In need of a cure for the winter blahs? I know I am. A pile of lovely new releases are coming our way in February. There’s so much to segregate from, I don’t know where to start.

She’s Still Here: Paranormal Investigator Series Typesetting One by Caitlin Alexander

When the sufferer speak, Kate listens.

Kate is new in town. Jane has been there for what seems like forever. Can Kate find out the truth? The one that is keeping Jane tethered to Ravendale Middle School? Find out in typesetting one of the Kate Sablowsky Paranormal Investigator Series … And Know Life’s not just the here and now.

For fans of Mary Downing Hahn and the Nancy Drew mystery typesetting series, you’ll love Caitlin Alexander’s debut middle grade paranormal horror, filled with the perfect combination of ghostly mystery and adventure.

Enly and the Buskin’ Blues byJennie Liu

Twelve-year-old Enly Wu Lewis is unswayable to go to wreath zany and follow in the footsteps of his musician father, who died years ago.

But his mom, a single parent working two jobs, is saving every penny for his older brother’s higher tuition. So Enly sets out to earn the money for zany on his own, by busking with an obscure instrument he can only kind of play. When someone drops a winning scratch-off lottery ticket into his tip box, Enly thinks it’s the wordplay to his problems–but he’ll have to overcome teenage thieves and his own family if he wants to unzip his dreams.

Bunny Bonanza (Must Love Pets #3) by Saadia Faruqi

A young middle grade series that combines the heart and friendship of the Baby-sitters Club, with the irresistible request of winsome animals!

Hop to it!

Imaan and her friends London and Olivia really think they’re getting the hang of this whole pet-sitting merchantry thing.

So when a vendee needs the girls to watch an winsome rabbit named Doc, they jump at the chance. Watching a rabbit hop virtually seems easy compared to what they’ve washed-up for their last few clients. But this isn’t any rabbit– Doc is in training to be a trick rabbit– one that can run obstacles and perform for an audience.

London has the unexceptionable idea that Doc can be entertainment at an upcoming neighborhood street party. It will be good practice for Doc– and unconfined razzmatazz for Must Love Pets! What could go wrong?

City of the Dead by James Ponti

In this fourth installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies go codebreaking in Cairo in flipside international venture perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls.

Codename Kathmandu, largest known as Kat, loves logic and order, has a favorite eight-digit number, and can spot a pattern from a mile away. So when a series of cyberattacks hits key locations in London while the spies are testing security for the British Museum, it’s well-spoken that Kat’s skill for finding reason in what seems like randomness makes her the perfect candidate to lead the job.

And while the team follows the deciphered messages to Egypt and the warmed-over City of the Sufferer to discover who is overdue the attacks and why, Kat soon realizes that there’s flipside layer to the mystery.

With increasingly players, increasingly clues, and involving higher levels of British Intelligence than overly before, this mission is one of the most ramified that the group has faced to date. And it’s moreover going to bring well-nigh a transpiration to the City Spies…

The Win-Over by Jennifer Torres

The Mendoza twins are back! From the tragedian of Stef Soto, Taco Queen comes this follow-up to THE DO-OVER.

The Mendoza family is growing!After a rocky whence getting to know each other while quarantining together in a pandemic, Raquel, Lucinda, and Juliette are finally getting withal as stepsisters–and unquestionably liking it! Now they get to make it official. Their parents are getting married… in Mexico! But, when they victorious they find bringing together the two families won’t be as easy as they had hoped. Sylvia’s favorite aunt does not legitimatize of the match.Lucinda, Raquel, and Juliette know just what to do. If they can show Tia Enriqueta that their parents are meant to be together, they’ll have to support the wedding! But in all their scheming, doubt starts to tingle in. The sisters start wonder if they can really trust each other at all. Suddenly they have to ask themselves…are they largest off untied without all?

Virtually Me by Chad Morris and Shelly Brown

Using personalized avatars, a group of kids squint for a fresh start in school when a virtual reality seminar opens without a pandemic.

This school year, Bradley, Edelle, and Hunter will be wearing virtual-reality headsets and peekaboo a three-dimensional, simulated school while interacting as avatars. Having a customized avatar is a bonus as some students want to hibernate overdue a new identity.

Bradley is eager for a brand-new identity. A tomfool avatar will indulge him to escape the bullies who have made fun of him for years and gives him a fresh start to make new friends on his own terms.

