Rohan Murthy Has a Plan,
coming April 30, 2024!
Rohan Murthy dreams of running a successful business like his creative and kind mom. When Mrs. Z announces that Curiosity Academy needs to raise money for a school garden, Rohan sees the chance to launch his dreams right away! He’ll start a pet care company to help the people of Peppermint Falls look after their dogs, hamsters, fish, snakes, lizards . . . anything but cats. With hard work, some glittery posters, and the help of his friends from Mrs. Z’s class, Rohan knows he can do a lot for the school garden.
His parents point out just one small problem: Rohan has never taken care of an animal before. They think he doesn’t even like touching animals. (There is a reason cats aren’t on his list.) To prove his parents wrong, Rohan volunteers to spend a weekend watching over Honey, the class guinea pig. But Honey appears surprisingly anxious, which makes Rohan nervous as well. When his big dreams meet his secret fears, what will Rohan do?
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Sona and the Golden Beasts,
coming March 5, 2024!
Sona hears music everywhere, even though it has been outlawed in the land of Devia. Sona is a descendant of the Malechs—foreigners who took over the governing of Devia hundreds of years ago. Malechs put Devans to work mining gems and forbade music so Devans couldn’t cast their magic.
But Sona’s world shifts after discovering an orphaned wolf pup. She believes the pup, with its golden ears, might be related to one of the five sacred beasts of Devia which a Malechian Hunter has been killing, one by one. And when someone Sona loves falls ill, she is drawn into a quest with a Devan boy to retrieve the nectar of life.
On the perilous journey, Sona must try to avoid the deadly Hunter while keeping her companions safe. As she uncovers secrets about the Malechian empire and her own identity, Sona realizes that the fate of the sacred beasts and the future of Devia, just might come down to her.
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The Secret of the Dragon Gems,
available now!
Eleven-year-olds Tripti Kapoor, a feisty “word nerd” from Massachusetts, and Sam Cohen, a shy, imaginative budding geologist from California, are both miserable at Camp Dilloway, a summer camp in upstate New York. They meet on the last night of camp when they both escape the noise of Campfire Night and follow a shooting star to a quiet creek. There they find two silvery rocks glowing in the night, and start a friendship. They each take a rock home.
But then strange things start happening: the rocks seem to move locations and dominate the kids’ thoughts. Tripti and Sam begin communicating via letter, email, and video chat to discuss the strange rocks but also reveal their struggles at school and at home. Inspired by their mutual love of the middle grade Dragon Gems series, they dub the rocks Opal and Jasper, after the “Dragon Gems” in the books. But then things get even weirder: strange noises, school disruptions, and blacked out pages in their favorite books! When a graphic “code” appears to both kids, Tripti and Sam realize that the rocks are not at all ordinary . . . and they might even be otherworldly!
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Mirror to Mirror
Maya is the practical twin, a typical first-born overachiever. But when her sister—the other half of her matching set—wants to tell their parents Maya’s shameful secret, her world unravels.
Chaya is the outgoing, more daring twin. To give Maya space, she decides to make a drastic change. However, that’s the last thing Maya wants, and the girls drift further apart.
The once-close sisters can’t seem to find their rhythm, but they can’t go on like this. How will they reach back out to each other?
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Red, White, and Whole
2022 Newbery Honor Winner
13-year-old Reha, the daughter of Indian immigrants, is torn between two worlds—one with her parents and her Indian community, and one with her friends and 1980s pop culture. But then her mother falls ill, and she is torn in a different way. This middle grade novel-in-verse is about America and India, heritage and fitting in, Hindu mythology and 80’s pop music, holding on and letting go.
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Much Ado About Baseball
Trish moves to the town of Comity, MA and finds herself on the same summer baseball team as her math competition rival, Ben. The two 12-year-olds have to set aside their dislike for each other in order to help their team win, but the team is terrible. When a booklet of math puzzles claiming to reveal the “ultimate answer” arrives, Trish and Ben start solving them, and the team’s luck seems to turn around…or is that because of the unusual snacks they’re getting from the new snack shop in town, the Salt Shaker? When excitement then leads to tragedy, can Trish and Ben find the answer to the ultimate puzzle, or will they strike out when it counts the most? This companion novel to Midsummer’s Mayhem combines math, baseball, food, and magic.
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Midsummer’s Mayhem
Eleven-year-old Mimi dreams of winning a baking competition judged by her celebrity chef idol. But she loses her best helper when her food writer father returns from a business trip mysteriously unable to distinguish between delicious and disgusting. Mimi follows strangely familiar music into the woods behind her house, meets a golden-eyed boy, and bakes with him using exotic ingredients they find in the woods. Then everyone around her suddenly starts acting loopy.
Squabbling sisters, rhyming waitresses, and culinary saboteurs mix up a recipe for mayhem in this Indian-American mashup of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and competitive baking.