Release date not yet known
A Taste of Memories by Alechia Dow (Feiwel and Friends)
Emily
Settle at Feiwel and Friends has bought A Taste of Memories, a cozy YA
fantasy novel by Alechia Dow. The story follows a witch who allows
people to relive their fondest memories by recreating recipes from their
past at her magical tearoom, and a warlock who arrives on her doorstep
haunted by a dangerous spirit that threatens his future. Publication is
slated for spring 2027; Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary
Management sold North American rights.
Something Inside Me Knows by Malinda Lo (Dutton) - YA memior.
Andrew Karre at Dutton has acquired Something Inside Me Knows by National Book Award winner Malinda Lo (Last Night at the Telegraph Club). Incorporating free verse, found poetry, and lyric essay, this debut memoir weaves a nonlinear story of immigration and identity, connecting the author's childhood in small-town Colorado in the 1980s to her grandmother's experiences in wartime China. Publication is scheduled for March 2027; Michael Bourret at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret negotiated the deal for world English rights.
March 1st
Sound Check by Jennifer Fenn (Roaring Brook Press) - moved from April 2022, then from July 2023, July 2024 and May 2025.
Win is a remarkably
gifted percussionist. He's also profoundly deaf and plays the drums with
his shoes off so he can feel the music through the soles of his feet.
He has it all: he's in a band on the verge of breaking out, and he's
madly in love with Tristen, their lead singer. The only thing he could
ever want: to hear Tristen sing.
Sound Check is told in
alternating narratives. The A side - Win decides to get a cochlear
implant that will allow him to hear. The B side - Win and Tristen's love
story from the day they first met to the day Win heard Tristen for the
first time. And in the silence between the tracks? Heartbreak.
89 Seconds to Midnight by Crystal Seitz (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
Sarah
McCabe at McElderry Books has bought a new dystopian romance duology by
Crystal Seitz, 89 Seconds to Midnight and 36 Seconds to Sunrise.
Pitched as Silver Elite meets Warcross, the story follows an
immunocompromised underground fighter who cannot afford the medicine
that keeps her alive. To survive, she gets caught up in a revolutionary
plot that sends her to compete in a prestigious tournament as a front to
spy on the governor—a task made all the more difficult with the
governor's roguish son watching her every move. Publication is set for
spring 2027 and spring 2028; Laura Crockett at Triada US did the deal
for North American rights.
March 2nd
One Last Scare by Bill Wood (Scholastic) - previously published in the UK.
The gang thought they were done with murder.
After surviving one too many mysteries, they're finally ready for a normal summer —until Chillshore reopens. Once a beloved island theme park, it shut down after a tragedy no one ever fully explained. Now it's back and rebranded as a spooky attraction that leans hard into its dark past, complete with a creepy mascot known as the Groundskeeper and a guest list packed with horror influencers, true crime celebrities, and supernatural thrill-seekers.
Then the storm hits. No boats. No phones. No escape.
When guests start dying one by one, it becomes terrifyingly clear that the murders aren't random. Each death exposes a piece of Chillshore's buried history.
As paranoia spreads and the Groundskeeper stalks the island, the gang must untangle a web of lies, cover-ups, and long-suppressed guilt before the killer strikes again. Because this time, the mystery isn't just about who is doing the killing — it's about why the truth was buried in the first place.
Dark, twisty, and relentless, Bill Wood's final installment in the Let's Split Up trilogy delivers a blood-soaked locked-room mystery that confronts the cost of turning real tragedy into entertainment and proves some stories will always come back to haunt you.
Chuck and the Girl by Yusuke Saitoh (Graphix) - YA graphic novel/manga.
Amy's life in Los Angeles is uprooted when she's packed off to Yokohama, Japan, to live with the grandmother she's never met. She's ready for adventure in a country she's only seen in movies and anime, but the reality is even better than she'd imagined: Her grandmother is a painter and teacher whose home is filled with art and music, and she encourages Amy to embrace the unexpected - whether it's riding her skateboard, jamming on the guitar with her uncle, or befriending an adorable Siamese kitten named Chuck. Amy's spirit of creative expression brings a classmate, Kenta, into her family's orbit - and inspires the shy Japanese boy to express himself more freely.
But all isn't sunshine and cherry blossoms in Amy's world as she adjusts to her new home and learns the real reason why her mother sent her off to Japan... and whether this is just a temporary move, or her new home for good.
