July 6th
A Dragonslayer's Guide to Love, Valor and Other Myths by Kalyn Josephson (Roaring Brook Press) - full description not yet released.
Tea Leaves and Fate Strings by C.B. Lee (Feiwel and Friends) - full description not yet released.
They Carved Us to Be Perfect by Deke Moulton (Tundra)
The Name Bearer by Natalia Hernandez (Entangled Books) - previously self published, description not yet updated on Goodreads.
Two for Joy by Susan Dennard (Quill Tree Books) - description not yet updated on Goodreads, moved from May 2026. Goodreads still lists some editions with a May 2026 release, but the publisher confirms a July 2027 release.
New York Times bestselling author Susan Dennard returns to paranormal romance with a suspenseful and darkly atmospheric summer mystery with fiery kisses and haunting melodies.
Magpie Adams, a lonely teen pariah in the tourist town of Two Pines, finds her reputationin tatters after her ex-boyfriend cheated on her and then lied about it. With her only true friends being the dramatic Adeliade and her brooding twin brother Buck Taylor, Magpie finds solace in romance novels, and in noticing the tiny details that everyone else seems to miss.
Things turn eerie when a museum exhibit honouring Two for Joy, the cult-classic romance filmed in that very town, gets vandalized: fake magpies are impaled with knitting needles, a mannequin is mutilated, blood is spilled. The town people brush it off as a prank. But Magpie knows better. Especially when the attacks seem to follow her.
Magpie begins to suspect someone is recreating scenes from the movie, and she might be the stand-in for a missing woman from the 1970s: Becky, the forgotten body double whose face looks eerily like her own. Someone is covering up a decades-old death tied to the film’s crew. And someone doesn’t want the truth revealed.
As the mystery spirals toward murder, Magpie must use her uncanny empathy to uncover the past, and survive the present. Because Becky’s story was never told.
Until now.
Godless by Julie Kagawa (Inkyard Press) - moved from 2026.
Bound to a destiny she never chose, possessing a power she doesn’t understand, Sparrow now faces a world on the brink of ruin. The Deathless King’s army tears through the Barren Steppes, threatening everything she loves.
She knows she can fight—she hopes she can win.
In Kovass, the Deathless King is waiting for her. Yet to reach him, Sparrow and her allies first need to carve a path through a shattered and twisted version of the home they love.
But something darker waits behind any triumph: a betrayal that could unravel the very threads that bind the world together.
What ensues is a final, desperate journey to the resting place of the gods, to save every soul bound in the Weave. With destiny itself in ruins, Sparrow will have to decide not just the future of the world—but whether fate should exist at all.
She Did It by Emily Lloyd-Jones (Balzer and Bray)
A teen girl competes in an illegal scavenger hunt for a life-changing cash prize, but when a boy ends up dead, she has to unravel what really happened that night. For fans of The Inheritance Games and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.
When 17-year-old Madison Mercer hears the local sheriff is investigating a tip about a body in an abandoned car in the woods, she’s not sure what’s more horrifying: that someone found the car, or that it was empty.
Because Maddy knows there was a body in the trunk.
That’s where she stashed it.
The previous summer, after a season of losses – her mother passing, her family’s diner closing, her best friend moving away, her father slipping into alcoholism – Maddy decides to participate in the Lark. The wholly illegal annual scavenger hunt takes teenagers through woods thick with illegal weed grows, down abandoned train tunnels, and into locked houses. The prize this final year is bigger than all the years combined: a whopping $100,000. The money would be the only thing to keep Maddy and her family slipping further into poverty, so she’s determined to win at any cost.
But when a boy ends up dead, Maddy knows she needs to find the killer… or risk being implicated herself. As she tries to unravel what really happened, she realizes that the game never truly ended. Because in the Lark, there’s only one rule: Trust no one in the dark.
The Violet Maze by Jess Lourey (Entangled Books) - description not yet updated on Goodreads.
Continue the gripping dystopian tale where the Wall’s false safety begins to crack, buried truths claw their way into the light, and one girl’s relentless hunt for answers threatens the fragile order holding her world together. As loyalties fracture and every revelation tightens the noose around her family, Rose’s pursuit of the real killer could expose the secret the Valley was built to contain and the truth she uncovers might set her free, or destroy everything she loves.
July 20th
Acorn by J.T. Petty and Wook-Jin Clark (First Second) - YA graphic novel, moved from 2026, description not yet updated on Goodreads.
Walking Dead meets Attack on Titan in this post-apocalyptic YA graphic novel about a world overrun by nightmarish, parasitic giants, and the extreme lengths humans must take to fight them.
The world belongs to the dead now.
Long ago, humanity thrived and the earth was populated by eight billion people. But then came the manticore: giants with insatiable hunger who feed by assimilating corpses into their body. These giants were once ordinary animals—a possum, a dog, even a human being. But once infected, the hunger begins. And as a manticore feeds, it grows.
Acorn, a teenager living in the fortified town of Sanctuary, has been taught how to survive in this world overrun by manticore, though he’s never seen one. When a young man escapes Sanctuary with an unspeakable plan—to become a manticore himself—Acorn joins the search party. Leaving home for the first time, he soon comes face-to-face with the nightmarish monsters that have brought mankind to the brink of extinction.
July 27th
A Death Kissed Song by De Elizabeth (Holiday House) - moved from August 2027.
Kade Dishmon at Holiday House has bought, in an exclusive submission, A Death Kissed Song by De Elizabeth (This Raging Sea), a YA dark fantasy in which an ambitious but struggling senior at a prestigious music conservatory joins a secret society led by her cutthroat childhood-friend-turned-academic-rival, where she discovers his group is using dangerously alluring magic to enhance their craft—magic that may claim the life of the boy she still can't help but love. Publication is set for summer 2027; Samantha Fabien at Root Literary negotiated the deal for world rights.
Slayer-Saint by Ivelisse Housman (FSG) - moved from June 2026, previously titled Slayer/Saint.
Trisha de Guzman at Farrar, Straus and Giroux has acquired Slayer/Saint by Ivelisse Housman, a Puerto Rican-inspired YA fantasy in which a young monster slayer accidentally recovers the lost sword of her island's patron saint, compelling her to break the curse on her land—born during her country's fight for independence—before it consumes her and the island for good. Publication is scheduled for spring 2027; Victoria Marini at High Line Literary brokered the deal for world English rights.
Tempest of Fate by Lauryn Hamilton Murray (FSG)
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