694); paper, $6.99 (9780593620700). 323.1197. Opal Lee. By Shelia p. Moses and Chelsea Clinton. Illus. [...]

LeBron James. By Andrew Maraniss. Illus. by DeAndra Hodge. Mar. 2024. 96p. $16.99 (9780593526156); paper, $6.99 (9780593526163). 796.323092. Maya Moore. By Andrew Maraniss. Illus. by DeAndra Hodge. Mar. 2024. 96p. [...]

Tragedy at Sea: The Sinking of the Titanic. By David Long. Illus. by Stefano Tambellini. Apr. 2024. 96p. Union Square Kids, paper, $8.99 (9781454954866). Gr. 4-7. 910.9163. While some may [...]

How to End a Love Story. By Yulin Kuang. Apr. 2024. 384p. Avon, paper, $18.99 (9780063310681); e-book (9780063310698). After working on a couple of successful television shows, scriptwriter Grant Shepard [...]

Flight of the Wild Swan. By Melissa Pritchard. Mar. 2024. 416p. Bellevue, paper, $18.99 (9781954276215); e-book (9781954276222). Drawing on Florence Nightingale's extensive letters and journals, Pritchard strips away sentimental imagery [...]

* The Sky Was Ours. By Joe Fassler. Apr. 2024. 464p. Penguin, paper, $18 (9780143135685); e-book (9780525507390). Twentysomething Jane, wandering aimlessly, finds herself in the tiny town of Lack. She's [...]

The Good Ones Are Taken. By Taj McCoy. Apr. 2024. 304p. MIRA, paper, $18.99 (9780778305422); e-book (9780369747846). From the moment they first met in college, Maggie Jones and Garret Bailey [...]

Take Me to Laolao. By Kelly Zhang. Illus. by Evie Zhu. Jan. 2024. 32p. HarperCollins/Quill Tree, $19.99 (9780063217652). K-Gr. 3. It is the night of the Lantern Festival and the [...]

Expiration Dates. By Rebecca Serle. Read by Julia Whelan. Mar. 2024. 7hr. Simon & Schuster Audio, DD (9781797168661). Who can resist a romance that dips a toe into the waters [...]

Plague Thieves. By Caroline Fernandez. May 2024. 208p. Cormorant/DCB, paper, $14.95 (9781770867321). Gr.4-7. In 1655, living on the streets of London means a swift, bleak descent into poverty, hunger, crime, [...]

Silver Vessels By Steve Orlando. Illus. by Katia Vecchio. Mar. 2024. 176p. Maverick, paper, $14.99 (9781952303586). Gr. 7-10.741.5. Joshua Friedman is a teen with treasure on his mind. He has [...]

A Cat from Our World and the Forgotten Witch, v.1. By Hiro Kashiwaba. Illus. by the author. 2024. 168p. Seven Seas, paper, $13.99 (9798888432594). Gr. 7-12.741.5. An isekai manga for [...]

Since I Could Die Tomorrow, v.1. By Sumako Kari. Illus. by the author. 2024. 160p. Tokyopop, paper, $13.99 (9781427875273). 741.5. A perfect companion to Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back, [...]

Old Flames and New Fortunes. By Sarah Hogle. Apr. 2024. 384p. Putnam, paper, $18 (9780593715055); e-book (9780593715062). Moonville, a quaint town in rural Ohio, is where Romina Tempest and her [...]

Young Rich Widows. By Vanessa Lillie and others. Apr. 2024. 352p. Sourcebooks/Landmark, paper, $16.99 (9781728294018); e-book (9781728294025). Young Rich Wives is a fun, campy thriller that will have readers laughing [...]

Nothing without Me. By Helen Monks Takhar. Apr. 2024. 400p. Random, paper, $18 (9780593596180); e-book (9780593596197). April Eden is on the verge of greatness. Her directorial debut, The Vanished Woman, [...]

Tired Ladies Take a Stand. By Gretchen Anthony. May 2024. 336p. Park Row, paper, $18.99 (9780778307969); e-book (9780369746887). Anthony (The Book Hater's Book Club, 2022) presents a story about four [...]

Sleepaway. By Kevin Prufer. Apr. 2024. 184p. Acre, paper, $20 (9781946724717). Renowned poet Prufer's debut novel is an excellent, slow-moving apocalyptic narrative set in 1984 in a small American town [...]

A Kind of Madness. By Uche Okonkwo. Apr. 2024. 208p. Tin House, paper, $16.95 (9781959030386). Okonkwo's debut short-story collection is an artistic exploration of the hidden lives of ordinary people. [...]

Tuned In: Memoirs of a Piano Man: Behind the Scenes with Music Legends and Finding the Artist Within. By Jim Wilson. Apr. 2024. 264p. illus. New Book Authors, paper, $18.95 [...]

The Long Hallway. By Richard Scott Larson. Apr. 2024. 192p. Univ. of Wisconsin, paper, $21.95 (9780299347246). 791.43616. Larson first viewed John Carpenter's classic horror film Halloween when he was nine, [...]

