Middle Grade Magic and Mischief Galore!

• The (Super Secret) Octagon Valley Society by MELISSA de la CRUZ. After genius Edwin wins an invite to attend an exclusive weekend at the mysterious high-tech institute of the ultrabazillionaire-genius-recluse Onasander Octagon, he's excited to meet other kids like him. But when they're not, and the weekend events include an escape-room challenge, a zero-gravity chamber, a river full of piranhas, and... ninjas, surviving Octagon Valley may require these outcasts to not only embrace their inner weird, but work together like never before.
• Sona and the Golden Beasts by RAJANI LaROCCA. Sona is a descendant of the Malechs, foreigners who took over Devia centuries ago. Malechs put Devans to work and outlawed thier magic and music. But when Sona finds an orphaned wolf pup, a descendant of one of the five sacred beasts of Devia, and then someone she loves falls ill, Sona joins a Devan boy on a perilous quest to retrieve the nectar of life to heal them. What she learns along the way is that the future of Devia might just come down to her.