Forthcoming Children’s and YA Historical Novels for 2026
The Historical Novel Society lists mainstream and small press titles for readers aged 4 – 18, with settings from ancient times to the mid 1970s.
Details are pulled from publisher catalogues and websites; Amazon; NetGalley; Publishers Weekly forecasts; Edelweiss US Trade and BNCCatalist Canada Trade. The age suitability is publisher recommended.
Information is compiled by Fiona Sheppard (US, CAN, UK, ANZ).
See our guide to forthcoming children’s and YA historical novels for 2025 for the previous year’s releases.
For adult titles, see our guides to forthcoming historical novels for 2026 and for 2025.
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Last update: February 27, 2026
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January 2026
Sufiya Ahmed, Escape from the Child Snatchers, Andersen Press, Age 8-12 (1865, Bombay, India; Humza and his friend Ranj are on a mission to bring back Humza’s brother who went missing in London two years ago)
Avi, The Road From Nowhere, Scholastic, Age 8-12 (inside one of America’s most troubled periods of economic crisis, an adventure and a big-hearted tale of boyhood)
Victoria Chang, Eureka, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux (BYR), Age 10-14 (in San Francisco, 1885, as the world around her grows scarier, Mei Mei discovers her own power, as well the joy of found family)
Rob Currie, Time For Courage, Tyndale Kids, Age 8-12 (when the Nazis hunt Jewish children, the kids’ only hope is help from the Dutch Resistance. A sequel to Hunger Winter)
Ryan Douglass, The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay, Putnam BfYR, YA (set in 1920s Harlem Renaissance, Nick Carrington and Jay Gatsby’s paths intertwine in both their passion for each other and anger at a society that is set to destroy them)
Sharon G. Flake, Hattie Mae Begins Again, Knopf BfYR, Age 8-12 (story about a southern girl far from home at an elite boarding school in the north; set against the backdrop of the great migration in South Philly)
Rebecca Langston-George, One Fine Voice, Historium, YA (Esther Hopkins is invited to sing a solo at the 1923 Independence Day picnic, but she must find the strength to speak truth to power even if it costs all she holds dear)
February 2026
Derrick Barnes and Christian Gregory, illus. by Frank Morrison, Seven Million Steps, Amistad BfYR, Age 4-8 (picture book story about comedian and activist Dick Gregory’s Food Run of 1976 to combat world hunger)
Judy Campbell-Smith, illus. Maggie Carroll, Baseball for Breakfast, Charlesbridge, Age 5-8 (celebrates family, fun, and being American during WWII when people were tested for their resilience)
Honor Cargill-Martin, illus. Jamiee Andrews, The Six Queens of Henry VIII, Sourcebooks, Age 8-12 (an approachable picture book biography introducing Henry’s queens)
Cathy Faulkner, The Treasure Seekers, Firefly Press, Age 8-12 (in November, 1918, young Martha and Stanley are desperate to restore their village’s fortunes before it’s too late—reworked E. Nesbit classic)
Elle Grenier, This Wretched Beauty, Feiwel & Friends, YA (in this Dorian Gray gender-bending remix, set in London 1867, a conflicted young aristocrat spirals down a path to the worst possible version of themselves)
Amanda McCrina, Beyond Seven Forests, Carolrhoda Lab, YA (an 18-year-old Polish countess is trapped in her home with two Polish deserters from the Russian army during a blizzard as World War I rages)
Lindsay H. Metcalf, Footeprint, Charlesbridge Teen, YA (fictionalized account of the first woman to identify carbon dioxide as a cause of climate change in 1856)
Patricia Newman, illus. Isabelle Follath, Beatrice and the Nightingale, Peachtree/Margaret Quinlin, Age 6-9 (in 1924, an audience of more than one million heard the first live radio broadcast of a nightingale accompanying the young cellist Beatrice Harrison)
Sara Pennypacker, illus. John Klassen, The Lions’ Run, Balzer + Bray, Age 8-12 (novel about an orphan during WWII who discovers unexpected courage within himself when he becomes involved with the Resistance)
Teresa Rodrigues, illus. Jamiel Law, Where They Gather, Atheneum BfYR, Age 4-8 (picture book story of a newly freed Black couple plant a pecan tree which grows alongside each new generation, weathering various seasons of change from the Jim Crow era to the Civil Rights period and into present day)
