Release date not yet known
Good Mourning by Circe Moskowitz and Caleb
Hosalla (Dial) - YA graphic novel, moved from 2024, then from August 2025.
Michelle
Lee at Dial has bought, in a preempt, world English rights to Good
Mourning, the debut YA graphic novel by Circe Moskowitz, pitched as
Schitt's Creek
meets HGTV. Black vampire Theo trades in the city and her coven for a
quiet, New England inn only to find it more rundown than advertised.
After (accidentally) murdering the current owner, Theo places herself in
charge and ends up falling in love: with running a bed and breakfast...
and with Ronny, the handywoman, who knows Theo's vampiric secret. Caleb
Hosalla will illustrate; publication is slated for fall 2024. Natascha
Morris at the Tobias Literary Agency represented the author, and Thao Le
at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency represented the illustrator.
Aperture by Kirsten Thompson and Huenito (Nakama Press) - YA graphic novel, not yet added to Goodreads.
Kristen Simon at Mad Cave Studios/Nakama Press has acquired world English rights to Aperture, a YA graphic novel by I Am Hexed creator Kirsten Thompson, illustrated by Huenito. Two students living in different time periods travel between the present day and pre-WWI using an old camera found in their university's library, and fall in love over a series of adventures. Publication is slated for August 2026; Jas Perry at Looking Glass Literary & Media represented the author while at KT Literary, and TomatoFarm represented the illustrator.
August 4th
A Clash of Carnivores by Liselle Sambury (Margaret K. McElderry Books) - description not yet updated on Goodreads.
August risked everything to find her brother, joining a deadly secret society protecting the chilling truth that monsters are very, very real. She thought when she found him that she would leave the society behind.
Instead, she fought and bled to bond herself to a Monster for life.
Now, despite her efforts to stay unattached, her connection to her Monster partner, Virgil, continues to grow. She can’t stop replaying the memory of their forbidden kiss that Virgil wants to pretend never happened.
Their strained bond is put to the test as they prepare for the Monster’s Ball, a brutal tournament where pairs battle for the coveted title of Master. But despite the danger of the contest, August is consumed with finding her mom’s killer and getting revenge. Her vendetta leads to her accidentally form a rare second bond with Nolan, a Wild Monster who wants nothing to do with her. And if the three of them can’t work together, they’ll be kicked out of the tournament before it even begins.
But August can’t pull her focus away from revenge—even if it means becoming the worst sort of monster herself. She believes that vengeance will cure her grief, but it may just be the thing that breaks her bonds for good.
Local Gods by Melinda Salisbury (Sarah Barley Books) - description not yet updated on Goodreads.
When a bone-white crow lands in Sylvie Singer’s backyard, she knows trouble is coming. And after an FBI raid reveals her father’s double life, Sylvie’s entire world comes crashing around her. With nowhere to go but the abandoned railway station in the cursed West Woods, Sylvie spends her time avoiding the carnivorous white deer that live there, counting down the days until she can graduate from high school and finally leave the town that’s openly out for her blood. Then Sylvie encounters a different sort of monster.
Illican is a horned god bound to the West Woods, even more wretched than she is. Sylvie is drawn to Illican, excited that he can introduce her to magic that could save her town—save her. But Illican is dying, and the last thing Pine Ridge Hollow wants is help from Sylvie Singer…
The town is a tinderbox, and Sylvie is the spark that will either save it or burn it all down.
Killing Sadie by Rachel Peterson (Simon and Schuster)
Here’s what we do there was a party at Trevor’s house last night, and things went horribly wrong. By the end of the night, there were two dead bodies in an upstairs seventeen-year-old Sadie Cooper and her killer, Mason McDonald. The murder was heartbreakingly witnessed by Sadie’s twin sister, Jayne, and Sadie died in her arms. Mason was killed by Sadie’s boyfriend, Ben, in an attempt to save Sadie.
Aside from figuring out Mason’s motive, it should be an open and shut case.
But it’s not.
The story unfolds just after the murders, and Jayne, Ben, and Sadie’s best friend, Liz, are telling the cops what transpired at the party and the events leading up to it. But little details don’t match. And those little details start to add up to big discrepancies. But who’s lying, and why?