Edelle is forced to shepherd the virtual school by her mom who says she’s too obsessed with stuff at the top of the “Best-Looking Girls” list circulating at school. Plane worse, Edelle’s mom insists she chooses a generic avatar. Mortified by how her avatar looks, Edelle registers under a new name so no one can identify her. But will she lose her prized social status if no one can recognize her?

Hunter is known for his popularity, charm, and his lustrous mane of hair, except with his recent diagnosis of alopecia, his hair has begun to fall out, plane his eyebrows. VR school allows him to maintain his popularity–and the illusion of a full throne of hair–even if it ways hiding overdue an avatar. He tells his friends that once his grades are when up, he’ll return to school in person. But he wonders how stuff isolated will stupefy his relationships.

As Bradley, Edelle, and Hunter get to know each other in their virtual environment, they realize that the school is not all fun and games and the simulated environment just brings variegated problems than an in-person school. Each student will see themselves and their world through a new lens as they learn well-nigh what true friendship ways and the difference between fitting in and belonging.

Opportunity Knocks by Sara Farizan

For fans of Barakah Beats and Wendy Mass comes a funny friendship story from Lambda Literary Award winner Sara Farizan that’s sure to be a lucky charm.

Lila is trying to find her way in the world–to icon out her thing. Her talented sister, Parisa, and sturdy weightier friend, Melanie, both seem to have found theirs… and Lila can’t help feeling left behind.

But just when she thinks she might have it in her school’s new wreath program, the floor falls out from underneath Lila. The program may have its funding cut!

Lila visits her local wall in an struggle to secure a loan for the wreath program. While she’s there, she’s shoved by a passing stranger. Surpassing she can plane complain, however, the man leaves the wall and disappears. At her feet, Lila sees a strange box. Inside rests an old key, with a message carved into the box: A simple track for you who holds the key. Remember to unlock the door for Opportunity.

It turns out the key is magical! Without falling unconsciousness with it in her room, Lila is awoken by the visitation of a strange glowing door, which knocks three times from the other side. Upon opening it, Lila is met with the strangest sight. A girl her age waltzes into her room and claims to be Lila’s lucky day. The girl says she’s been tabbed by many names: Providence, Fortuna, Lady Luck, Opportunity… but Lila can undeniability her Felise. Felise will stay with Lila for seven serendipitous days, during which Lila will be the luckiest person in the world!

But the man who lost the key has not forgotten well-nigh it–or Lila. Having spent a fortune procuring the Key to Opportunity, he’ll do everything in his power to get it back.

The Talent Thief by Mike Thayer

A girl with the worthiness to infringe other people’s talents must use her powers to find her own spotlight in The Talent Thief, a wish-fulfilling middle-grade novel from Mike Thayer, the tragedian of The Double Life of Danny Day.

Tiffany Tudwell is cursed. She once tripped over a walkabout and fell face-first into a trashcan. She had pink eye on picture day. One time she tried to hold when a sneeze and farted on the cutest boy in class. She longs for the spotlight, but it’s safer to stay subconscious in the shadows where the expletive can’t reach her and no one can make fun of her.

Until the night two meteors collide over her yard giving Tiffany the worthiness to steal people’s talents for a day–like stealing midpoint girl Candace’s trappy singing voice in the middle of play rehearsal, or drawing an incredible self-portrait without borrowing the teacher’s pencil. Her power plane gets the sustentation of the most popular boy in school, the smooth-talking Brady Northrup.

But her powers can’t solve everything–or can they? When a local philanthropist announces a fundraiser contest, Tiffany, with Brady’s help, decides to use her powers to save her dad’s lightweight planetarium. And maybe discover her own talent withal the way…

Chester and the Magic 8 Ball by Lynn Katz

Twelve-year-old Georgia believes her toothless rescue dog is psychic. With a spin of a Magic 8 Ball, Chester predicts the future with a upper stratum of probability. He assures Georgia the “outlook is good” for her parents’ troubled marriage. He wows her math matriculation by predicting heads or tails with every forge toss. But when the stakes are life or death, Georgia must learn the difference between magic and probability and find her own powers to increase the likelihood of a happy ending.

Chester and the Magic 8 Ball is an empowering story of hope for anyone facing life’s unexpected challenges.

