Summer is here, and it’s time to add to or check off some of those fantastic books on your kid’s summer reading list. Here’s a new list of books coming out in July. There are many exciting fiction and nonfiction titles from picture to young adult books.
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Edwidge Danticat | Rachel Moss | Black Sheep | July 1, 2025 | PB
Karen Arthur | Camilla Ru | Tate Publishing | July 1, 2025 | PB
All of Us: A First Conversation About Disability
Megan Madison | Jessica Ralli | Jonathan Eden | Rise x Penguin Workshop | July 1, 2025 | PB
Winsome Bingham | C. G. Esperanza | Abrams | July 8, 2025 | PB
Randy DuBurke | Derick Brooks | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) | July 8, 2025 | PB
Erika Lynne Jones | HarperCollins | July 8, 2025 | PB
Ron Grady | Nancy Paulsen Books | July 8, 2025 | PB
Àlàbá Ònájìn | Random House Studio | July 15, 2025 | PB
Onyinye Iwu | Crocodile Books | July 15, 2025 | PB
Tracey Baptiste | Dapo Adeola | Nancy Paulsen Books | July 15, 2025 | PB
Derrick Barnes | Shamar Knight-Justice | Nancy Paulsen Books | July 15, 2025 | PB
It’s Almost Time for . . . Halloween!
Maisha Oso | Tom Knight | Margaret K. McElderry Books | July 15, 2025 | PB
Zaila Avant-Garde | Kah Yangni | Doubleday BYR | July 22, 2025 | PB
Bernard Mensah | Islenia Mil | little bee books | July 22, 2025 | PB
Mighty Mara: Dancing with Dante
Carino Ho | Jesse Byrd | Monica Paola Rodriguez | Paw Prints Publishing | July 29, 2025 | PB
Chapter/Middle-Grade
Marvel’s Storm: Disaster Alert!
Daka Hermon | National Geographic Kids | July 1, 2025 | Chp Bk
Jarrett Pumphrey | Jerome Pumphrey | Norton Young Readers | July 1, 2025 | MG
Tiffany D. Jackson | Scholastic | July 1, 2025 | MG
The Kids in Mrs. Z’s Class: Synclaire Fields Knows the Score
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich | Kat Fajardo | Little, Brown BYR | July 8, 2025 | Chp Bk
J.E. Thomas | Levine Querido | July 8, 2025 | MG
Curse of the Akoma Stone (Kwame’s Magic Quest, Bk. 4)
Bernard Mensah | Natasha Nayo | Scholastic | July 15, 2025 | Chp Bk
Class Pet Ghost Detective: What Happened to the Naked Mole Rat?
Akeem S. Roberts | Kokila | July 15, 2025 | Chp Bk
Jessixa Bagley | Simon & Schuster BYR | July 15, 2025 | MG
Bea Jackson | Simon Spotlight | July 29, 2025 | Chp Bk
Lisa Springer | HarperCollins | July 29, 2025 | MG
Young Adult
This Book Might Be About Zinnia
Brittney Morris | Simon & Schuster BYR | July 1, 2025 | YA
Lakita Wilson | Viking BYR | July 1, 2025 | YA
Olivia A. Cole | Ashley Woodfolk | Simon & Schuster BYR | July 1, 2025 | YA
The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick
S. Isabelle | Storytide | July 8, 2025 | YA
Nia Davenport | Bloomsbury YA | July 8, 2025 | YA
Liselle Sambury | Margaret K. McElderry Books | July 29, 2025 | YA
Bones at the Crossroads (Blood at the Root, Bk. 2)
LaDarrion Williams | Labyrinth Road | July 29, 2025 | YA
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