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Radiant Fugitives
Nawaaz Ahmed
Counterpoint
Told from the point of view of a child at the moment of his birth, and infused with the poetry of Wordsworth and Keats and verses from the Quran, Radiant Fugitives is a moving tale of a family and a country grappling with acceptance, forgiveness, and enduring love.
In Every Mirror She’s Black
Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström
Sourcebooks Landmark
An arresting debut about three Black women who are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the most open society run by the most private people.
OTHER BOYS
Damian Alexander
First Second
In Other Boys, debut author Damian Alexander delivers a moving middle grade graphic memoir about his struggles with bullying, the death of his mother, and coming out.
Only If You Dare: 13 Stories of Darkness and Doom
Josh Allen
Holiday House
Master storyteller Josh Allen brings thirteen nightmare scenarios to life in this page-turning collection that’s perfect for young horror junkies. Danger lurks where you’d least expect it . . . in the most ordinary places.
Child of the Flower-Song People
Gloria Amescua
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Award-winning illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh brings to life debut author Gloria Amescua’s lyrical biography of Luz Jiménez, an indigenous Nahua woman from Mexico, who taught and preserved her people’s culture through modeling for famous artists.
WHAT BEAUTY THERE IS
Cory Anderson
Roaring Brook Press
Cory Anderson’s stunning YA novel about brutality and beauty, and about broken people trying to survive—perfect for fans of Patrick Ness, Laura Ruby, and Meg Rosoff.
Dark Intercept
Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson
Tyndale
“A masterpiece of a military thriller with remarkable heart and depth.” – Mark Greaney, New York Times bestselling author. This series is perfect for fans of Ted Dekker, Frank Peretti and Vince Flynn.
The Wish Book Christmas
Lynn Austin
Tyndale
From the bestselling author of If I Were You comes a nostalgic and endearing holiday story that reminds us that sometimes the most meaningful gifts are the ones we least expect and don’t deserve.
Dead Weight: Murder at Camp Bloom
Terry Blas, Molly Muldoon & Matthew Seely
Oni Press
It’s just another boring summer at teen weight-loss Camp Bloom until a couple of campers witness a beloved counselor’s murder.
Big Brain Book: How It Works and All Its Quirks
Leanne Boucher Gill
Magination Press
Readers are welcomed to the Lobe Labs and Dr. Brain activities in this brightly illustrated, highly engaging primer on psychology that uses science to answer interesting questions that kids have about the brain and human behavior.
Worst-Case Collin
Rebecca Caprara
Charlesbridge
Twelve-year-old Collin has a plan to survive any worst-case scenario. Avalanche? No problem. Riptide? Stay calm. He’s 100% prepared for every disaster…except maybe his home life.
Geraldine Pu and Her Lunch Box, Too!
Maggie P. Chang
Simon Spotlight
Meet spunky, funny, and friendly Geraldine Pu as she takes on a bully and makes a new friend in this first book in a new Level 3 Ready-to-Read Graphics series!
Easy Beauty
Chloé Cooper Jones
Avid Reader Press
From professor, journalist, and 2020 Whiting Award recipient Chloé Cooper Jones, a radical memoir about disability, art, aesthetics, travel, ethics, motherhood, and the nature of self-consciousness..
Gordo
Jaime Cortez
Black Cat
Jaime Cortez’s debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation of migrant workers in the West.
Damnation Spring
Ash Davidson
Scribner
An epic, immersive debut, Damnation Spring is the deeply human story of a Pacific Northwest logging town wrenched in two by a mystery that threatens to derail its way of life.
Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin
Susan DeFreitas
Forest Avenue Press
Dispatches from Anarres embodies the anarchic spirit of Le Guin’s hometown of Portland, Oregon, while paying tribute to her enduring vision.
Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
Alda P. Dobbs
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Based on a true story, the tale of one girl’s perilous journey to cross the U.S. border and lead her family to safety during the Mexican Revolution.
Pax Samson Vol. 1: The Cookout
Rashad Doucet & Jason Reeves
Oni Press
Meet the super Samson family in this heartwarming story about the talents that come to us easily and the importance of the talents we struggle to refine.
