Katherine Tegen at HarperCollins/Tegen has acquired Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? by Leslie Connor, National Book Award finalist for The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle. The middle-grade book is about an unusual friendship between a sensitive, eccentric girl and the nonverbal boy she looks out for, until she makes a mistake and her friend goes missing; it explores how communication occurs through something much greater than spoken words. Publication is set for winter 2022; Miriam Altshuler at DeFiore and Company brokered the two-book deal for North American rights.