Triangle Square Books for Young Readers

10/28/2025

From Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, THE FIRST BOAT a beautifully illustrated story book for kids 4-8 about the importance of nature and community. With bright and beautiful water color art by Amanda Mijangos, this simple story from the Notebooks of Nobelist Saramago, will excite and intrigue the youngest readers—and all of those who read along with them. Now available wherever books are sold.

10/09/2025

“In my thirty-plus years as a book publisher, I haven’t seen a cultural climate as narrow as now. Even as we celebrate diverse voices, they are fewer and farther between. Just when we need open minds, people are being persuaded to close their minds down—and never forget that the defining aspect of narrow-mindedness is thinking you aren’t narrow-minded at all! There is much to be encouraged by—including a resurgent independent publishing community, and hundreds of new independent bookstores across America. The curious and independent and open-minded are out in force, thankfully. But it isn’t as if we’re winning the war.”—Dan Simon, Fall 2017.

Seven Stories is eternally proud to stand by our banned titles and with banned authors everywhere.

10/08/2025

Seven Stories Press Acquires Ned Blackhawk’s National Book Award-winning history of Native America, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, for adaptation in ‘For Young People’ Series.

Seven Stories publisher Dan Simon and Triangle Square Books for Young Readers publisher Ruth Weiner have acquired the adaptation rights to Ned Blackhawk’s award-winning and critically acclaimed history of Native America, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, for their middle grade and YA ‘For Young People’ series. The book, slated for a Fall 2026 publication, will be adapted for younger readers by series adapter, Rebecca Stefoff, and called The Rediscovery of America for Young People.

Winner of the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction, The Rediscovery of America, published by Yale University Press, was praised by the judges: “Drawing on prodigious scholarship conducted over decades, Ned Blackhawk centers Indigenous people across a sweep of 500 years of United States history, reimagining and retelling familiar historical episodes from a new point of departure. In the process, Blackhawk ‘rediscovers’ America, guiding his readers to a novel understanding of our nation’s past and, hopefully, our collective future. This is an enlightening, transformative, and enduring work.”

The book was also a Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History; Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction; Winner of the 2024 Mark Lynton History Prize; and was named a Best or Notable book of 2023 by the New Yorker, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, New York Times, and Washington Post.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Kathleen DuVal called the book “Eloquent and comprehensive.... In the book’s sweeping synthesis, standard flashpoints of U.S. history take on new meaning.”

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09/23/2025

FAWN’S BLOOD is a timely antidote to the anti-trans moral panic of today. Playing with tropes about monstrousness, predation, and villainy, this multi-voiced vampire novel offers a paranormal YA fantasy full of complicated queer characters—human and monster alike—all of whom are simply trying to survive in a world that wants them dead.

’s campy YA fantasy is now available from Triangle Square Books!

09/04/2025

Our Back To School sale is on NOW! Take 30% off all books on our website, including these kids and YA nonfiction favorites.

08/20/2025

TSYBR in the wild! Thanks to our friends at Third Place Books, Magers & Quinn, Red Balloon, and Chevalier’s for including us in their summer displays.

08/19/2025

How a group of Michigan parents fought back against regressive right-wing activists in their school district.

The right has swept into school boards and made bigoted policy the norm. Fighting back may be easier than it looks.

08/15/2025

Triangle Square Books emphatically rejects the Trump administration’s attempt to suppress knowledge and manipulate the historical record promote a right wing, largely white supremacist ideology. From their recent announcement of a ’reorganization’ of the Smithsonian Museum to the administration’s ongoing efforts to ban educational books throughout the country, we are in the midst of an effort to completely rewrite U.S. history for craven political gain. We are proud to publish children’s literature that offers an alternative to this attempt to whitewash history, and present children narratives that challenge those promoted by those in power.

Swipe through for some history book recommendations for kids of all ages, from Howard Zinn for kids to an illustrated overview of the history of human rights.

08/14/2025

Our fall lineup at TSYBR includes revolutionary titles for readers of all ages. These stories explore compassion, community, legacy, and the principles that make us who we are. Find them wherever fine kids books are sold.

07/09/2025

The only YA book about George Sand and the courageous fight for women’s rights in the 19th century, NO to prejudice is the story of the most popular novelist of her age.

Sand wasn’t looking for scandal or subterfuge by using a pseudonym, but for freedom to live and to write, which she found by dressing as a man, writing under a man’s name, and loving who and how she chose. Her actions were an affront to the prejudices of the 19th century and a formidable lesson in courage.

There have always been people who said NO to what they considered unjust and unfair. They Said No is an historical fiction series for younger readers of protestors, activists, poets, revolutionaries and other brave changemakers from around the world that emphasizes the importance of standing up for what you know is right.

05/03/2025

Happy Jane’s Walk Weekend!

Jane’s Walk is an annual festival of free, community-led walking conversations inspired by Jane Jacobs. founded in Toronto in 2006 by a group of Jacobs’ friends and colleagues as a way to honor her life and activate her ideas, Jane’s Walk festivals take place in hundreds of cities around the world.

Jane’s Walks encourage people to share stories about their neighborhoods, discover unseen aspects of their communities, and use walking as a way to connect with their neighbors.

We’re proud to publish The first YA biography of Jane Jacobs by Rebecca Pitts, and to share Jane’s “life of the street” with young people.