My Own Way
Joana Estrela & Jay Hulme
Wide Eyed Editions
My Own Way is a poem and a picture book that introduces very young children to freedom in gender diversity. Why feel limited to his or hers, blue or pink, football or ballet?
THE BEST WORST SUMMER
Elizabeth Eulberg
Bloomsbury Children’s Books
From the author of The Great Shelby Holmes series comes a mystery surrounding an unearthed time capsule that connects two sets of friends, one living in the present day, the other in 1989.
Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero
Saadia Faruqi
Quill Tree Books
A powerful and relevant story from the talented author of A Thousand Questions and the Yasmin chapter book series, about friendship, pride, grief, and standing up for what is right.
New Age Grifter: The True Story of Gabriel of Urantia and his Cosmic Family
Joseph L. Flatley
Feral House
Gabriel of Urantia is the leader of a UFO religion in the desert of southern Arizona. Many call it a cult. It’s also a successful business. What is the truth behind this New Age Grifter?
Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms
Crystal Frasier & Val Wise
Oni Press
Pep rallies, high-school angst, and young love take the field in this YA trans romance, perfect for fans of Heartstopper, Fence, and Check, Please!
HOW MOON FUENTEZ FELL IN LOVE WITH THE UNIVERSE
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
The Hating Game meets I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter in this irresistible romance starring a Mexican American teen who discovers love and profound truths about the universe when she spends her summer on a road trip across the country.
Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
Joshua M. Greene
Insight Editions
Wilzig’s improbable survival and success constantly amaze…Joshua Greene paints a vivid, moving portrait of a Holocaust survivor who built business empires… and tirelessly fought anti-Semitism.
Wolf Kill
Cary J. Griffith
Adventure Publications
A bizarre wolf attack in the dead of winter puts Sam Rivers on a murderer’s trail. A chilling thriller for fans of William Kent Krueger.
Forest Magic: A Guidebook for Little Woodland Explorers
Sarah Grindler
Niimbus Publishing
A beautifully illustrated, compact, interactive guide to exploring and identifying the forest for young explorers from the creator of Seaside Treasures
Secrets of Camp Whatever Vol. 1
Chris Grine
Oni Press
There’s more than mosquitos at Camp Whatever as hard-of-hearing teen Willow’s summer camp dread goes head to head with the supernatural.
Virtue
Hermione Hoby
Riverhead Books
A powerful novel of youth, desire, and moral conflict, in which a young man is seduced by the mirage of glamour—at terrible cost.
A Girl Called Rumi
Ari Honarvar
Forest Avenue Press
“A magical journey to a world of mystical delights.” ― Deepak Chopra, MD
Ari Honarvar’s debut novel weaves a captivating tale of survival, redemption, and the power of storytelling.
56 Days
Catherine Ryan Howard
Blackstone Publishing
Detectives arrive at Oliver’s apartment to discover a decomposing body inside. Can they determine what really happened, or has lockdown created an opportunity for someone to commit the perfect crime?
Redemptor
Jordan Ifueko
Amulet Books
The hotly anticipated sequel to Raybearer, the instant New York Times bestselling YA fantasy, about Tarisai’s quest to change her fate.
MY SWEET GIRL
Amanda Jayatissa
Berkely
Paloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America, but she’s about to find out that no matter how far you run, your past always catches up to you.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Harper
The Turner House meets Homegoing in this magisterial epic, both intimate and sweeping, about one American family and the daughter who discovers its secrets—spanning from her ancestors who came from Africa on slave ships and who were indigenous to Georgia, through the Civil War, to our present, fractious day—in this debut novel by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
Vladimir
Julia May Jones
Avid Reader Press
For readers of Mary Gaitskill & Sigrid Nunez, an uncommonly assured debut novel about a beloved English professor contending with a raft of accusations against her professor husband by former students
Good Girls Don’t Make History
Elizabeth Kiehner, Kara Coyle, Keith Olwell & Micaela Dawn
Wide Eyed Editions
Good Girl’s Don’t Make History is an intersectional graphic novel on the history of women’s suffrage in the US.
Butcher Pen Road
Kris Lackey
Blackstone Publishing
The highly-anticipated third novel in Kris Lackey’s acclaimed, USA Today bestselling Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond Mysteries series. In a starred review, Kirkus called it “An impeccably written tale laced with humor and featuring unorthodox, believable detectives.”
