More New Book Deals of Note
Among this week’s offerings are Girl on the Back of a Motorcycle by Annie Bot author Sierra Greer, about a young AI game designer whose hit app falls into the hands of a predator; Sarah Pekkanen’s The Night Nanny, which follows a woman who takes a job “caring for a troubled child and his mysterious family”; and an as-yet-untitled graphic biography of Yoko Ono by New Yorker cartoonist and author Ken Krimstein.

The Latest in Children’s and YA Deals
New projects this week include Welcome Home, Stranger by Yoojin Grace Wuertz, a dual-POV YA debut pitched as Crash Landing on You meets Pachinko, about a Korean American teen whose life is upended when her grandmother reveals they have relatives in North Korea—including a 17-year-old cousin who recently defected and is on her way to spend a year with them; We Won’t Be Here When It Ends, a YA dystopian horror novel by Mark Oshiro, in which Arturo Ruiz’s parents abandon him with the chilling warning “We won't be here when it ends,” and he's left to face the mysterious silent beings watching his every move; and The Lost Life of Sylvia Song by Ann Liang, a speculative novel about a film student who is grieving her boyfriend when she stumbles into another world where her family never moved from Beijing to San Francisco, and her boyfriend is still alive—but he doesn’t know her anymore.