Gloria Steinem and Leymah Gbowee, illus. Kah Yangni, Rise, Girl, Rise, Scholastic, Age 8-12 (feminist organizer Gloria Steinem and Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee share their parallel journeys as activists)
Claire Swinarski, Each and Every Spark, Quill Tree, Age 8-12 (dual timeframe novel follows the mystery surrounding a painting that went missing during the French Resistance’s push against Hitler’s regime)
R. L. Toalson, Love, Sivvy, Little, Brown BfYR, YA (novel inspired by the life, letters and diaries of a young Sylvia Plath)
Patricia Zube, Gift of the Bear, Peter E. Randall/Casemate, Age 8-12 (set in the New England colonies in 1755, this little-known story of our country’s colonial past mirrors the life and trauma of immigrants today)
March 2026
Elisa Boxer, illus. Oksana Drachkowska, Under the Rubble, Apples & Honey, Age 6-8 (picture book true story of how the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto documented what was happening, hiding their papers in buried canisters, which were discovered afterwards and shared with the world)
Jerome Charyn, Silver Wolves, Triangle Square, YA (story of a teenager torn between the life of the streets and a life of art and opportunity in 1950s New York City)
Felicia Day, illus. Rowan MacColl, The Lost Daughter of Sparta, Gallery/Simon & Schuster Children’s UK, YA (sapphic graphic novel about the forgotten sister of Helen of Troy)
Andrea Debbink, illus. Crystal Jayme, I Witnessed: The Great Train Robbery of 1963, HarperAlley, Age 8-12 (aspiring investigative reporter Marilyn witnesses one of the greatest money heists in history…but will she be able to collect enough evidence?)
Judith Eagle, The Blitz Sisters, Faber & Faber (war has been declared and the lives of three sisters, Lydia, Peggy and Teddy, are about to be turned upside down)
Shannon Hitchcock, illus. Stephanie Singleton, Wild Mountain Ivy, Carolrhoda, Age 10-14 (story of two sick girls one hundred years apart, who meet in dreams and both struggle with their illness)
Karina Iceberg, illus. Steph Littlebird, Free to Fly, Heartdrum, Age 8-12 (presenting a hopeful conversation between a grandparent and grandchild about the trauma of the Native boarding schools)
Stacey Lee, Heiress of Nowhere, S&S/Sarah Barley Books, YA (in 1918, an orphan races to uncover a killer when she and her beloved orcas fall under suspicion in this gothic historical mystery) (Tr 8.3)
Carol Lindstrom, Red River Rose, Bloomsbury Children’s, Age 8-11 (a dramatic portrayal of a young Métis girl who takes a stand to protect her way of life)
Robyn McGrath, Brave New Ballet, Penguin Workshop, Age 7+ (picture book history of a group of men who were determined to dance and be themselves in 1970)
Rebecca Rose Mooradian, illus. Myo Yim, Rose by the Sea, Atheneum BfYR, Age 4–8 (picture book history of surviving the Armenian Genocide)
Jennifer A. Nielsen, Magnitude, Scholastic, Age 8-12 (story of the fight for survival during the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and the race to find survivors)
Jordi Ortiz, illus. Javi Chaler, The Arrows of the Sioux, Editorial el Pirata, Age 9-12 (the Time Explorers travel to North America to visit a Lakota tribe)
Maria Cristina Pritelli, author and illustrator, The Great Northern Expedition, Creative Editions, Age 7-9 (reimagines the Russian rulers of the time funding an 18th-century expeditionary voyage to Siberia and Alaska)
Jude Reid, The Nightkeeper’s Apprentice, Floris, Age 10-14 (debut children’s novel inspired by folklore of Scotland, when Second World War bombs start falling, and twelve-year-old Eilidh Flett is evacuated to remote Orkney island)
Ellen Schwartz, illus. Margeaux Lucas, The Mysterious Lopsided Letter, Apples & Honey, Age 6-8 (focuses attention on the principle of religious freedom in the early days of the United States)
Hooda Shawa, trans. Nour Jaluli, trans. Sawad Hussain, Velvet Box Letters, Restless Books/Yonder, YA (explores how young Palestinians in the diaspora can redefine their stories while reclaiming the legacy of their forebears)
Nadine Takvorian, Armaveni, Levine Querido, YA (autobiographical graphic novel chronicling one girl’s quest to uncover her family’s history during the Armenian genocide)
Mia Wenjen, illus. Violeta Encarnación, Barbed Wire Between Us, Red Comet, Age 7-10 (a reverso poem about two girls separated by barbed wire and 80 years of history)