The Lucky List
Rachael Lippincott
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
From own voices co-author of #1 New York Times bestseller Five Feet Apart, Rachael Lippincott, comes The Lucky List (6/1/21), a captivating and heartfelt, gay love story.
Here Be Dragons
Susannah Lloyd & Paddy Donnelly
Frances Lincoln Children’s Books
Here be dragons! Where? That’s the question in this laugh-out-loud picture book where everyone’s in on the joke but the hapless knight.
History Is Delicious
Joshua Lurie, drawn by Laura Foy
Honest History
Take a journey around the globe to discover the history of food, and the culture and people behind each dish. Every page is filled with a new adventure through culinary history brought to life with beautiful illustrations.
Hostage
Claire Mackintosh
Sourcebooks Landmark
You can save hundreds of lives. Or the one that matters most… From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh comes a claustrophobic thriller set over 20 hours on-board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney.
Judy Moody: In a Monday Mood
Megan McDonald
Candlewick Press
For anyone who has ever had the Sunday night blues, Judy Moody declares that every day can be a holiday if you just find something to celebrate. Happy National Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day, anyone?
Pity the Beast
Robin McLean
And Otheer Stories
A mind-melting feminist Western that pins a tale of sexual violence and vengeance to a canvas stretching back to prehistory, sideways into legend, and off into a lonesome future.
We March at Midnight
Ray McPadden
Blackstone Publishing
A gritty and raw account by a leader in the first combined special unit of Rangers and SEALs during the deadliest period of combat in the twenty-first century.
Dr. Fauci
Kate Messner
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
The definitive picture book biography of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the most crucial figures in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Boogie Bass, Sign Language Star
Claudia Mills
Margaret Ferguson Books
Prior to attending ASL Camp, Boogie thinks of himself as clumsy. But the rest of his class believes in him. Especially when they visit a school for the Deaf and Boogie leads the way with his new skill.
The Lost Language
Claudia Mills
Margaret Ferguson Books
The quest to save the words of a dying language—and to find the words to save what may be a dying friendship—lies at the heart of this exquisite verse novel.
Trace of Doubt
DiAnn Mills
Tyndale
Bestselling and award-winning author DiAnn Mills delivers a heart-stopping story of dark secrets, desperate enemies, and dangerous lies. Will FBI Special Agent Denton McClure be able to crack the Shelby Pierce case and protect her from her enemies before the truth is gone forever?
The Proudest Color
Sheila Modir & Jeff Kashou
Familius
From a diverse team and based on extensive research, The Proudest Color is a timely, sensitive introduction to race, racism, and racial pride.
Professor Figgy’s Weather and Climate Science Lab for Kids
Jim Noonan
Quarry Books
Learn about the Earth’s atmosphere and weather patterns through a series of hands-on and exciting learning experiences with Professor Figgy’s Weather and Climate Science Lab for Kids.
Sankofa
Chibundu Onuzo
Catapult
Girl, Woman, Other meets An American Marriage in this gripping story of a mixed-race woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by a prize-winning writer.
On Animals
Susan Orlean
Avid Reader Press
Equal parts delightful and profound, enriched by Orlean’s stylish prose and precise research, these stories celebrate the meaningful cross-species connections that grace our collective existence.
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki
Viking
With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness is classic Ruth Ozeki—bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking.
We Are Not Like Them
Jo Piazza & Christine Pride
Atria Books
Like Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage and Jodi Picoult’s Small Great Things, We Are Not Like Them explores complex questions of race and how they pervade and shape our most intimate spaces in a deeply divided world. But at its heart, it’s a story of enduring friendship—a love that defies the odds even as it faces its most difficult challenges.
Ridgeline
Michael Punke
Henry Holt and Co.
Michael Punke brings the same immersive, vivid storytelling that made his breakthrough debut, the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant, so memorable.
Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
Anna Qu
Catapult
A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant’s journey to an American future.
Own Your Period
Chella Quint
QEB Publishing
This fact-filled guide to periods is bursting with positive, honest advice on managing and understanding menstruation. It celebrates what the body can do and provides young people with everything they need to be prepared and empowered.
