March 2023 Middle Grade Book Selection | First Editions Club

New York, NY: Harper Collins (pub: March 7, 2023)

First Edition. Signed by Sara Pennypacker.

As new in dust jacket.

Award-winning, bestselling author Sara Pennypacker is back with a hilarious absurdist tale about a precocious girl who transforms her community in surprising ways.

What are people for?

That’s the burning question on the mind of Leeva Spayce Thornblossom.

Fame! says Leeva’s mom, the mayor of Nutsmore. Money! says her dad, the town treasurer.

With the help of an orphaned badger, a risk-averse boy in a hazmat suit, and the town’s librarians, Leeva sets off to discover her own answer—setting off a chain of events that will change Nutsmore forever.

From an award-winning, bestselling team comes a laugh-out-loud tale about good friends, homemade cookies, and the power of stories.

Sara Pennypacker is the author of the New York Times bestselling Pax and Pax, Journey Home; the award-winning Clementine series and its spinoff series, Waylon; and the acclaimed novels Summer of the Gypsy Moths and Here in the Real World. She divides her time between Cape Cod, MA, and Florida. You can visit her online at sarapennypacker.com.

Matthew Cordell is the acclaimed author and illustrator of the 2018 Caldecott winner Wolf in the Snow. He is also the author and illustrator of Cornbread & Poppy and Trouble Gum and the illustrator of If the S in Moose Comes Loose; Toot Toot Zoom!; Mighty Casey; Righty and Lefty; and Toby and the Snowflakes, which was written by his wife. Matthew lives in the suburbs of Chicago with his wife, author Julie Halpern, and their two children. You can visit him online at matthewcordell.com.