Here we round up new and forthcoming children’s titles, including a YA horror playing with tropes, a middle grade mystery featuring a helpful fowl companion, a YA mystery spinoff, and more.

The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington. Simon & Schuster, $19.99; ISBN 978-1-6659-2245-6. When Black 17-year-old Devon and her friends mess around with a Ouija board, a “knockoff Slenderman” demon appears, dropping the group into a real-life slasher film.

Fowl Play by Kristin O’Donnell Tubb. HarperCollins/Tegen, $18.99; ISBN 978-0-06-327403-7. Chloe uses the skills she learned from her Grammy’s true crime podcasts and a beloved bird passed down to her to initiate a murder investigation into her uncle’s death. The middle grade book received a starred review from PW.

The Grandest Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. Little, Brown, $19.99; ISBN 978-0-316-48101-4. Sequestered contestants vie for millions in this fiendishly clever thriller, the first in a spinoff series from Barnes’s Inheritance Games saga.

Hey! Look at You!: A Captivating Mirror Book by Sandra Boynton. Boynton Bookworks, $9.99, ISBN 978-1-665-95316-0. In this interactive picture book featuring animal-shaped mirrors throughout, readers can imitate their favorite animals.

The Mirror of Beasts by Alexandra Bracken. Knopf, $20.99; ISBN 978-0-593-48169-1. In the sequel to Silver in the Bone, Tamsin and her crew are in pursuit of a magical mirror that will force Tamsin to face her past.

The Night Librarian by Christopher Lincoln. Dial, $23.99; ISBN 978-0-5936-1765-6; $13.99 paper ISBN 978-0-593-61766-3. Twins Page and Reed Turner inadvertently trigger a literary upheaval, unleashing iconic characters into the corridors of the New York Public Library. The middle grade book received a starred review from PW.

Such Charming Liars by Karen M. McManus. Delacorte, $20.99; ISBN 978-0-593-48505-7. Former stepsiblings Kat and Liam are reunited when their parents both arrive at a party to pull of separate heists, and must work together when a murder takes place.

A Terrible Place for a Nest by Sara Levine, illus. by Erika Meza. Roaring Brook, $19.99; ISBN 978-1-250-86122-1. After a sudden move, Juno discovers a nest full of dove eggs at his new home and begins to care for them.

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