Shaun David Hutchinson, et al. Simon Pulse, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9111-2
Nine perspectives interweave in a novel composed of divergent, unsettling stories from authors that include Brandy Colbert, Justina Ireland, Alaya Dawn Johnson, and Stephanie Kuehn. A group of delinquent teens is sent to Zeppelin Bend, an outdoor...
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Marieke Nijkamp. Sourcebooks Fire, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4926-2246-8
Sometimes the most terrifying horrors are not those involving monsters out of fantasy but those taken straight from today’s headlines. Nijkamp’s debut follows four high school students on their first day of the spring semester in Opportunity, Ala....
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Marieke Nijkamp. Sourcebooks Fire, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4926-4228-2
Nijkamp’s reflective examination on love and returning home pairs well with the haunting environment of Lost Creek, a tiny Alaskan town where strange things are known to happen. Corey and her family left Lost Creek seven months ago, and it’s been...
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Edited by Marieke Nijkamp. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-30650-2
Nijkamp (This Is Where It Ends) presents 13 fictional short stories written by authors with disabilities and featuring variously abled teens. Authors including William Alexander, Corinne Duyvis, and Heidi Heilig represent varied genres and diverse...
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Marieke Nijkamp. Greenwillow, $18.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-332626-2
After years away, 12-year-old Princess Adelisa of Calinor—Ash to her friends—returns home to the kingdom’s capitol of Kestrel’s Haven. There, Ash, who walks with a cane and uses braces to support
her joints, feels unwelcome by those who perceive...
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Marieke Nijkamp, illus. by Manuel Preitano. DC Comics, $16.99 paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-4012-9066-5
Shot while intervening in a robbery, Barbara Gordon loses both the use of her legs and her best friend, who stops talking to her after the incident. Enrolled in an in-patient rehabilitation program at the Arkham Center for Independence, Babs finds...
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Marieke Nijkamp, illus. by Sylvia Bi. Greenwillow, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-302711-4
Small acts of intention and kindness propel this feel-good graphic novel about truth, friendship, and grassroots power by Nijkamp (At the End of Everything), which takes place in fictional city Siannerra. Tween apprentice Cinzia’s mentor, Mestra...
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Marieke Nijkamp. Sourcebooks Fire, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4926-3611-3
Nijkamp’s (This Is Where It Ends) psychological thriller again showcases the author’s talent in drawing readers into characters’ internal struggles. Originally brought together by a murder mystery RPG, five seemingly white teens across Stardust High’
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Marieke Nijkamp. Sourcebooks Fire, $18.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4926-7315-6
The young adults who inhabit private company–run Hope Juvenile Treatment Center in rural Arkansas lead highly structured, strictly supervised lives, so it comes as a shock when they wake one morning to discover the doors unlocked and the brutal...
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