The top forthcoming books in Canadian libraries

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  1. The French Illusion
    by John Grisham
    Doubleday
    Sep 29, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense
    Hardback

    Description

    #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham delivers a gripping, suspenseful page-turner about a Paris honeymoon gone horribly wrong—and the nightmare that follows.

    After Paul and Chelsea Tanner’s fairytale wedding, their future is full of promise. But their honeymoon to Paris takes a dark, shocking turn when they are kidnapped while on a day trip to the French countryside. Who would target them, and why? It turns out this is not the first crime of its kind. The search for clues soon stretches across borders, with the FBI, CIA, and French Intelligence trying to work together to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Struggling to find answers, a young lawyer is recruited to be the bait in an elaborate CIA operation.

    Propulsive and surprising, The French Illusion is an unmistakable Grisham thrill ride—gripping and impossible to put down.
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  2. Hollow Bones
    by Jodi Picoult
    Random House Canada
    Sep 15, 2026
    FICTION/Women
    Hardback

    Description

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name comes a riveting novel about the risks we take to protect the ones we love in a world where crisis is always just around the corner.

    On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn’t have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.

    Now an adult, Molly runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. She and her husband, Jesse—a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis—have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world. But then the unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything they thought they knew.

    Moving between past and present, Hollow Bones is an epic story of the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect ourselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.
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  3. Hollywood, Ending
    by John Green
    Dutton Books
    Sep 22, 2026
    FICTION/Literary
    Hardback

    Description

    #1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world.

    “Green’s novel of betrayal and survival, trust and love is a fluent condemnation of the machine of commercialization and a paean to art.... A spellbinding, tender, incisive, funny, and compassionate story of love and creativity.”Booklist, starred review

    For rising talents Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they’ve both been waiting for. They’re on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives—in exciting, but also terrifying, ways.

    John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of the insatiable attention economy. Told through dual points of view, the novel brilliantly juxtaposes the on-screen study of Warhol’s life at the dawn of celebrity culture with the intimate struggles of two young people figuring out who they are, both together and alone.

    Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only Green can tell it. Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and the audacity to pursue the kind of love we all deserve.
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  4. We Chase Shadows
    by Richard Osman
    Pamela Dorman Books
    Sep 15, 2026
    FICTION/Mystery & Detective/Cozy/General
    Hardback

    Description

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Osman’s globe-trotting series “We Solve Murders” returns with the thrilling new mystery, We Chase Shadows.

    Back together.
    Back on the case.
    And back to solving murders . . .

    At sunrise, high in the Italian hills, a body is found on the steps of a beautiful private villa. On the body is a threatening note, signed by a mystery man.

    Back at We Solve Murders HQ, Amy, Rosie, and Steve leap at the chance to take on their first proper case. So what if their new client seems to have his own reasons for avoiding the police? All they need to do is uncover who left the note, and then find them. Simple.

    But once they start digging, the suspects keep piling up: there’s Sweden’s most-wanted criminal, a canny ex-wife and a fierce business rival – yet the murderer keeps evading them. And as the trio chase a villain through the shadows, danger travels closer to home . . .

    Between Italy and Palm Springs, via Barcelona and Steve’s village pub, can the team catch an elusive killer who knows EXACTLY where to hide?
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  5. Exit Party
    by Emily St. John Mandel Canada
    HarperAvenue
    Sep 15, 2026
    FICTION/Action & Adventure
    Hardback

    Description

    The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers.

    Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross tents as they walk across Silverlake to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment, people drink and dance, a woman wears a silver dress, pleated like tinfoil. And then: A shift. A bewildered twin, an uncanny doppelganger stumbles through the crowd and out into the night, and Kareem, the party’s host, vanishes into thin air.

    As Ari Waker unravels the mystery of this inexplicable night, Emily St. John Mandel unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort, and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own, and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change.

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  6. American Hagwon
    by Min Jin Lee
    Cardinal
    Sep 29, 2026
    FICTION/Literary
    Hardback

    Description

    The National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic: a masterpiece by turns sweeping and intimate, that reckons with ambition and moderation, lust and loyalty, personal dreams and familial duty.

