This week, a young pregnant mother and her two children navigate the harsh reality of eviction in Evanthia Bromiley's debut, Crown, which shimmers and shines with prose seemingly cut from glass. And Carly Anne York gloriously celebrates the silly side of science in the immensely entertaining The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog.
Plus, a cursed harpoon must be destroyed in Meg Medina's "mesmerizing, folkloric" children's novel Graciela in the Abyss, with inky seascape illustrations by Anna and Elena Balbusso. And Olivia A. Cole and Ashley Woodfolk deftly turn cold revenge into a heartwarming story in their "nearly flawless" first YA novel together, Call Your Boyfriend.
--Dave Wheeler, senior editor, Shelf Awareness