Here are some of the fabulous books releasing this week!
Books for Kids
Little Naturalists: The Adventures of John Muir AND John James Audubon Painted Birds (Board Book) – Board books celebrating naturalists.
Baby’s First Bank Heist – Baby Frank is planning a bank heist to get money for a fluffy pet. This looks hilarious!
Buck Denver’s Hammer of Strength: A Lesson in Loving Others – New from Phil Vischer (Veggie Tales). Buck wants everyone to know how strong he is but his friends encourage him to show his strength through kindness.
Bach to the Rescue – A colorful and “zany” story about the Goldberg Variations.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mr. Rogers – 75 songs by Fred Rogers collected in an illustrated book.
Didi Dodo Future Spy: Recipe for Disaster – Book 1 in this new early chapter book series from Tom Angleberger (The Origami Yoda series) focused on food-related mysteries.
Books for Older Kids/Teens/Young Adults
Payback Time! – Big Nate, book 20. A new collection of Big Nate comic strips.
Star Wars: Choose Your Destiny An Obi-Wan & Anakin Adventure – The third Choose Your Destiny novel from the folks at Star Wars/Disney/Lucasfilm
Tangled in Time: The Portal – An orphan girl sent to live with a grandmother she’s never met before discovers a portal to the past in her grandmother’s green house.
The Wizenard Series: Training Camp – First in a new series by Kobe Bryant about the worst basketball team in the league and their magical new coach who could change everything for the players both on and off the court.
Girls With Sharp Sticks – First in a new series for teens about an all-girls school that promises to make the girls obedient and free of independent ideas or troublesome opinions. But the girls are learning to fight back. Sounds fascinating!
Internment – In a dystopian near-future USA, Muslim-Americans are kept in internment camps. The main character learns to find allies and seeks to fight for freedom. A timely story in a world where the news can leave me feeling like I am living in a dystopian novel.
Sherwood – With Robin of Locksley dead and the Sheriff’s right-hand goon ready to step into his fortune and his betrothal, Maid Marian takes up the cape and mantel of Robin Hood.
To Best the Boys – In a world where girls are trained to become wives and boys are sent to university, two girls will pose as boys to enter a dangerous competition for the chance at a university scholarship in order to find a cure for a disease that is destroying their home. This sounds like a Hunger Games/Maze Runner mash up, and I am eager to try it out.
Books for Adults
Can’t Escape Love (ebk – novella)- From the author of A Princess in Theory comes this novella addition to the Reluctant Royals series about a nerdy business woman and a livestreamer. I pre-ordered this one weeks ago. I really enjoyed A Princess in Theory and I have one of the other series novels on my TBR shelves.
Magnificent Nine (Hardcover) – The second original Firefly novel focuses on Jayne and an old flame who may be raising his daughter in the middle of a fight over water rights on a desert world. Fans of the series will gobble this one up!
Murder Once Removed (Hardcover) – First in the Ancestry Detective series about a genealogist who solves part of a 19th century murder which stirs up a contemporary political firestorm. Many years ago I read a different genealogist mystery series by Rhett MacPherson that I adored. I am so excited to dig into this new series! I’ll be reviewing this one in a few weeks.
One Potato, Two Potato, Dead (Trade Paperback) – Book 3 in the Farm-to-Fork mystery series about the death of a culinary professor. I have this series on my wish list.
Unpacking Fake News: An Educator’s Guide to Navigating the Media with Students (Professional – Paperback, March 22) – “Fake News” has become a phrase frequently thrown around to describe any story a person doesn’t care for. But in reality, fake news reported as real and factual has caused an untold number of problems in America in recent years. Teachers are at the front line in the effort to help the next generation become careful consumers of news and information and to check sources and facts before accepting a headline or report at face value. Covers information for K-12 educators.