The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis by Barbara O'Connor

"Drip.

Drip.
Drip.
Popeye opened his eye and looked up
at the heart-shaped stain on the ceiling of his bedroom."

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Summary: With a healthy helping of humor and the signature Southern charm that has captivated children and critics alike, O'Connor's newest tale is a heartwarming look at the joy that can come out of being a Royal Rule Breaker, and learning to find one's own adventures.

Publisher: Frances Foster Books, 150 pages

Crossing Stones by Helen Frost

"You'd better straighten out your mind, Young Lady."

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Summary: In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell f their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage.

Publisher: Frances Foster Books, 184 pages

Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O'Connor

"Harold would have known what to do," Aggie said to Ugly.

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Abstract: In North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains, a troubled boy and his mother, a happy family seeking adventure, a man and his lonely daughter, and the widow who must sell the run-down motel that has been her home for decades, meet and are transformed by their shared experiences.

Publisher: Frances Foster Books, 200 pages

Diamond Willow by Helen Frost

7
a.m.
Twenty
below zero,
ribbons of white
and green and purple
dancing in the blue-black sky.

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CIP Summary: In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing whe were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of ancestors who care for her.

Publisher: Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 111 pages

The House of Djinn by Suzanne Fisher Staples

"A small, slender woman with dark eyes stood near the edge of the roof looking out over the walled city of Lahore and reimagined her life."

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LC CIP: An unexpected death brings Shabanu's daughter, Mumtaz, and nephew, Jameel, both aged fifteen, to the forefront of an attempt to modernize Pakistan, but the teens must both sacrifice their own dreams if they are to meet family and tribal expectations.

Publisher: Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux; 207 pages