Blade of Honey by Hafsah Faizal (FSG)
The
first in a duology, Blade of Honey, by #1 New York Times–bestselling
author Hafsah Faizal, is a tantalizing romantic fantasy with a dark and
deadly twist on The Bachelor, where a girl’s only chance at her target’s
throat comes with a chance at his heart.
A wounded bee can still sting...
Yasmine
Ra’ad has a vendetta against the most powerful man in Arawiya: the king
himself. His throne was built upon the bones of her family, and though
she’s never wielded a blade, she dreams of the day she can end his life.
That day arrives with an invitation, for the king is in need of a wife.
A cornered lion will still roar...
Altair
al-Badawi will die by the next full moon—unless he takes a bride. And
if he chooses her from one of the houses of old, the rest will riot, so
when his captain of the guard proposes a competition in which anyone
might try her hand at becoming queen, he agrees.
Love can make or break a life...
Yasmine
knows she must play the part of a doting suitor if she wishes to enact
her revenge. She does it well. Too well. Altair knows he must marry even
when he wishes for nothing less. But as the hourglass empties, will
they find a love worth forgiving—or dying—for?
The Water Will Fall by Billy Ray (Scholastic)
A new generation of characters must fight and find love in this searing companion to The Hunger Games screenwriter Billy Ray's epic dystopian romance, Burn the Water, perfect for fans of Lightlark.
The stakes have never been higher...
Jule never wanted to be a leader.But with foreigners at their shores and war still threatening her people, Jule must lead once more, despite her devastating losses. Yet as Jule, Byron, and the two formerly warring Houses navigate life after peace and begin the long process of rebuilding, enemies conspire in the dark to bring New London to its knees.Eighteen years later, Hope, Jule's daughter, struggles to live up to her mother's war hero, fearless soldier, saint. When a new enemy lays claim to New London, Hope finds her heart torn between love and loyalty, just as her mother once did. And she must step up to defend the only home she's ever known in a war that will force her, her family, and all of New London to question everything.
In this stunning sequel to Burn the Water from award-winning The Hunger Games screenwriter Billy Ray, a new generation of fighters will be put to the test while romance flares, and peace has never felt more tenuous.
By Breath by PC Cast (Wednesday Books) - previously titled A Court of Dark Water, moved from 2026, description not yet updated on Goodreads.
At her great-aunt’s stables on the edge of the Scottish Highlands, Maeve can’t wait to spend one last summer soaking in the magick of Loch Chon—the only place she’s ever felt like herself. She plans on painting wind-swept landscapes and leading trail rides on the horses she loves for the new luxury resort across the loch—only to find herself drawn to the resort’s young heir, the enigmatic Keir, whose charm is tempered only by the secrets he keeps.
But soon she discovers the loch holds older, deeper magick than Maeve has ever imagined.
The stories she was raised on—of the fae courts, Seelie and Unseelie, and the deadly, beautiful kelpies—are not legends, but truth. On land, kelpies appear as magnificent horses with silver-belled manes. In the lochs, they become something far more powerful: ancient water dragons who bond for life with a chosen Rider.
When Maeve rescues a wounded stallion, she believes she’s saving a horse’s life. Instead, she may have been chosen by a royal kelpie. But no kelpie has ever bonded with a human before and if the bond fails, it won’t just break, it will destroy them both.
As war stirs between the fae courts, Maeve is pulled deeper into a world of magick, betrayal, and desire. With a witch as her guide, the King of the Kelpies at her side, and two rival princes vying for her heart, Maeve begins to uncover a truth more dangerous than any legend:
There is powerful magick running through her veins. And it may be strong enough to save
everything she holds dear…or doom it forever.
Cleaning Solutions by Roy Guzmán (Scholastic) - YA memior in verse.
The utterly remarkable YA debut of acclaimed poet Roy Guzmán, giving powerful voice to their experience as a child new to America, who at age nine spends his days cleaning houses with his mother instead of being able to go to school and by age thirteen is learning to navigate the perilous road forward into a world of queerness, art, and acceptance.
At age 9, Roy emigrates from Honduras to Miami, sharing a bed with his mother and other women in a house with several other women. Because he doesn't have a legal guardian who holds US citizenship, he spends his weekdays cleaning houses and other spaces alongside his mother, and weekends helping his stepfather at his factory job, making parts for dumpsters. He doesn't start school until fifth grade, and when he gets there, he is bullied horribly for being queer, an immigrant, and a non-English speaker. It is only when he switches to a Lutheran private school at the age of thirteen that he finally finds a space where he can express himself fully.