Jonah Winter, illus. by Gary Kelley, The Burning of the Books, Creative Editions, Age 7-9 (tells an ominous story of the Nazi book burnings, warning that such events could happen anywhere, even in the United States)
Diane Zahler, The Queen’s Granddaughter, Roaring Brook Press, Age 8-12 (follows 12-year-old Blanca of Castile who, as the next princess of France, must learn how to follow in the footsteps of her grandmother, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine)
Rosemary Zibart, Beatrice and the Dirty Diggers, Artemesia, Age 10-12 (in 1942 British-born teen Beatrice Sims joins an archaeological dig in New Mexico with five American Girl Scouts from all over the country)
April 2026
Sharon Reiss Baker, Last Days in Moav, Apples & Honey, YA (a multiple POV novel set in the biblical age, centering on twins who have a mysterious healing gift)
James Lincoln Collier, After My Brother Sam, Scholastic, Age 9-12 (sequel picks up the story of My Brother Sam Is Dead in an examination of patriotism, family, and what it means to be an American)
Erin Edwards, The Unruly Heart of Miss Darcy, Little, Brown BfYR, YA (an alternate sapphic retelling of Pride and Prejudice, centring on a romance between shy Georgiana Darcy and headstrong Kitty Bennett)
Jael Jackson, illus. Sona & Jacob, Decide & Survive: The Oregon Trail, Bushel & Peck, Age 8-10 (dive into a world of peril, mystery, and hope—and carve your own destiny on the Oregon Trail)
Abigail Johnson, If You Were Here, Storytide, YA (following Lili and Wren over a Nantucket summer, as they investigate a historical mystery)
Maureen Johnson, The Velvet Knife, HarperCollins, YA (Stevie Bell and her friends travel to New York to solve a murder in the next standalone mystery)
Cathie Pelletier, Evangeline’s Journey, Down East Books, YA (prose retelling of Longfellow’s poem tells the fictional story of a girl who searches for her lost love amid the 1755 expulsion of the Acadians from maritime Canada)
Nikki Shannon Smith, Deep Secrets, Scholastic, Age 9-12 (a story of the Titanic, family, survival, and the secrets we hide from those we love)
Nadine Takvorian, Armaveni, Levine Querido, YA (graphic novel chronicling one girl’s quest to uncover her family’s history during the Armenian genocide; told in interwoven historical, contemporary, and fantastical sequences)
Minoru Tonai, Jolene Gutiérrez, illus. Chris Sasaki, Unbreakable, Abrams BfYR, Age 4-8 (picture book biography about the experience of a Japanese American boy incarcerated with his family during World War II)
Diego Vaisberg, Gunnar the Viking’s Great Pizza Adventure, Sourcebooks/duopress, Age 4-7 (a humourous picture book story of Gunnar the warrior who realises that bravery on the battlefield is not his true calling)
May 2026
Hailey Adams, illus. Alisha Monnin, Five Days at the Hotel Alcaraz, Tommy Nelson, Age 8-12 (historical tale of arson, sleuthing, and finding friendship in unlikely places is based on the real Hotel Adams fire of 1910)
S. C. Bandreddi, The Game of Oaths, Candlewick/Walker, YA (adventure of revenge set in a Belle Epoque Paris magical circus led by a ruthless enchanteur)
David Bowles, illus. Charlene Bowles, The Hero Twins in the Realm of Fright, Cinco Puntos, Age 8-12 (graphic novel retelling of an Indigenous Mexican tale, about demigod twins who descend to Xibalba (the land of the dead) to rescue their father and uncle)
Anca Sandu Budisan, author and illustrator, The Home We Dreamed, Quill Tree, Age 4-8 (narrated by a future grandchild of the builder of this house, story shows multiple generations raised here, & the environmental and political changes happening around its plot of land)
June Hur, Behind Five Willows, Feiwel & Friends, YA (a homage to Jane Austen, set in historical Korea about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning)
Anne Lambelet, Beatrix and her Friends, Peachtree/Margaret Quinlin, Age 4-8 (a picture book biography focusing on the joy and comfort Potter found in her animals)
Yamile Saied Méndez, Hear Ye Mortals, Levine Querido, YA (Argentina, 1976; two brothers struggle against a totalitarian regime believing you must fight for what you believe in, even when the world around you tries to silence your voice)
N. T. McQueen, Never Hide from the Devil, Cennan, YA (coming-of-age inspired by a true story of resistance during the Armenian Genocide, 1915)
Sheena Wilkinson, Star by Star, Little Island Books, Age 8-12 (tale of suffragettes and heroes, courage and survival, as World War One ends, a pandemic sweeps the land and women get to vote!)
