(10/20/26 PREORDER)An Octopus Named Houdini Sports Heading south toward what is

Heading south toward what is now called the Kingdom of Alabama

and Natalia Fuentes has been hearing rumors about the beautiful Violeta Miramontes

something that Matti has been trying―and failing―to do for the past ten years

he reluctantly reaches into his pouch to share

(10/20/26 PREORDER)An Octopus Named Houdini Sports Heading south toward what isOdder meets Growing Home in this beautiful, illustrated middle grade novel in verse about an octopus named Houdini, her unexpected friendship with the aquarium owners daughter, and her deep yearning to return to the sea. All day long we can hear that Sea howl prowling wild inside our brains and every part of us is straining to feel it taste it twirl it whirl it swirl it inside our body again. Houdini the octopus lives in an aquarium, but she misses