    Min Jin Lee brings grand ambition, fierce heart, and the tenderest hope to a novel I didn't want to end.” —Roxane Gay, bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger

    In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the men, women, and children in American Hagwon struggle to find satisfaction and meaning in a world that seems to grow less forgiving with each passing year. Once comfortably middle class in Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children—Bo, DH, and Mido—find their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John’s oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

    Desperately striving to regain their footing, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern California—where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents, strangers in a strange land, must adjust to a new life in which their experience and education mean little, and they set their sights on whatever it takes to provide for their children’s futures. The Kohs, their friends, relatives, and even their foes move in and out of each other’s lives as they navigate new courses across the years, always nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security.

    In American Hagwon, Min Jin Lee has crafted an unforgettable, panoramic novel where the smallest of gestures can have enormous repercussions, where the bonds of family and of memory twist and fray but rarely break, and where willful self-sacrifice—for the benefit of loved ones and even strangers—is a kind of prayer.

    An immersive, engrossing novel ... this is panorama told in brilliant detail.”—Colm Tóibín, bestselling author ofLong IslandandBrooklyn

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  7. The Most Dangerous Games (Standard Edition)
    by MrBeast
    William Morrow
    Sep 01, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense
    Hardback

    Description

    "You are someone who will look the impossible in the face and tell it to sit down and shut up. The world needs that. The world needs you.”

    A thousand strangers receive the invitation. One hundred make the cut. An unprecedented competition from MrBeast, the world's #1 creator with more than a billion followers, and James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling author, where the stakes couldn’t be higher.

    The Games begin in Antarctica, where one wrong step on the ice kills you, and they never let up: Shark water off a remote Chilean island, desert heat that cooks you where you stand, storm-battered peaks, and caves so black you cannot find your own hand. No rescue. No second chances. A billion dollars to whoever is still standing.

    Then the terrain stops being the thing that can kill you, and the other players start. Alliances turn into ambushes. Trust becomes the sharpest weapon. And somewhere above it all, a hidden voice is watching every move, testing, deciding who deserves to survive.

    From MrBeast and James Patterson: an unputdownable survival thriller about what people will do to become The One who can save the world.

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  8. Fury in Death
    by J. D. Robb
    St. Martin's Press
    Sep 08, 2026
    FICTION/Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
    Hardback

    Description

    In the new crime thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, Lt. Eve Dallas journeys into the darkness where murder is born…

    NYSPD lieutenant Eve Dallas never knows what to expect when she gets word of a body. It could be an elderly man who made the mistake of climbing a ladder in slippery footwear. And the next call could be a wealthy biotech executive beaten to death in his home office—but what was Larry Chu’s mistake?

    The victim’s corpse is so mangled and damaged it’s hard to believe a lone, unarmed assailant could have managed it. The killer was clearly unnaturally strong—and smart enough to find a way into Chu’s highly secure building. Most of all, whoever did this was very, very angry.

    The excessive violence leads Dallas to conclude that this was a deeply personal act, born of a rage that she can’t excuse but can understand thanks to her own traumatic past. And though the motive seems rooted in heated emotion rather than cold hard cash, she can’t ignore the suspicious bank account in the Cayman Islands, or the shadowy, profit-hungry company Chu worked for. The mystery only grows when it turns out Chu isn’t the only victim—and Dallas will need to tear through one layer of secrecy after another to reveal what lies behind this explosion of fury...

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  9. The Thoroughbreds
    by Elin Hilderbrand
    Little, Brown and Company
    Sep 15, 2026
    FICTION/Women
    Hardback

    Description

    Class is back in session! New York Times bestselling authors of The Academy Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham return with The Thoroughbreds: what has more high-stakes drama, tension, and intrigue than senior year at a New England boarding school?

    September at Tiffin Academy is always a heady time, especially for the senior class—“sixth formers,” in Tiffin-speak—a season of college applications and intense pressure, of partying hard and last hurrahs. As the chapel bells ring in students and staff, everyone has something to look forward to—but in the midst of the anticipation and excitement, nagging questions and dark secrets lurk beneath the surface…

    Are Tiffin’s It Couple, Charley and East, on the rocks? What sparked the rift between football star Dub and his best friend Hakeem? Will Pippa Sacks, posh day student, topple the delicate social hierarchy—or wreak even worse havoc? Can Head of School Audre Robinson save her job—and the school—after a disastrous financial mistake? And what was in that email attachment Cinnamon Peters sent to Dub before she died?

