R.J. Palacio and Ivan Doig Debut on the Indie Bestseller List

By Maryann Yin 

crayons sequelWe’ve collected the books debuting on Indiebound’s Indie Bestseller List for the week ending August 23, 2015–a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month.

(Debuted at #1 in Early & Middle Grade Readers) Auggie & Me by R.J. Palacio: “These stories are an extra peek at Auggie before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie’s oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie’s new friend at school.” (August 2015)

(Debuted at #2 in Children’s Illustrated) The Day The Crayons Came Home written by Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers: “I’m not sure what it is about this kid Duncan, but his crayons sure are a colorful bunch of characters! Having soothed the hurt feelings of one group who threatened to quit, Duncan now faces a whole new group of crayons asking to be rescued.” (August 2015)

(Debuted at #9 in Hardcover Fiction) Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig: “Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig’s beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old’s imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for ‘female trouble’ in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin.” (August 2015)