New YA Book Releases for July 2, 2025

Beau wants to know whether or not her crush Maia reciprocates her feelings. Sure she and Maia have been hooking up secretly, but that doesn’t mean feelings are really there.

So when Beau shows up to a huge party and sees Maia kissing Charm, she steps in. Except this isn’t the only thing going on–Maia’s also just received a promposal from her popular boyfriend.

Now Beau and Charm are going to team up to get Maia back. First, by getting Charm to have Maia fall so hard that her boyfriend breaks up with her. Then, by turning the tables and letting Maia be the one who gets dumped.

Of course, there’s a hitch: Charm and Beau might begin to hit it off.

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If you’ve seen this title highlighted in the new releases roundup already, you’re not imagining it. The publication date on this one seems to have moved a bit from when I initially had it in my release documents (or I wrote the wrong date down). The good news? It’s actually hitting shelves this week!

Brenda’s determined to change the world through her scientific mind, but when her internet goes out right before a major scholarship deadline, she makes her way to Kat’s family’s cafe to get things done. Immediately, she’s smitten with Kat, who is everything cool and confident that she herself is not. Kat’s caught feelings, too–and Kat’s especially glad Brenda doesn’t care that Kat’s future involves becoming The Chosen One.

There’s one big–like, really big–problem. Kat and Brenda are from different universes. So when their worlds do collide, things begin to spiral in ways neither of them could imagine.

This queer cozy fantasy is releasing in both hardcover and paperback simultaneously so you can pick your preferred format.

Fei was born under a prophecy that she would become the Empress of All Empresses. All this has meant for her throughout her young life, though, is that she’s been raised in a palace while awaiting the time to marry the Crown Prince. It’s lonely, to put it mildly.

Fei then has the opportunity to take her fate into her own hands, knowing it is dangerous. But she’s going to hunt a legendary tiger, even though she knows the potential costs.

What she didn’t anticipate was meeting Yexue, a runaway prince from a rival kingdom. But it wasn’t just meeting him that was unanticipated. Fei is falling for him and he, her. Yexue is full of dangerous magic and has the power to command an army of dead vampires (really!). Escaping the prophecy, though, will be anything but easy and Fei will be torn not just between two rival partners but two rivaling kingdoms.

Reya Samuels lives in Prince George’s County, which puts her in the financial stratosphere. She can have anything she wants at any time. Reya still works hard despite this.

Sommer comes from Seat Pleasant. It’s not a rich area, and Sommer has to work extremely hard to even help her family make ends meet. She works her in dad’s bookstore and saves every penny she can so she can attend her dream school of Spelman.

The thing is that Reya and Sommer were best friends. That was when Reya lives in Seat Pleasant, too. The girls had a falling out, made worse by their now-differing social classes. But now Reya needs Sommer’s help to get into the Fashion Institute–and Reya promises to help return the favor by paying Sommer so she can work to afford Spelman.

The girls start to trust one another again. At least they do until Sommer’s dad’s bookstore is in trouble. The gulf between the girls and their financial situations begins to grow wide again. How can they build a bridge between them again?

Football’s big in Texas, and it’s big in the life of Finn Geringer, who transfers to East Pages High, where he can play for a stronger team and earn the eyes of college scouts. A scholarship would help him and his family more than he could explain.

Megan, Finn’s girlfriend, starts to notice something weird happening. Members of rival football teams are going missing and every time she thinks she might be closer to figuring out why, something odd happens to her. Is she really being stalked or is it paranoia?

For Brit, Finn’s cousin and head of the cheerleading team, the death of football player suddenly has her wondering why her fellow cheerleaders are keeping so many secrets from her. Now Megan, Brit, and Finn must work together to uncover what is happening at the school and along they way, they’re going to find out pretty quick that their school may be trying to hide more secrets than any of them could have ever imagined.

In 1812 London, Oliver Bennet feels constrained by the world around him. He doesn’t want balls or fancy gowns. But it’s his lot, at least for now, as everyone in his world believes him to be Elizabeth.

But Oliver finds joy in the times he slips out of his house dressed like a boy. He’s even taken a shine to Darcy, a young man he’s run into on the streets–that shine comes despite Darcy being rude to Oliver when he believed Oliver to be Elizabeth. As Oliver gets to know Darcy as his true self, he discovers Darcy is so much more than what he seems.

The challenge is that suitors are becoming more bold and desperate, and Oliver’s mother is ready to find his perfect partner. It’s now up to Oliver to decide whether to take the safe life–one that’s boring, unfulfilling, and not true–or take the risk to live as his true self.

It’s 1926 and reapers—vampires that were once human—have been taking to the streets of New York City. Fortunately, there are reaper hunters throughout the city to keep people safe. (Un)fortunately, the Saint family has a monopoly on reaper hunting which means that 18-year-old Elise Saint, heir to her family’s business, is a prime target of Harlem reapers.

Layla Hunter is a reaper with a dark past and a desire to get back at Elise Saint, who betrayed her. As more reapers are reanimating into humans again and leaving a trail of blood with them, Elise realizes she needs to team up with Layla to find out what’s going on. Even if it means her own life—and Layla’s life—might be in danger in such a partnership.

Even if it means the two of them might find more in common than either could have imagined.