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Stan Mack's REAL LIFE FUNNIES to receive New York City Book Award. Learn more here.

Midwest Book Review shares positive review for DEXTER: THE STAND UP DOG. Read the full review here.

JANE JACOBS: CHAMPION OF CITIES, CHAMPION OF PEOPLE by Rebecca Pitts selected by the American Library Association for Rise: A Feminist Book Project List. Read more here.

Children's book Council and National Council for Social Studies select FINDING HOME by Gwen Agna and Shelley Rotner for Notable Social Studies Trade Book Award. Read more here. 

Crystal Simone Smith's COMMON SENSE (1776): ADDRESSED TO AMERICANS OF (2026), a work of erasure poetry for both adult and YA readers that takes a critical look at the contradictions embedded in Thomas Paine's essay "Common Sense", a foundational text, and its implications on our current political landscape.

Justin Hayne's IBIS receives starred review from Publishers Weekly. Read more here.

Amy Day Wilkinson's UNLIMITED RIDE, told in short, humorous sections about parenting, city living, the literary life, and a woman's determination to write a novel on her long subway commutes. 

Light enough to float by Lauren Seal has been selected as the Schneider Family Book Award Honor book by the ALA. 

Allison L. Davis's LESSONS IN LETTING GO, a grumpy/sunshine romance in which a stoic city boy trapped in his shell and a sunny, southern girl stranded in the Big Apple while running from her problems and looking for her future meet under the most unexpected of circumstances and embark on a journey of friendship.

Regina Linke's BIG ENOUGH, based on her Oxherd Boy webcomics, is a Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Children's Book of 2025. Read more here.

Ella Grace Foutz's debut LULLABIES FOR THE INSOMNIACS, a memoir-in-verse chronicling the experience of a teenage girl coming to terms with her diagnosis of bipolar disorder, which ultimately requires her to reconcile mental illness with identity. 

Kari Ann Gonzalez and Bonnie Kelso, GOAT MAA-TH: AN ADDITION STORY, in which a young shepherd takes his math-curious goats on a mountain adventure where they find joy in mother nature and discover unexpected friends while learning to tackle number lines, to count up, and how to solve simple addition equations. 

Borderlands Tarot author-illustrator Enid Baxter Ryce's MAGICAL ECHOES OF THE ANCIENTS, a book of spells that read like lyrical poems, sources from cultures around the world, translated, interpreted, and illustrated by the author to make the magical incantations accessible to modern readers. 

Author of the Do Princesses series Carmen LaVigna Coyle's ANYONE ELSE AWAKE? A DAWN'S CHORUS, in which each line follows the rhythm and beat of real birdsong and whimsically suggests a translation based on the many reasons birds sing at dawn, illustrated by Bonnie Kelso. 

Author-photographer of SHADES OF PEOPLE Shelley Rotner's LET'S GO CAMPING!, an introduction to camping that highlights everything from planning and packing to cooking outdoors, sleeping in a tent, and waking up to the sound of birds, to Carol Hinz at Millbrook in an exclusive submission. 

Author-Illustrator Katie Palazzola's BEFORE AND AFTER, a story about a father and young daughter wondering together, exploring questions of past and future, and ultimately finding comfort in embracing uncertainty together. 

Mapmaker Karen Myna Cantor's SNAKETOWN, FLORIDA, in which a group of teens plot to save their hometown in central Florida- and its zany residents- by faking a disaster and unleashing hundreds of pythons; and A HISTORY OF UNNATURIAL DISASTERS, in which a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy stars a true crime podcast 

E.L. Starling's BOUNDLESS, pitched as a gender-bent retelling of Titanic that follows two star-crossed teens on the inaugural voyage of the Boundless, an indestructible luxury spaceship that is sabotaged days from their destination, to Justine Bylo at Entangled Teen.