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...

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Megan Brennan

MAGIC GIRLS

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....

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, TBD 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

Spring 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

Winter 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...

Jennifer Thermes

THE INDESTRUCTIBLE TOM CREAN

January 2023, Viking/Penguin Random House, 55 pp

At the turn of the 20th century, Antarctica is the last unexplored continent. The ice is unforgiving. It can break the human spirit. It takes many men willing to face hardship, danger, and years away ...

Jennifer Thermes

A PLACE CALLED AMERICA: A STORY OF THE LAND AND PEOPLE

Fall 2023, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 52 pp

Much of the story of human history has been about the quest for land and who controls it. A PLACE CALLED AMERICA: A STORY OF THE LAND AND PEOPLE explores the complex history of how the United States o...