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What You Will by Rachael Lippincott (Simon and Schuster)
Alexa Pastor at Simon & Schuster has acquired Rachael Lippincott's What You Will, a vengeful, sapphic, historical romantasy spin on Twelfth Night, following feuding families and branches of magic. Publication is scheduled for fall 2026; Emily van Beek at Folio Jr./Folio Literary Management negotiated the deal for world rights.
Devil's Advocate by Amanda DeWitt (Peachtree Teen)
Ashley
Hearn at Peachtree Teen has bought Devil's Advocate by Amanda DeWitt, a
YA supernatural comedy pitched as Succession meets Hazbin Hotel. When
Ada Faust's dad—the actual devil—sets his sights on triggering the
apocalypse, Ada's siblings are all forced to compete for the coveted
spot as his right hand by influencing the presidential election. Ada
plans to curry favor by sabotaging her dad's political rival. Problem
is, Ada actually likes doing good, and with a dad like hers, you can be a
good daughter or a good person, but you can't be both. Publication is
set for fall 2026; Cate Hart at Harvey Klinger Literary Agency did the
deal for world rights.
Spellwright by Heather Kassner (Atheneum)
Julia
McCarthy at Atheneum has acquired, in an exclusive submission, Heather
Kassner's YA debut, Spellwright. Pitched as An Enchantment of Ravens
meets A Study in Drowning, this cozy romantic fantasy follows a young
spellwright who must reluctantly team up with an insufferably alluring
magician to investigate the theft of a dark grimoire before its curse
claims her next. Sheyla Knigge and Victoria Marini at High Line Literary
brokered the deal for world rights, with publication set for fall 2026.
October 6th
The Revolution of Olivia Witherson by S. Isabelle (Storytide) - moved from June 2026.
Olivia Witherson has it all figured out. Once she’s married to Samuel Desir, a handsome (and rich) businessman in the making, she’ll be able to step into the life of upper-class comfort she’s always known she’s destined for. Getting kidnapped by a gang of ruffians and being held for ransom in their grubby headquarters on the outskirts of Paris… was not part of the plan.
Olivia is sure that Jac Santil, head of the Saints Tristes gang, is the most loathsome, infuriating person she’s ever met. But the longer she spends with the Saints, the more good she sees them doing—distributing food and medicine to the poor, taking in orphaned children, and organizing the exploited laborers of Paris, the same workers who staff Samuel’s factories. Soon, Olivia must acknowledge that there may be more to the Saints, and to Jac, than meets the eye, and that the life of luxury she’d always dreamed of may never come to fruition.
Radio Free Texas by Libba Bray (Scholastic)
From beloved bestselling author Libba Bray, a story of love, rock n' roll, and sex (in that order) in 1980s Texas.
Bowie (pronounced "boo-eee") is a little bit lost in his small Texas town. As he starts his senior year, the only thing he's pretty sure of is that he has a crush on Comet Jensen, a girl who's such a firecracker that she actually sets a firecracker off on the first day of school.Since Comet's one wrong move away from getting expelled, Bowie steps in and takes the blame for the firecracker stunt. His punishment? Community service at a local radio station run by an anti-social, anti-establishment anti-hero named Marlon. Suddenly Bowie finds he not only has something to do, but he also has something to say. And, possibly, a future with Comet.
In the tradition of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Eleanor & Park, Dazed & Confused, and The Last Picture Show, this is a funny, touching story about how coming-of-age, like love, is never a solo project.
Voice of the Ashes by Sharon Cameron (Scholastic) - not yet added to Goodreads.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron returns with a stunning story about the fight to survive - and find love - in the face of the ugliest of nightmares, based on the true story of two heroes and their resistance in the Sobibor death camp during the Holocaust.
Saartje has already survived two concentration camps when she is sent to Sobibor, a death camp that is infamous for forcing the inmates to perform sick entertainment for their Nazi guards if they wish to live. When Saartje is paired with a young Polish man and ordered to waltz, she doesn't understand the German command.
But her partner does.
The young Polish man, Chaim Engel, doesn't know how to waltz.
But Saartje does.
Together, the pair dance well enough to live through the night, and from that moment on, Chaim and Saartje will do whatever it takes to keep each other alive.
When, on October 14th, 1943, a prisoner revolt begins, Saartje and Chaim escape alongside 300 other prisoners amid the confusion and bloodshed. With only each other, the pair must survive the ensuing manhunt and find a place to hide if they want any chance of making it out of the war alive.
Based on the true stories of Chaim and Saartje Engel, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light in Hidden Places, Sharon Cameron, crafts an evocative, beautiful thriller that celebrates hope, survival, and the power of love in the face of impossible odds.
