Image description: "Martha Mihalick at Greenwillow has bought middle grade novel A Bit of Earth by Karuna Riazi (The Gauntlet series) and a second untitled novel. A Bit of Earth, told in a hybrid of verse and prose is a contemporary retelling of The Secret Garden starring a rebellious girl of Bangladeshi and Pakistani descent who finds herself shipped off to the white Clayborne family on Long Island after losing her activist parents. The book is planned for fall 2022; Thao Le