18 Great New Titles, Including New Novels from Kate Messner and Adam Silvera | Web Starred Reviews, July 2025

by SLJ Reviews
Jul 01, 2025 | Filed in News & Features

This month includes transitional books, holiday titles, poetry reads, and more receiving special recognition.

The Day the Books Disappeared (Ho & Kusin) ©2025 by Dan Santat

 

Holidays

KELLER, E.G. Murray’s Howl-o-ween. illus. by E.G. Keller. Abrams.

MCKINNON, Bob. America Gives Thanks. illus. by Thai My Phuong.. Penguin Workshop.

 

Picture Books

BAPTISTE, Tracey. Super Goat Girl. illus. by Dapo Adeola. Penguin/Nancy Paulsen.

HAN, Sally Soweol. Nightsong. illus. by Sally Soweol Han. Bloomsbury.

HO, Joanna & Caroline Kusin. The Day the Books Disappeared. illus. by Dan Santat.

HORNE, Patrick. Bear and the Three Goldilocks. illus. by Dan Yaccarino. Holiday House.

KINKZ, Eliza. ¡Mistaco! illus. by Eliza Kinkz. Penguin/Kokila.

LAYMON, Kiese. City Summer, Country Summer. illus. by Alexis Franklin. Penguin/Kokila.

SMITH, Lane. Recess: A Picture Book. Abrams.

 

Lone Wolf on Vacation (Thomas) ©2025 by K-Fai Steele


Transitional - Early Readers

THOMAS, Kiah. Lone Wolf on Vacation. illus. by K-Fai Steele. Holiday House/Neal Porter.

 

Transitional – Chapter Books

FERRY, Beth. Growing Home. Terry Fan & Eric Fan. S. & S.

 

Middle Grade

MESSNER, Kate. The Trouble with Heroes. Bloomsbury.

 

YA

CHEWINS, Hayley. I Am the Swarm. Viking.

HERRMAN, Heather M. Lady or the Tiger. Penguin/Nancy Paulsen.

SILVERA, Adam. The Survivor Wants to Die at the End. HarperCollins/Quill Tree.

 

Nonfiction - Elementary

SINGH, Rina. Bird Brothers, A Delhi Story. illus. by Barkha Lohia. Orca.

SMITH, Nikkolas. The History of We. illus. by Nikkolas Smith. Penguin/Kokila.

 

Poetry

BREWER, Caroline. Harriet Tubman, Force of Nature: A Biography in Poems. illus. by Caroline Brewer. What On Earth Bks.
 

Harriet Tubman, Force of Nature: A Biography in Poems (Brewer) ©2025 by Caroline Brewer

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