I’m glad I’m able to post this in a more timely fashion than I have in the past few months! I have reviews to complete and post from last month! I’ve been commenting to some irl that it’s getting more challenging to locate new BIPOC releases, but this list does manage to look fairly healthy. I hear about areas of youth literature being oversaturated, fewer contracts for new authors, and several established authors writing for adults. What are you noticing?

Please, keep supporting our authors! Make sure Tracy Badua, Brandy Colbert, and Shafaq Khan are in your local library. Gift young readers with the new Marie Arnold, Angie Thomas, Clairibel Ortega, or Jamie Ho Huang. Use your socials tomorrow to post about Angeline Boulley, Erin Entrada Kelly, Pablo Leon, or Sarah Raughly’s newest.

We’ve come a long way, but we have to do all the things simply to hold on right now.
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Champion : A Graphic Novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld; illustrated by Ed Laroche. Ten Speed Graphic
Cupcake Class: 50 Fun Themes & Totally Amazing Designs for Kids to Make & Share by Joy Howard, Deanna F. Cook. Storey Publishing
Everything But Typical: Influential Neurodivergent People Who Have Shaped the World by Margeaux Weston, Jessica Cruickshank. Bloomsbury
Ghoul Summer by Tracy Badua. Storytide
The Last Resort by Erin Entrada Kelly.  Scholastic
Livewire by Sarah Raughly. Blackstone Publishing
Moko Magic: Museum Mayhem by Tracey Baptiste. Freedom Fire
Nests (Learn About: Animal Homes) by Jay Leslie. C. Press/F. Watts TradeSilenced Voices: Reclaiming Memories from the Guatemalan Genocide by Pablo Leon. HarperAlley
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley. Henry Holt

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Blood Moon by Britney S. Lewis.  Page Street YA
Dear Jackie by Jessixa Bagley, Aaron Bagley. Simon & Schuster
An Embroidery of Souls by Ruby Martinez. Knopf
Candace, the Universe, and Everything by Sherri L. Smith. G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Let’s Get Together by Brandy Colbert. Clarion Books
A Method for Magic and Misfortune by Craig Kofi Farmer. Roaring Brook Press
Split the Sky by Marie Arnold. Little Brown
Zeyna Lost and Found by Shafaq Khan. Carolrhoda Books

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Berry Parker Doesn’t Catch Crushes by Tanita S. Davis. HarperCollins
Chloe Vega and the Agents of Magic (Chloe Vega and the Agents of Magic, 1) by Leslie Adame. HarperCollins
Daybreaker (Ilustra) by Tori Tadler. Disney Hyperion
The Dead of Summer (Book 1) by Ryan La Sala. PUSH
The Golden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar by Sonora Reyes. HarperCollins
Ilustra: Daybreaker : Book 1 by Tori Tadiar. Disney Hyperion
The Map That Led to You by Ella McLeod. Yellow Jacket
Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave by Ally Russell.  Delacorte
Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi by Angie Thomas. Clarion Books
The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli by Karina Yan Glaser. Allida
The Others by Cheryl Isaacs. Heartdrum
A Sea of Lemon Trees : The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by María Dolores Águila. Roaring Brook Press
Scepter of Memories (Witchlings #4) by Claribel A. Ortega.  Scholastic Press
The Story of My Anger by Jasminne Mendez. Dial
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri. Levine Querido
Through Our Teeth by Pamela N. Harris. Quill Tree
Who’s All Going (to Die?) by Lisa Springer. Delacorte Press

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The Better to Eat You With by Tehlor Kay Mejia. Delacorte
Enemy of My Enemy: A Daredevil Marvel Crime Novel by Alex Segura.
Flip by Ngozi Ukazu. First Second
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick Barnes. Viking
My Mother, the Mermaid Chaser by Jamie Ho Hoang. Crown
A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal. FSG
Super Boba Café (Home Sea Home #2) by Nidhi Chanani. Abrams
Truth Is: A Novel in Verse by Hannah V. Sawerr. Amulet

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Payal Mehta’s Romance Revenge Plot by Preeti Chihbber. Kokila

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All the Way Around the Sun by XIXI Tian. Quill Tree Books
Fireblooms by Alexandra Villasante. Nancy Paulsen Books
Make Me A Monster by Kaylnn Bayron. Bloomsbury
The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang by Stan Yan. Atheneum
Nubia: Too Real by L.L. McKinney, Robyn Smith. DC Comics
On Starlit Shores by Bex Glendining. Abrams Fanfare
This is Not A Small Voice: Poems by Black Poets compiled by Traci N. Todd. Nosy Crow