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20W Macm MCPG Complete List What Stars Are Made Of by Sarah Allen Twelve-year-old Libby Monroe is great at science, being optimistic, and talking to her famous, accomplished friends (okay, maybe that last one is only in her head). She's not great at playing piano, sitting still, or figuring out how to say the right thing at the right time in real life. Libby was born with Turner Syndrome, and that makes some things hard. But she has lots of people who love her, and that makes her pretty lucky. When her big sister Nonny tells her she's pregnant, Libby is thrilled - but worried. Nonny and her husband are in a financial black hole, and Libby knows that babies aren't always born healthy. So she strikes a deal with the universe: She'll enter a contest with a project about Cecelia Payne, the first person to discover what stars are made of. If she wins the grand prize and gives all that money to Nonny's family, then the baby will be perfect. Does she have what it takesto care for the sister that has always cared for her? And what will it take for the universe to notice? From debut author Sarah Allen comes this pitch-perfect, heartwarming novel about growing up, finding yourself, and loving people with everything you're Farrar, Straus and Giroux made of. On Sale: Mar 31/20 5.38 x 8.25 • 288 pages 9780374313197 • $22.99 • CL - With dust jacket Author Bio Juvenile Fiction / Social / Special Needs • Ages 10-14 years Sarah Allenhas been published in The Evansville Review, Allegory, and on WritersDigest.com. She has an MFA from Brigham Young University. Like Libby, she was born with Turner Syndrome. What Stars are Made Of is her Notes first novel.sarahallenbooks.com Promotion Sales Rep 1 20W Macm MCPG Complete List A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner A heartfelt and relatable novel from Phil Bildner, weaving the real history of Glenn Burke into the story of a middle-school kid learning to be himself. When sixth grader Silas Walker does a school presentation on former Major League Baseball player Glenn Burke, it's more than just a report on the inventor of the high five. Burke was a black gay baseball player in the 1970s - and for Silas, the presentation is his own first baby step toward coming out as gay. Soon he tells his best friend Zoey, but the longer he keeps his secret from his baseball teammates, the more he suspects they know something's up. Kids get pulled from the team, fingers point at Silas, and he stages one big cover-up with terrible consequences. Was it a mistake to share his truth? This is Phil Bildner's most personal novel yet, and drives home the message that there's no one way to come out - and there's a place in the field for everyone Author Bio Farrar, Straus and Giroux On Sale: Feb 25/20 Phil Bildner is a former New York City public school teacher who lives in 5.38 x 8.25 • 288 pages Newburgh, New York. The author of many books, including Marvelous 9780374312732 • $22.99 • CL - With dust jacket Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans and The Soccer Juvenile Fiction / Lgbt • Ages 10-13 years Fence: A Story of Friendship, Hope, and Apartheid in South Africa, Phil is a frequent speaker at conferences and travels to over sixty schools a year. Notes Promotion Sales Rep 2 20W Macm MCPG Complete List Brown Baby Lullaby by Tameka Fryer Brown, illustrated by AG Ford With Spanish words sprinkled throughout and featuring warm art by New York Times -bestselling and NAACP -Award-winning illustrator AG Ford, Tameka Fryer Brown's Brown Baby Lullaby is the perfect new baby or baby shower gift. From sunset to bedtime, two brown-skinned parents lovingly care for their beautiful brown baby: first, they play outside, then it is time for dinner and a bath, and finally a warm snuggle before bed. Author Bio Tameka Fryer Brown'spicture books include Around Our Way on Neighbors' Day, My Cold Plum Lemon Pie, and Bluesy Mood . Her work also appears in the anthology, We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices . She currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. Farrar, Straus and Giroux On Sale: Jan 14/20 10 x 8 • 32 pages 9780374307523 • $22.99 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Bedtime & Dreams • Ages 2-6 years Notes Promotion Sales Rep 3 20W Macm MCPG Complete List Pout-Pout Fish: Goes to the Doctor by Deborah Diesen, illustrated by Dan Hanna Author Bio Deborah Diesen is the author of many children's picture books, including the New York Times- bestselling The Pout-Pout Fish. She loves playing with words and rhymes and rhythms. She has worked as a bookseller, a bookkeeper, and