My 5 Favorite Books Releasing July 8, 2025

It’s was a gorgeous July 4th week in Connecticut! We had a great time visiting my sister and her family. I am flying out this morning, heading back to Texas.

I am once again Spotlighting my top five favorite books releasing this week. The summer months tend to be a little slower for book releases than other months. It usually picks up in mid-August through September.

I will continue to work on the Canva presentations for July, which will feature additional titles not featured in my “5 favorites” list on MrsReaderPants. The three Canva presentations will release on my email list at the end of this month. And yes, the Canva presentations are FREE! You can join my email list here.

On to my TOP 5 books releasing this week…

PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY:

Meet Bean, a very tiny hedgehog. She loves ghosts, swings and a stuffie called Clem.

Meet Bean’s grandma. She loves strawberries, sweaters and tiny Bean burritos.

And they both love stories.

In ten tiny stories we follow Bean and her grandmother through adventures of the everyday. Bean loses her bad mood in a meadow and Grandma thinks she sees a ghost (don’t worry it’s just Bean!) — and there’s even a story with giant strawberries.

PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY:

One sky unpins damp sheets of cirrus. Another wads cirrocumulus into a basket woven of sunbeams. Still others carry away armloads of altocumulus and drag moth-eaten gray blankets of stratus past. At last, a colossal cumulonimbus sweeps in, squeezing out the light to herald …rain!

PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY:

Evelyn Witch has everything a witch needs. Messy hair, bubbling potions, and perfectly carved pumpkins.

But there’s something missing… A pet!

Perhaps she’ll get a bat or a griffin, or― Oh. She can only afford the mystery pet: a plain white egg.

She watches and waits for it to hatch.

Sniveling snails, something has to be done! Evelyn rolls up her sleeves and heads to the library, where they keep all the best spells. It’s time to get serious.

PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY

Rosa Coelho has spent her whole life hunting monstros, wandering the city streets with her best friend Tiago, and dreaming of a better life for herself and her grandmother. And in a society that favors the rich and educated, every piece of knowledge comes with a hefty price, even the most basic books Rosa’s family needs to trap monstrous.

So when the powerful Ministério dos Monstros threatens her family’s struggling Encantadora shop, Rosa only has two weeks to scrape together the money for their debts. It seems like an impossible task…until Rosa tricks her way onto an infamous thief crew as their magical safecracker.

Thrust into the world of high class luxury and betrayal, Rosa is pulled into a scheme with the highest possible stakes: stealing from the Ministry itself. She must learn to trust her magical abilities and her crew—for if the heist goes wrong, everything she loves is forfeit.

PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY

When Lara Williams gets a summer job aboard the luxury train the Banebury, she thinks she’s landed a five-star escape from her past. Even after she learns that her ex-friend Rhys, who she definitely did not have feelings for before their relationship imploded, is one of her coworkers, she’s determined to make things work.

But on the first day of their journey, the trip takes a strange turn. Two mysterious carriages filled with an array of beautiful and rare plants are attached to the Banebury in the middle of the night.

And with them comes a pair of siblings. Wealthy, mysterious, and charismatic, Gwen and Gwydion claim the plants they’re transporting are for research, but Lara can’t shake the feeling that there’s something . . . otherworldly about the strange blooms. Something that will stop at nothing to ensure the Banebury never reaches its destination.

Soon Lara will learn: You can’t outrun your troubles. You have to grab them by their roots. And if she can’t unearth the secrets of the Banebury, they might drag her down for good…