The shocking truth is revealed in the third act, when the POV shifts to victim Sadie herself, in the days leading up to the party. Witness exactly what happened—and see if you can piece it all together. Because poor Sadie totally missed what was right in front of her.
Alchemy of Souls by Adriana Mather (Feiwel and Friends) - previously titled The Gifted.
Grayson Stone is no stranger to deception. Under the watchful eye of his uncle, the High Chancellor, he has been well-trained in all four types of magic, all while secretly working against his uncle’s corrupt rule. Years of plans depend on him being marked Gifted during his University entrance exam, proving that he is the perfect heir and gaining his uncle’s trust. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned, and he has only one person to Eloise Belrose.
Raised by a family of Laborers, Eloise is the most unlikely student to become a Mage, but through her hard work and long hours spent practicing she is finally admitted to the prestigious Mage University, guaranteeing safety and security for her whole family. Until things go very wrong, and she somehow becomes magically linked to Grayson Stone, the school’s arrogant, annoyingly attractive, golden boy, putting not only her University acceptance, but also her and her family’s lives at risk.
Eloise and Grayson are given less than two weeks to solve an impossible mystery–one that will give the High Chancellor even more power and control—or face the consequences. Forced to room together, with all the same classes, while pretending to date to hide their secret quest, sparks definitely fly. As their feelings grow more real it becomes harder to live the lies they’ve had to tell to survive. With time running out, will they be able to trust the bond between them or will their lies tear them apart forever?
Fire to the Stars by Morgan J. Watchorn (Knopf)
Every month, the kingdom of Florent braces for the Ignition: a solar event that turns ordinary humans into vicious dragon shifters. And anyone can be a dragon's next victim.
Claire knows this all too well because the Ignition consumed her and her father, her town, and the life she thought she’d have. Now, she's scraping by on her wits as part of a sisterhood of thieves—lying, stealing, her heart locked tight—until she tracks down a disgraced dragon slayer who may be the one person who can give her back the life she once had.
Abel has been shunned by the prestigious Slayers Guild for conducting research that’s too...unorthodox to condone. But there’s no one Claire trusts more than a rulebreaker, and that research might be the one thing that could help her. So, when Abel reveals his return to business as usual, Claire tries to hire him under false pretenses. Abel, however, is reluctant to accept a job from a criminal, no matter how charming she is. And yet...he really needs the money.
Together, Claire and Abel will race through Florent and uncover dangerous secrets in their quests for forgiveness—and survival. But that knowledge may cost them the very thing they’ve grown desperate to protect: each other.
Find My Way Down to You by Julian Winters (Viking) - moved from 2025.
Eighteen-year-old August is trying to navigate life after the sudden death of his boyfriend left him devastated, aimless, and feeling guilty. Years after the tragic accident, August mistakenly stumbles into a world beyond his own—the Underworld. Unlike his own gray existence, the underworld is a lavish extravagant place, full of mystery and a flurry of charismatic gods, all curious about August's arrival in their world. Realizing right away the opportunity in front of him, August goes searching for his lost love, guided by Cary, the smoldering, broody ferrier of souls.
But the more time August spends down below, the more his intentions begin to blur. Is he visiting this realm to reunite with his soulmate? Or is he desperately, inexplicably, intoxicatingly drawn to Cary? With his own world in pieces and a dangerously seductive realm promising him a new existence at a heavy cost, August must a life with grief or a love that might destroy him.
Soulmates by David Wilson (Roaring Brook Press) - YA graphic novel, full description not yet updated on Goodreads.
Kit is the golden boy of his small town. Captain of the football team, perfect grades, perfect relationship, perfect everything. But when his childhood best friend, Emma, mysteriously returns to town, Kit's life is thrown into turmoil.
She's the only one who knows what happened that day he fell at the cliffs—and why he woke up alone on the shore. She's also the only one who may know the truth about the strange visions he's been having—and why the people he sees in them are turning up dead.
As Kit and Emma reconnect and rekindle the past, Kit's forced to admit that things aren't as perfect as they seem. And Emma... well, she isn't what she seems either. Her family's been hiding a secret for generations and with Death looming over all of them, the truth can't stay buried forever.
