July/August 2025

Kids Indie Next List

Find the best recommendations for summer 2025 children's book releases from independent booksellers.

Kenneth Oppel

Hardcover / USED - VeryGood

In this imaginative Middle Grade adventure from bestselling author Kenneth Oppel, three kids stumble into parallel worlds where every choice leads to a new reality—forcing them to confront friendship, courage, and what it really means to live in the best of all possible worlds.

Picture Books

Axolotl and Axolittle

Jess Hitchman

from: $12.49

The Day the Crayons Made Friends

Drew Daywalt

from: $15.39

Forts

Katie Venit

from: $16.22

Island Storm

Brian Floca

from: $15.98

Millie Fleur Saves the Night

Christy Mandin

from: $16.22

More or Less

Alison Hughes

from: $15.98

There's Something Odd about the Babysitter

Elayne Crain

from: $15.98

What If We...

Eugenia Yoh

from: $15.98

When You Go to Dragon School

Chelsea M. Campbell

from: $15.98

Zebra and Yak

Paul Friedrich

from: $16.62

Middle Grade

An Encantadora's Guide to Monstros and Magic

Sarah J. Mendonca

from: $16.62

Another

Paul Tremblay

from: $16.62

Blood in the Water

Tiffany D. Jackson

from: $14.19

The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez

Jasminne Paulino

from: $12.79

Free Piano

Whitney Gardner

from: $19.43

Into the Bewilderness

Gus Gordon

from: $19.50

Jazzy the Witch in Broom Doom (1)

Jessixa Bagley

from: $13.49

On Guard!

Cassidy Wasserman

Out of Stock

Pacheco and the Witch of the Mountain: A Graphic Novel

Juan E. Zambrano

from: $18.15

Young Adult

Amelia, If Only

Becky Albertalli

from: $16.62

Arcana

Sam Prentice-Jones

from: $15.69

Kill Creatures

Rory Power

from: $16.62

The Last Tiger

from: $18.15

The Raven Boys

Maggie Stiefvater

from: $15.58

Soulmatch

Rebecca Danzenbaker

from: $16.87

Tenderly, I Am Devoured

Lyndall Clipstone

from: $16.62

That Devil, Ambition

Linsey Miller

from: $16.62

A Theory of Dreaming

Ava Reid

from: $16.62

A Treachery of Swans

A.B. Poranek

from: $15.39

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