Stacy McAnulty. Random House, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5247-6757-0
When 12-year-old Lucy was struck by lightning at age eight, her brain was damaged, resulting in her acquired savant syndrome. She becomes a mathematical genius and develops obsessive-compulsive disorder; she’s been homeschooled ever since. She feels
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Stacy McAnulty, illus. by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff. Running Press, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7624-6212-4
In a companion to Beautiful and Brave, McAnulty describes how love can be expressed through simple, genuine gestures and time spent together, using the prompt, “Love is.” Lew-Vriethoff illustrates a variously diverse group of smiling children and...
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Stacy McAnulty, illus. by Edward Hemingway. Two Lions, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5039-4838-9
McAnulty (Beautiful) puts a high-spirited spin on kids’ fascination with favorites in a story starring Mr. Fuzzbuster, a cat determined to stake his claim as his owner’s most beloved pet. The two have been inseparable ever “since he fit in a teacup...
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Stacy McAnulty, illus. by Julia Sarcone-Roach. Knopf, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-553-51023-2
Ed, a scruffy white dog whose tail seems to be in a perpetual state of wagging, worries that he doesn’t measure up to the African-American family he lives with. The Ellis children are talented athletes, bakers, ballerinas, and more, and even when Ed
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Stacy McAnulty, illus. by David Litchfield. Holt, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-250-10808-1
McAnulty (Mr. Fuzzbuster Knows He’s the Favorite) and Litchfield (Miss Muffet, or What Came After) cast planet Earth as an exuberant celestial body with bright brown eyes and a broad smile, who couldn’t be happier to share its life story. There’s...
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Stacy McAnulty, illus. by Deborah Hocking. Putnam, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-101-99640-9
In his second story (following Max Explains Everything: Grocery Store Expert), Max—a boy with hair like brown yarn—thinks he’s a soccer aficionado. Readers will observe that Max actually prefers finding insects and four-leaf clovers in the field...
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Stacy McAnulty, illus. by Jef Kaminsky. Boyds Mills, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59078-876-9
Is one letter to Santa (or Santasaurus) really enough to ensure a spot on the Nice List? Not for Ernest B. Spinosaurus, the tiny purple dino who writes 16 letters to the dinosaur in the red suit over the course of a year. Throughout, Ernest never...
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Stacy McAnulty. Random House, $16.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5247-6761-7
Elle’s grandfather is a “prepper” who stages drills and stockpiles food and supplies to survive unspecified, inevitable cataclysmic events. The seventh grader becomes a convert to his cause after embracing online posts by a sacked Harvard astronomer
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Stacy McAnulty. Random House, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-17525-5
Upstate New York seventh graders Felix Rannells and Benji Porter have nothing in common: Felix is small, serious, and a star basketball guard, while Benji is a tall, carefree class clown, so neither is pleased to be partnered for a class field trip.
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Stacy McAnulty, illus. by Nicole Miles. Little, Brown, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7595-5399-6
Employing abundant research and humorous b&w sketches, McAnulty and Miles (Save the People) discuss the steps that scientists have taken to prove—or disprove—the possibility of life beyond Earth in this curiosity-stoking work. The author begins with
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Stacy McAnulty. Random House, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-5934-2962-4
Two seemingly ordinary tweens are suddenly thrust into a chaotic adventure in this inviting mystery by McAnulty (Millionaires for the Month). Twelve-year-old classmates Ronan Haywood and Ivy Stewart are the only two students in their middle school...
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Stacy McAnulty, illus. by Stevie Lewis. Holt, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-250-19934-8
In a companion to Sun! One in a Billion, an anthropomorphic Moon—rendered by Lewis as a friendly figure with doe eyes and a sweet smile—announces that it is BFF’s with Earth (an equally affable figure who shows its appreciation for Moon with a...
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Stacy McAnulty, illus. by Claire Keane. Chronicle, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-7972-1440-5
The titular announcement—“I want 100 dogs”—is made by a curly headed, gap-toothed child to their two adults while the three gaze up at clouds that resemble canines. In the following pages, the child conjures up idyllic visions of this arrangement,...
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