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Wow, it’s the last new releases book list of 2025! Time flies when you’re reading a good book. Here are a few more picture, chapter, middle-grade, and young adult books to choose from before the year is over. Stay tuned for Christmas and Kwanzaa books, as well as a sneak peek of what’s coming soon in 2026.
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Through the Telescope: Mae Jemison Dreams of Space
Charles R. Smith Jr. | Evening Monteiro | Orchard Books | December 2, 2025 | PB
Rosa Parks: A Little Golden Book Biography
Shasta Clinch | Lynn Gaines | Golden Books | December 2, 2025 | PB
Desiree Shirley | Kseniya Trefilova | Clever Publishing | December 16, 2025 | PB
Where There Is Love: A Story in African Proverbs
Shauntay Grant | Letícia Moreno | Penguin Workshop | December 16, 2025 | PB
Chapter/Middle-Grade/Young Adult
The Mermaid Reveal (School for Unusual Magic #3)
Liz Montague | Scholastic Press | December 2, 2025 | MG
Jewell Parker Rhodes | Setor Fiadzigbey | Little, Brown Ink | December 2, 2025 | MG
Sarah Jospitre | Penguin Young Readers | December 9, 2025 | Chp Bk
Abolition and the African American Story
Patricia Williams Dockery | Crown BYR | December 9, 2025 | MG
Amanda Gorman: Poet and Activist
L’Oreal Thompson Payton | Laura Freeman | Random House BYR | December 16, 2025 | Chp Bk
Ally Russell | Scholastic | December 2, 2025 | YA
Leah Johnson | George M. Johnson | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) | December 2, 2025 | YA
Rodney Barnes | Selina Espiritu | Oni Press | December 9, 2025 | YA
