Amanda Ramirez

Geraldine McCaughrean, British author of the Printz Award-winning novel The White Darkness, presents her latest young adult novel Under a Fire-Red Sky, which follows four English teens as they struggle to navigate the beginning of WWII. Children are being evacuated from London and sent to the countryside for their safety; just as one of the protagonists, Gemmy, is scheduled to leave, she disembarks, prompting three other teens in her railcar—Olive, Lawrence, and Franklin—to follow suit.

Six years after the publication of The Grief Keeper, Alexandra Villasante returns with a new YA novel, Fireblooms. After learning that his estranged mother was recently diagnosed with cancer, 17-year-old Sebas boards a Greyhound bus to New Gault to care for her. New Gault is a city run by TECH, a privately owned technological corporation that also funds the local high school.

Penderwicks series author Jeanne Birdsall returns with The Library of Unruly Treasures, a lightly fantastical contemporary middle grade novel illustrated by Matt Phelan. When neither of her parents are available to care for her, 11-year-old Gwen is sent to stay with her great-uncle Matthew, whom she’s never met.