As we see Roy grow, we see a vivid portrait of an immigrant child trying to reconcile a world filled with racism, poverty, homophobia, bullying, and machismo.
Bodies of Water by Ryan La Sala (Scholastic) - not yet added to Goodreads.
The thrilling conclusion to The Dead of Summer, told in a mix of narrative voices and found documents, from the bestselling author of The Honeys, perfect for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson, E. Lockhart, Karen McManus, and Rory Powers!
Four Weeks After
Ollie Veltman wakes up to find himself chained to the bottom of an old abandon pool. He has been "rescued" by the local doomsday people, who see him as the miracle sent to save them all from the endtimes. Ollie's pretty sure that's more than one person can manage-especially one who's recently been turned into a weeper. While those around him celebrate misplaced salvation, Ollie knows the only hope for survival is back in Easter Energy's lab. If only he can get there...
Five Days Before
Easter Energy has planned for this situation. Okay, maybe not this exact situation, but in order to cover up what happened on Anchor's Mercy, they are prepared to go nuclear. They will literally bury the island at the bottom of the ocean. As Ollie fights to find the Suds and stop this annihilation, the Mercy Killings dossier begins to spread. As new information emerges, it becomes clear that the answer to saving everyone is hidden in the past, and if Ollie can figure it out, he might just be the savior after all.
March 9th
Daughters of the Demon Lord by Judy I. Lin (Feiwel and Friends) - previously titled Daughters of Misery.
The three daughters of the Demon Lord must rely on each other for survival in this explosive new YA fantasy duology from Judy I. Lin, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of A Magic Steeped in Poison.
The Demon Lord jealously guards his three daughters in his palace of stone, but at the enthronement ceremony of his new consort, Lady Yunyao, he suddenly declares all three of them eligible for marriage. That night, the sisters make a vow: They will remain loyal to each other, and will do whatever is necessary to protect themselves from the royal court's scheming—just as they've done since their mother was murdered five years ago.
Ziyan, a fierce and talented warrior, enters a deadly hunt in order to win their father's favor and keep her younger sisters from being sold off in marriage. Yueting, a gifted strategist often underestimated because of her beauty, methodically unearths the consort's twisted plots to maintain power over the throne—and in the process also unearths an ancient and dangerous magic. And Weiying, the curious scholar with a kind heart, would do anything to save her sisters—even if it means returning to the cold and cruel Demon House she grew up in.
Those who would manipulate the three daughters of the Demon Lord for their own political gain think they're just prizes to be won, mindless jewels in a king's crown.
They are wrong.
The Broken Veil #2 by Mara Rutherford (HarperTeen) - moved from 2026.
Aurelie was trying to help
usher in a new world in her work with Everard. Instead, her invention
only brought Everard no longer needs inventions to admit demons into
Wisteria. Now, he can tear open the veil whenever he chooses.
When Des sacrificed his soul to save Aurelie, he believed it would close the
door Everard opened. Instead, Everard kept part of his soul in hand,
using it to control the demons he unleashes—and to build an army. And
Des is no longer capable of feeling anything. No fear, no rage, no
grief.
Everard’s plan is to strike at the king, wipe out the
royal family, and reclaim his stolen throne. Aurelie, forced to join the
Iron Guard to atone for her mistakes, is swept into the only solution
they have kill Everard before he destroys everything.
But if Everard dies, Des will die along with him.
And that’s a fate Aurelie refuses to accept.
These Hollow Ruins by Cassidy Ellis Salter (Bloomsbury)
March 16th
We Were Supposed to Find This by Emily Snyder (Wednesday Books)
The comet is back this summer and Everly doesn't want to see it, because it’s just another promise her late mother made her, in a future that won't ever come now that she's passed. Then Everly meets the perfect fiery-haired and playful Sam, who likes 90s music and actual cameras and puts Everly at ease. When Sam vanishes just as quickly as she first appeared, Everly can't find any trace of her in the present. But somehow, she finds her in the past.
After accidentally stumbling back thirty years, Everly is thrust into 1998, where Backstreet Boys and dial-up internet reign, and nobody’s ever heard of a smartphone. A world where she’s falling head over heels for Sam, and where Everly meets someone completely her teenage mom. Everly needs Sam and her mom’s help investigating the comet’s legacy of missing people, since she’s supposed to be finding her way home –right? But soon, Everly exposes dark secrets and realizes she isn’t the first person to fall through time… and she won’t be the last.