Brian Lee Young, Shards of Silence, Heartdrum, YA (a tale that bridges the generational divide between a Navajo teen at an elite prep school and his great-grandmother’s experience at a Native boarding school)
June 2026
Andre Frattino, We Are Pan, IDW/Top Shelf, Age 8-12 (based on the history of the mass evacuation of Cuban children, between 1960 and 1962)
Brian Gallagher, The Case of the Disappearing Double, O’Brien, Age 9+ (volume 3 in The Case of….. series featuring another puzzle to be solved in Dublin, 1912)
Olga Herrera, trans. Aurora Humarán, A Light for Lucinda, Charlesbridge, Age 6-9 (set during the Cuban Revolution, picture book balances the experience of upheaval and hardship with the hope of brighter days ahead)
Danielle Higley, illus. Sona & Jacob, Decide & Survive: Gladiators, Bushel & Peck, Age 8-10 (explore action and adventure in ancient Rome, where every decision could lead to glory, danger, or an untimely end)
Arianna Irwin, illus. Prenzy, Penelope’s Escape from the Platypusary, Mad Cave/Maverick, Age 7+ (in 1957, Penelope the Platypus successfully escaped the Bronx Zoo and her “destined” mate, Cecil, with the help of some unlikely allies)
J. Kasper Kramer, Serpent on the Mountain, Atheneum BfYR, Age 8-12 (coming-of-age story that captures the wild beauty of 1970s Appalachia and the fragile ties that bind us to family, faith, and magic)
Amanda West Lewis, illus. Abigail Rajunov, Looking at the Sky, Kids Can, Age 8-12 (graphic novel inspired by the pre–World War II Warsaw orphanage run by children’s rights advocate Dr. Janusz Korczak)
Kirstie Myvett, Florence Wallace’s Year at the Colored Orphan Asylum, Tommy Nelson, Age 8-12 (when the NYC orphanage is destroyed during the Civil War–era draft riots, Florence wonders if a colored girl’s dreams are even worth pursuing)
Kristin O’Donnell Tubb, The Spiritualists, Simon & Schuster BfYR, YA (magical tale of a young clairvoyant who gets dragged into a dangerous game of revenge alongside a mysterious thief in early 1900s New York City)
Karyn Parsons, Blue Beach, Little, Brown BfYR, YA (historical mystery follows a Black teenager who finds a murdered white debutante on her family’s only Black Santa Monica beach in 1929)
Aden Polydoros, The City of Slaughter, HarperCollins, YA (in turn-of-the-century Chicago, life returns to normal for Frankie and Alter, as both boys inspire each other to start a detective agency. Companion novel to The City Beautiful)
April Genevieve Tucholke, illus. Dave Szalay, Rebecca the White House Raccoon, Little, Brown BfYR, Age 6-8 (mostly true tale based on President and First Lady Coolidge’s real-life menagerie and their pet raccoon which causes havoc and hilarity in the White House)
Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, Billy Bat, Vol. 1, Kana, YA (a historical conspiracy-thriller meta-manga following a Japanese American comic artist’s search for the truth regarding the origins of his character “Billy Bat.”)
