September 2009

September’s roundup of New in Paperback titles includes IF YOU’RE READING THIS, IT’S TOO LATE, a sequel to the Edgar Award-nominated THE NAME OF THIS BOOK IS SECRET, which marks the return of mysterious narrator Pseudonymous Bosch; WELL WITCHED, a contemporary fantasy from Frances Hardinge, whose main characters steal some tarnished coins from a wishing well --- and the witch who lives at the bottom of the well demands a sinister form of payback; EVERY SOUL A STAR by Wendy Mass, a powerful yet humorous novel about three young strangers who are brought together by the total eclipse of the sun; and THE GATE OF DAYS, the second installment in Guillaume Prėvost’s The Book of Time trilogy, which finds Sam Faulkner on a desperate journey through the ages to collect the coins that will allow him to locate his father, who is trapped in a dungeon in Transylvania.

Stand-Alone Chapter Books/Middle Grade Titles

EVERY SOUL A STAR Wendy Mass Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN: 9780316002578 Ages 8-12 336 pages • Read a Review • Buy from Amazon.com I WANNA BE YOUR SHOEBOX Cristina Garcia Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing ISBN: 9781416979043 Ages 8-12 208 pages • Buy from Amazon.com MY SO-CALLED FAMILY Courtney Sheinmel Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing ISBN: 9781416979425 Ages 9-12 208 pages • Buy from Amazon.com WELL WITCHED Frances Hardinge HarperCollins ISBN: 9780060880408 Ages 8-12 416 pages • Read a Review • Buy from Amazon.com WHEN SANTA FELL TO EARTH Cornelia Funke Scholastic Paperbacks ISBN: 9780545094436 Ages 9-12 176 pages • Read a Review • Buy from Amazon.com

Series Books/Sequels

Akimbo AKIMBO AND THE BABOONS Alexander McCall Smith Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books ISBN: 9781599903040 Ages 9-12 90 pages • Buy from Amazon.com The Book of Time THE GATE OF DAYS: The Book of Time 2 Guillaume Prevost Scholastic Paperbacks ISBN: 9780439883801 Ages 9-12 272 pages • Read a Review • Buy from Amazon.com Comeback Kids SAFE AT HOME: A Comeback Kids Novel Mike Lupica Puffin/Penguin Young Readers Group ISBN: 9780142414606 Ages 8-12 192 pages • Buy from Amazon.com Julian Rodriguez JULIAN RODRIGUEZ EPISODE TWO: INVASION OF THE RELATIVES Alexander Stadler Scholastic Paperbacks ISBN: 9780439919715 Ages 9-12 144 pages • Buy from Amazon.com Secret Series IF YOU’RE READING THIS, IT’S TOO LATE Pseudonymous Bosch Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN: 9780316113687 Ages 8-12 400 pages • Read a Review • Buy from Amazon.com The Seems THE SEEMS: THE SPLIT SECOND John Hulme and Michael Wexler Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books ISBN: 9781599902999 Ages 9-12 336 pages • Buy from Amazon.com Theodosia THEODOSIA AND THE STAFF OF OSIRIS R. L. LaFevers Sandpiper Books ISBN: 9780547248196 Ages 8-12 400 pages • Read a Review • Buy from Amazon.com The Youngest Templar THE YOUNGEST TEMPLAR: KEEPER OF THE GRAIL Michael P. Spradlin Puffin/Penguin Young Readers Group ISBN: 9780142414613 Ages 9-11 272 pages • Buy from Amazon.com

--- Compiled by Allie Bodack and written by Tom Donadio

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