Celebrating a Season of Stories: Our Fall 2023 Fiction Round Up
Can you believe 2023 is almost over? We sure can’t! But what a year it’s been, especially with our fall lineup of fiction titles that gave us endless adventures. From a silly wolf in underpants, stories about summer adventures in space, and more diverse stories. Let’s rewind and relive these incredible stories as we bid farewell to a season of fantastic fiction.
The Wolf in Underpants Gets Some Pants
From the Series The Wolf in Underpants
When the Wolf’s signature striped briefs become a trend across the forest, he feels like he has lost his identity. But when he abandons his favorite outfit, he’ll have to learn who he is without it.
The fifth tale in the Eisner-nominated Wolf in Underpants series is a laugh-out-loud fable about identity, conformity, and being who you really are.
Last Summer in Outer Space
From the Series Adventures of the PSS 118
As eighth grade aboard the PSS 118 comes to an end, Jack and his friends face a final showdown against the aliens who kidnapped the rest of humanity.
With help from their teachers, their classmates, their cranky schoolship, some robot allies, and one very resilient pet hamster, they take on the evil Minister one last time to rescue their fellow humans and make the galaxy safer for everyone.
The First Invasion: Book 1
From the Series Power Button
Truly’s parents are arguing all the time, so they’ve dropped her off with her aunt and uncle. Her cousin Kaz has a big imagination but he’s not the best at making friends. Maximo Skulldigg gets bullied by his older brother—and now he has to conquer Kaz and Truly’s home planet.
It’s a good thing Kaz and Truly just uncovered a family secret. After the cousins find a hideout full of strange treasures near Kaz’s house, they slip on wristbands that summon a space knight named Trinn Cyclo. Soon, he may be Earth’s only hope!
Strikers: A Graphic Novel
Evan just wants to win a game. Bobby would rather fight than win. Hockey—and life—keep handing them both losses. Their team, the Strikers, has a roster of rejects in hand-me-down coats but lacks good equipment, a deep bench, and a coach who shows up on time. Their town of Flint, Michigan, has been down on its luck their whole lives.
The boys may not understand each other, but together, they’ll find their reasons to keep taking the ice.
Timothy Dinoman and the Attack of the Dancing Machines: Book 2
From the Series Timothy Dinoman
Tech celebrity Ellis Heron is about to throw a worldwide party to celebrate his success. So when Timothy Dinoman discovers crooks have been using robots with Heron tech, he’s excited to stop whoever is stealing from the famous inventor. He’ll catch a thief and save Heron’s celebration! But what if Heron’s robot dance squad hides another sinister secret?
The Robot Makers Series
Learn about the history of robotics, the building blocks of a robot, the basics of coding, and more in these humorous, high-energy manhwa graphic novels.
When soccer fanatic La Ion transfers to a new school, he only wants to find his next teammates. But a sign for a soccer club leads him to a robot soccer crew, with human students behind the controls. The mix-up draws La Ion into a rivalry with a club of battle-robot makers and a series of intense competitions. La Ion might join kicking and screaming, but he’ll step up to the challenge—and discover the concepts behind robotics, coding, and more.
★Pocketful of Stars
Safiya and her mother have never seen eye to eye. Her mother doesn’t understand Safiya’s love of gaming, and shy Safiya doesn’t think she has anything in common with her vibrant, sometimes volatile mother. But when her mother falls into a coma, Safiya’s whole world shifts. She finds herself dreaming about an unfamiliar setting and a rebellious girl who’s distinctly familiar. Gradually she realizes that she’s experiencing her mother’s memories of her childhood in Kuwait.
As Safiya unlocks these memories the way she would unlock levels in a game, she finds a path to accepting loss and embracing who she is—someone not so different from her mother after all.
Forsooth
Thirteen-year-old Calvin knows he’s destined to be a star. . . if he can just stop making embarrassing mistakes onstage, like getting stuck on a single line—”Forsooth!”—during the school play. The summer after seventh grade, he sets out to make a film with his friends. But his confidence as an actor is at an all-time low, his friend Kennedy is moving on without him, and he might have a crush on his friend Jonah. . . and another crush on his friend Blake. . . which he’s pretty sure would upset his parents. Surrounded by drama on all sides, Calvin will have to go off script if he’s going to be a real friend and be true to himself.
Gallows Hill
In 1692, fourteen-year-old Thomas arrives in Salem, Massachusetts, already an outcast. He’s a Quaker, distrusted by the community’s Puritan majority, and an orphan. He’s reluctantly taken in by elderly Goodwidow Blevins, who’s rumored to be a witch.
Meanwhile, Puritan Salemite Patience is horrified when her younger sister, Abigail, is stricken with a mysterious affliction. The same torments have befallen other girls, who claim they’re being bewitched. When the girls, including Abigail, begin accusing neighbors of witchcraft, Thomas’s new guardian falls under suspicion.
To protect those they care about, Thomas and Patience will have to question everything they think they know: their faiths, their loyalties, and their places in the community.
Night and Dana
When a messy prank gets the wrong kind of attention, special-effects obsessives Dana Drucker and Lily Villaseñor must find a new creative outlet or leave high school without graduating. To save their diplomas, Dana and Lily join a local film class and soon start writing an eco-horror movie. A search for creepy locations leads Dana to Daphne Ocean, a Florida activist and self-proclaimed water witch. As shooting starts, filmmaking prodigy Lily doesn’t seem to need Dana much anymore. Soon, tempers are flaring, and Dana’s pushing away her old friend and her new mentor, Daphne. But as everything starts going up in flames, Dana also begins to forge her voice.
★All the Things We Never Said
Sixteen-year-old Mehreen is overwhelmed by her anxiety and depression, and she’s been thinking about suicide. She discovers MementoMori.com, a website that matches people with partners and assigns them a date on which to end their lives, together. Mehreen finds herself partnered with Cara and Olivia, strangers dealing with their own struggles.
As they meet and learn about one another, the girls form a strong friendship. They realize that, with the right support systems, life is worth living. They decide to abandon the suicide pact—but the website won’t let them stop.
As their assigned suicide date draws nearer and MementoMori continues to manipulate them, the girls will have to rely on their friendship to survive.
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