June 2027 New Releases

 

 

 

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SoulCast by Aaron Cole (Peachtree Teen)

Jonah Heller at Peachtree Teen has acquired debut author and actor Aaron Cole's SoulCast, a YA fantasy pitched as Dante's Inferno meets The Hunger Games and Children of Blood and Bone, inspired by the central African mythology of the Underworld of Kalunga. When 16-year-old Krio's mother is struck with a death curse, he must infiltrate the Soul Cast Trials, a deadly competition to unlock a passage to the underworld, in order to save her. To stay alive, he teams up with a brooding enemy prince whose secrets may be the key to survival. Publication is set for summer 2027; Natalie Lakosil at Looking Glass Literary & Media sold world rights in a two-book deal.








Slayer/Saint by Ivelisse Housman (FSG) 
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.

Where the Girls Are Kept by Mel Hammond (Knopf)
Marisa DiNovis at Knopf has bought Where the Girls Are Kept by Mel Hammond, a YA reimagining of Rosemary's Baby. Artist Rowan welcomes the chance to escape her dumpster fire of a junior year when her mom inherits her aunt's Victorian fixer-upper in Arcana Falls, Ohio—but life in this sleepy town gets complicated as Rowan encounters an illegal birth control ban, a possible multi-level marketing cult, and an unexpected crush. Publication is slated for summer 2027; Tracey Adams at Adams Literary did the deal for North American rights.

Your Better Half by Emily Charlotte (Margaret K. McElderry Books) 
Nicole Fiorica at McElderry Books has acquired Your Better Half by Emily Charlotte (Heart Check), a YA reimagining of Jane Austen's Emma, about a teenage matchmaker, recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, who creates a Bachelor-style fundraiser to date her school's most stubbornly single guy—only to fall in love with the leading man herself. Publication is slated for summer 2027; Caryn Wiseman at Andrea Brown Literary Agency did the deal for world rights.

June 29th
How the Goode Girls Died by Alyssa Sheinmel (Roaring Brook Press) - moved from October 2026 and from May 2027.
Luisa Beguiristaín at Roaring Brook has bought, at auction, Alyssa Sheinmel's How the Goode Girls Died, a YA suspense novel about a girl who's thrust into the mystery of her neighbors' deaths and blackmailed by the forces behind her school's anonymous gossip app into investigating even how she deals with the loss of her own mother. Publication is planned for fall 2026; Stuti Telidevara and Peter Knapp at Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management did the two-book deal for North American rights.