New YA Book Releases for August 20, 2025

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A new hardcover YA will be released this week

All Tomorrow by Joan Yi

Winter Moon saves her money and looks forward to when she and her grandmother can escape. However, her mother stole winter money and blew it away, leaving her further out of her winter plans. But Winter will do things she doesn’t know what she should do: she will reach out to her estranged father for help.

He makes a deal with her in terms of spending time with him in exchange for payment. However, this relationship is not easy and when Winter experiences unexpected losses, it will become a budding relationship with the new boy in her school.

Influenced by Sarah Dollar Littman and Cindy L. Otis

Rainey is a 10th grader and has had a tough time. Her twin brothers have just separated to live with their father and stepmother, and Rainey realizes that those whom she thought were her friends are not. They were friends with her.

The good news is that she still has bliss. Bliss is everything Rainey wants, and Bliss’ confidence and go-get nature is inspiring.

However, there is a secret in Bliss’ life, and when she begins to struggle and eventually disappears together, Rainey wants to know what’s going on. What she finds forever changes her perception of Bliss and Bliss’ lives.

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My Fairmonster by Adrian Rivera

Corey Neilson was born into the family of Beauty Queen and she has already won the Miss Indiana Award. Next? Miss America. She can take home a lovely scholarship and use the platform to tackle her ultimate goal of becoming a scream queen in a horror film.

But there’s a lot going on in Corey’s life, and her undiagnosed ADHD isn’t helping things. When she sees a local horror show hosting a monster costume contest, she is excited to be involved. It’s one more on her plate, but she knows she has a chop. Now, to balance it all. . . Convinces Everett, a special effects artist, to help her. But is her feelings for Everett another distraction from everything she has to balance?

New Hardcover Series Release:

This week’s hardcover YA release:

A new paperback YA will be released this week

Black Girl, You are Atlas by the cover of a book by Rene Watson

Black Girl, you are Rene Watson’s Atlas

Watson’s latest YA book explores her age as a black girl at the intersection of race, class and gender. The poem contains all sorts of forms, not just Watson’s story, but also calls for black girls today to take the time to know themselves, love themselves, and defend themselves.

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Deep waters by Maren Stoffels

Vesper was on a 10-day cruise and I thought she would be a great time. However, this is not a normal cruise. This is not an exit, a program aimed at re-educating bullies. Vesper and her fellow sailors are out in open water without running away, forcing them to deal with their darkest secrets, not where they can’t go when things get tough.

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The forest is demanding deadlines by Kosoko Jackson

Regent Academy is famous. He is known for making young people a great leader. . . Both the academy and the surrounding forests are also known for others.

Douglas is not going to play games while he’s at Regent. He just wants to get through it. However, when a student is murdered and no one on campus appears to remember the child except for Douglas, he knows he has to step into a role he never asked for. Unfortunately for Douglas, however, in trying to reveal what happened to his companions, he awakens the forest’s vengeful creatures ready to be revenge for centuries of secrets.

This is compared to the Ace of Spade, Get out.

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Red teeth and nails by Lish McBride

Readers looking for the need for a bloody western look no further. Faoran Kelly’s grandfather passed away and she became homeless. Local authorities do not believe she is mature enough to take over her grandfather’s home. These authorities also consider Faran a man. Because her true identity was a secret closely guarded by her grandfather. If they find the truth, she will marry as soon as possible.

Solutions to Faoran and the town’s problems have been proposed by the mayor. Ships her to the settlement. It is where the social exiles can take care of his mercy Gideon Dillard.

Strange noise and Dillard himself keeps Faoran from sleeping or relaxing. When she discovers the body of her fellow Border, Faoran knows that this is not a “normal” murder. Something is out to get all of them.

White man dies cover of first book

The White Guy is the first death edited by Terry Benton-Walker

This collection has rosters of authors, including Kalynn Bayron, Lamar Giles, Tiffany D. Jackson, Kendare Blake, and more, and rosters of such authors, which flips the too-common horror trope of the coloured characters who die first in their head. In this collection, the first person to fall is a white character. The story includes stories of the Ghost House (my favorite), Killer Clown, Cannibalism and more.

I’m currently on Rob Costello’s elbow We mostly come out at nighta collection of short stories that came out earlier this year, explores ideas for creating monsters through strange lenses.

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More paperback YA will be released this week:


If you haven’t caught up with Hey Ya Podcast’s latest YA book talk, you won’t have the time like you currently have! Check out this episode with YA author Frederick Joseph (This thing about us) And this episode with Queer YA Comics and Us was the liar author E. Lockhart.

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