This week's crushes:
- A Magician’s Flower by Marika Maijala, translated by Mia Spangenberg (Elsewhere Editions, July 2025)
- We Leap Together by Christopher Silas Neal (Knopf Books for Young Readers, April 2025)
- The Marvelous Now by Angela Diterlizzi and Lorena Alvarez Gómez (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, July 2025)
- Earhart: The Incredible Flight of a Field Mouse Around the World by Torben Kuhlmann, translated by David Henry Wilson (NorthSouth Books, May 2025)
- Taking the Long Way Home by Jake Hope and Brian Fitzgerald (Scallywag Press, August 2025)
- The Grumpy Ghost Upstairs by Mamiko Shiotani, translated by Polly Lawson (Floris Books, August 2025)
