Best New Books for Children and Teens in June 2025

Suzanne Kaufman’s Blue

This tender story about boy adventures and blue herons is a perfect bedtime reading for peace that makes little kids exude their sweet dreams to soar over the sea.

Purchase: Blue

If you can… Written by Matt Zurbo, I’m sick. Patrice Barton

This new June 2025 book makes every parent’s idea verbal, sharing everything they want to give their children. The various families displayed throughout the process can read each child’s bookshelf.

Buy: If possible…

Peter Brown’s Wild Robot on the Island

In this charming picture book, young audiences are introduced to the beloved protagonists of the Wild Robot Intermediate Novel Series. Roz robot adapts to life on wild islands, learns from nature, and forms a bond with the orphans she proposes.

Purchase: Wild Robots on the Island

Zebra Wagyu: The Book of Backwards by Paul Friedrich

When Apple goes missing, a tired Zebra and his friend Yak lead a chaotic terminal letter search that is full of misfortune, misunderstanding and a lot of humor. Kids will love this humor!
Buy: Zebra Wagyu: Backward letter books

Today’s Rachel Piercey is busy in the woods today. Sick. Freya Hartas

The latest Brown Bear Wood Book will allow young children to explore the characters, locations and other features of this beloved forest when they will be busy for hours.

Buy: I’m very busy in the woods today

Elena Camp in Juana Medina

Elena is ready to camp – if she can figure out how to set up her tricky tent! This simple reader is sure to become a favorite of the new family.

Purchase: Elena Camp

Murray and the bun! Adam Stoper’s Knight Murray

As the first product in the new chapter series, this June 2025 book promises many fun adventures for the Wizard’s Cat Murray and his frosted bun-thunter-bunny-rabbit pal.

Buy: Murray Knight

Ella Josephine: Nina Lacour is in charge of the residents; sick. sòniaalbert

We first met Ella Josephine in 2023 and now she is back, setting up a new story among the quirky residents of Poppy Mountain Apartments. This time, Ella and the residents must choose the empty hidden rooms just found in the building. Everyone has their own ideas – Can Ella help them find the right solution?

Purchase: Ella Josephine: Responsible for residents

Rosalyn Ransaw’s Smoke and Mirror

After the firecrackers unfortunately fell into trouble, he was sent to help restore the shaky property once owned by a mysterious magician called the Red Hall Nave. As he digs into the magician’s past, Andy is forced to face long-standing secrets, racial bias, and distrust of the justice system.

Buy: Smoke and Mirror

Judith McQuoid’s Giant

In this fictional account author CS Lewis’ childhood in Belfast, the author became David, the son of the family housekeeper. In the following years, two boys from different backgrounds developed a deep appreciation for each other’s creative skills, affecting their lives in meaningful ways.

Buy: Giant

Lauren Magaziner’s Infinite Loss

After losing her parents to the Wizard, Fiora joins a rebel group known as corruption-free, determined to expose the traitors to their ranks and reveal the truth about a war that is more complicated than she thought. This is the first in a new fantasy series that will capture the imagination of young readers.

Purchase: Unlimited Loss

Determined to prove that he has prepared his own separate classroom restrictions, Alex Ramirez, a 7th-year student who falls in love with space, sets out to show everyone that he has the ability to realize his dream of becoming an astronaut.

Buy: Alex Ramirez’s Extraordinary Track

Scout and Dianne Wolfer’s rescue dog

In response to her mother’s recent death, Australian scouts and her father went on a trip to transport dog food to animal shelters in need. But the Brushfire season caught them off guard and it was not only necessary for dogs to be rescued.

Purchase: Scout and Rescue Dogs

Sea Change by Susan Fletcher

When Turtle is a GM MER teen who saves an average boy named Kai, she attracts him just as much as the underwater life built by the Mer community. To allow her chance to live on the land to seduce her, love and freedom, the turtle must choose between two worlds, and her own fragments are tied to each world.

Purchase: Change

Richard Van Camp’s Beast

Again in the outskirts of the fictional Northwest town of Fort Summer, this is the latest thriller from Dene Nation member Van Camp. It was 1986 when young Dougreb protector Lawson Sauren had to maintain a centuries-old peace treaty while facing the silver crane, a rumored supernatural force.