a reference librarian. She lives in Michigan. DAN HANNA has over ten years' experience in the animation industry, and his work has appeared on BBC America and the Cartoon Network. He lives in Santa Barbara, California. He is the illustrator of the Pout-Pout Fish books. Farrar, Straus and Giroux On Sale: Feb 25/20 8 x 8 • 24 pages 9780374310509 • $8.25 • pb Juvenile Fiction / Social / New Experience • Ages 2-5 years Series: Pout-Pout Fish Paperback Adventure Notes Promotion Sales Rep 4 20W Macm MCPG Complete List You Can Be Kind, Pout-Pout Fish! by Deborah Diesen, illustrated by Dan Hanna Author Bio Deborah Diesen is the author of many children's picture books, including the New York Times- bestselling The Pout-Pout Fish. She loves playing with words and rhymes and rhythms. She has worked as a bookseller, a bookkeeper, and a reference librarian. She lives in Michigan. DAN HANNA has over ten years' experience in the animation industry, and his work has appeared on BBC America and the Cartoon Network. He lives in Santa Barbara, California. He is the illustrator of the Pout-Pout Fish books. Farrar, Straus and Giroux On Sale: Apr 7/20 6 x 9 • 24 pages full color throughout 9780374312930 • $6.75 • pb Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Fishes • Ages 4-8 years Series: Pout-Pout Fish Reader Notes Promotion Sales Rep 5 20W Macm MCPG Complete List You Can Be Kind, Pout-Pout Fish! by Deborah Diesen, illustrated by Dan Hanna Author Bio Deborah Diesen is the author of many children's picture books, including the New York Times- bestselling The Pout-Pout Fish. She loves playing with words and rhymes and rhythms. She has worked as a bookseller, a bookkeeper, and a reference librarian. She lives in Michigan. DAN HANNA has over ten years' experience in the animation industry, and his work has appeared on BBC America and the Cartoon Network. He lives in Santa Barbara, California. He is the illustrator of the Pout-Pout Fish books. Farrar, Straus and Giroux On Sale: Apr 7/20 6 x 9 • 24 pages full color throughout 9780374312923 • $22.99 • CL - With dust jacket Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Fishes • Ages 4-8 years Series: Pout-Pout Fish Reader Notes Promotion Sales Rep 6 20W Macm MCPG Complete List You Can Read, Pout-Pout Fish! by Deborah Diesen, illustrated by Dan Hanna Author Bio Deborah Diesen is the author of many children's picture books, including the New York Times- bestselling The Pout-Pout Fish. She loves playing with words and rhymes and rhythms. She has worked as a bookseller, a bookkeeper, and a reference librarian. She lives in Michigan. DAN HANNA has over ten years' experience in the animation industry, and his work has appeared on BBC America and the Cartoon Network. He lives in Santa Barbara, California. He is the illustrator of the Pout-Pout Fish books. Farrar, Straus and Giroux On Sale: Apr 7/20 6 x 9 • 24 pages full color throughout 9780374312909 • $6.75 • pb Juvenile Fiction / School & Education • Ages 4-8 years Series: Pout-Pout Fish Reader Notes Promotion Sales Rep 7 20W Macm MCPG Complete List You Can Read, Pout-Pout Fish! by Deborah Diesen, illustrated by Dan Hanna Author Bio Deborah Diesen is the author of many children's picture books, including the New York Times- bestselling The Pout-Pout Fish. She loves playing with words and rhymes and rhythms. She has worked as a bookseller, a bookkeeper, and a reference librarian. She lives in Michigan. DAN HANNA has over ten years' experience in the animation industry, and his work has appeared on BBC America and the Cartoon Network. He lives in Santa Barbara, California. He is the illustrator of the Pout-Pout Fish books. Farrar, Straus and Giroux On Sale: Apr 7/20 6 x 9 • 24 pages full color throughout 9780374312886 • $22.99 • CL - With dust jacket Juvenile Fiction / School & Education • Ages 4-8 years Series: Pout-Pout Fish Reader Notes Promotion Sales Rep 8 20W Macm MCPG Complete List Solar Story How One Community Lives Alongside the World's Biggest Solar Plant by Allan Drummond In his signature style, Allan Drummond tells the story of the largest solar plant in the world, the Noor Solar Power Plant in Morocco's Sahara Desert, by relating it to the everyday life of a schoolgirl in a small village next to the plant. As we see on a class field trip, the plant is not only bringing reliable power to the village and far beyond, but is providing jobs, changing lives, and upending the old ways of doing things - starting within the girl's own family. Blending detail-filled watercolors, engaging cartoon-style narration, sidebars, and an afterword, the author showcases another community going green in amazing ways.