Audrey Vernick's FIRST-GRADE DROPOUT, illustrated by the wonderful Matthew Cordell, has gotten some truly lovely attention, including a super-glowy review from The Boston Globe, which called it "a just right book," and lots of love from teachers. So it's no surprise that the protagonist will be promoted to second grade in SECOND GRADE HOLDOUT--or will he? He wanted to quit school altogether in the first book, thanks to an Embarrassing Incident. Now he's not sure he wants to leave the first grade.

SECOND GRADE HOLDOUT was just signed by Jennifer Greene, fantastic editor at Clarion, and is scheduled to release in fall 2017.

Audrey's contracted and published books now total TWENTY. Huge congratulations, Audrey!

--Erin