Children of Owl
Will be published approx. on 12. November 2026
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-64614-568-3 (ISBN)
Description
From the peerless master of contemporary fantasy comes a tale of three cousins and the world of creatures, ghosts, and murderers that surrounds their trailer park. Illustrated throughout with comics pages!
Maisie: hasn't gotten her life back on track since her best friend died and she saw Owl, harbinger of ill tidings and doom.
Joel: Streaming prodigy with questionable decision-making who's been exiled to a summer of kitten fostering.
Verona: will do anything to leave their trailer park behind, even watch a house she knows is haunted.
Owl: son of Big Owl, who can't help who he is, or how much he cares about these aforementioned humans.
Their four stories intertwine with a ghost bent on justice, an adorable feline Animal Person, and a vengeful monster headed straight for them in this singular YA fantasy novel from Newbery Honor-winning Darcie Little Badger.
Maisie: hasn't gotten her life back on track since her best friend died and she saw Owl, harbinger of ill tidings and doom.
Joel: Streaming prodigy with questionable decision-making who's been exiled to a summer of kitten fostering.
Verona: will do anything to leave their trailer park behind, even watch a house she knows is haunted.
Owl: son of Big Owl, who can't help who he is, or how much he cares about these aforementioned humans.
Their four stories intertwine with a ghost bent on justice, an adorable feline Animal Person, and a vengeful monster headed straight for them in this singular YA fantasy novel from Newbery Honor-winning Darcie Little Badger.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Young adult
Interest Age: From 12 to 18 years
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-64614-568-3 (9781646145683)
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Persons
Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Elatsoe, her critically acclaimed debut novel, was featured in Time as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and was a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received the Newbery Honor, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran and splits her time between California and Texas.
Abigail Rajunov is an illustrator from Dallas, Texas, who studied Illustration at Ringling College of Art and Design. She loves to draw silly characters, whimsical scenes, and emotional moments, and her work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Work from her debut picture book, If I Lived in the Sky, was chosen for the Illustrators 68th Annual. In her spare time, Abi loves to plein-air-paint in her sketchbook, play video games with friends, and strum on her guitar.
Abigail Rajunov is an illustrator from Dallas, Texas, who studied Illustration at Ringling College of Art and Design. She loves to draw silly characters, whimsical scenes, and emotional moments, and her work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Work from her debut picture book, If I Lived in the Sky, was chosen for the Illustrators 68th Annual. In her spare time, Abi loves to plein-air-paint in her sketchbook, play video games with friends, and strum on her guitar.