It’s been a minute, but here I am catching up on the new releases. There’s a lot here to add to the TBR pile! As always, you can find my complete list here https://edicottonquilt.com/booklists/2023-2/

July 1
Blood in the Water by Tiffany D. Jackson. Scholastic Press
The Boy, the Mountain, and the Serpent Who Ate the Moon by Caris Avendaño Cruz. FSG
Call Your Boyfriend by Olivia A. Cole and Ashley Woodforlk. Simon & Schuster
Graciela in the Abyss by Meg Medina. Candelwick
Link + Hud: Shark and Minnows by Jarrett Pumphrey Jerome Pumphrey. Norton Young Readers
Miss Camper by Kat Fajardo. Graphix
My Perfect Family by Khadijah Vanbrakle. Holiday House
Pretty Girl Country by Lakita Wilson. Viking
The Nightblood Prince by Molly X. Chang. Random House
This Book Might Be About Zinnia by Brittney Morris. Simon & Schuster

8
The AI Incident by J. E. Thomas. Levine Querido
The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick by S. Isabelle. Storytide
Island Creatures by Margarita Engle. Atheneum
Love Spells Trouble by Nia Davenport. Bloomsbury YA
Synclaire Fields Knows the Score (The Kids in Mrs. Z’s Class) by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich; illustrated by Kat Fajardo. Little, Brown

15
Fateless by Julie Kagawa. HarperCollins
Jazzy the Witch in Broom Doom #1 by Jessixa Bagley. Simon and Schuster

29
Aarzu All Around by Marzieh Abbas. Simon & Schuster
The Blossoming Summer by Anna Rose Johnson. Holiday House
Bones at the Crossroads (Blood at the Root) by LaDarrion Williams. Labyrinth Road
Cat + Crazy by Wataru Nadatani. Dark Horse Manga
The Last Tiget by Julia Riew and Brad Riew. Kokila
Letters to Misty by Misty Copeland. Aladdin
Marvellous Mammals: A Wild A to Z of Southeast Asia by Debby Ng, illus. by Darel Seow. Difference Engine
A Mastery of Monsters by Liselle Sambury. Margaret K. McElderry Books
The Other Side of Imani by Lisa Springer. HarperCollins
Second Generation Blues by Julio Anta; illustrated by Red Dryer. HarperAlley
Very Dangerous Things by Lauren Muñoz. G P Putnam’s Sons
You Were Made for This World: Celebrated Indigenous Voices Speak to
Young People collected by Stephanie Sinclair and Sara Sinclair. Tundra Books