July 2026
Jennifer Robin Barr, Thunder and Mercy, Calkins Creek, Age 10+ (can a hidden diary be the key to an unsolved secret from the American Revolution? Dual timeline)
Esme Raji Codell, illus. Lynne Rae Perkins, Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of John “Appleseed” Chapman, Greenwillow, Age 4-8 (picture book fiction honoring Johnny Appleseed, more than 200 years after he was born)
S. Isabelle, The Revolution of Olivia Witherson, HarperCollins, YA (following Stella’s cousin Olivia as she adjusts to the reality of life for the working class in 19th-century France. Sequel to The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgewick)
Kelly McWilliams, No One Leaves the Manor, Little, Brown BfYR, YA (horror set in 1921, where debutante dreams become bloody nightmares)
Emma Otheguy, illus. Poly Bernatene, Adventure in the City of Stories, Atheneum BfYR, Age 8-12 (when stolen artifacts magically appear in their aunt’s closet, cousins Jorge, Camila, and Siggy travel back in time to 1930 New York City to clear her name)
Marcie R. Rendon, illus. Sam Zimmerman, Napesni Renegade, Charlesbridge (Age 4-7 (the journey of a young bison who is separated from his mother when the herd is moved to a new ranch run by the Red Lake Ojibwe)
Rick Revelle, The Elk Whistle Warrior Society, Dundurn, YA (story of a secret, female-led society that relentlessly seeks justice for Indigenous women and children across Turtle Island)
Al Sirois, The King’s Ghost, Fitzroy Books, YA (3rd and final book in the Imhotep Chronicles set in ancient Egypt; a mystery where loyalty is fragile, power is deadly, and nothing is as it seems)
August 2026
Clair M. Andrews, A Lovely and Deadly Dance, Little, Brown BFYR, YA (something is stalking the queen of England, and Irene Adler is ready to find whatever may lurk behind this string of murders, with or without Sherlock Holmes)
Eileen Biltmore, The Disappearance and the Diary, Simon Spotlight, Age 8-12 (a girl from a wealthy family must defend her lady’s maid from accusations of theft in this first book in the cozy historical fiction series-The Manor Mysteries)
Eileen Biltmore, The Girls and the Ghost, Simon Spotlight, Age 8-12 (2nd book in The Manor Mysteries series that follows two heirloom lockets through generations of the same family)
Piu DasGupta, The Golden Monkey Mystery, Nosy Crow, Age 9-12 (adventure set in the jungles of 19th-century India) (this is UK)
Caroline Fernandez, About a Home Child, Cormorant YR, Age 9-12 (novel that draws on the real history of the home children who migrated to Canada between 1869 to 1932)
Nicki Greenberg, The Detectives Guide to Ocean Travel, Affirm Press, Age 9-12 (set in 1927, Pepper Stark joins her father, the Captain, aboard RMS Aquitania on a voyage to New York, during which an American stage sensation loses a priceless jewel)
Sandra W. Headen, Roi and Me and the Double V, Holiday House, Age 8-12 (best friends Marvel and Roi help out on the WWII home front, but when racial injustice threatens their community, they must turn to activism)
Beth Kephart, illus. Roberto Innocenti, Mud Angels, Creative Editions, Age 4-8 (the miraculous response of helpers from around the world who assisted Florence in the recovery from the 1966 flood. These people became known as the Angeli del Fango, or “mud angels)
Lyndsay Roberts Rayne, author and illustrator, The Messenger, Beach Lane, Age 6-9 (debut picture book inspired by the true stories of World War I messenger dogs)
Kim Michele Richardson, illus. Chloe M. Giroux, My Kentucky Moonlight School, Norton Young Readers, Age 4-8 (picture book story is based on the early twentieth century’s real-life Moonlight Schools)
Lupe Ruiz-Flores, Paloma Joins the Circus, Carolrhoda Books, Age 10-14 (story of following your dreams and growing into new ones, of finding home in the people around you, set in 1939)
Jessica Spotswood, The Harrow Home for Wayward Girls, Henry Holt BfYR, YA (in 1947, to expose the truth buried in the walls of the Harrow Home, two friends must unravel a legacy of silence and cruelty)
Caroline Starr Rose, illus. Gabrielle Grimard, Books Up the Mountain, Waxwing/Baker & Taylor), Age 4-8 (tribute to the brave women who served the people of the Appalachian Mountains during the Great Depression)
Kirsten Thompson, illus. Huenito, Aperture, Mad Cave Studios, YA (two students, one in present day and one pre-WWI, time travel using an old camera found in their university’s library, and fall in love. Graphic format novel)
Andrew Varga, Ordeal at Orleans, Imbrifex, YA (in Jump in Time book 5, time-travelling teens, Dan and Sam are transported to medieval France during the Siege of Orleans and the triumph of Joan of Arc)
Mindy Nichols Wendell, California or Dust, Holiday House, Age 8-12 (story of eleven-year-old Meadowlark Jensen whose family has fled the Oklahoma Dust Bowl in hopes of finding a better life in California)
September 2026
K. Ancrum, Adam, Mine, HarperCollins, YA (a queer romantic horror thriller that is a love letter to Frankenstein)
Louise Bradford, illus, Maya McKibbin, Sage and the Snowshoe Express, Kids Can, Age 4-8 (picture book inspired by the true experiences of Indigenous mail carriers)
Peter Burns, Island of Skulls, Aladdin, Age 10+ (action adventure set in a Dickensian-like London. Book two of the School for Thieves series)
Erin A. Craig, Our Strange Duet, Delacorte, YA (a reimagining of Phantom of the Opera, spotlighting Christine Daaé as she rises to fame while torn between love, ambition, and haunting secrets)
Marie Miranda Cruz, A Boy Called Hero, Carolrhoda Books, Age 10-14 (time-travel adventure story about finding ways to make a difference and be true to yourself, told through 12-year-old Hero who is transported back in time to 1892K.
