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“The Conference of the Birds” by Ransom Riggs

There is a brand-new book in the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. Book 5, The Conference of Birds, follows Jacob as he takes on a mission to deliver newly contacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known only as V. But V is in hiding and she never, ever, wants to be found.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was a 2013 TRCA nominee. A sequel, titled Hollow City, was released in January 2014. The third installment in the Miss Peregrine’s series, titled Library of Souls, was released in September 2015. A Map of Days was released in 2018 and this was followed by The Conference of Birds.
Tales of the Peculiar—the collection of fairy tales known to hide information about the peculiar world, including clues to the locations of time loops—first introduced in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was published in September 2016. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City have both been released as graphic novels.
“Wrecking Ball” by Jeff Kinney

In 2012 Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney was one of the TRCA Top 10 novels. This November, Kinney released his fourteenth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.
Book Review: “Speak: the Graphic Novel”
5 Reasons to Read: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Elizabeth Acevedo Introduces “The Poet X”
“Shout” by by Laurie Halse Anderson

Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written the poetry memoir Shout.
Speak was first published in 1999 and its graphic novel version was published in early 2018. Speak: The Graphic Novel was a 2019 TRCA nominee.
Karen McManus talks about “One Of Us Is Lying”
“Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee” by Jeff Zentner

Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King (a 2018 TRCA title) and Goodbye Days (a 2019 TRCA title) has released a new novel. Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee is a contemporary novel about two best friends who must make tough decisions about their futures and the TV show they host in their senior year of high school.