The Unlikely Lottery Winners of Classroom 13

After perennially unlucky teacher Linda LaCrosse’s lottery ticket nets her $28 billion, she splits her winnings with her class, per a contract they signed. In the subsequent chapters, the authors cheekily explore how the children use their enormous windfalls: Emma Embry buys “every cat in the state” and moves to an island with them (too bad she’s allergic), popular Jayden Jason James clones himself, and class hamster Earl shreds and pees on his check. Keeping the dozens of students straight isn’t particularly easy but neither is it the point: these brief and funny fantasies revel in the tantalizing possibilities of insta-wealth. Final art not seen by PW. Ages 6–10. Illustrator’s agency: Bright Agency. (June)