Everything Comes Back to You by Jackie Khalilieh (Tundra Books) - previously titled And Everything Comes Back to You, moved from July 2026.
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this new YA novel.
Lennon is excited and apprehensive about starting high school, where her older sister is going to be a senior. Then her sister drops a bombshell: she is pregnant. Her Palestinian Canadian parents are devastated, and Lennon finds herself under even more pressure to be a "good girl” – a role autistic Lennon has always played well. But after a chance encounter with John, a white boy in the grade above, Lennon finds herself nursing a crush on someone her parents would definitely not approve of—which only seems to intrigue her more.
As Lennon and John are drawn together and pulled apart throughout her four years of high school, Lennon wrestles with feelings of shame and yearning, obedience and rebellion through the lens of her autism, trying to both please her parents and herself. When a relationship with a different boy challenges her notions of family and happiness, her way forward becomes clear, even if it might mean losing everything and everyone she loves.
Immortal Game by Allison Saft (Wednesday Books)
Six years ago, Shea Fury’s sister was whisked away by the High King of the Otherworld, the ruler of the treacherous land of fae. Although Shea has spent the years since dreaming of rescuing her sister from captivity, the Iron Veil that separates the human world from the fae has made it only a wish. That is, until an invitation to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime chess tournament in the Otherworld arrives on Shea’s doorstep. The winner of the tournament may ask the High King to grant one wish, and Shea’s is finally within reach.
But entering the tournament and winning it are two different feats. Dark magic lurks around every corner in the Otherworld, and her cutthroat opponents are willing to bend the rules to make their own wishes come true. To make it to the end – and to find her sister – Shea is forced to strike an alliance with her longtime rival, the sharply beautiful fae princess, Ciara of Bri Leith. One wrong move, though, and Shea may lose more than just the competition. She’ll lose her sister, her dignity, and maybe even her life.
In Immortal Game, Allison Saft has written a high-stakes sapphic love story brimming with competitive tension, set against a lush Irish folklore-inspired fantasy world.
Stepping Up by Kiara Valdez and Diana Tsai (HarperAlley) - YA graphic memior, moved from 2024. Description not yet updated on Goodreads.
Kiara isn’t in Washington Heights anymore. She’s at Phillips Academy Andover—the prestigious school of her dreams. But her bulky financial aid laptop in a room full of Macs, her classmates’ endless chatter about overseas vacations, and everyone’s in-your-face North Face jackets has her feeling like she’ll never fit in.
Then she discovers the all-star step team, S.L.A.M. Kiara will gladly endure the long practices, sore muscles, and chafed palms to keep stepping and finally find her place on campus. That is, until tragedy strikes and those closest to her are hurt, and she realizes exactly what it means to be a student of Andover.
Because at a school where wealthy white classmates can get away with almost anything and students like her are made to feel lucky to even be at the academy to begin with, is belonging really want she wants? Now Kiara must decide what to do with her voice, and whether or not she’s brave enough to step up—for herself and her friends.
The Dream Thieves: The Graphic Novel by Maggie Stiefvater, Sas Milledge and Stephanie Williams (Viking)
Ronan Lynch is made of secrets. His longest kept one? He can pull impossible things out of dreams. It's a secret that's nearly killed him more than once.
Waking the corpse road should have led Blue and the Raven Boys straight to Glendower, the Whelsh king rumored to be sleeping beneath the mountains of Henrietta.
But instead, the forest of Cabeswater has disappeared, energy hums and sputters beneath the town, and the Raven Boys' search is at a dead end. Ronan's dreams may be the key to finding Glendower, but none of the Raven Boys are prepared for what will be unleashed in Ronan's desperate attempt to finally control his power.
Reimagined as a stunning full-color graphic novel adapted and illustrated by Sas Milledge, Dream Thieves blurs the line between reality and nightmare until they are one and the same.
