Coming Soon: T. R. Burns' The Merits of Mischief

In a recent post Betsy Bird listed a few 2012 middle grade novels she is anticipating among them T. R. Burns' first book in The Merits of Mischief series. I'm the friend she mentioned  — the publisher sent me the ms to read and I liked it a lot, but hadn't seen the cover till I saw the ARC at Betsy's.  (This post by the artist about the evolution of that cover is, to my mind, fascinating.)

It is a school story (yep, another one) a school for "special kids" (yep, yep, one of those), a boarding ...