On our Best February Books episode, Kirkus’ editors share some of the month’s most highly anticipated titles. Then Sara Pennypacker joins us to discuss The Lions’ Run (Balzer + Bray, Feb. 3). “An orphan in occupied France during World War II finds his courage and a sense of family,” Kirkus writes in a starred review, calling this middle-grade historical fiction, “compassionate and complex.”

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• Born Sick in the USA by Stephen Bezruchka (Cambridge Univ. Press)
• Prey Before Bed by James Sackos
• We Met at a Halloween Party by Marcus R. Ferrell
• Karl Marx and the Lost California Manifesto by Scott D. Carlson
• Peace Warrior by Greg Payton, with J.T. Molloy

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