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“You’ll love this romance that promises you one thing, while pulling the floor out beneath you. It’s a romance, it’s an adventure, it’s a mystery — you’ll love every minute with Cleo, Kei, and the cast of Camp Couple-Up,” said Coco Zephir of An Unlikely Story in Plainville, Massachusetts.

“A novel with the spirit of a folktale, Rabbit, Fox, Tar is destined to be a classic. Stories like that of the Tar Baby take on new meaning as they are passed on, and the same will happen with this book as it is passed from person to person. I will continue to come back to this book and I will undoubtedly take away something new each time,” said Amani Jackson of The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore, Maryland.

Here is a preview of the titles on the July/August 2026 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Kids’ Box mailing.

At ABA's May Community Forum, there was a brief discussion specifically about small bookstores. To follow up on this, we sat down with ABA Board member Talia Whyte from Rozzie Bound Co-op in Roslindale, Massachusetts. 

Whyte shared some of the advantages of running a small store, some of the resources Rozzie Bound has found most helpful, and her advice for other small bookstores.

A letter from ABA Board President Cynthia Compton.

“Goldenborn is the kind of sci-fi/fantasy mashup I didn't know I was looking for. Akoma lives in a near-future AfricaTown in San Francisco and works with a secret law enforcement division to stop crimes where magic may be involved. She just wants to find out what really happened to put her father in a coma, and a sting gone wrong leads her to a mysterious stranger who may have the answers. Goldenborn is filled with lush, beautiful worldbuilding, African mythology, and an Afrofuturist twist,” said Fisher Nash of Carmichael's Bookstore in Louisville, KY.