Saadia Faruqi’s RANI, about a modern South Asian princess living in a bustling castle by the sea who goes out seeking an adventure and finds a friend instead, illustrated by Anoosha Syed, to Jennifer Greene at Clarion, for publication in spring 2023, by Kari Sutherland at Bradford Literary Agency for the author, and by Taylor Martindale Kean at Full Circle Literary for the illustrator (world).