We’re happy to be sponsored this week by the unusually attractive library marketing group at Macmillan Kids, publisher of these four novels for younger individuals of excellent breeding and good dispositions. And the other ones, too.

• Solitary Escape from Furnace by Alexander Gordon Smith
• Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
• Death Cloud Sherlock Holmes: The Legend Begins by Andrew Lane