    Elin Hilderbrand and her daughter Shelby Cunningham answer these questions and more in The Thoroughbreds, a page-turning story about friendship, treachery, ambition, and growing up, at any age.

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  10. Our Noble Selves
    by Kate Atkinson
    Bond Street Books
    Sep 15, 2026
    FICTION/World Literature/England/20th Century
    Hardback

    Description

    The #1 international bestselling author of Life After Life returns with a thrilling tale of post-World War II London, a city eager to put the dark days of the war behind it, but where the peace proves as tricky to navigate as the past.

    When foreign correspondent turned war reporter Harry Flynn returns to Britain in 1949 from Singapore, held for years as a POW, he takes a quiet office job with The Festival of Britain, a nostalgic government-funded endeavor to celebrate British creativity, grit, and ingenuity. There, he joins an oddball team of misfits, ne'er-do-wells, and downright chancers helping to ready the Festival of Britain for launch.

    But when one of Flynn’s dates, a surly Frenchwoman, goes missing, everything is upended. The last person to see her prior to her disappearance, Flynn is thrust into the center of the investigation. At first, he finds the suspicions preposterous. But it’s true he has no memory of the hours following the Frenchwoman’s departure, and there’s the fact of the nasty black eye he had upon waking. As evidence mounts, Flynn begins to wonder, could he have killed her? And, importantly, are any of his new friends actually foes?

    With her unique portraiture of place, Atkinson now turns her light on a nation rebuilding and the lengths some might go to determine its future. Charming, brilliantly plotted, and gripping as ever, Our Noble Selves cements Atkinson’s place as one of the greatest chroniclers of our times.
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July & August 2026 Juvenile and Young Adult List

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  1. Heart of the Ruby Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #32)
    by Tracey West
    Scholastic Inc.
    Aug 04, 2026
    JUVENILE FICTION/Readers/Chapter Books
    Paperback / softback

    Description

    After the royal family of the Kingdom of Bracken is captured by an evil fairy queen, Drake and Bo turn to the Ruby Dragon for help in the latest action-packed installment of this New York Times bestselling series!

    Pick a book. Grow a Reader!

    This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!

    The royal family is under attack! At the royal baby naming ceremony, King Roland, Queen Rose, and their new baby are captured by an evil fairy queen named Agrona. It's up to Drake and his friends to rescue them! The Dragon Masters soon discover that a spell had been keeping Agrona asleep for many years. But that spell has now been broken, and three magical dragon gems are needed to recapture the evil fairy queen. Drake, Worm, Bo, and Shu travel to the Land of Peace to find a Ruby Dragon. But it won't be easy to obtain the dragon's special heart gem. Can Drake and Bo solve the Ruby Dragon's riddle and secure the first gem?

    With engaging black-and-white artwork on every page, kids won't be able to put down this page-turning adventure!

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  2. I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 (I Survived Graphic Novel #14)
    by Lauren Tarshis
    Graphix
    Jul 07, 2026
    JUVENILE FICTION/Comics & Graphic Novels/Historical
    Lexile measure GN620L
    Hardback

    Description

    A vividly rendered graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Peter Wartman.

    A day no one will ever forget... Danny Crane and his mom moved from New York City to Pearl City, Hawaii two months ago. Every day since, Danny has been making a plan to get back to NYC. He's not afraid of the crime or dark alleys there. And he's not afraid to stow away on the next ship out of Pearl Harbor.

    But that morning, the skies fill with fighter planes. Bombs pound the harbor. Bullets rain down on the beaches. Danny is shocked -- and, for the first time, truly afraid. He's a tough city kid. But can Danny survive the day that will live in infamy?

    Lauren Tarshis's New York Times bestselling I Survived series comes to vivid life in this pulse-pounding graphic novel edition. Perfect for readers who prefer the graphic novel format, or for existing fans of the I Survived chapter book series, these graphic novels combine historical facts with high-action storytelling that's sure to keep readers turning the pages. Includes a nonfiction section at the back with facts and photos about the real-life event.

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  3. Pizza and Taco: Scariest Sleepover Ever!
    by Stephen Shaskan
    Random House Graphic
    Jul 21, 2026
    JUVENILE FICTION/Comics & Graphic Novels/Humorous
    Fountas & Pinnell Text Level Gradient L, Lexile measure 370L
    Hardback

    Description

    It's time for a super sleepover! The foodie besties and their friends are excited for a fun night of telling ghost stories! Will Pizza and Taco ever get to sleep? Find out in this shivery addition to the bestselling chapter book graphic novel series!

