New month, new book releases!
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, sheâs stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the Jeep. Thankfully she has the other outcasts of the summer program, Team Misfit Toys, and even her twin sister Pauline. Together they ace obstacle courses, plan vigils for missing women in the community, and make sure summer doesnât feel so lost after all. But when she attends a meeting at a local university, Perry learns about the âWarrior Girlâ, an ancestor whose bones and knife are stored in the museum archives, and everything changes.
PUBLICATION DATE: May 2.
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
A young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academyâand quickly finds herself at odds with the âapprovedâ way of doing thingsâin the first book of this brilliant new fantasy series. The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generationsâuntil fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragonâs egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the people to thrive. To them, Anequs is revered as Nampeshiweisitâa person in a unique relationship with a dragon.
PUBLICATION DATE: May 9.
Painted Devils by Margaret Owen
Letâs get one thing straightâVanja Schmidt wasnât trying to start a cult. After taking down a corrupt margrave, breaking a deadly curse, and finding romance with the vexingly scrupulous Junior Prefect Emeric Conrad, Vanja had one great mystery left: her long-lost birth family⌠and if they would welcome a thief. But in her search for an honest trade, she hit trouble and invented a god, the Scarlet Maiden, to scam her way out. Now, that lie is growing out of controlâespecially when Emeric arrives to investigate, and the Scarlet Maiden manifests to claim him as a virgin sacrifice.
PUBLICATION DATE: May 16.