Gingerbread Ashland Children's Festival

Gingerbread Ashland Children's FestivalThe prize winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and imaginative novel. Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe. Perdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a

most unpredictable installment to date

she hides them away under her bed

Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books (October 2

A captain at eighteen and a major general by nineteen

struggling to be free of the fatwa and living under another name - Joseph Anton

a young anthropologist

But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands

When Chloe's teacher gives a lesson about how even small acts of kindness can change the world

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co

a castle balcony

Signed by Joel Sternfeld on the title page

this extraordinary book by Award-winning author and artist Jason Chin is an epic saga of the life of an island―born of fire