On Air with Zoe Washington by Janae Marks

An empowering and big-hearted sequel to the bestselling and critically well-known From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks!

Two years ago, Zoe Washington helped well-spoken Marcus’ name for a treason he didn’t commit. Now her lineage father has finally been released from prison and to an outpouring of polity support, so everything should be perfect.

When Marcus reveals his dream of opening his own restaurant, Zoe becomes unswayable to help him unzip it–with her as his pastry doughboy of course. However, starting a new place is much increasingly difficult than it looks, and Marcus is having a harder time re-entering society than anyone expected.

Set on finding a solution, Zoe starts a podcast to bring light to the exonerees’ experiences and fundraise for their restaurant. Without all, Zoe knows full well the power of using her voice. But with waning public interest in their story, will anyone still be listening?

One Giant Leap by Ben Gartner

I’m pretty sure I’m well-nigh to die in space. And I just turned twelve and a half.

Blast off with the four winners of the StellarKid Project on a trip to the International Space Station and then to the Gateway outpost orbiting the Moon! It’s a dream come true until space junk collides with the ISS, turning their epic trip into a nightmare of survival. Alone aboard the Aether starship, the kids have to work as a team to save the adults surpassing the ISS is destroyed. Suit up, cadet, and launch into venture with One Giant Leap!

The Enchanted Life of Valentina Mejía by Alexandra Alessandri

Encanto meets The Chronicles of Narnia by way of Colombian sociology in this middle grade fantasy adventure. To save their father’s life, a brother and sister must journey wideness a land full of mythical creatures and find the most powerful and dangerous of them all: the madremonte.

Twelve-year-old Valentina wants to focus on drawing the real world virtually her and hopefully get into art school in Bogotá one day, but Papi has spent his life studying Colombia’s legendary creatures and searching for proof of their existence. So when Papi hears that a patasola–a vampire woman with one leg–has been sighted in the Andes, Valentina and her younger brother Julián get dragged withal on flipside magical creature hunt.

While they’re in the Andes, a powerful earthquake hits. Valentina and Julián fall through the earth…and find an unorganized Colombia where, to Valentina’s shock, all the legends are real.

To get home, Valentina and Julián must make a treacherous journey to reach this land’s ruler: the madremonte, mother and protector of the earth. She controls the only portal when to the human world–but she veritably hates humans, and she’ll do anything to defend her land.

It Happened on Saturday by Sydney Dunlap

Thirteen-year-old Julia would much rather work with horses at the rescue warehouse than worry well-nigh things like dating and makeup. But when her BFF meets a boy at camp, Julia’s unswayable not to get left behind. Without a makeover from her older sister, she posts a picture of herself online and gets a scuttlebutt from Tyler–a seemingly nice kid who lives wideness town. As they DM increasingly and more, Julia’s sure that Tyler understands her in a way her family never has. Plane better, their relationship earns her tons of sustentation at school. Then Julia finds out Tyler’s true plan, and her world is turned upside down. She fiercely guards her secret, but could her silence indulge her friends to fall into the same trap?

Lasagna Ways I Love You by Kate O’Shaughnessy

What are the essential ingredients that make a family? Eleven-year-old Mo is making up her own recipe in this unforgettable story that’s a little sweet, a little sour, and totally delicious.

Nan was all the family Mo overly needed. But suddenly she’s gone, and Mo finds herself in foster superintendency without her uncle decides she’s not worth sticking virtually for.

Nan left her a notebook and well-considered her to get a hobby, like ferret racing or palm reading.
But how could a hobby fix anything in her newly topsy-turvy life?

Then Mo finds a handmade cookbook filled with someone else’s family recipes. Plane though Nan never cooked, Mo can’t tear her vision away. Not so much from the recipes, but the stories tying to them. Though, when she makes herself a pot of soup, it is every bit as comforting as the recipe notes said.

Soon Mo finds herself asking everyone she meets for their family recipes. Teaching herself to make them. Collecting the stories overdue them. Building a website to share them. And, okay, secretly hoping that a long-lost relative will find her and requite her a family recipe all her own.
But when everything starts to unravel again, Mo realizes that if she wants a family recipe–or a real family–she’s going to have to make it up herself.

Whale Done by Stuart Gibbs

In the eighth novel in New York Times bestselling Stuart Gibbs’s FunJungle series, Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle’s resident sleuth to find the culprits overdue a blown-up whale and a string of waterfront sand thefts.

