Release date not yet known
Cruel Instincts by Clare Edge (Delacorte)
Krista
Marino at Delacorte Press has bought, at auction, Cruel Instincts by
Clare Edge (Natural Selection), a dark, twisty YA speculative thriller
pitched as Cruel Intentions meets Hitchcock's The Birds. A girl with a
mysterious connection to birds gets drawn into the toxic orbit of a
privileged clique as the consequences of her family's twisted secrets
come home to roost. Publication is set for spring 2027; Jennifer
Azantian at Azantian Literary Agency did the six-figure deal for North
American rights.
Meet Me at the Creek by Alexander M. Rigby (Knopf)
Marisa
DiNovis at Knopf has bought Alexander M. Rigby's YA debut Meet Me at
the Creek. Set in rural northwest Pennsylvania in the early 2000s, the
novel follows best friends Mark and Brett, who spend their adolescence
exploring the creek that runs through their neighborhood, as the two
reckon with their sexuality in wildly different ways. Publication is set
for spring 2027; Kelly Karczewski and Dan Milaschewski at UTA sold
North American rights.
A Totally Fake Love Story by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Simon and Schuster) - not yet added to Goodreads.
Daniela Villegas Valle at S&S has acquired world rights to Zoe Hana Mikuta's A Totally Fake Love Story. While trying to win a K-drama writing competition, Korean American teen Anna Nari accidentally brings her love interest to life, and the only way to send him back seems to be to open her heart to the one person who broke it. Publication is scheduled for April 2027; Laura Rennert at Andrea Brown Literary Agency brokered the deal.
April 6th
Glamored by Rochelle Hassan (Scholastic)
Ever since her beloved father's death, Annabelle lives with her step-mother, Melusina, and step-sisters, Bryony and Poppy. They treat her as a servant, expecting her to attend to them at all hours of the day.But Annabelle is good for more than just cooking and the daughter of a seamstress, she can use magic to weave extravagant gowns out of things like smoke, sea foam, and starlight. Her step-sisters take credit for her work and become known throughout the capital for their talents.
When Prince Cender comes of age and is expected to marry, the kingdom's most eligible young ladies are invited to come live at the palace for a few months -- twelve noblewomen known for their beauty, elegance, and most of all, their magical gifts. Magic is a big part of falling in love. When you cast a glamor, you project part of your soul into the world, creating a special kind of energy that'll attract the people most compatible with you. Every week, the potential princesses will attend a lavish ball where they'll have the chance to speak with Prince Cender... and show off their glamors.
Melusina is thrilled when Poppy and Bryony receive their invitations. There's just one her talentless daughters won't last a week on their own. She arranges for Annabelle to take a job as a palace maid so that she can continue making their ball gowns, giving one of them a chance to marry the prince.But unbeknownst to Melusina, Annabelle and Cender have met before. Though he doesn't recognize her when they reunite by chance in the palace, he still feels a connection to her unlike anything he's ever felt before -- a connection that could lead to both their downfalls...
We Won't Be Here When It Ends by Mark Oshiro (Tor Teen) - description not yet updated on Goodreads.
From #1 NYT bestselling author Mark Oshiro (The Sun and the Star) comes a deeply compelling and emotionally resonant new novel that puts a sinister spin on the idea that “the children are our future”.
There is little that frightens Arturo Ruiz anymore.
Life in the twenty-first century feels like one historic event after another. He and his friends have been through it all: pandemics. Floods and fires. Active shooters and drills at school. State-sanctioned violence. Still, the teens are expected to model resilience, to boldly march into the future and fulfill the promises of the generations before them.
Or so they had thought. Because tomorrow–the world is going to end.
And the nightmares Arturo had been having—the ones with the buzzing, eerie entities asking terrible questions about survival? Those were meant to be a warning.
Unfortunately for Arturo, his sister, and his two best friends, their parents are no help–abandoning them suddenly and leaving behind only the cryptic message:
We won’t be here when it ends.
