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June 2022 Children’s & YA New Releases

June is filled with several monthly observations like Black Music Month, Pride Month, and Caribbean Heritage Month. There’s also Father’s Day and the new federal holiday, Juneteenth. This year the two holidays fall on the same day, Sunday June 19th. There will be book lists for them all, along with some other June observations not mentioned. Until then, get into these new titles—it’s a long list—to see what to add to your “to read” pile.

More about Juneteenth—our Celebrate Juneteenth Book Drive is ongoing until May 31st. The books purchased from the wishlist will be donated to children in Memphis, TN. 

What are your thoughts on June’s new releases?

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1. Daddy and Me and the Rhyme to Be (A Karma’s World Picture Book)

Halcyon Person | Chris Bridges | Parker-Nia Gordon | Scholastic Inc. | June 7 | Amazon | Bookshop


2. Music Is a Rainbow

Bryan Collier | Little, BrownYR | June 7 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


3. A Prayer for Our Country: Words to Unite and Inspire Hope

Barry Black | Kim Holt | Zonderkidz | June 7 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


4. Because of You, John Lewis

Andrea Davis Pinkney | Keith Henry Brown | Scholastic Press | June 7 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


5. She Persisted: Marian Anderson

Katheryn Russell-Brown | Gillian Flint | Philomel Books | June 7 | Chp Bk | Amazon | Bookshop



6. Omari McQueen’s Best Bites Cookbook

Omari McQueen | BuzzPop | June 7 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


7. Fibbed

Elizabeth Agyemang | Razorbill | June | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


8. Batter Royale (Graphic Novel)

Leisl Adams | Amulet Books | June 7 | YA | Amazon | IndieBound


9. Empress Crowned in Red

Ciannon Smart | HarperTeen | June 7 | YA | AmazonBookshop


10. From Me to You: The Power of Storytelling and Its Inherent Generational Wealth―An African American Story

Deidra Moore | Mascot Books | June 7 | YA | AmazonBookshop



11. Zyla & Kai

Kristina Forest | Kokila | June 7 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop  


12. Chicken Soup for the Soul KIDS: Oliver Powers Through: A Book About Helping Out Around the House

JaNay Brown-Wood‎ | Lorian Tu | Jenna Nahyun Chung | Charlesbridge | June 14 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


13. Chicken Soup for the Soul KIDS: Will Mia Play It Safe?: A Book About Trying New Things 

JaNay Brown-Wood | Lorian Tu | Leo Trinidad | Charlesbridge | June 14 | PB | Amazon | IndieBound


14. Goodnight Racism

Ibram X. Kendi | Cbabi Bayoc | Kokila | June 14 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


15. Impossible Moon

Breanna J. McDaniel | Tonya Engel | S&S BYR/Denene Millner | June 14 | Amazon | Bookshop



16. Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun

Tola Okogwu | Margaret K. McElderry Books | June 14 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


17. The Sun Does Shine: An Innocent Man, a Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice (Young Readers Ed.)

Anthony Ray Hinton | Lara Love Hardin | Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich | Feiwel & Friends | June 14 | Amazon | Bookshop


18. That Summer Night on Frenchmen Street

Chris Clarkson | Tu Books | June 14 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


19. KINDergarten: Where Kindness Matters Every Day

Vera Ahiyya | Joey Chou | Random House Studio | June 21 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


20. This Wicked Fate (This Poison Heart, Bk. 2)

Kalynn Bayron | Bloomsbury YA | June 21 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop



21. Ally Baby Can: Be Feminist (Ally Baby Can, 1)

Nyasha Williams | Jade Orlando | HarperCollins | June 21 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


22. We Weren’t Looking to Be Found

Stephanie Kuehn | Disney-Hyperion | June 21 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


23. Black Girl Rising

Brynne Barnes | Tatyana Fazlalizadeh | Chronicle Books | June 28 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


24. I Love My Beautiful Hair

Elissa Wentt | Cartwheel Books | June 28 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


25. The Surprise

Zadie Smith | Nick Laird | Magenta Fox | Viking BYR | June 28 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop



26. High Score

Destiny Howell | Scholastic | June 28 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


27. The Kaya Girl

Mamle Wolo | Little, Brown BYR | June 28 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


28. Bad Things Happen Here

Rebecca Barrow | Margaret K. McElderry Books | June 28 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


29. The Black Girls Left Standing

Juliana Goodman | Feiwel & Friends  | June 28 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


30. My Name Is Jason. Mine Too

Jason Reynolds | Jason Griffin | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy | June 28 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


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