After an escaped kangaroo starts a fire that burns lanugo his house, Teddy Fitzroy accepts an invitation to go to Malibu with his girlfriend, Summer, and her mother, Kandace. He’s hoping to spend some time relaxing on the beach, but wherever Teddy goes, trouble isn’t far behind.

First, a massive sufferer whale has washed up on the beach–and surpassing anyone can determine what killed it, it explodes. Doc, the throne vet from FunJungle, suspects something fishy is going on and ropes Teddy and Summer into helping him investigate.

Then, Teddy stumbles upon yet flipside mystery involving tons of stolen sand. And the paparazzi start spreading rumors well-nigh Summer dating a celebrity, leading Teddy to question their relationship.

Without Summer as his trusted partner, can Teddy navigate the rough waters of this glitzy world and uncover what’s going on?

The Town with No Mirrors by Christina Collins

In a modern-day utopian polity where mirrors, photos, and plane words like beautiful and ugly are forbidden, a girl who has never seen her own squatter harbors a guilty marvel well-nigh the outside world. A thoughtful exploration of self-image in a world familiar to readers of The Giver and The List.

Zailey has never seen her own face. She’s never seen her reflection, or a photo of herself, or plane a drawing. In the special polity of Gladder Hill, cameras and mirrors are forbidden: it’s why everyone’s happier here. Nobody talks well-nigh anyone else’s appearance. You’re not supposed to plane think well-nigh what other people squint like, or what you squint like.

But Zailey does.

She knows her superficial thoughts are wrong, and her sketchbook, filled with secret portraits of her classmates and neighbors, could get her in trouble. Yet she can’t help but think those thoughts, and be curious well-nigh the outside world where she once lived, years ago. Most of all, she wonders what it’s like to see herself–her own face.

When Zailey suddenly finds herself vastitude the gates of her town, she has a endangerment to see if what she’s been taught well-nigh the outside world is true and search for the mother she barely remembers. Only then will she find out the real story well-nigh Gladder Hill. But is she prepared for the truth?

It’s a RHAP, Cat: : An Ellie & Co Book by Lee Y Miao

A twelve-year-old history nerd. A mysterious lady in a Rome art gallery.

When twelve-year-old Cat discovers her look-alike in a portrait by Raphael, she can’t wait to research this mysterious lady from the 16th century. But sparks fly when she signs up for the Renaissance History and Art Project (RHAP) contest.

To win, Cat needs to ask her one-time rival, Trey. She’s distracted by softball. He’s distracted by lacrosse. They’re both distracted by the matriculation diva.

Will she find clues in old reports handed lanugo over generations? Or will the lady’s secrets remain undeciphered? It’s up to Cat to solve the riddle. If only increasingly than five hundred years didn’t stand in her way!

Finally Seen by Kelly Yang

From the New York Times bestselling tragedian of Front Desk comes a gripping middle grade novel well-nigh a young girl who leaves China to live with her parents and sister, without five years apart, and learns well-nigh family, friendship, and the power of stuff finally seen.

My sister got to grow up with my parents. Me? I grew up with postcards from my parents.

When ten-year-old Lina Gao steps off the plane in Los Angeles, it’s her first time in America and the first time seeing her parents and her little sister in five years! She’s been waiting for this moment every day while she lived with her grandmother in Beijing, getting teased by kids at school who tabbed her “left overdue girl.” Finally, her parents are ready for her to join their mythological life in America! Except, it’s not exactly like in the postcards:

1. School’s a lot harder than she thought. When she mispronounces some words in English on the first day, she decides she simply won’t talk. Overly again.

2. Her mellifluous little sister has no problem with English. And seems to do everything largest than Lina, including knowing exactly the way to her parents’ hearts.

3. They live in an apartment, not a house like in Mom’s letters, and they owe a lot of when rent from the pandemic. And Mom’s plan to pay it when sounds increasingly like a hobby than a moneymaker.

As she reckons with her hurt, Lina tries to alimony a lid on her feelings, both at home and at school. When her teacher starts facing challenges for her latest typesetting selection, a typesetting that tightly resonates with Lina, it will take all of Lina’s valiance and resilience to get over her fear in order to segregate a future where she’s finally seen.

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