Children of Owl by Darcie Little Badger and Abigail Rajunov (Levine Querido)
Nick Thomas at Levine Querido has bought world rights to illustrated YA novel Children of Owl by Newbery Honor author Darcie Little Badger, illustrated by Abigail Rajunov. After Lipan Apache teenager Maisie sees the son of Owl, she knows it portends evil for one of her beloved cousins and that she must do anything to stop it from happening. Publication is planned for fall 2026; Michael Curry at Donald Maass Literary Agency represented the author, and Aliza R. Hoover at the CAT Agency represented the illustrator.
October 7th
We're All Going to Die Tonight by Veronica Bane (Delacorte)
Krista Marino at Delacorte Press has acquired We're All Going to Die Tonight by Veronica Bane (Difficult Girls), a twisty mystery about seven teens who are forced to spend a stormy—and deadly—night together in a remote mansion. Publication is scheduled for fall 2026; Michelle Wolfson at Wolfson Literary Agency sold world English rights.
October 13th
Revenge of the Final Girl by Andrea Mosqueda (Feiwel and Friends) - moved from March 2026 and September 2026.
Pull by Alex London and L. Fury (Greenwillow Books) - YA graphic memior, moved from April 2026.
A powerful graphic memoir about the year Alex London became a skeet shooting champion and nearly lost everything. This is a story of how we survive—together. Pull is for readers of Hey Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka, Ducks by Kate Beaton, and Flamer by Mike Curato.
When he was fifteen, Alex London was keeping a secret. He kept it from his friends, from his conservative prep school, and from his family. Especially his dad, who tried so hard to connect with him, even as Alex pulled away. They seemed to have so little in common. Until his dad gave him a shotgun. On the skeet shooting range, that gun brought him closer to his dad, closer to feeling like a man, and to his first feelings of real excellence.
But it didn’t make him brave enough to stop hiding who he really was. And it didn’t stop him from fearing what would happen if he was found out. His gun offered another solution. One that was irreversible, irrevocable, and terrifying, just a trigger pull away. A trigger pull he couldn’t stop thinking about.
Pull is the memoir of acclaimed author Alex London, strikingly illustrated in an impactful two-color format by comic artist L. Fury, illustrator of Run by John Lewis.
Sunderworld Vol. 2: The Unfortunate Responsibilities of Leopold Berry (Dutton) - moved from September 2025 and from September 2026. Goodreads lists a September 2026 release, but the publisher confirms this release date.
The second installment in the instant NYT bestselling new fantasy series from Ransom Riggs, author of the #1 global phenomenon Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.
Sunderworld isn’t finished with Leopold Berry—not by a long shot. In the aftermath of the incredible cliffhanger that ended Vol. 1, Leopold, Emmet, and Isabel will begin to unravel the mysteries of Sunder and the secret history of Leopold’s family. Vol. 1 left readers breathless, and Vol. 2 promises even more magic and suspense.
October 27th
Scorpion Deep by CG Drews (Feiwel and Friends)
The only thing Jonathan Covey wants from the gloomy, moldering isle of Kelcarrow is to leave it. Summer is ending, and his friends are looking forward to college on the mainland, unaware that Jonathan was not accepted to join them. He'll be left behind with nothing but the ocean's haunts and a rising dread of being abandoned.
In an act of wild desperation, Jonathan pays a tithe to Scorpion Deep, an eldritch sea god who many of the locals have dismissed as myth. He wants to forget the past, he wants to follow his friends, and most of all he wants to finally escape.
To his shock and horror, the ritual works—Scorpion Deep awakens. And despite his terror, Jonathan can't help but feel drawn toward the ageless entity that seems just as mutually obsessed with him. As scales start growing down his spine and Scorpion Deep's adoration of him turns bloody, Jonathan realizes the only way to end the nightmare is to destroy the monster one way or another.
But once a god has awoken, the only way to be free is to pay a price of blood.
The Museum of Modern Love by Mariko Turk (Henry Holt)
That’s Miki’s plan, anyway. And the plan is destiny.
See, Miki’s grandparents fell in love after accidentally being locked in the Met overnight in 1965. And now, after too many almost-confessions, hopeless romantic Miki will finally tell her best friend Auden that she loves him by retracing the path through the museum that her grandparents took that fateful night.
But destiny has other plans. For it’s not Auden who joins Miki on her midnight tour, but Lou McSweeney—the world’s most jaded cynic, and Miki’s ex. How can she possibly confess her feelings for Auden when she’s stuck sparring with this arrogant jerk? And is it possible that her original plan was not destiny’s true course after all?
For fans of Lynn Painter and Jenny Han, The Museum of Modern Love is an irresistible instant classic about the thrilling, often infuriating, rush of first love, guaranteed to sweep you off your feet.
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