Heartbreak and Other Organ Failures by Taylor Hobbs (Norton Young Readers)
There is no one in the world that Kaley loves more than her older sister Zoey, who is developmentally disabled and medically fragile. When the sisters learn that Zoey needs a new kidney but is at the bottom of the donation list, they set off on a madcap family road trip to find their estranged father, who might agree to donate. Nothing will stand in Kaley’s way—with Zoey’s health stable, Kaley can follow her boyfriend to an out-of-state college next fall.
Then Kaley learns that her mom has her own plans for the sisters’ futures. Kaley must reconcile the caretaker role she was born into with the desire to discover her own identity, and decide what she’s willing to do for the person she loves most.
Heartbreak and Other Organ Failures is a coming-of-age adventure set in the fast lane and a heartfelt, hilarious celebration of sisterhood.
Monster, Monarch, Maiden by Rae Carson (HarperCollins)
Wings of Reverie by Allison Saft (Disney Hyperion)
Centuries after the events of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wings of Starlight, two fairies must battle a dangerous magic—and their growing feelings for each other—in order to save their home in the Winter Woods of Pixie Hollow.
When frost fairy Periwinkle travels too close to the forbidden border where Spring meets the Winter Woods, she unknowingly discovers a thread of a lost magic. And, for the first time, she begins to dream. While Periwinkle’s dreams start sweet, they slowly morph into more disastrous visions of the Pixie Dust Tree—the life source for all of Pixie Hollow—destroyed. Soon Periwinkle is confronted by a sparrow man who knows two one, that Peri has been dreaming, and two, that the Winter Woods is in terrible danger.
The infuriatingly handsome stranger introduces himself as Weaver, claiming to be a dream-talent, the last of his kind. There's a chance he can spin Periwinkle's dreams into dream thread which could protect the Pixie Dust Tree. But to do so, they will have to embark on a quest to find a magic spindle and scissors in the legendary lost fairy workshops of dream-talents past.
Peri begins a reluctant journey with Weaver through the uncharted heart of the Winter Woods. But dreaming is dangerous, and as Peri’s dreams begin to unravel, she will start to question everything she thought she knew. For in Winter even beautiful things can hurt you… and Weaver is no exception.
Return to Pixie Hollow with this exciting new story set in the world of Wings of Starlight several hundred years in the future.
Falling Into You by Emma Harrison (Avon A)
August 11th
There Are Ghosts Here by Adrienne Tooley (Delacorte)
Willa Childs doesn’t know why she’s at Dorsey House. The tragic accident that banished her to the mysterious reformatory perched at the edge of the sea is lost in the recesses of her murky memory. The Dorseys themselves offer no answers, and the only other wards, Caroline and Ivy, seem intent on keeping Willa in the dark—and on the outside of their obsessive friendship.
Yet as the days pass, it begins to feel like the sinister twosome know
Willa better than she knows herself. And as her memories gradually return to focus, the girls become even stranger, doing their best to convince Willa that she’s been at Dorsey House before. Only, that’s impossible.
Or is it? If they’re telling the truth, Willa can no longer trust her own mind. The line between reality and nightmare begins to blur. Willa is certain Dorsey House is haunted, but by what? And if she can’t remember leaving, how will she ever escape?
Heavensent & Hellbent by Sara Jafari (Delacorte)
When Roxy moves from her small town in England to Denver, she expects her summer to be uneventful. All she has to do is not piss off her dad, continue healing from the loss of her mom, and conquer her sleep paralysis before going to university in the fall. Easy.
But as fate would have it, she bumps into the beautiful boy, Zain, who's been in her recurring nightmare. Each time, they're burning at the stake. In real life, she witnesses him snapping the neck of a man and quickly learns that not only do jinn—demons—exist, but angels, too.
Meeting Zain triggers new nightmares, ones that come with a warning: If Roxy and Zain don't ignore the attraction between them, there will be hell to pay. And upon learning that their souls have been entwined for centuries, they must decide whether their connection in this lifetime is worth fighting for, especially against the divine forces that forbid them from being together.
My Killer Family Reunion by Dinesh Thiru (Atheneum)
Nothings brings family together like attempted murder.
There are three things Jayshree Devi can count on happening at her annual family 1) her cousins will forget she exists, 2) her aunts will try to set her up, and 3) her uncles will get into a fight. What she doesn’t expect? An accident that lands her grandmother in a coma, throwing the family—and their matriarch’s sizeable fortune—into chaos.
