Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Waiting on Wednesday: Moonflower by Kacen Callender

Moonflower by Kacen Callender. 277 p. Scholastic Inc., July 19, 2022. 9781338636598.

Waiting on Wednesday features Moonflower by Kacen Callender. Here's the synopsis from the publisher:

National Book Award winner Kacen Callender delivers a captivating novel about a child facing the other-worldly shadows of depression.

Moon has been plunged into a swill of uncertainty and confusion. They travel to the spirit realms every night, hoping never to return to the world of the living.

But when the realm is threatened, it's up to Moon to save the spirit world, which sparks their own healing journey through the powerful, baffling, landscape that depression can cause.

Kacen Callender published two debut novels in 2018. Their middle grade debut, Hurricane Child, won The Stonewall Medal and the Lambda Literary Award. Their debut YA novel, This is KInd of an Epic Love Story, was a Lambda finalist, so they were competing against themself. Their next book for middle grade, King and the Dragonflies, won the National Book Award as well as a Coretta Scott King Honor and a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor. Felix Ever After was their second YA novel, and that won the Stonewall Award.

Moonflower will publish on July 19.

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