Author & Illustrator Interviews: Milton Makes a Move by Jonathan Graziano, with art by Dan Tavis August is National Dog Month, and we are leaning in. This week on BookCrushin we are celebrating all things dog, and we could not think of a better way to celebrate than with Jonathan […]
Feature: Golden Boy by A. J. Symon Golden Boy by A.J. Symon, out next month, asks a question that every dog owner has thought at least once: what would your dog be like if they were human? When Emma Branch accidentally turns her golden retriever Hudson into a human teenager […]
Young Adult New Releases July 28th 2026 July simultaneously dragged by and also somehow we at the end of the month already…luckily we have new books to get us through this final week. Not a massive release week, but the whole month has been full of thrillers, and a few […]
Feature: This Is Your Fault, Fourth Grade August is National Dog Month, and we are getting a head start this week! If you grew up in the 80s or 90s, you know exactly what kind of dog people we are. Someone handed you Where the Red Fern Grows in fourth […]
Author Interview: Killing Sadie by Rachel Peterson Everybody knows what happened at the barn party. Except nobody’s story quite matches. Killing Sadie is Rachel Peterson’s debut YA thriller, and it is the kind of book that keeps you second-guessing every narrator right up until the moment the whole thing snaps […]
Blog Tour & Feature: Take It To Your Grave by Louangie Bou-Montes We are thrilled to be part of the blog tour for Take It to Your Grave by Louangie Bou-Montes, out July 21st. Louangie made a serious impression with her debut, Till the Last Beat of My Heart, a queer […]
Young Adult New Releases July 21st 2026 We are in the thick of a summer heatwave over here on the East Coast…and I hope you are ready for all the SummerWeen books because it is clearly the right season if you check out the YA books below you are sure […]
Blog Tour and Feature: The Ginghams by T.C. Kemper We are thrilled to be part of the blog tour for The Ginghams by T.C. Kemper, out July 28th. The Ginghams is a middle grade horror novel about a perfect family that moves to town and starts remaking the community in […]
Comic Crush Saturday: Heartstopper by Alice Oseman My first Alice Oseman book was Radio Silence, and I never actually read it. 😬 It came to me as an ARC in 2016, one of the first I ever received, passed along by another blogger back when I was still figuring out […]
Author Interview: Survival Show by Juno Dawson Juno Dawson has spent her career writing about what it costs to be yourself in a world that does not want you to be, and Survival Show is that same instinct dialed up to eleven. Taryn Beck lives in a Scottish refugee camp […]