When Jay discovers Grand Mom’s “accident” might not have been so accidental after all, she’ll have to dig through decades of secrets to find the truth. With the help of her (annoyingly perky) cousins and one of their (annoyingly hot) friends, Jay finds herself knee-deep in a mystery that’s even more tangled than her family tree.
But the closer Jay gets to answers, the closer she gets to finding her place amongst the relatives who once felt so distant. With Grand Mom’s life and fortune hanging in the balance, can Jay save her family and maybe hook up with a hottie while she’s at it?
Death Card by Jasmine Smith (G.P. Putnam and Sons) - moved from 2025.
On an ordinary Monday morning, eighteen-year-old Mikaela Broussard receives the shock of her life. During a customer’s tarot reading at her family’s occult shop, she turns over the Death card and envisions the beautiful stranger stabbing her in the heart.
In order to determine why the girl, Joelle, wants to kill her, she’ll have to keep her close. But the more time Mikaela spends with her soon-to-be murderer, the more irresistible she finds her.
As if imminent death isn’t worrisome enough, witches are turning up with their magic stolen. And it’s clear some very dark magic is at work. Mikaela, as the next Witch Queen of her coven, is tasked with figuring out who’s behind the horrific acts—a mystery that will put her and her power to the test.
Death Card is a dark, pacy, and romantic fantasy about one witch’s journey to find the strength to fight for herself, her future, and her beloved community.
Bridget and Gabe Are Not Okay by Lex Croucher (Wednesday Books)
They fell in love. They fought a great battle. And they won. Now, Camelot’s famous couples have fallen apart.
Newly crowned King Gabriel is having panic attacks in cupboards in-between council meetings. He can't tell Arthur just how not okay he is—so he's set him free, to find love with someone who can get through the day without breaking down.
Bridget has lost her spark for sparring, forfeiting again and again in the lists. When she’s invited to join Gabriel's round table, she hopes it’ll be the change she needs. But trying to navigate the post-happily-ever-after reality of a relationship with Gwen, when Bridget no longer feels like the dashing knight Gwen fell in love with, feels impossible.
With the kingdom still reeling from an attempted uprising, and rumored sightings of the holy grail, the questing beast, and the green knight happening across the country, the gang depart on a PR tour destined for disaster. Can Gabriel be the king his country deserves? Can Bridget get her jousting groove back? And will they find their way back to the courtly love that once seemed fated?
In the much anticipated follow-up to Gwen & Art Are Not in Love, Gabriel and Bridget set out on a daring quest to put love back on the table.
Hollow Magic by Mars Lauderbaugh (Feiwel and Friends) - YA graphic novel, new description not yet updated on Goodreads.
Raised in the world of fey, seventeen-year-old Rosefinch has the ability to lift curses with nothing but a twist of her fingers. But when a witch's magic is left long enough in the fey realm, it becomes supercharged, painful to use, and potentially even dangerous.
Following a rumor that the village of Harp is home to a witch who might be able to help control her magic, Rosefinch discovers an ancient ruined castle with the inhabitants long gone; the only remaining soul a knight cursed to stand a frozen guard at the entrance. The magic she uses to free them melts more than just the ice, and soon, Rosefinch is falling for this charming stranger. But Thierry has secrets of their own, as do other members of the Harp family still hidden within the castle walls. The Harp witch’s wicked magic ripped this family apart for a reason, and Rosefinch must find a way to stop the curse or she'll lose Thierry—and chance to learn the truth about her magic—forever.
With mesmerizing art and a sweeping queer romance, this spellbinding fairy tale shows the power of found family and love where we least expect it.
Such Great Heights by Rajani LaRocca (Quill Tree Books) - not yet added to Goodreads, details taken from publisher website.
When Siya Janardhan was just ten years old, her mother died in a car accident. She misses her mother every day. Part of the reason Siya joined her school’s mock trial team was to honor the memory of her mother, who was a lawyer. It doesn’t hurt that golden boy Raj Raghavan is co-captain. When Raj takes an interest in Siya, she can hardly believe it—he’s a gorgeous junior soccer player whose mom is a senator. Before long, they’re a couple.
