THE PHANTOM OF THE POST OFFICE
Book Four in the 43 Old Cemetery Road series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release date: 5/8/2012

Cue the creepy organ music . . . it's phantom time!

Everyone likes getting fan mail. But what happens when your fan is a phantom? In this latest installment from the award-winning 43 Old Cemetery Road series, the morbidly mod Klise sisters take the Gaston Leroux gothic tale and set it in the Ghastly Post Office, where a new technology called VEXT-mail threatens to replace letters, books, even hair dryers. 

Luckily, a mysterious occupant of P.O. Box 5 has a plan to save the post office—if eleven-year-old Seymour Hope and his new friend, Wy Fye, can solve this postmortem mystery before it’s too late! 

Looking for the perfect gift for your mother or grandmother? Consider this picture book.

GRAMMY LAMBY AND THE SECRET HANDSHAKE 
Publisher: Henry Holt
Release date: 7/3/2012

Larry is a little lamb with a big secret. He doesn't always like when his grandmother comes to visit. She talks too loud, sings off key, and has big plans to take Larry to Tanzania and the South Seas when he grows up.

She even has a secret handshake.
    
It’s all too much for shy little Larry—until a summer storm blows through the Lambs’ valley, and Larry finds an unlikely hero in his own family. 

Told with their signature sensitivity to the complicated emotions of childhood, author Kate
Klise and illustrator M. Sarah Klise offer a gentle tribute to the bond between child and grandparent, and remind us that it often takes time for little ones to fall in love—even with those who love them most. 

HOMESICK
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan
Release date: Fall 2012

More on this book in a bit.
It's for readers in grades 5 and up.

   (And no, this isn't the cover art.
         Just a picture I like.)


*Attention librarian pals* Looking for a grownup book to read at the beach this summer? Check out Kate's first book for you.