Buy: Beast

Julia Drake’s Acacia Falls

Just like you likethe story of Shakespeare’s famous Love Triangle and the False Identity, is a modern adaptation in this new teen romance. Celia’s perfect summer plan disappears when Celia’s Secret Fall in love with someone else’s secret. Plus a British teenage star and a lovesick friend, the story has all the twists and turns of a classic script.

Purchase: Acacia Waterfall

Caroline O’Donoghue’s Beat

Moon is a travel salesman who navigates time in a dangerous network of worlds where time varies depending on the direction you are traveling. Margo is a troubled female student who is dealing with her father’s death. When the two meet, their destiny is intertwined in ways they can never imagine.

Purchase: Jump

Lauryn Hamilton Murray’s storm heir

The fire was born that day, and a storm destroyed the Ignitia Empire, who was recognized as a dangerous and destructive rain singer. After being locked for 17 years, she was invited to fight for the throne of the empire. To win, she must face her dark past and hidden abilities, guide the palace’s conspiracy, romance, and the challenge of redefining her identity.

Purchase: The Heir of the Storm

Sylvie Kantorovitz’s kimchi on wheels

Pickle’s favorite superhero wears skates, so of course he has to learn to skate! I love reading the latest content in the latest readers of the comic series is a great introduction to graphic novels for emerging readers. (K – Grade 2)

Buy: Kimchi on the wheel

Hiding and searching with Clyde & Monique of Graham Annable

Join these two quick friends as you help Monique Hunt fight for Clyde, subtly hide on every page of this easy-to-read comic. (K – Grade 2)

Buy: Hide with Clyde & Monique

alert! Cassidy Wasserman

When Grace, a seventh-year student, found the fenced team in a new school year filled with loneliness and family tensions, she discovered the fenced team – a place that might offer the belonging and confidence she has been looking for. (Grades 3 – 8)

Buy: Be wary!

Aviaq Johnston’s haunted snowstorm. Athena Gubbe

In the adaptation of this graphic novel, Johnston’s short story “iqsinaqtutalik piqtuq”, Inuit 7th grade student INU travels home through a blizzard and discovers a terrifying character in the snow. As her parents walked away, the strange noises grew louder and louder, she had to face fear, and the troubled memories of wandering around the home. (Grades 7 – 12)

Buy: Blizzard

Jordana Globerman’s Soul Machine

Chloe and her sister handmade soul. When their supplies run out, Chloe heads to the city to save their craft from McCap’s ruthless grip. Her search leads to hidden family secrets, as well as uncertainty about what is real and people who can trust.

Purchase: Soul Machine

Music in James Howe’s music. Jack Wong

Follow cellist Yo-yo from his childhood performances to his ultimate humanitarian pursuit: Discover the ways in which musical traditions of each culture can teach and unite us. (Pre-K to Grade 2)

Buy: Our internal music

Colleen Paeff’s Firefly Song, Illinois. Ji-Hyuk Kim

When scientists refute her observations of synchronizing fireflies on the Smoky Mountains, curious and determined that Lynn began to prove them wrong and shared the magic she had witnessed throughout her life. This story will surely inspire the budding scientists. (Pre-K to Grade 2)

Buy: Firefly Song

In the whale world in Michelle Cusolito, Illinois. Jessica Lanan

Join a free agent as he inserted the water below and encountered a sperm whale’s pod. He was first worried about one being injured, but soon realized that he had become one of the first (and only) people ever when the sperm whale was born. (Pre-K to Grade 2)

Buy: In the World of Whale

Not the dog of Claudia Guadalupe Martínez. Laura González

When is a dog not a dog? When it’s a prairie dog! Learn more about these mysterious and naughty creatures in this new non-fiction picture book. (Pre-K to Grade 2)

Buy: Not a dog

Kristina R. Gaddy’s Most Dangerous World

In this new book carefully studied and engraved with an early history of American civil rights, the stories of four famous Severville pre-war abolitionists follow. (Grades 7 – 12)

Buy: The Most Dangerous World