Y’all, it’s my birthday month so you can bet we’ve got some good stuff coming out! If you’ve been around for a bit, you’ll see some familiar authors I’ve enjoyed in the past and, as always, a few debut authors I can’t wait to see their talent.
April 1, 2025
From author Laurie Halse Anderson comes a historical middle grade fiction about thirteen-year-old Elsbeth Culpepper during the spring of 1776 struggling to survive not only the Revolutionary War but the smallpox epidemic as she searches for her missing father.
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
Back with her third graphic novel, Huda Fahmy is ready for junior year – she’s going to join all the clubs, volunteer everywhere, and ace her ACTs but then she gets the news of her parents divorce and everything goes downhill from there.
By: Huda Fahmy
A Chinese-Filipino teenager whose world of daydreams is destroyed by a family secret that portrays the pains of growing up in this lyrical, mythology-tinged debut novel.
Sunlight Playing over a Mountain
By: Selina Li Bi
Video games, queer friends, and set in both 1998 and 2013 need any more information?
By: Jeanne Thornton
What else would you do after hearing about your terminal illness other than road trip to kill your estranged father?
By: Ariel Courage
After the street cat, Cat, get sick in a Brooklyn, five strangers from around the neighborhood come together to help him.
By: Tanya Guerrero
If you could completely erase your memories of a person, would you do it? What if a chance encounter later on makes you want your memories back?
By: Sarah Suk
Three girls just found out they were dating the same guy, basketball star, Nate. After Nate is found bloodied and unconscious in the locker room after the big game, the girls are prime suspects. Now, they much form an alliance together to clear their name.
By: Alex Travis
April 8, 2025
Ollie is stuck between everything. They’re too girlie for their neighborhood hockey team, but not girlie enough for their boy crazy BFF, and when they have to write about “What it means to be a woman” they’re caught between fleeing and confronting their own fight for their own path.
By: Jess Callans
It’s 1954 and a former nun arrives at Gulls Next in search of answers after her pen pal’s letter mysteriously stops.
By: Jess Kidd
April 15, 2025
After a school shooting, Bea, a girl with cerebral palsy who uses a wheelchair must navigate the trauma in a world that wasn’t built for her.
April 22, 2025
Lucretia and her mom have come to the tiny Candle Island, Maine to escape the memories of the car accident that killed her father. But the island has its own secrets, one that capture Lucretia in their wake.
By: Lauren Wolk
April 29, 2025
Imagine Pokémon, but with dragons and phoenixes in the skies of Seoul, meals magically appear based on your moon, and dream literally come to life.
By: Graci Kim
What would you do if you moved into a rental house with thirty feral cats? And, how would caring for them open the door for saving your home?
Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats
By: Courtney Gustafson
The sequel to Abeni’s Song where Abeni faces new challenges as she seeks to bring back the Golden Throne, evade the Witch Preist’s hunters, and find the disappeared people of her village.
Abeni and the Kingdom of Gold
By: P. Djèlí Clark
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