This is the story of how to survive the end of the world--or die trying.
WE WON’T BE HERE WHEN IT ENDS is an unflinchingly honest look at the darkest possible timeline, infused with a shocking supernatural twist. Equal parts humanity and horror—this book is perfect for fans of Andrew Joseph White, Carnaby Kim, and Parasyte.
The Only Immortals by Laura Steven (Wednesday Books) - moved from 2026.
The next sweeping fantasy romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Laura Steven, in which a notorious time-bending thief must steal the Philosopher’s Stone and erase the man she loves from history to end the war between their rival clans.
Untitled by Unknown YA Author (Simon and Schuster) - moved from November 2026.
Untitled by Unknown YA Author (Wednesday Books)
Untitled by Unknown YA Author (Balzer and Bray)
April 13th
Something Bright and Beautiful by Cathryn Free (Feiwel and Friends) - official description not yet released.
Don't Tell Me What Happens by Raphael Simon and Phillip De Leon (Roaring Brook Press) - YA graphic novel, description not yet updated on Goodreads, moved from 2026.
Two queer love stories. Two time periods. One mystery.
Fifteen-year-old Noah lives with his father in New York but is spending the summer with his mother in Venice, CA. An indoor, city sort of person, a RuPaul fanatic, he’s miserable in the sun – until he meets Tomo, a surfer who works in his father’s vintage store. Tomo hands Noah an old composition-style notebook, filled with steamy diary entries by its teenaged owner, Diego, in addition to ephemera from the 1980s. Noah reads about Diego playing footsie in history class with closeted surfer (another surfer!) Casey until one day after school it becomes something more. Noah is enthralled. And there’s one more notebook at the store, but that’s it – Noah and Tomo have no idea what happened to Diego and Casey. And as they set off to find the much older surfer, the two boys find romance of their own…but can Noah keep from sabotaging the first good thing in his life?
April 20th
Unroyally Yours by Emma Lord (Wednesday Books)
The Princess Diaries meets The Bodyguard in this sparkling novel of royalty and romance, secrets and spies, from New York Times bestselling author Emma Lord.
Rosie’s name is synonymous with loyalty and protection. Part of an elite security training program for teenage recruits, her instincts are great. Her impulse control? Not so much. After an assignment gone wrong, she’s shipped off to Europe on probation. If she messes up, she can’t come back. Her job? To go undercover as the bodyguard for the long-lost prince of Marilova. There’s just one Rosie already knows him.
Nick’s life has been a whirlwind ever since his identity was uncovered. Now he’s been thrust into the spotlight as heir of Marilova, and tensions have never been higher. The Queen will spare no expense to keep him safe—including hiring a bodyguard. Except, Nick doesn’t want Rosie’s protection. They worked together years ago. He even saved her life once. But he has his reasons for keeping his distance.
As a plot against the royals unfolds, Rosie and Nick are thrust into an intricate web of secret alliances and courtly games as they unravel who wants Nick off the throne. But tensions have always existed between Nick and Rosie, and she wonders if she can protect the prince while also protecting her heart.
Not Your Typical Love Story by C.R. Averett (Wednesday Books) - moved from September 2026.
Loveless meets You’ve Got Mail in a charming YA romance centering two aspec (asexual and aromantic) teens at the heart of their own kind of love story.
Analeigh Tate has a plan: convince her parents that a musical theater degree is a serious career path and not a childish fantasy. Unfortunately, this means begging her perfect older sister Natasha for help, which, as expected, comes with strings: Analeigh has to prove she can get and keep a boyfriend for the next four months. She’s never cared about dating, partly because she fears no one will be interested in an asexual girl, but how hard could it be? She’s already guaranteed valedictorian since her academic nemesis Drew Eberstark left school the year before, so a boyfriend should be easy.
