Books from Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

  • Your Corner Dark
    By Desmond Hall

    American Street meets Long Way Down in this searing and gritty debut novel that takes an unflinching look at the harsh realities of gang life in Jamaica and how far a teen is willing to go for family.

  • Jack Frost: The End Becomes the Beginning
    By William Joyce

    of the spider, we saw the craft was literally coated with thousands of Nightmare Men and other creatures of the night, churning and swaying as the spider glided along. We edged even closer, our small size and the darkness keeping us ...

  • Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
    By Jason Reynolds

    This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school bus falling from the sky. But no one saw it happen. They were all too busy— Talking about boogers. Stealing pocket change. Skateboarding. Wiping out. Braving up.

  • Jason Reynolds's Track Series: Ghost; Patina; Sunny; Lu
    By Jason Reynolds

    Discover each of their stories in this complete collection of Jason Reynolds’s explosive New York Times bestselling Track series. This collection includes: Ghost Patina Sunny Lu

  • Long Way Down
    By Jason Reynolds

    “An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor ...

  • Ain't Burned All the Bright
    By Jason Reynolds

    In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds. Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld.

  • Somewhere Among
    By Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu

    Dipping and soaring, Somewhere Among is the story of one girl’s search for identity, a sense of peace, and the discovery that hope can indeed rise from the ashes of disaster.

  • Blooming Beneath the Sun
    By Christina Rossetti

    Newbery Award honoree Ashley Bryan has hand-selected a collection of celebrated English poet Christina Rossetti’s poems to illustrate with his inimitable flourish.

  • The Great Upending
    By Beth Kephart

    When a troubled children’s book author moves to their farm, two kids with troubles of their own hatch a scheme to swipe the ending of the final book in a bestselling series to get a reward from the book’s publisher in this gorgeously ...

  • The Seeds of America Trilogy: Chains; Forge; Ashes
    By Laurie Halse Anderson

    What would you risk to be free?

  • The Three Billy Goats Gruff—the FULL Story
    By Richard Jackson

    The classic tale of the Three Billy Goats Gruff gets a cheeky twist in this picture book retelling.

  • The Out of My Mind Collection: Out of My Mind; Out of My Heart
    By Sharon M. Draper

    Perfect for fans of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, the New York Times bestselling Out of My Mind and its sequel, Out of My Heart, follow a girl with cerebral palsy who fights to be heard—now together in a collectible hardcover boxed set.

  • Oh, Rats!
    By Tor Seidler

    But what should have been a death sentence becomes the beginning of a sweeping big-city adventure in this “charming” (Kirkus Reviews) novel by National Book Award­ nominated author Tor Seidler.

  • The Shiloh Collection: Shiloh; Shiloh Season; Saving Shiloh; Shiloh Christmas
    By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    A boy. A raggedy pup. The pup's mean as a rattlesnake owner. A dad who no how no way wants a dog in the house. This is how it all begins in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s Newbery Award—winning novel, Shiloh.

  • The Jake Drake Collection: Jake Drake, Know-It-All; Jake Drake, Bully Buster; Jake Drake, Teacher's Pet; Jake Drake, Class Clown
    By Andrew Clements

    The four book school story series by the multimillion-copy bestselling author of Frindle and Extra Credit, Andrew Clements.

  • Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston
    By Alicia D. Williams

    And everywhere she jumped, she shined sunlight on the tales most people hadn’t been bothered to listen to until Zora. The tales no one had written down until Zora. Tales on a whole culture of literature overlooked…until Zora.

  • North to Benjamin
    By Alan Cumyn

    Hatchet meets Maybe a Fox in this “gripping, suspenseful” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) novel about Edgar, a boy who has lost the ability to speak and can only bark, and his dog Benjamin as they travel through the freezing Yukon ...

  • The Guardians Paperback Collection: NIcholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King; E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior...
    By William Joyce

    A strong, if sleepy, star captain. A rebel with a cause. These are the Guardians of Childhood—though now they’re better known by their Earthly personas: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, and Jack Frost.

  • Dark Shadows: Yes, Another Misadventure
    By Doreen Cronin

    The Chicken Squad is back for their fourth (mis)adventure, and this time they’re facing their darkest mystery yet: shadows!

  • A Place to Belong
    By Cynthia Kadohata

    A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019 A Japanese-American family, reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese internment camps, gives up their American citizenship to move back to Hiroshima, unaware of the devastation wreaked ...