Things seem perfect until a team bonding all-nighter when Siya gets locked in a room with Raven Lockhart until dawn. Raven has always operated on the margins—unlike Raj, he doesn’t care about keeping up appearances or following the rules. Even though Siya swears that nothing happened between them, she doesn’t feel like Raj believes her.
At the same time, the details of the mock trial case are hitting uncomfortably close to home for Siya. The case concerns a young lawyer and mother who was killed in a car accident in similar circumstances as Siya’s mom. The question is whether the woman committed suicide, knowingly crashing her car. Seeds of doubt are planted in Siya’s mind: What if it wasn’t an accident, and her mother really took her own life?
Though Siya has put her faith in honesty, she’s left grappling with one huge question: Can learning the truth truly set her free?
They All Had a Grudge by Michele Leathers (Sourcebooks Fire) - previously self published.
Popular Paxton has been murdered, and her boyfriend, Lane, has been charged with the crime.
But no one is above suspicion, including the best friend Paxton betrayed, the boy she rejected, the girl who wanted to take her place, and even Lane's sister Layla.
Though the spotlight has so far stopped on Lane, each of them had motive and opportunity to commit the crime. Until the investigation ends and the case is closed, none of them are safe. In order to avoid becoming a suspect will they help or betray one another? Suspicions, accusations, and surprises are all in store in They All Had a Grudge!
The Last Love Story by Katharyn Blair (Avon A) - description not yet updated on Goodreads.
Nest of Tongues by Randy Ribay (Random House) - description not yet updated on Goodreads.
A lyrical, fantastical horror about vampires from the Philippines . . . and a hunter on their tail. Two siblings fight to protect their secrets, their community, and most of all, each other, in this evocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Patron Saints of Nothing.
As Filipino vampires known as manananggal, Lily and her brother Caleb understand the value of a secret. After all, to hide is to survive. To lie is to live. They’d never harm another person—but people only believe their worst fears around creatures of myth. So the siblings stay quiet. They follow their community’s rules.
Until a monster hunter turns up and kills a fellow manananggal, anyway.
Until Caleb is marked as the hunter’s next prey.
Suddenly, he and Lily realize there’s always been more at stake than the lives of their people. Because when doing everything “right” is still a death sentence, what can they take as truth? As the hunter nears, the siblings must decide if they’ll be driven from the only home they’ve ever known... or fight to protect a community that may already be lost.
As Filipino vampires known as manananggal, Lily and her brother Caleb understand the value of a secret. After all, to hide is to survive. To lie is to live. They’d never harm another person—but people only believe their worst fears around creatures of myth. So the siblings stay quiet. They follow their community’s rules.
Until a monster hunter turns up and kills a fellow manananggal, anyway.
Until Caleb is marked as the hunter’s next prey.
Suddenly, he and Lily realize there’s always been more at stake than the lives of their people. Because when doing everything “right” is still a death sentence, what can they take as truth? As the hunter nears, the siblings must decide if they’ll be driven from the only home they’ve ever known... or fight to protect a community that may already be lost.
All the Queens' Curses by Alyssa Hollingsworth (Page Street)
It’s time for Kit’s dear stepsister, Princess Catharine, to meet her intended, Prince Idris, at a ball. Chronically ill Kit doesn’t expect to connect with Idris there, but he quickly sees through Kit’s defenses and into her terrible The king, her stepfather, has been abusing her.
The night of the ball is also Idris’s birthday, and at midnight a fae messenger reveals to Idris the crime his ancestor committed against the fae queen, and the curse she gave his family. Idris accepts her trial to end the curse, though it will kill him.
Meanwhile, the queen seeks out the fae to swap Kit and Catharine’s bodies to save Kit from the king. Changed and horrified, the girls flee to the prince’s lands. With Idris’s help they must all try to undo their curses and see justice done for their families’ wrongs.
Song For Medusa by Grace Desmarais (Andrews McMeel) - YA graphic novel, moved from October 2025.