Isaac Fitzsimons, Astra Fox and the Rise of the Wonderworkers, Aladdin, Age 8-12 (set in an alternate Gilded Age where a scrappy wonderworker discovers her illusions uphold the very system that exploits her people)
Ayana Gray, Hawk & Sparrow, Balzer + Bray, YA (a Gilded Age tale of mystery, magic, and romance in which sparks fly when a sorcerer and a reporter form an unlikely partnership)
Carol Isaacs, author and illustrator, The Cloak from Baghdad, Kar-Ben, Age 8-12 (dual timeline in which a magical cloak transports Louise back in time to her mother’s childhood in 1930s Baghdad, where it is no longer safe to be Jewish)
Autumn Krause, The Gods Will Sing Our Song, Delacorte Press, YA (historical fantasy set in a WWII incarceration camp follows two first-generation Japanese American teenagers drawn together by fate)
Andrea L. Rogers, Death in the Tallgrass, Levine Querido, Age 10-14 (a murder mystery interwoven with Cherokee history and culture)
Pamela Tuck and Joel Tuck, illus. Jerry Jordan, Johnny Tunes and the Gandy Dancers, Lee & Low, Age 4-8 (early 1900s; inspiring tale about a young boy who uses his musical talent to defy the limitations set by others because of his disability)
October 2026
Sharon Cameron, Up From the Ashes, Scholastic, YA (story about the fight to survive, based on the true story of two heroes and their resistance in the Sobibor death camp during the Holocaust)
Erica Martin, illus. by Alleanna Harris, Onward, We Marched, Flamingo, Age 4-8 (a lyrical picture book introduction to the civil rights movement)
Sara Raasch and Beth Revis, The Blood Queen, Sourcebooks Fire, YA (historical fantasy about a fae princess and an Elizabethan spy working together to stop an army intent on destroying both the mortal and fae worlds)
Sarah Raughley, The Queen’s Command, HarperCollins, YA (our heroine must play a deadly game and risk everything to get to the truth that’s poisoning Victorian England’s royal court)
Kate Schoedinger, illus. Susan Olejarz, Death By Molasses, Peter E. Randall pub, Age 8-12 (follows Luca, a child survivor of the 1919 Great Boston Molasses Flood, who dares to speak out against greedy powerhouses, to avenge his sister’s death)
John Stephens, The Age of Fury, Knopf BfYR, YA (a teen in Gilded Age New York sets out to hunt down her sister’s killer and joins forces with a notorious gangster)
Sam Subity, illus. Yaoyao Ma Van As, True Crime Files: Heist at the Museum!, Sourcebooks Explore, Age 8-12 (high-stakes action-adventure that fuses suspense with the intrigue of a historical true-crime caper―the 1964 American Museum of Natural History jewel theft)
Mia Wenjen, illus. Keith Henry Brown, Postcards from Malcolm X, Red Comet, Age 8-12 (the friendship between Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama, and her awakening as a civil rights activist)
November 2026
Deborah Hopkinson, Take Cover, Scholastic, Age 9-12 (when the World War II Blitz begins, two kids search desperately for their families as Nazi bombs rain down on London)
S. Isabelle, The Revolution of Olivia Witherson, HarperCollins, YA (companion to The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick set in 1860s Paris, prim and proper Olivia is poised to become the wife of a wealthy businessmanS.
Andy Marino, Escape from Vietnam, Scholastic, Age 8-12 (Book #6 in the Escape From series, set in Vietnam in 1975)
Dawn Quigley, illus. Chief Lady Bird, Paul’s Bunion: A Tall Tale Resized, Levine Querido, Age 4-8 (picture book retelling of Paul Bunyan’s tall tales from a distinctly Native American perspective)
