Here we round up new and forthcoming children’s titles, including a YA novel about a teen with a talent for cooking, a book about queer teens in a small town, a novel about the trauma of 9/11, and a picture book about a hungry king.

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo. HarperTeen, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-266283-5. In this sophomore novel from National Book Award and Printz winner Acevedo (The Poet X), Afro–Puerto Rican and African-American Emoni Santiago, a high school senior, raises her daughter and blossoms as a talented chef. The book earned a starred review in PW.

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju. Simon Pulse, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-5344-3065-5. In this YA novel, a lesbian teen finds other queer kids in a small town with whom she can connect.

Hope and Other Punchlines by Julie Buxbaum. Delacorte, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-5247-6677-1. Buxbaum (Tell Me Three Things) offers up an emotionally resonant, wryly humorous portrayal of two young adults navigating trauma and acceptance years after 9/11.

The Cook and the King by Julia Donaldson, illus. by David Roberts. Abrams, $16.99; ISBN 978-1-4197-3757-2. The author of The Gruffalo starts her new picture book with a hungry king auditioning prospective cooks. The book earned a starred review in PW.

If I Was the Sunshine by Julie Fogliano, illus. by Loren Long. Atheneum, $17.99; ISBN 978-1-4814-7243-2. Each stanza of this lilting picture book in verse imagines a pair of partners in the natural world—winter and spring, thunder and cloud—and gives them the power to speak and to name each other.

How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox. Dial, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-525-55429-5. Set in Wollongong, Australia, Fox’s exquisite debut offers an intimate portrayal of a teenager navigating familial and social complexities while living with an undiagnosed mental illness. The book earned a starred review in PW.

The Wizard’s Tears by Maxine Kumin and Anne Sexton, illus. by Keren Katz. Triangle Square, $18.95; ISBN 978-1-60980-875-4. This comic fairy tale, originally published in 1975 by poets Kumin and Sexton, is reprinted with fresh illustrations by Israeli artist Katz. The picture book earned a starred review in PW.

Crossing on Time: Steam Engines, Fast Ships, and a Journey to the New World by David Macaulay. Roaring Brook, $24.99; ISBN 978-1-59643-477-6. More than 30 years after the publication of The Way Things Work, Macaulay demystifies steam power and its use in ships through the mid-20th century in his new book.

Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby. Algonquin, $16.95; ISBN 978-1-61620-906-3. Melleby’s middle grade debut offers a tender, earnest portrait of a daughter searching for constancy while negotiating her father’s sickness and the social challenges of tween girlhood. The book earned a starred review in PW.

Up for Air by Laurie Morrison. Amulet, $16.99; ISBN 978-1-4197-3366-6. Debut author Morrison, a former teacher, realistically captures the challenges of middle school—complicated family dynamics, volatile friendships, and first love—in this story about a girl struggling to discover where she belongs. The novel earned a starred review in PW.

Shouting at the Rain by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-399-17515-2. Endearingly blunt, stubborn Delsie lives year-round on Cape Cod with her grandmother in this middle grade coming-of-age novel.

Sign Off by Stephen Savage. Beach Lane, $17.99; ISBN 978-1-5344-1210-1. In this wordless picture book, Savage (The Babysitter from Another Planet) imagines that the characters on symbol road signs come to life.

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki, illus. by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell. First Second, $24.99; ISBN 978-1-250-31284-6. A largely queer and physically and ethnically diverse cast inhabits this YA graphic novel vision of Berkeley, Calif. The book earned a starred review in PW.

Summer by Cao Wenxuan, illus. by Yu Rong. Imprint, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-250-31006-4. Rong’s (Free as a Cloud) cut paper and pencil pictures show a huge yellow circle hanging low in the sky, as seven animals that live in the parched grasslands are desperate for shade. The picture book earned a starred review in PW.

The Sad Little Fact by Jonah Winter, illus. by Pete Oswald. Random House/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-525-58179-6. In this picture book, Winter (Elvis Is King!) and Oswald (The Bad Seed) imagine a fact as a small, mottled blue circle with big eyes and spindly arms and legs—a vulnerable critter who is nonetheless certain and resolute about one thing: “A fact is a fact.”

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