Katie Gould at Andrews McMeel has acquired Grace Desmarais's debut graphic novel Song for Medusa. This feminist, romantic sapphic re-imagining of the classic myth finds Medusa and blind princess Danae falling in love in the face of insurmountable odds—and the constraints of patriarchy on their lives. Sara Crowe and Katie Bircher at Sara Crowe Literary negotiated the deal for publication in fall 2025.
August 18th
The Season of Light and Darkness by Jillian Cantor (Simon Pulse)
In the months since a fascist dictator was elected president, the United States has been turned upside down. Dissenters are deemed terrorists, including sixteen-year old Ellie Jacobs’s family.
To escape persecution, the four of them—Ellie, her younger brother Scott, and their parents—decide to freeze themselves cryogenically for ten years in her father’s lab. In ten years, things will be better. They have to be.
But the government discovers the lab after only three years and thaws Ellie early. She awakens, completely alone, to a nightmare of a strange new world and is told the rest of her family didn’t survive. Suddenly, she must abandon everything she knows to go to through “ReAdmittance” and become “Initiated.” Ellie is terrified…until her boyfriend, Ryan, now a nineteen-year-old Initiated soldier, shows up and tells her everything will be fine, that she should trust the good people around her.
But Ellie isn’t sure if she can still trust Ryan.
What Ellie doesn’t know is that Scott never went through with the freeze. He ran away and has joined a band of teenage resistance fighters living in the mountains. No longer her “younger” brother, he’s now sixteen just like her. When Scott learns Ellie has been thawed early, he decides he must risk everything to save her before the brainwashing begins.
Together with other brave rebel teens, Ellie and Scott must navigate this terrible new world to find their way back to each other, before they lose everything—including who they are.
Guardians of Dawn: Suhwa by S. Jae-Jones (Wednesday Books) - moved from 2024, then from 2025, description not yet updated on Goodreads.
Meanwhile, the Guardians of Dawn and their allies are fighting a war on two fronts—against the northern insurrection seeking to claim the Sunburst Throne and destroy all magicians, and against the rising threat of the Mother of Ten Thousand Demons. Zhara, Ami, and Yuli must travel to the Azure Isles to seek the Guardian of Water and save the Morning Realms from annihilation, restoring balance to order and chaos once and for all.
Bound by Fury by Noelle Monét (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
Harper grew up loving her grandma Gigi’s stories about pretty brown girls with magic from the stars, but they were just that—stories…until Gigi’s sudden death awakens a dangerous power building beneath Harper’s skin. Desperate for answers, Harper finds herself drawn to an elite boarding school in the Appalachian Mountains.
A school that Gigi herself attended, and one rumored to be haunted by the ghosts of witches past.
Harper arrives at Black Mountain Academy determined to learn about her burgeoning power, even if that means dealing with Kai, her grumpy ex-best friend now hellbent on getting her to leave campus, and his cousin, Lucas, who won’t let her forget the almost-kiss from last summer. But Black Mountain Academy was built on secrets, and the deeper Harper digs, the more
sinister rot she finds lurking beneath.
When Harper unearths a chilling local legend about the gruesome death of twelve witches on campus, she feels an uncanny connection to the women. But someone doesn’t want her exposing the school’s dark past, and when it becomes clear they’ll kill to stop her, Harper has to decide whether to leave her history behind or risk everything for the truth of her own identity.
Outline by Michèle Fischels (Oni Press) - YA graphic novel, description not yet updated on Goodreads.
For Ben, who is determined to enjoy the end of summer with his girlfriend, Clara, the mood gradually darkens as she begins to withdraw in a similar manner as his best friend, Andreas, had, and without explanation.
While tensions grow between Ben and Clara through the school year, Andreas struggles with his own demons, and suddenly final exams are upon them along with the inevitable questions from friends and family alike: What are you doing after school? Where will you enroll? Will you move out? What’s next? Maybe the answer for Ben and his classmates is to simply slow down and take a deep breath...
Outline is creator Michèle Fischels’s impressive graphic novel debut, in which she demonstrates a deep relatability for that special phase in which we cautiously leave childhood behind and look to the future with uncertainty and anticipation.