Time may be malleable, but not every change is for the better. If Everly’s not careful, she’ll risk an altered future –one without her mother, or her dream girl.
It Begins with the End by Samira Ahmed (Alvina Ling Books) - moved from September 2026, some editions dated March 9th.
Gripping and poignant, It Begins with the End is a profound novel-in-verse about memory, resistance, and hope during WWII– from New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed.
It begins with an execution.
April 1944. Khursheed Khan, a young spy for the British Armed Forces, has been captured by the Nazis. She’s about to take her last breath. But to her, it’s not how her life ends that matters. It’s how she lived it.
What matters is the memory of her childhood in India and the lessons she learned from her resilient grandmother. What matters is her friends and family in Paris, whose lives are threatened by Nazi forces. What matters is the boy she wanted to love forever.
What matters is hope and resistance and the fight.
Written in moving and nuanced verse, It Begins with the End travels backward and forward through time as Kursheed recalls her life in the moments before it ends—reminding readers of all we must fight for when the worst of humanity threatens to steal everything and everyone we hold dear.
March 23rd
Little Necromancers by Emma Devlin (Wednesday Books)
Eighteen-year-old psychic Mercy Hawkins is drowning in the exorbitant debt she owes to the necromancers who resurrected her parents. Ghost therapy is an unreliable source of income, and her death predictions never come to fruition, meaning no payout. So when those same necromancers—the powerful and affluent Granville family—come to her with an opportunity to wipe the slate clean, Mercy can’t afford to refuse.
The Granvilles task her with convincing their youngest and most obstinate member, Julian, to come back to life after a brutal fall from his bedroom window. With her ability to see ghosts, only Mercy can reach him. But Mercy has her own reasons to believe that Julian’s death was no accident, and one look at his bloodied ghost confirms her suspicions.
As her employers become her suspects, Mercy reluctantly teams up with the strange and hostile ghosts haunting the Granville estate. Together, they surreptitiously investigate Julian’s murder, entrenching Mercy into a decades-long feud between the house’s two factions—the ghosts, who invisibly cook, clean, and toil for the Granvilles, and the Granvilles themselves, who must acquiesce to the ghosts’ every material demand in exchange for their service. Both sides are anxious to point the finger at the other... and both sides have secrets to kill for.
The Enchanting Girl by Elizabeth Johnson (Knopf) - moved from 2025, July 2026 and February 2027, description not yet updated on Goodreads.
Cozy up to this enchanting debut fantasy about a young woman who is determined to break all the rules and learn to perform magic. She’ll just need to hide her activities from her nosy mother, a string of unwelcome suitors, and the young enchanter she manages to butt heads with whenever they see each other. And oh yes, she also needs to master the 438 spells required to pass the enchanter’s exam.
The island country of Lavinium guards a secret: its men have been able to perform magic for centuries–thanks to the fairies that inhabited the land before humans. Women were never allowed to learn the art, however. But it’s the modern age of 1935, and when Zelda Van Doren discovers that she has a gift for magic, she decides to defy convention and teach herself how to use it. Doing so means secretly learning the same spells as male students, all while eluding her marriage-minded mother and a string of suitors that includes one John Pendleton, in particular. Although her friends say Pendleton’s a catch, the young enchanter is clearly more interested in talking to Zelda’s grandfather than to her, which suits her just fine. Meanwhile, Zelda’s self-taught attempts at spellcasting are proving a miserable failure, until a fairy mysteriously emerges from the north, introducing Zelda to the one woman who might be able to help her.
But even as Zelda struggles to control her gift, a long-simmering distrust between fairies and humans has bubbled to the surface, and it will be up to the young woman who has no business being an enchanter to work a little magic before it’s too late.
When Life Gives You Corpses by Lene D. Buttner (Wednesday Books) - previously titled Cavern F(r)iend.
In this delightfully cozy and creepy YA romp, a cave monster masquerading as a search-and-recovery guide intends to find and eat a lost wizard—but catches feelings for him instead, perfect for fans of TJ Klune and Andrew Joseph White.
