Learn how Jax Freeman juggles the spirit summoner tournament with secret side quests from the elders in Jax Freeman and the Tournament of Spirits by Kwame Mbalia. Shannon Messenger returns with the next installment in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Unraveled (Book 9.5), to face mysteries that will change the course of destiny. Dragons clash across planets with motives as unknowable as the night sky in Scott Reintgen’s The Rise of Neptune,…

In Last Chance Live! by Helena Haywoode Henry, a teenage girl on death row competes on a reality show and must decide what forgiveness, family, and freedom mean when the stakes are literally life or death. In The L.O.V.E. Club by Lio Min, three estranged teens must survive being pulled into a video game created by their missing friend, but can they stay the course when hard truths confront them alongside the game bosses? In the genre-bending novel-in-verse,…

No. 1 New York Times bestselling author E. Lockhart returns to the world of her TikTok sensation with We Fell Apart: A We Were Liars Novel with all her signature beachy gothic atmosphere, family intrigue, and high-stakes romance! The invitation arrives out of the blue. In it, Matilda discovers a father she’s never met. Kingsley Cello is a visionary, a reclusive artist. And when he asks her to spend the summer at his seaside home, Hidden Beach, Matilda expects to find a part of herself she’s never fully understood.…

It takes a village to raise a critter! Newbery Medal award winner Donna Barba Higuera brings a double feature: Xolo is the exciting tale of the mighty feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl’s twin brother – the dog-headed Xolotl, god of lightning, death, and misfortune; and The Unlikely Adventuras of Ramón and El Cucuy features the friendship of a young boy and the monster assigned to scare him. Join Kon Tan in We’re All Gonna Die-Nosaur!: Escape of the Apes,…

George O’Connor returns to the Asgardians series to tell the story of Loki, a trickster of epic proportions who worries he has fallen out of favor with his blood brother, Odin. Can he use his wiles to worm his way back in? Or, feeling spurned, will he choose to burn it all down? Maggie Stiefvater revisits her epic series with The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel, the illustrated adaptation of the first book in the No. 1 New York Times bestselling series,…

In Bad Influence by Claire Ahn, an aspiring fashion influencer desperately tries to lift her family out of hardship, only to find it may come at a cost higher than any Chanel bag. Ebony Ladelle’s This Could Be Forever pairs two rising college freshmen who find themselves – and each other – while pursuing their passions the summer before college. Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia co-authored On Again, Awkward Again, in which two high school freshmen find themselves drawn to each other,…

Careful what you wish for in Vanessa Montalban’s These Vengeful Wishes, in which a teen girl’s rage is ignited by a vengeful female spirit with a thirst for justice. The Summer I Ate The Rich by Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite is a biting modern-day fable inspired by Haitian zombie lore that explores what happens when a Haitian American girl uses her previously hidden abilities to exact revenge on the wealthy elites who have caused her family pain.…

One summer. Forty-six mountain peaks. A second chance to make things right. In The Trouble with Heroes, Kate Messner takes readers on a heart-filling journey as a seventh grade boy finds his path to healing. The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri is the harrowing true story of two orphans on a treacherous journey across mountains to bring education to isolated children with a chalkboard and a satchel full of textbooks.…

These novels-in-verse speak truth into the world. Based on a true story, A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by Mária Dolores Águila is a vivid and uplifting middle-grade novel about one child’s courage to stand up for what is right. Told through searing free-verse, journal entries, and interspersed fill-in-the-blank poetry prompts, Truth Is by Hannah V. Sawyerr reminds readers there is always hope when a teen fights for her right to determine what happens to her body,…

GRADES 3-7 Three Cuban American authors celebrate the resilient hope of the journeying heart in their newest middle grade novels. In A Raft of Dreams, Jenisbel Acevedo shares the author’s experiences immigrating from Cuba on the boat that both represented the pain of leaving everything behind, and the restoration of her ability to dream and hope. Ruth Behar’s Across So Many Seas retraces five hundred years of Jewish women who moved their families from Spain to Turkey to Cuba and finally Miami to flee persecution and find opportunity.…