November and December’s roundup of New in Paperback titles includes PRINCESS ON THE BRINK, the eighth installment in Meg Cabot’s Princess Diaries series; HATTIE BIG SKY by Kirby Larson, a work of historical fiction that was selected as a Newbery Honor book in 2007; SLAWTER, a continuation of Darren Shan’s Demonata horror saga; CRISS CROSS by Lynne Rae Perkins, a coming-of-age novel that was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2006; FLY ON THE WALL, E. Lockhart’s story of how a girl’s wish to become a fly on the wall in the boys’ locker room comes true; and BLIND FAITH, in which Ellen Wittlinger explores questions of belief, the mother-daughter bond and how death affects those who are left behind.