Lights! Camera! Frendo! by Adam Cesare (HarperCollins)
Lights, Camera, FRENDO! Welcome back to Kettle Springs. It’s time for Frendo’s close-up.
Sabrina Alvarez is a nobody—until Quinn Maybrook makes her a somebody. After landing the starring role in a film based on the Kettle Springs Massacre, Sabrina should be on top of the world. She’s going to be THE Quinn Maybrook, Final Girl of Final Girls, national hero and certified badass. But as soon as Sabrina gets to Kettle Springs, she just can’t quite shake the feeling that something’s off. For one, the director is way intense. No phones on set, shoots that last all night long, and some freakishly realistic dramatizations of the massacre’s events. Not to mention that it’s getting pretty clear to Sabrina that the residents of Kettle Springs want them out…
And then the first pair of deaths crop up. But Frendo’s gone, right? Or is he back for another round in the spotlight… It’s the latest installment of Adam Cesare’s Bram Stoker Award-winning series, Clown in a Cornfield – and this time, it’s all on film.
Practically Magic by Jen Calonita (HarperCollins)August 25th
Seventh Period Girl by Joya Goffney (HarperTeen) - moved from November 2024 and 2025, new release date confirmed by publisher but not updated updated on Goodreads. Description not yet updated on Goodreads. Previously titled The Seven.
Sunnaya can’t stop thinking about Xavier Walker… and neither can six others.
When self-proclaimed wallflower Sunnaya Bates begins her first day of junior year, she’s not expecting to have the attention of star football player Xavier “Zay” Walker by seventh period. But Naya isn’t the only one that Zay has zeroed in on: there’s Zahara from fifth period… Melani from sixth… and Raven from first. Turns out, Zay has a girl for every period, and soon, the group is given a name: The Seven.
Naya finds that being a member of The Seven has its perks. Her newfound popularity has people finally remembering her name and she feels as if she’s joined a sisterhood. However, when new student Jesse Ramirez arrives, things change for The Seven as Zay begins to only have eyes for her. But The Seven won’t be tossed aside so easily and quickly hatch a plan to destroy Jesse’s status and get Zay back. But Sunnaya begins to struggle with her role in the plan and the feelings that are blooming between her and a certain should-be-annoying coworker. When things go too far, will Naya give up what she’s formed with The Seven to do what’s right?
But I Hate Him by Page Powars (Roaring Brook Press) - Goodreads lists a September 1st release date, but the publisher confirms an August date.
From New York Times and #1 Indies bestselling author Page Powers, a sizzling queer YA romcom about academic rivals who face off at the most competitive camp in the country. Perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Becky Albertalli.
Rory is academic royalty.
As the heir to the most successful tutoring company in the world, he can be nothing less than perfect if he wants to gain his parents’ approval. So it's simple. Rory studies harder than anyone else. He does not make mistakes. And he never loses.
Except to Luca Melendez. The infuriatingly good-looking hockey player who wins every academic competition without even trying.
When Rory has a very public meltdown, throwing a smoothie at Luca and shattering his own public image in the process – it feels like one more thing Luca ruined.
To salvage his reputation, Rory has his sights set on winning the most cutthroat academic camp in the country, BRAIN. There is nothing standing between Rory and the final medal.
Until, Luca Melendez shows up.
This means war and Rory has the perfect plan: Make Luca fall in love with him.
Dreamweaving by O.O. Sangoyomi (Page Street) - previously titled Dreamweaver.
Raised by a hidden coven of witches, Deja Freeman is forbidden from mentioning two things: 1) magic, and 2) her mother. But when she discovers her mother’s death is linked to Tanglewood Prep—a prestigious New England boarding school—she enrolls, needing the truth.
Tóbi Ẹkúndayọ̀ is Tanglewood’s future valedictorian. Popular and driven, she has her eyes set on Junior Class President, even if it means facing down the institutional prejudice running rampant in her school.
When Deja and Tóbi begin having terrifying visions, they realize one thing lies at the center: the mysterious demise of Tanglewood’s first Black female student. In investigating the school’s dark history, the girls must trust each other and their crew of friends if they hope to avoid the administration’s suspicions—or something far worse.
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