Introducing the Debut Class of 2025!

Let’s celebrate our debut middle grade and young adult creators with books releasing in 2025!

Random House Children’s Books Middle Grade Debut Class of 2025

Get firsthand insights from our first-time middle grade authors and illustrators.

Featured in Part 1:
📕 Vicky Lorencen, author of The Big Book of Barf: A Spewnami of Sick Science, Hurled History, and Body Oddities
📙 Kim Bussing, author of The Princess Swap: Cinderella and the Beast (or, Beauty and the Glass Slipper) and The Princess Swap: Snow White and the Dragon (or, Sleeping Beauty and the Seven Dwarfs)
📗 Emily Deibert, author of Bea Mullins Takes a Shot
📘 Cassidy Wasserman, author of On Guard!

Featured in Part 2:
📕Honie Beam, illustrator of Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus: The Graphic Novel
📙C. M. Cornwall, author of The Memory Spinner

Random House Children’s Books Young Adult Debut Class of 2025

Discover new young adult novels and hear from the talented debut writers behind them.

Featured in Part 1:
📕 Shelly Page, author of Brewed with Love
📙 Sophie Clark, author of Cruel is the Light
📗 Alanna Bennett, author of The Education of Kia Greer
📘 Charlotte Lillie Balogh, author of Kill the Lax Bro
📕 Lily Braun-Arnold, author of The Last Bookstore on Earth

Featured in Part 2:
📕 Jihyun Yun, author of And the River Drags Her Down
📙 Ruby Martinez, author of An Embroidery of Souls
📗 E. V. Woods, author of Girls of Dark Divine
📘 I. V. Marie, author of Immortal Consequences
📕 Kristen Pipps, author of The Library of Lost Girls
📙 Hien Nguyen, author of Twin Tides
📗 Nancy Banks, author of The Uninvited