Bessie Flores Zaldívar

LIBERTAD

Summer 2024, Dial/Penguin Young Readers, TBD pp

Seventeen-year-old Libertad Morazán finds solace in writing politically-charged poetry for her anonymous Instagram account, and in her longtime friend Camila, who she almost-kissed but it was never di...

Kacen Callender

THE INFINITY ALCHEMIST

Winter 2024, Tor Teen/Macmillan, TBD pp

Ash Woods isn’t supposed to perform alchemy. Only students or those with a license—usually the wealthy elite—are legally permitted to use alchemy in the state of New England. But when he’s rejected by...

Magic Girls

Megan Brennan

KIRA AND THE (MAYBE) SPACE PRINCESS

Spring 2024, Random House Graphic, TBD pp

Welcome to Neo-Earth Junior High school, where the corridors are filled with heroines, geniuses and magic! 6th grader Kira just wants to escape her horrible fate: being totally and completely average....

Sean Rubin

THE IGUANODON'S HORN

Winter 2024, HarperCollins, TBD pp

For as long as humans have found dinosaur fossils, they've tried to imagine how these creatures truly appeared. Early humans may have imagined monsters and dragons, but since the dawn of paleontology-...

Amparo Ortiz

LAST SUNRISE IN ETERNA

March 2023, Page Street Publishing, 368 pp

Seventeen-year-old goth Sevim Burgos would love to spend all day watching music videos, but to help support the family she has to scavenge and sell elf corpses to a sketchy university professor. On o...

Andy Rash

ECLIPSE

2023, Scholastic, 32 pp

In a sweet story based on a real-life experience, a curious kid brings his dad along on a mission to experience a total eclipse of the sun. Life is looking forward and looking back. We make plans, pr...

C.G. Esperanza

KICKS IN THE SKY

September 2023, Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, 40 pp

The picture book follows a group of kids who discover that the colorful sneakers hanging from telephone wires have given them new skills—moonwalks to two-steps, alley-oops to slam dunks—but where on e...

Camryn Garrett

FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE

January 2023, Knopf/Random House, 288 pp

A love letter to romantic comedies, sweet sixteen blowouts, black joy and queer pride—this is a novel about finding yourself, falling in love, and celebrating what makes you you. Sixteen-year-old Mah...

E.L. Shen

THE QUEENS OF NEW YORK

June 2023, Quill Tree/HarperCollins, 336 pp

Three best friends have one life-changing summer in this contemporary, Asian American Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Jia Lee, Ariel Kim, and Everett Hoang have been best friends since their paren...

Ellen Oh

YOU ARE HERE

March 2023, Allida/HarperCollins, 272 pp

An incident at a TSA security check point sows chaos and rumors, creating a chain of events that impacts twelve young Asian Americans in a crowded and restless airport. As their disrupted journeys cri...