    Pizza and Taco’s sleepover night is about to begin! They have their sleeping bags, their friends are arriving, and their Best Sleepover Ever playlist is on! Pizza, Taco, and their friends are not allowed to watch a scary movie, but you know what’s just as awesome and shivery? GHOST STORIES! Pizza and Taco won't get too scared, right?!

    This hilarious young graphic novel series with chapters will tickle kids' funny bones and bolster their reading confidence. It's the perfect stepping stone for those who are transitioning to longer chapter books and graphic novels.

    Readers will be hungry to read every book in the series! Look for these Pizza and Taco stories...and many more!
    Coolest Club Ever!
    Draw Your Own Comic Activity Book!
    Go Viral!
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  4. Little Blue Truck Lost and Found
    by Alice Schertle
    Clarion Books
    Aug 18, 2026
    JUVENILE FICTION/Transportation/Cars, Trucks & Buses
    Hardback

    Description

    It's a fun day on the farm with the #1 New York Times bestselling Little Blue Truck and friendsuntil Toad goes missing!

    Toad helps prepare for a hayride by loading piles of hay into Little Blue's truck bed. But when they're ready for a ride, Toad is nowhere to be found! Can Blue and his farm animal friends find Toad in time for him to join the fun?

    This seventh picture book in the beloved and bestselling Little Blue Truck series features all the rhyme, rhythm, animal sounds, and good old-fashioned fun and friendship that Blue is known for. Join Blue and friends for another adventure on the farm!

    Check out the other exciting stories and formats in the Little Blue Truck series and celebrate all year 'round with Blue and friends!

    Little Blue Truck

    Little Blue Truck Leads the Way

    Good Night, Little Blue Truck

    Time for School, Little Blue Truck

    Little Blue Truck Makes a Friend

    Little Blue Truck and Racer Red

    Little Blue Truck’s Christmas

    Little Blue Truck’s Halloween

    Little Blue Truck’s Springtime

    Little Blue Truck’s Valentine

    Little Blue Truck Feeling Happy

    What Do You Say, Little Blue Truck?

    Little Blue Truck’s Beep-Along Book

    Little Blue Truck Farm Sticker Fun

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  5. Grumpy Monkey The Best Present
    by Suzanne Lang
    Step into Reading
    Jul 14, 2026
    JUVENILE FICTION/Animals/Apes, Monkeys, etc.
    Lexile measure 520L, Fountas & Pinnell Text Level Gradient J
    Hardback

    Description

    A new early reader from the world of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Grumpy Monkey about saving the best for last – and what to do when someone else’s best is your worst.

    It’s Jim Panzee’s birthday, and his friends are coming over. We all know what means: Presents! Jim loves presents! Marabou insists that her present is the best and Jim should “save the best for last.” So Jim opens all his other gifts: A pineapple! A papaya!! Figs!!! Bananas!!!! What could possibly be any better than pineapple, papaya, figs, and bananas? Turns out: Not Marabou’s gift. Now Jim has to figure out if he should pretend he loves the gift or tell Marabou the truth. With his friends all giving him conflicting advice, Norman from next door steps in with the best advice of all: “You have to tell the truth. Just find a nice way to say it.”

    As always, bestselling creators Suzanne Lang and Max Lang deliver a hilarious and simple story with bold art and a lesson at its core.
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  6. The Gilded Blade
    by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
    Jul 14, 2026
    YOUNG ADULT FICTION/Mysteries & Detective Stories
    Hardback

    Description

    In the stunning finale to the global phenomenon of the Inheritance Games Saga (over 9 million copies sold!), discover danger, riches, romance—and the staggering answers to long-brewing mysteries.

    Everyone is a player.

    In the grandest of games, there is everything to win—money, love, power, revenge—and even more to lose. From Texas to Prague to London and beyond, the Hawthorne family, the players from the Grandest Game, and allies old and new are drawn into a web of centuries-old secrets and mind-bending puzzles. Every clue pulls them deeper; every answer demands a price.

    To survive, they must unravel the mysteries that bind them together…but some truths are deadly.

