Into the Wild newbery

Into the Wild newberyIn April 1992 a young man from a well to do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable

For more than seventy years

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (August 25

On a desperate journey

Publisher: Random House (October 16

Who is the child

at the dawn of the modern age:

This exquisite graphic novel adaptation of Philippa Pearce’s Carnegie Medal–winning Tom’s Midnight Garden reimagines a beloved classic in a new

As the decades pass—from the parlor communism of the ’30s

This time they’re studying the science and mysteries of our very own home planet: Earth

Famously in the audience that night was Jon Landau

and Helen Watt

and is soon certain that Jane Neal died at the hands of someone much more sinister than a careless bowhunter