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Fall 2026

Detective Dogs announcement: Alexandra Aceves at Holiday House as acquired world rights to The Wild Mile by Alison Pearce Stevens as part of the publisher's Books for a Better Earth Collection. Set in downtown Chicago, this nonfiction middle grade book highlights the efforts to transform urban waterways into wildlife sanctuaries and promote access to green spaces within big cities. Alexandra Weiss at Azantian Literary Agency brokered the deal.

Another book for the Books for a Better Earth collection! This book is all about—you guessed it—Chicago’s Wild Mile. This stretch of the Chicago River is bounded by steel retaining walls. No river banks. No plants. No wildlife. And no way for people to get down to the water to kayak or canoe. But Urban Rivers is changing that by adding floating habitat—for animals and people. It’s just one example of ways people are helping to rewild cities to make way for all the creatures that belong there.