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Ella Grace Foutz's debut LULLABIES FOR THE INSOMNIACS, a memoir-in-verse chronicling the experience of a teenage girl coming to terms with her diagnosis of bipolar disorder, which ultimately requires her to reconcile mental illness with identity. 

Kari Ann Gonzalez and Bonnie Kelso, GOAT MAA-TH: AN ADDITION STORY, in which a young shepherd takes his math-curious goats on a mountain adventure where they find joy in mother nature and discover unexpected friends while learning to tackle number lines, to count up, and how to solve simple addition equations. 

Borderlands Tarot author-illustrator Enid Baxter Ryce's MAGICAL ECHOES OF THE ANCIENTS, a book of spells that read like lyrical poems, sources from cultures around the world, translated, interpreted, and illustrated by the author to make the magical incantations accessible to modern readers. 

Author of the Do Princesses series Carmen LaVigna Coyle's ANYONE ELSE AWAKE? A DAWN'S CHORUS, in which each line follows the rhythm and beat of real birdsong and whimsically suggests a translation based on the many reasons birds sing at dawn, illustrated by Bonnie Kelso. 

Author-photographer of SHADES OF PEOPLE Shelley Rotner's LET'S GO CAMPING!, an introduction to camping that highlights everything from planning and packing to cooking outdoors, sleeping in a tent, and waking up to the sound of birds, to Carol Hinz at Millbrook in an exclusive submission. 

Author-Illustrator Katie Palazzola's BEFORE AND AFTER, a story about a father and young daughter wondering together, exploring questions of past and future, and ultimately finding comfort in embracing uncertainty together. 

Mapmaker Karen Myna Cantor's SNAKETOWN, FLORIDA, in which a group of teens plot to save their hometown in central Florida- and its zany residents- by faking a disaster and unleashing hundreds of pythons; and A HISTORY OF UNNATURIAL DISASTERS, in which a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy stars a true crime podcast 

E.L. Starling's BOUNDLESS, pitched as a gender-bent retelling of Titanic that follows two star-crossed teens on the inaugural voyage of the Boundless, an indestructible luxury spaceship that is sabotaged days from their destination, to Justine Bylo at Entangled Teen. 

Bank Street College of Education awards The Other Pandemic: An AIDS Memoir the Best Book of 2024 for Children's Books. 

Gwen Agna and Shelley Rotner's FINDING HOME: WORDS FROM KIDS SEEKING SANCTUARY has been selected as the Junior Library Guild's Gold Standard Collection for 2024. 

Author-Illustrator Angel Tate's I ROCK MY HAIR: PRETTY AND PROTECTED BY THE C.R.O.W.N ACT, about a girl who realizes that although some people think that her natural hair stands out too much to belong in certain places, it's okay to rick her hair any ways she wants to, to Sandra Sutter at Gnome Road. 

Author/Illustrator of the YALSA Award Honor Book THE GREAT NIJINSKY Lynn Curlee's NOTRE-DAME: THE WORLD'S CATHEDRAL, the story of the catastrophic 2019 fire and the heroic fight to save it, encompassing both the history and the rebuilding of the historic building, to Kristie Choi at Atheneum. 

Poet and Arab American Book Award winner Hayan Charara's HUSH, LITTLE CHILDREN, which offers an intimate portrait of a pregnant couple as a rash of child suicides causes panic in their suburban neighborhood and an extremist group's push to police their minority community, to William Burleson at Flexible Press. 

Author/Illustrator Katie Palazzola's THE GREAT FROG, a sibling story about a girl who invents a tall tale to assuage her little brother's worries only to have his innocent excitement grow to the point that she realizes she must tell him the truth. 

Founder of the literary community Inked Voices Brooke McIntyre's IF YOU WENT TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN, exploring the ocean from the surface to its deepest depths, illustrated by Gordy Wright, to Naomi Kirsten at Chronicle Children's. 

Dr. Matt Hogan, MD's FOOT IN MOUTH DISEASE: MUSINGS OF AN UNFILTERED PHYSICIAN, a collection of interconnected essays that reflect on the absurdities of life and medicine through a humorous, self-deprecating lens, pitched as David Sedaris meets Oliver Sacks.

Borderlands Tarot author-illustrator Enid Baxter Ryce's untitled book with an accessible approach to plant magic, sustainable art, and the healing properties of nature in the form of a plant-grimoire, to Running Press, in an exclusive submission. 

The Night Fox author Ashley Wilda's CLEAVE, exploring the complex relationship between an Arab-American girl and her absentee father, who she tries to please by pushing herself to become a champion rock climber--a plan that is disrupted when she develops a potentially toxic relationship with a teammate.