    Discover danger, riches, romance—and the long-awaited revelations at the heart of Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s most intricate and explosive puzzle yet.

    All games must come to an end.

    Don’t miss a moment of The Inheritance Games Saga, including the thrilling Grandest Game spinoff series, set in the world of the Inheritance Games:

    • The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games #1)
    • The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games #2)
    • The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games #3)
    • The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games #4)
    • Games Untold
    • The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game #1)
    • Glorious Rivals (The Grandest Game #2)
    • The Gilded Blade (The Grandest Game #3)
    • The Same Backward as Forward


    For more unputdownable reads from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, don’t miss the killer The Naturals series, and The Debutantes duet.

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  7. The New Student: A Graphic Novel (Mr. Wolf's Class #6)
    by Aron Nels Steinke
    Graphix
    Aug 04, 2026
    JUVENILE FICTION/Comics & Graphic Novels/General
    Hardback

    Description

    Someone new is about to join Mr. Wolf's class!

    Mr. Wolf's class is welcoming Zora to her first day at Hazelwood Elementary. As the new kid, she wants to make a good first impression, but when her introduction goes a little too well, not everyone is happy for her. Randy is used to being the one who can make everyone laugh, and she's not sure how to feel about sharing that spotlight with somebody else. When the competition becomes heated and feelings get hurt, Zora and Randy will have to figure out how to get along in the same class!

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  8. This Book Is Seriously Silly! (A Narwhal and Jelly Picture Book #2)
    by Ben Clanton
    Tundra Books
    Aug 11, 2026
    JUVENILE FICTION/Animals/Marine Life
    Hardback

    Description

    No smiling or laughing allowed. Don’t even think about it. Jelly means business in this seriously silly interactive picture book follow-up to the bestselling This Book is Dangerous!, a spin-off of the beloved Narwhal and Jelly series.

    Who messed with the title of this book? Was it YOU?

    Hold in those smiles and giggles and don't you dare make a silly face or sound — Jelly is a SERIOUS jellyfish, and this is a SERIOUS book.

    Jelly has serious plans for this book and doesn't need any smiling, laughing, funny faces OR noises to derail it. And even if you do silly stuff Jelly will still be serious . . . even if he had a fuzzy pink mustache, or a name like "Jellysquish," or wore silly striped socks with silly faces that made silly sounds. Hey, don’t let that give you any ideas!
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  9. Penelope Rex vs. the New Kid
    by Ryan T. Higgins
    Disney Hyperion
    Aug 18, 2026
    JUVENILE FICTION/Animals/Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
    Hardback

    Description

    A brand-new Penelope Rex book from Ryan T. Higgins, the #1 New York Times best-selling author-illustrator ofWe Don’t Eat Our Classmates and Mother Bruce!

    Just when she has gotten used to being the only dinosaur in a class full of children, Penelope Rex is surprised to learn that the new kid is…a dinosaur just like her! Will the playground be big enough for the two of them?


    Penelope Rex is the only dinosaur in her school and she likes it that way. But when a new kid joins her class, Penelope doesn’t know how to feel about it—because this new kid is another dinosaur! As she tries to welcome Patty Topps, Penelope is faced with some dino-size questions about standing out, fitting in, and what really makes her feel special.

    Readers will root for Penelope as she navigates what it means to be one of a kind (even if she’s no longer the only kid in her class who is seven feet tall and covered in scales).



    Read all of the Penelope Rex books!


    · We Don't Eat Our Classmates
    · We Will Rock Our Classmates
    · We Don't Lose Our Class Goldfish
    · Bundle Up, Penelope Rex
    · Penelope Rex and the Problem with Pets
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  10. My Imaginary Duck
    by Graham Annable Canada
    HarperAlley
    Jul 28, 2026
    JUVENILE FICTION/Readers/Beginner
    Hardback

    Description

    My Imaginary Duck is the newest offering from I Can Read Comics, an early reader line that familiarizes children with the world of graphic novel storytelling and encourages visual literacy in emerging readers. Comics powerhouse Graham Annable introduces readers to Mavis and her best (imaginary) friend, Duck. The inseparable pair love nothing more than playing together, but soon discover that letting others into your world might just be even more fun.

    My Imaginary Duck is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts of Level One books support success for children eager to start reading on their own.

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