Hitting bookshelves next week are a picture book featuring a monstrous crayon amalgamation, an early reader that tries to lull animals to sleep, and a YA novel by an award-winning author dealing with mental illness.

The Siren by Kiera Cass. HarperTeen, $18.99; ISBN 978-0-06-239199-5. In this standalone YA fantasy novel from the author of the Selection series, a siren falls in love with a human boy.

Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart. Scholastic Press, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-545-66577-3. Gemeinhart (The Honest Truth) delivers an historical novel about 12-year-old orphan Joseph Johnson, who befriends a Chinese boy Ah-Knee, and the boys both set off together, Joseph to rescue his horse, and Ah-Knee for his own mysterious goal.

The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman. Viking, $18.99; ISBN 978-0-670-78547-6. In a collision of Regency romance and dark fantasy, Goodman (Eona) tells the story of Lady Helen Wrexhall, a wealthy 18-year-old orphan on the eve of coming out at the court of King George III. The book earned a starred review from PW.

Front Lines by Michael Grant. HarperCollins/Tegen, $18.99; ISBN 978-0-06-234215-7. In this alternate history, Grant (the Messenger of Fear series) envisions a 1940 lawsuit that leads to the draft and the right to enlist being extended to women. The book earned a starred review from PW.

Frankencrayon by Michael Hall. Greenwillow, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-225211-1. In this picture book, a pencil narrates; it’s directing an all-crayon production of Frankencrayon. The creature is played by purple, green, and orange crayons, stacked precariously to monster height, with the green crayon’s head appropriately sutured.

Audacity Jones to the Rescue by Kirby Larson. Scholastic Press, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-545-84056-9. In the launch of this historical middle grade series, the eponymous protagonist lives in a home for wayward girls. PW gave the book a starred review.

I’m from Nowhere by Suzanne Myers. Soho Teen, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-61695-660-8. When her journalist mother is sent overseas on assignment, 10th-grader Wren Verlaine is uprooted from her California home and shipped off to a prestigious boarding school.

The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend by Sharon Robinson. Scholastic Press, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-545-80451-6. The daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson offers a middle grade novel based on the true story of her father’s friendship with a young neighbor.

It’s All Your Fault by Paul Rudnick. Scholastic Press, $19.99; ISBN 978-0-545-46428-4. In this YA novel, Heller Harrigan, a troubled teen star made famous in a Hannah Montana-like TV show, is about to make her big-screen debut in a film based on a YA novel, one that sounds like an angel-themed mashup of Twilight and The Hunger Games.

Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit. Knopf, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-553-51334-9. Seven-year-old Anna is orphaned in WWII Poland with nowhere to turn until she falls in with a reluctant stranger, a tall, reticent man who communicates with birds and speaks in metaphors. PW gave the book a starred review.

The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork. Scholastic/Levine, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-545-47432-0. The author of Marcelo in the Real World tackles adolescent depression in this YA novel. The book earned a starred review from PW.

What This Story Needs Is a Hush and a Shush by Emma J. Virjan. HarperCollins, $9.99; ISBN 978-0-06-241528-8. In this bedtime-themed companion to What This Story Needs Is a Pig in a Wig, Virján’s scarlet-bouffanted pig is trying to go to sleep but, as in the previous book, she’s promptly joined by a slew of animals.

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