Riffle Book Deals for 1/30/17

National Book Award and Newbery Award Winner: Stanley Yelnats is unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, where the boys dig all day. He realizes there is more than character improvement going on. The warden is looking for something. "A smart jigsaw puzzle of a novel." – The New York Times

From a National Outdoor Book Award winner: At 28, burned-out and grieving, Krista Schlyer everything she owned and packed the rest in a station wagon bound for the American wild. Almost Anywhere explores the courage, cowardice, and heroics that live in all of us, as well as the life of nature and the nature of life.