Sarah Alpert at Algonquin Young Readers has acquired world rights to Knightly by Sara Holly Ackerman, illustrated by Mape, a picture book told in rhyming text about a rambunctious young knight who would rather keep jousting and run around the castle than tuck in and go to sleep. Publication is scheduled for 2025; Tricia Lawrence at Erin Murphy Literary Agency represented the author, and Vickie Savanella at Advocate Art represented the illustrator….

Poet and educator Sun Yung Shin and scholar Sarah Park Dahlen‘s adaptation of Catherine Ceniza Choy’s ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORIES OF THE UNITED STATES, providing young readers with a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US, filling the gaps of diverse Asian American experiences and contributions in US history, to Joanna Green at Beacon Press, by Tia Ikemoto at CAA for Shin and Tricia Lawrence at Erin Murphy Literary…

Margaret Ferguson at Holiday House/Margaret Ferguson Books has bought The Cure for Boredom, the next middle-grade novel by Christina Uss. It tells the story of a boy who loses his ability to sleep in a freak accident, of his journey to try to reclaim that ability, and the friends he makes and the things he learns and experiences along the way. Publication is tentatively planned for spring 2026; Ammi-Joan Paquette at Erin Murphy Literary Agency sold…

Michelle Frey at Knopf has acquired world rights to Suzanne Nelson‘s newest middle-grade novel, The Many Misadventures of the Merrivales, about a newly blended family that embarks on a surprise three-week road trip through Yellowstone National Park the morning after the wedding; it turns out that packing five newly minted stepsiblings into one rental RV is a setup for all sorts of hilarious disasters. Publication is projected for spring 2026; Ammi-Joan Paquette at Erin Murphy Literary…