Drew is not keen on returning to school after his very public breakdown last year. But his grand comeback becomes ten times worse when he learns that his anonymous online best friend—who he just asked to meet in person—is none other than Analeigh Tate, a girl who hates his guts. Desperate not to lose his only friend, with whom he’s shared his uncertainty about identifying as asexual and aromantic, he comes up with a solution: offer to be her (fake) boyfriend. He already knows about Analeigh’s deal with her sister, so all he’s got to do is prove he’s worth her friendship—while keeping his true identity under wraps. So that’s not stressful or anything.
While Analeigh struggles with the fact that her once-mortal enemy is kind of amazing, the weight of family expectations, and the difficult feelings about her asexuality, Drew struggles with his growing web of lies and the grief he won’t talk about. When the truth finally comes to light, Analeigh and Drew will have to decide if their friendship is worth fighting for, and if there’s a happily ever after to their (not so typical) love story.
Unauthorized Bread: A Radicalized Graphic Novel by Cory Doctorow, J.R. Doyle and Blue Delliquanti (First Second) - YA graphic novel, description not yet updated on Goodreads.
New York Times bestselling author of Enshittification Cory Doctorow presents Unauthorized Bread—a near-future dystopian graphic novel about how we use our technology…and how it uses us.
Salima’s new high-tech apartment building seems ideal, until she and her neighbors discover it’s designed to enforce inequality. Elevators discriminate by income, appliances extract revenue. The fridge won't chill unauthorized groceries. The toaster won't toast unauthorized bread.
When the company that makes these electronic "conveniences" goes under, they stop working altogether. Salima must lead a dangerous jailbreaking effort, training a child army who liberate the building's appliances, even those hated elevators. But this group of disenfranchised young immigrants will have to risk everything.
Cory Doctorow is one of our most incisive and imaginative thinkers about technology, and Unauthorized Bread is both propulsive dystopian adventure and a chilling warning about the cost of surrendering control to technology.
April 27th
Garden Girls by Amanda Linsmeier (Roaring Brook Press) - description not yet updated on Goodreads.
Every family buries secrets.
Sixteen-year-old Briar Marlowe has lived her entire life sheltered away in a cliffside castle with her sisters, ailing father, and domineering mother. But after a stranger comes to call one day, she begins to notice unsettling details about her elegant, quaint life, and disturbing lapses in her memory. And then, she finds bones buried in the gardens.
In the village of Clove across the starlit sea, another girl named Lark grows up under the watchful eye of a strict father, and a caretaker who tells her forbidden tales of magic in the dark. But are they just stories, or is the truth even darker?
Unbeknownst to them, Briar and Lark's fates are connected, and their futures intertwined. For when one family secret is unburied, someone must pay the price.
Delve into a riveting, twisted tale of deceit and cursed magic in this intricately webbed tale about two girls seeking their own happy ending. But at what cost?
Missed Connections by Tashie Bhuiyan (FSG) - moved from January 2027.
Trans Panic! by Logan-Ashley Kisner (Delacorte) - note the addition of a "!" to the title. Moved from September 2026.
Romancing the Throne by Caitlin Cooper (Feiwel and Friends)
A teen book lover falls headfirst into her favorite romantasy novel in this laugh-out-loud young adult novel.Cyd has always been obsessed with The Splintered Heart, the epic romantasy novel by mysterious author Mayalene Mayakovsky. She knows everything (and we mean EVERYTHING) about the kingdom of Argonia and its heroine, Princess Valentina. Until, during chance encounter with Mayalene, Cyd learns that the story is real. And then… well, then she accidentally falls into her favorite romantasy novel.
Cyd finds herself swept away in a world of dragons, love triangles, handsome rogues, and brooding princes. Nothing a devoted fangirl can’t handle! But the life of a romantasy heroine isn’t as glamorous as the books make it seem. There’s no indoor plumbing, for one. Not to mention that travelling for days on horseback is actually really painful. And when Cyd starts falling for the gorgeous, arrogant Prince Quillian (who is definitely, absolutely, 1000% betrothed to Princess Valentina), she’ll have to decide if she will risk it all to tell her own story, or just keep playing it by the book.
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