Here are some more of the books kicking off 2024!
Books for Kids
I Am Ruth Bader Ginsburg – The latest in the Ordinary People Change the World biography series.
Birtle and the Purple Turtles – In a community of turtles, an unusual friendship begins. This was DARLING! I’ll be reviewing it soon.
Books for Older Kids/Teens/Young Adults
Slugfest – A group of middle schoolers have to take PE in summer school in order to get the required credit. This sounds amazing – which is what I would expect from Gordon Korman. Can’t wait to pick this one up!
You Wish – Another artist I love has branched out into books with this first in a new graphic novel series about a kid hoping for a little magic for her life who discovers more than she bargained for.
The Atlas of Us – A teen working on a community service project to be close to her late father discovers a found family that she’s not sure she can move on from when the project is over.
Dungeons and Drama – A girl with dramatic asperations convinces a teen at her dad’s gaming shop to cover her shifts in exchange for some fake flirting to help him with his crush. But she finds his D&D campaigns more fun than she expected, and the flirting isn’t as much acting as she planned, either. This sounds adorable! I hope to review this one soon.
Books for Adults
Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend (LGBTQ+ – Trade Paperback) – First in the Mischief and Matchmaking series. Two young women in “need” of husbands instead decide to try to get their widowed parents together. This sounds fantastic!
The Ladies Rewrite the Rules (Trade Paperback) – From the author of Mr. Malcolm’s List. A wealthy widow discovers she’s been named in a directory of such women for younger sons to persuade to marriage. So she gathers the other women named in the directory so they can turn the tables on the men. Yes, please!
Principles of (E)Motion (Trade Paperback) – When anxiety keeps a brilliant mathematician from sharing her discovery with the world, she shifts her focus instead to a quiet life of love, but when she decides to revisit her breakthrough, she discovers it has been stolen. This – and the author’s first book, Johanna Porter Is Not Sorry – sounds amazing!
The Witch of Tophet County (Trade Paperback) – The premise here is just too weird to try to summarize. It involves a witch, county bureaucracy and government, and tentacled overlords. If that sounds quirky and interesting to you, be sure to check it out. I pre-ordered this one because I just have to see what it’s all about.