Theory has a monstrous secret. He isn’t an ordinary search-and-recovery guide at Fiendworld, the world’s premier magical-sinkhole-turned-amusement-park; he’s a cursed, human-eating mantis. But not to worry—he has an excellent solution for his particular diet. Whenever he’s asked to retrieve the corpse of a lost adventurer, he simply snacks on a finger or two. No harm done.
That is, until he’s given his latest recover the body of park management’s missing son. Great. Yet another foolish wizard who got lost adventuring, and this time the direct descendant of the very person who cursed Theory in the first place. Worse, when Theory reluctantly sets off on the search, he’s shocked to find the wizard somehow still alive.
Nim—the wizard in question—has no desire to be rescued. He’s on a mission to the bottom of the sinkhole, and refuses to return to the surface before he gets there. He may be a subpar wizard, as his parents constantly remind him, but he’s got a positive attitude, an enchanted backpack, and now a mysterious rescue worker to recruit to his cause! Even though said worker is quite rude and seems to be getting Nim into more danger rather than out of it.
To survive, Theory and Nim must brave man-eating fish, walls of tentacles, and devastating both their own, and ones the park desperately tries to keep hidden. Along the way, they may just discover that they’re stronger together than apart.
March 30th
Something Wicked in the Woods by Megan Cooley-Peterson (Holiday House) - moved from 2026.
Touch the skull rock. Walk deep into the woods. Enter the witch’s cabin, and say the words that summon her ghost. It’s supposed to be a game—but for Mellie’s best friend Heather, it wasn’t. Now Heather is gone, and Mellie only knows one way to discover the to spend the night in the witch’s cabin and get answers from the spirit who stole her away.
But as Mellie closes in on the camp’s sinister connection to unearthly forces, hideous legends, and the nearby abandoned psychiatric hospital, where untold women were shut away in years past, she’ll learn that not all of the evils at Camp Shadow Lake lurk beyond the edges of the firelight… Some are very human.
Set in the early 2000s and dripping with y2k nostalgia, this thrilling read features terrifying ghosts, a shadowy cult, missing girls, and a deadly game of cat-and-mouse—think Sadie meets The Wicker Man, and you have Something Wicked in the Woods. As deep and dark as the nighttime woods, Something Wicked in the Woods is a sharp, smart YA horror from a fiercely feminist and incisive voice within the genre.
Ticket to Die by Amanda Sellet (Wednesday Books)
High school junior Virginia Tillis isn’t jetting off to Florida for spring break, so she figures the highlight of her week will be sleeping in... until her eccentric Grandma Lainey shows up at her house and invites her merry band of retired actor neighbors to crash the party—along with Felix, Virginia’s new long-distance boyfriend.
When the entire group takes a ride on a murder mystery train run by her grandmother’s old friend Teddy, they expect to solve a fictional crime in theatrical style—until the leading lady vanishes. Did Teddy do away with his co-star? Or is there another culprit on this mystery train?
With a storm closing in and suspects galore, Virginia, Felix, and their golden age crew have to figure out what happened to the missing actress, clear Teddy’s name, and decide if dating someone in a different state is worth the aggravation... before they reach the end of the line and spring break is dead in its tracks.
Gravespell by James Trevino and Elizabeth Sagan (Sourcebooks Fire) - moved from April 2027.
Alice Howe is an outcast at the elite Deepgrove Academy for Magic, which suits her just fine. But an unwelcome premonition means she’ll have to step out of the shadows. Because now she’s the only one at Deepgrove who knows two terrible things. In seven days her schoolmate Xena Wycomb, daughter of the American President of Magic, will be dead. And, if left unsolved, Xena’s murder will ignite a war.
Despite Alice’s warning, Xena meets her foreseen demise. But before she does, she points a finger at the prime suspects in her own murder, each of whom has a deadly secret to keep.
Christopher: The ex-boyfriend she cheated on and the heir to the biggest magical corporation in the world.
Delvy: The traitorous best friend who is embroiled in a scandal of her own.
Ben: Xena’s new boyfriend, a mage born without magic and the perfect scapegoat.
And of course, Alice herself.
Soon, the four of them are at the center of a huge media scandal, amid a very public murder investigation, which brings the modern wizarding world to the brink of war between those born with magic and those born without. And it all leads back to Xena.
Alice knows she can’t trust devilishly charming Christopher, picture-perfect Delvy, or morose Ben, but they all hold a piece of the puzzle. As suspicion falls on each of them in turn, Alice must find a way to uncover who killed Xena before the whole of magekind meets the same fate.
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