All that is Secret
Patricia Raybon
Tyndale
A new historical mystery series featuring heroine, Professor Annalee Spain, who’s sleuthing unravels sinister motives and deep secrets plus the dangerous truths and motives about the KKK in 1923.
WHEN WE WERE STRANGERS
Alex Richards
Bloomsbury YA
From the author of Accidental comes a tender, heartfelt novel about a teen grieving her father’s sudden death–and grappling with the family secrets he left behind.
Island Queen
Vanessa Riley
William Morrow
A sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true-life of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies.
The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood
Julian Rubinstein
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core. In a time of national reckoning over race, policing, and the uses and abuses of power, Julian Rubinstein offers a dramatic and humane illumination of what’s at stake.
Smile
Sarah Ruhl
Simon & Schuster
From MacArthur genius and two-time Pulitzer finalist, playwright Sarah Ruhl, comes the extraordinary story of her 10-year medical and metaphysical journey with Bell’s Palsy.
Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters Vol. 1
Chris Samnee, Laura Samnee & Matthew Wilson
Oni Press
From Eisner Award-winner Chris Samnee and co-writer Laura Samnee comes an all-ages adventure following two sisters making their way through the wilderness of a monster-filled world.
ABSOLUTELY NAT (Nat Enough #3)
Maria Scrivan
Grafix
You can stay stuck or go forward, but you can’t go back, in this companion to Nat Enough! Set against the backdrop of summer camp, Absolutely Nat explores the importance of being open-minded and stepping outside one’s comfort zone in a highly-accessible way that will resonate with young readers.
Freedom to Discriminate
Gene Slater
Heyday
A landmark history told with supreme narrative skill, Freedom to Discriminate uncovers realtors’ definitive role in segregating America and shaping modern conservative thought.
Trailer Park Trickster
David R. Slayton
Blackstone Publishing
The second book in the Adam Binder series. The novel blends darkness, comedy, and family drama in an #OwnVoices contemporary fantasy.
Hoop Kings 2: New Royalty
Charles R. Smith
Candlewick Press
With this high-energy collection of poems and dynamic photos celebrating twelve pro ballers, Charles R. Smith Jr. scores another slam dunk.
OUTDOOR SCHOOL: ROCK, FOSSIL, AND SHELL HUNTING
Jennifer Swanson
Odd Dot
Writer Jennifer Swanson and artist John D. Dawson invite you to rewild your life! With metal corners and 448 full-color, highly-illustrated pages, Outdoor School: Rock, Fossil & Shell Hunting by Odd Dot is an indispensable tool for young explorers and rock collectors.
Orcs in Space Vol. 1
Michael Tanner, Justin Roiland, Abed Gheith, Rashad Gheith, & François Vigneault
Oni Press
When a hyper-advanced StarBleep ship lands on their planet, three lowly Orcs, Gor, Kravis, and Mongtar, accidentally steal it and find themselves joyriding in the dankest reaches of the Galactigon!
No Gods, No Monsters
Cadwell Turnbull
Blackstone Publishing
Weaving magic, mystery, and monsters, Cadwell’s No Gods, No Monsters, is a modern retelling of the civil rights movement of the 60s and 70s through the hearts and minds of preternatural beings.
Three Girls From Bronzeville
Dawn Turner
Simon & Schuster
A riveting, coming-of-age memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship and sisterhood.
Crossbones
Kimberly Vale
Wattpad Books
When the pirate king dies without an heir, captains compete for the island throne in a deadly treasure hunt in this YA pirate fantasy in the vein of Six of Crows and Seafire.
Food Saved Me
Danielle Walker
Tyndale Refresh
New York Times bestselling cookbook author Danielle Walker shares her incredible story about her decade long journey toward healing, her favorite recipes and shows how you can live a full happy life.
Mouth to Mouth
Antoine Wilson
Avid Reader Press
An art dealer confesses the story of his rise to a former classmate in an airport bar— beginning with the rescue of a drowning man, with whom he will become inextricably linked, to disturbing ends.
The Kaepernick Effect
Dave Zirin
The New Press
Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how “taking a knee” triggered an awakening in sports, for anyone seeking to understand an essential dimension of the new movement for racial justice