Carolrhoda Books Releases Seven New Titles

This fall, meet a talking doll in a haunted house, follow a football phenom as he navigates freshman year, save a town from invading blueberry muffins with Chico Bon Bon the monkey, and more in seven new titles from Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group!

Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story, a National Book Award for Young People's Literature Longlist selection, is a striking piece of narrative nonfiction by Caren Stelson that tells the true story of six-year-old Sachiko Yasui's survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945, and the heartbreaking and lifelong aftermath.

David Zeltser's Blast from the North offers the same brand of zany fun that delighted middle-grade readers of the first book, Lug: Dawn of the Ice Age. A giant glacier is moving toward Lug's village at surprising speed and is on course to crush the whole settlement. Can cave boy Lug and his friends save their clan again?

Everyone's favorite monkey with a tool belt is back! When a baking disaster produces monstrous runaway muffins, only Chico Bon Bon and his tool belt can help! In Monkey with a Tool Belt and the Maniac Muffins, Chico proves you just need the right tools to turn any problem into a sweet success. With witty text and hilarious visual details, this picture book from author and illustrator Chris Monroe is a treat for readers of all ages.

Debut novelist Jane O'Reilly tells the story of a lonely girl, a mysterious old house, and a sassy antique doll in The Secret of Goldenrod. Trina and her father move into Goldenrod, an old and possibly haunted mansion. There Trina finds a tiny porcelain doll, Augustine, who helps Trina understand more about her forgetful father, her absent mother, and herself.

In A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent, author Anne Rockwell tells the true story of James Armistead Lafayette-a slave who spied for George Washington's army during the Revolutionary War. And unlike infamous spy Benedict Arnold, he didn't get caught. With illustrations by Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Floyd Cooper, this is James's story told for the first time in picture book form.

With a steampunk sensibility and a humorous touch, Bryan Methods's debut novel, The Thief's Apprentice, keeps middle-grade readers guessing with twists and turns in every chapter! In the first of the Master Diplexito and Mr. Scant series, Oliver, the son of a wealthy British industrialist, accidentally discovers the identity of a notorious thief: Mr. Scant, his family butler. Is Mr. Scant hiding other secrets as well?

Written by award-winning author Paul Volponi, Top Prospect focuses on pre-teen quarterback Travis Gardner, who is promised a place on an elite college football team while still in middle school. After he makes varsity quarterback in high school, the pressure is on. Travis will have to prove himself with every pass. Based on real-life events, this young adult novel captures the excitement of youth football while also casting a look at the ethical questions around college recruiting.

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Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, has been publishing award-winning, high-quality picture books, fiction, and nonfiction titles since 1969.

Blast from the North
September 2016
$15.99 Hardcover, Jacketed
eBook Also Available
Ages 8-12
HC: 978-1-5124-0641-2
160 Pages ? 5 1/2 x 8 1/4

Monkey with a Tool Belt and the Maniac Muffins
September 2016
$17.99 Hardcover, Jacketed
eBook Also Available
Ages 4-8
HC: 978-1-4677-2155-4
32 Pages ? 9 1/4 x 11

Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
October 2016
$19.99 Hardcover, Jacketed
eBook Also Available
Ages 10-18
HC: 978-1-4677-8903-5
144 Pages ? 8 x 10

The Secret of Goldenrod
October 2016
$17.99 Hardcover, Jacketed
eBook Also Available
Ages 8-12
HC: 978-1-5124-0135-6
376 Pages ? 5 1/2 x 8 1/4

A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
November 2016
$17.99 Hardcover, Jacketed
eBook Also Available
Ages 7-11
HC: 978-1-4677-4933-6
32 Pages ? 9 1/4 x 11

#1 The Thief's Apprentice
October 2016
$17.99 Hardcover, Jacketed
eBook Also Available
Ages 10-14
HC: 978-1-5124-0579-8
272 Pages ? 5 1/4 x 7 1/2

Top Prospect
September 2016
$17.99 Hardcover, Jacketed
eBook Also Available
Ages 9-15
HC: 978-1-4677-9433-6
280 Pages ? 5 1/2 x 8 1/4

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