Here we round up new and forthcoming children’s titles including a picture book about the start of an unlikely friendship, a YA fairy tale with a horror spin, a middle grade fantasy about a school raising resistance fighters, more.

Boar and Hedgehog by David Elliott, illus. by Eugene Yelchin. Candlewick, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-5362-2871-7. A hedgehog works to befriend the grumpy Boar living next door.

A Girl Walks into the Forest by Madeleine Roux. Quill Tree, $19.99; ISBN 978-0-06328-484-5. On her journey to her betrothed’s home, teenage Valla is attacked and scarred by a creature in the woods, and her fiancée, no longer interested in marrying her, traps her in his home. But Valla begins hearing whispers from the woods that encourage her to fight for her freedom.

The Incorruptibles by Lauren Magaziner. Aladdin, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-665-96866-9. Tween Fiora joins Incorruptibles Academy, a training school for resistance fighters in the war against sorcerers who have taken over the world.

I, Rock: A Geology Tale by Katie Slivensky, illus. by Steph Stilwell. Beach Lane, $19.99; ISBN 978-1-6659-4036-8. Just as young Luis begins a classroom presentation on a senior citizen interview, a gray, googly-eyed rock peers out from beneath the child’s shoe, asking whether the students would like to hear its four-billion-year-old origin story.

On Guard!: A Marshall Middle School Graphic Novel by Cassidy Wasserman. Random House Graphic, $21.99 hardcover; ISBN 978-0-593-64998-5; $13.99 paper ISBN 978-0-593-64999-2. In Wasserman’s grounded graphic novel debut, a tween finds confidence and a much-needed emotional outlet by joining her school’s fencing team.

The Protégée by Erica Ridley. Delacorte, $19.99; ISBN 978-0-59389-766-9. Madame Violette, a lauded seamstress, announces that she is searching for a new protégée, and the position will go to whichever seamstress designs the best dress. Angélique grappling with sudden loss of her family, intends to win the role, gain access to Paris’s high society, and avenge her family’s deaths.

Top Heavy by Rhonda DeChambeau. Holiday House, $19.99; ISBN 978-0-82345-813-4. Fifteen-year-old dancer Esme, dubbed “top heavy” by her teacher for her breasts, navigates hostility from her new dance team, family financial difficulties, and unwanted attention due to oversexualization of her body.

Vesuvius by Cass Biehn. Peachtree, $19.99; ISBN 978-1-682-63732-6. Sixteen-year-old temple attendant Loren wants nothing to do with Felix, the thief who has just entered her doors with the helmet of Mercury, but she helps him when she realizes he might be a catalyst of doom. The YA book received a starred review from PW.

We Can Never Leave by H.E. Edgmon. Wednesday, $21; ISBN 978-1-250-85365-3. Edgmon dazzles in this supernatural mystery novel in which a traveling caravan hidden from human society provides community for magical creatures with no memory of who they are or where they’re from. The YA book received a starred review from PW.

You and Me, Anemone: A Story about Friendship and Personal Space by Rachel Vail, illus. by Chris Raschka. Greenwillow, $19.99; ISBN 978-0-06-341472-3. Vail’s assonant, songlike rhymes skillfully use a sea anemone to talk about personal space in a way that’s at once empowering and playful. The picture book received a starred review from PW.

For more children’s and YA titles on sale throughout the month of June, check out PW’s full On-Sale Calendar.