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One lie snowballs into a full-blown double life in this irresistible story about an aspiring stand-up comedian.On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids calling her "Yu-MEAT" because she smells like her family's Korean barbecue restaurant. On the inside, Yumi is ready for her Netflix stand-up special. Her notebook is filled with mortifying memories that she's reworked into comedy gold. All she needs is a stage and courage. Instead of spending the summer studying her favorite YouTube comedians, Yumi is enrolled in test-prep tutoring to qualify for a private school scholarship, which will help in a time of hardship at the restaurant. One day after class, Yumi stumbles on an opportunity that will change her life: a comedy camp for kids taught by one of her favorite YouTube stars. The only problem is that the instructor and all the students think she's a girl named Kay Nakamura--and Yumi doesn't correct them. As this case of mistaken identity unr

A 2026 Randolph Caldecott Honor BookThe Society of Illustrators Original Art Show selectionA 2026 Tomás Rivera Book Award (younger readers category)An ALSC 2026 Notable Children’s Book (All Ages category)A School Library Journal Best Book of 2025An NPR ‘Books We Love 2025’ selectionA Kirkus Best Picture Book of 2025A Children’s Book Review 40 of the Best Picture Books of 2025A Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature (CSMCL) Best Books of 2025A 2025 The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (BCCB) Blue Ribbon AwardIn his striking author-illustrator debut, the award-winning illustrator of My Papi Has a Motorcycle offers an immersive and fantastical desert adventure, where the sun reigns over the vast landscape and shapes all that it touches.“A hypnotic joy.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewWhere the rock wall ends, the desert beyond begins.Following a blazing trail of sundust, two curious siblings hop the wall into a place that’s endless and free. Here, prickly o

An ALSC's 2025 Día Booklist for Birth to Pre-KA Publishers Weekly Best Picture Book of 2024A 2025 ALSC Notable Children’s BookA Kirkus Best Picture Book of 2024A New York Public Library Best Book of 2024American Booksellers Association May/June 2024 Kids’ Indie Next List PickCSMCL Best Books of 2024Common Sense Media’s Best Books of 2024A Bank Street Best Book of 2025From Sibert honor-winning author Traci Sorell and Caldecott Medal-winning artist Michaela Goade comes a heartwarming picture book about a Native American family and the joys of moving back to their ancestral lands. Today is a day of excitement--it's time to move! As a young Cherokee girl says goodbye to the swing, the house, and the city she's called home her whole life, she readies herself for an upcoming road trip. While her mother drives, she draws in her sketchbook the changing landscape outside her window. She looks forward to the end of their journey, where she'll eat the feast her extended family prepared, play in t

An immigrant family embarks on their first camping trip in the Midwest in this lively picture book by Ambreen Tariq, outdoors activist and founder of @BrownPeopleCamping Fatima Khazi is excited for th

A sparkling middle-grade novel in verse about Samira, an eleven-year-old Rohingya refugee living in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, who finds peace, empowerment, and sisterhood in a local surf club for girls

A dedicated mom puts love into action as she creates the perfect rainbow-colored wig for her transgender daughter, based on the real-life experience of mother-daughter advocate duo Trinity and DeShann

A young Dominican American girl in New York City moves from jealousy to empathy as her parents babysit children whose families work the overnight shift in this honest and warm picture book debut. Nigh

A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his s

A new bilingual board book that introduces the youngest of readers to the SHAPES of the Bronx!Take a walk through the Bronx and what do you see? CIRCLE wheels on a classic tricycle, a vast DIAMOND whe

A fresh new YA romance novel by Kristina Forest, Zyla & Kai is an epic star-crossed love story about first love and not just the will they, won’t they― but why can’t they? While on a school trip to the Poconos Mountains (in the middle of a snowstorm) high school seniors, Zyla Matthews and Kai Johnson, run away together leaving their friends and family confused. As far as everyone knows, Zyla and Kai have been broken up for months.And real talk? No one believed Zyla and Kai would last that long anyway. Everyone had their own reasons why these two would never make it.Zyla and Kai met while working together at an amusement park the previous summer.Zyla was a cynic about love. She’d witnessed the dissolution of her parents’ marriage early in life, and it left an indelible impression. Her only focus was graduating and going to fashion school abroad. Until she met Kai.Kai was a serial monogamist since middle school, and a hopeless romantic. He had put a temporary pause on his dating life du

A sparkling K-drama inspired debut teen novel by Grace Shim, THE NOH FAMILY introduces irrepressibly charming teen Chloe Kang, who is reunited with her deceased father’s estranged family via a DNA test, and is soon whisked off to Seoul to join them… When her friends gift her a 23-and-Me test as a gag, high school senior Chloe Kang doesn’t think much of trying it out. She doesn’t believe anything will come of it―she’s an only child, her mother is an orphan, and her father died in Seoul before she was even born, and before her mother moved to Oklahoma. It’s been just Chloe and her mom her whole life. But the DNA test reveals something Chloe never expected―she’s got a whole extended family from her father’s side half a world away in Korea. Her father’s family are owners of a famous high-end department store, and are among the richest families in Seoul. When they learn she exists, they are excited to meet her. Her mother has huge reservations, she hasn’t had a great relationship with her h