New Deal: Scattergood

Taylor Norman at Holiday House/Neal Porter Books has bought H.M. Bouwman‘s Scattergood, a middle grade novel set in rural Iowa, in which precocious but awkward Peggy faces a year of difficulties, in a story set against the landscape of WWII—and an influx of European war refugees into the community. Publication is slated for spring 2025; Tricia Lawrence at Erin Murphy Literary Agency sold world rights.