The Lords of Night: A Shadow Bruja Novel #1 by J. C. Cervantes

When fourteen-year-old godborn and shadow bruja, Renata, embarks on a quest to stop five rogue demigods from awakening the nine Aztec Lords of Night and overpowering the Maya gods, she confronts questions about her family, her magic, and her destiny.

Dog Squad 2 Cat Crew by Chris Grabenstein

Fred, a stray dog who became the star of the show Dog Squad, is working on a new show called Cat Crew-but when he notices the felines acting strange, he wonders if the cat crew is being electronically controlled.

The Vanderbeekers #6: On the Road by Karina Yan Glaser

Our beloved Harlem family is putting the VAN in Vanderbeekers as they hit the highway to give their dad the best birthday surprise EVER! Re-creating a road trip Papa never got the chance to take with his own father, the whole crew is packed and ready for a cross-country adventure. Things get off to a rocky start when the car breaks down on their way to pick up Papa. Exploring themes of leaving home, embracing change, and the lessons to be learned when we go to a new place, The Vanderbeekers on the Road is every bit a journey.

Eleven-year-old Daisy Thistledown is on the run. Her mother has been keeping big, glittering secrets, and now she has vanished. Daisy knows it’s up to her to find Ma– but someone is hunting her across London. Someone determined to stop her from discovering the truth. So when Daisy flees to safety through a mysterious hidden doorway, she can barely believe her eyes–she has stepped out of the city and into another world.

When Henry adopts Ribsy, a dog of no particular breed, humorous adventures follow.

On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name, and a definition. A definition it is assumed they will grow up to match. Meet Shenanigan Swift: Little sister. Risk-taker. Mischief-maker. Shenanigan is getting ready for the big Swift Family Reunion and plotting her next great scheme: hunting for Grand-Uncle Vile’s long-lost treasure. She’s excited to finally meet her arriving relatives — until one of them gives Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude a deadly shove down the stairs.

Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.

One rainy night, Kazu sees a strange figure in a white kimono sneak out of his house–was he dreaming? Did he see a ghost? The next day at school, the very same person is sitting in his class–and all his friends are convinced that the ghost-girl Akari has been their friend for years. If that isn’t weird enough, Kazu learns that his house is in the exact location of an ancient temple called KimyM, which, legend has it, could bring the dead back to life!

Stanley used to be a perfectly normal boy… until the day he woke up Flat! Now Stanley is as flat as a pancake life is going to be different. But it’s not all bad, Stanley discovers that he can slide under doors, get mailed across the country in an envelope and even take a plane ride folded up neatly in to a brown paper bag.

Harry considers stealing from Room 3B’s Sharing and Caring Tag Sale in order to help out with money problems at home.

Molly has moved from Russia to America and so far she hates it. Kids make fun of her accent, her clothes and the fact that she doesn’t know anything about American customs. When Thanksgiving comes around her classmates can’t believe that Molly has never heard about it! But when the teacher sets them a special assignment the class soon learns that Molly is no different from those very first pilgrims that celebrated Thanksgiving.

Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota…until now. Her mom’s plan is just to stay for a couple weeks, until her grandfather gets better. But plans change, and as Maizy spends more time in Last Chance (where she and her family are the only Asian Americans) and at the Golden Palace–the restaurant that’s been in her family for generations–she makes some discoveries.

When the hippie crossing guard, Mr. Louie, puts a love potion in the water fountain before Valentine’s Day, everyone at Ella Mentry School falls in love.

A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra’s world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children – among them Petra and her family – have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race.