Miri and the Squid

This illustrated middle grade novel sends a girl and her adorable, extradimensional octopus on a collision course with the climate apocalypse.

Aspiring scientist Miri Su is excited for her school’s field trip to Vanguard, the pioneering biotech lab at the forefront of saving the world’s soon-to-be-extinct trees. But the trip goes sideways when she discovers a strange, tentacled creature with big human eyes who . . . seems to need help?

She can’t resist rescuing (maybe kidnapping) it and takin...