Lo Simpson Starts a Revolution. By Melanie Florence. Apr. 2024. 216p. Orca, paper, $14.95 (9781459838505). Gr.4-7. Twelve-year-old Lauren (Lo) Simpson and her best friend, Jazz, find themselves drifting apart when [...]

The Father She Went to Find. By Carter Wilson. Apr. 2024. 336p. Poisoned Pen, paper, $16.99 (9781728293479). When Penny Bly was seven, her mother pushed her down the stairs. Emerging [...]

The Devil's Grip. By Lina Wolff. Tr. by Saskia Vogel. Apr. 2024. 288p. Other, paper, $17.99 (9781635424201); e-book (9781635424218). In the romantic city of Florence, a woman newly arrived from [...]

* Nobody Lives Forever/Tomorrow's Another Day. By W. R. Burnett. Mar. 2024. 284p. Stark House, paper, $19.95 (9798886010770). Fans of hardboiled detective stories and old-time gangster movies should love this [...]

A Spartan's Sorrow. By Hannah Lynn. Apr. 2024. 336P. Sourcebooks/Landmark, paper, $17.99 (9781728284279). Helen of Troy has been abducted by Paris, sparking a declaration of war by Agamemnon of Mycenae, [...]

Watch It Burn. By Kristen Bird. Mar. 2024. 336p. MIRA, paper, $18.99 (9780778369691); e-book (9780369748744). The tight-knit Texas town of Edenberg is picture perfect, right down to its quaint main [...]

Kitchen Apocrypha. By Gregory Emilio. Apr. 2024. 96p. Able Muse, $29.95 (9781773491707); paper, $19.95 (9781773491080); e-book (9781773491073). 811. In this inventive debut collection, food writer Emilio bases each poem on [...]

Spotting Dottie. By Gail Anderson-Dargatz. Apr. 2024. 112p. Orca, paper, $10.95 (9781459834828). Gr. 5-8. Charlotte's grandmother has spent most of her life searching Dorothy Lake for Dottie, its reputed lake [...]

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You'd Look Better as a Ghost. By Joanna Wallace. Mar. 2024. 336p. Penguin, paper, $18 (9780143136170). Claire's life could be used in a debate between proponents of the nature versus [...]

The Mystery Writer. By Sulari Gentill. Mar. 2024. 352p. Poisoned Pen, paper, $16.99 (9781728285184). Theodosia "Theo" Benton moves from Sydney to Lawrence, Kansas, after dropping out of university. She lives [...]

Dublin Tales. Ed. by Eve Patten and Paul Delaney. Feb. 2024. 272p. Oxford, paper, $16.95 (9780192855558). A curated anthology of short fiction celebrates the city of Dublin as a literary [...]

My First Sewing Machine: 30 Fun Projects Kids Will Love to Make. By Coralie Bijasson. Mar. 2024. 128p. illus. Search, paper, $16.95 (9781800921580). 646.2044. The sewing machine and its accompanying [...]

Female Founders' Playbook: Insights from the Superwomen Who Have Made It. By Anne Boden. Mar. 2024. 256p. Kogan Page, paper, $19.99 (9781398616158); e-book (9781398616363). 658. Drawing on decades of experience, [...]

Casting Shadows: Solar and Lunar Eclipses with The Planetary Society [R]. By Bruce Betts. Jan. 2024. 32p. illus. Lerner, paper, $9.99 (9798765624562); lib. ed., $30.65 (9798765608975). K-Gr. 3. 523.99. Using [...]

Exploring AI. By Gaelen Hadlett. Jan. 2024. 32p. illus. Capstone, paper, $8.99 (9781669074656). Gr. 6-8. 006.3. As the title suggests, this collaboration with the International Society for Technology in Education [...]

The Rain Artist. By Claire Rudy Foster. Feb. 2024. 268p. Moonstruck, paper, $19 (9798988815402); e-book (9798988815419). Foster's (Shine of the Ever, 2019) latest is set in a not-so-distant future when [...]

These books are recommended by Bluelnk Review, a fee-based review service. Every month, Bluelnk will compile a list of their favorite self-published titles for Booklist, as a service to librarians [...]

Till There Was You. By Lindsay Hameroff. Feb. 2024. 320p. St. Martin's/Griffin, paper, $17.99 (9781250902917); e-book (9781250902924). In her debut romance, Hameroff balances the wish-fulfillment of dating a rock star [...]

* No One Dies Yet. By Kobby Ben Ben. Feb. 2024. 384p. Europa, paper, $18 (9781609457563). This cinematic, cutting, and smart debut novel follows a group of young men in [...]

This Disaster Loves You. By Richard Roper. Feb. 2024. 384p. Putnam, paper, $18 (9780593540701). Brian Taplowe spends his days in his mostly empty, deteriorating pub, entertaining himself and a regular [...]