Category: Children + YA
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Adorkable by Cookie O’Gorman: Content Guide
Publication Date: Mar 2016 Blurb: Adorkable (ah-dor-kuh-bul): Descriptive term meaning to be equal parts dorky and adorable. For reference, see Sally Spitz. Seventeen-year-old Sally Spitz is done with dating. Or at least, she’s done with the horrible blind dates/hookups/sneak attacks her matchmaking bestie, Hooker, sets her up on. There’s only…
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The Floating World by Axie Oh: Content Guide
Publication Date: Apr 2025 Blurb: Sunho lives in the Under World, a land of perpetual darkness. An ex-soldier, he can remember little of his life from before two years ago, when he woke up alone with only his name and his sword. Now he does odd-jobs to scrape by, until…
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Just One Wish by Janette Rallison: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2009 Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Annika Truman knows about the power of positive thinking. With a little brother who has cancer, it’s all she ever hears about. And in order to help Jeremy, she will go to the ends of the earth (or at least as far as Hollywood)…
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Behind Five Willows by June Hur: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2026 Blurb: As the dutiful second-eldest daughter of a poor family, society would have Haewon believe that her only hope of a decent life is to marry well. But during a time of rampant government censorship and book banning, she instead works as an illegal book transcriber…
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Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2021 Blurb: For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings… until she learns that the love of her life will marry another. Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with…
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Falling Like Leaves by Misty Wilson: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2025 Blurb: Ellis has a lot of expectations for her senior year, but moving from Manhattan to Bramble Falls, Connecticut is not one of them. Yet in the wake of her parents’ separation, that’s exactly where she and her mother are headed. Bramble Falls might be charming,…
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The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden: Content Guide
Publication Date: Dec 2017 Blurb: Vasilisa has grown up at the edge of a Russian wilderness, where snowdrifts reach the eaves of her family’s wooden house and there is truth in the fairy tales told around the fire. Vasilisa’s gift for seeing what others do not won her the attention…
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Comets Fade with Summer by Amber Lambda: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2024 Blurb: High school is hard enough without an imaginary friend you’re falling in love with… Social chameleon Halley Brighton thought she’d already found a way to shine in this world—by adjusting herself to reflect everyone else. But when a cross-country move leaves her ghosted by all…
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Swimming in a Sea of Stars by Julie Wright: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2023 Blurb: Addison is no stranger to feeling stressed, insecure, and sad. Her therapist recommended she keep a journal to help her understand those feelings better, which she really needs today. It’s her first day back to school, several weeks after she survived her suicide attempt. She…
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Ground Zero by Alan Gratz: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2021 Blurb: It’s September 11, 2001. Brandon, a 9-year-old boy, goes to work for the day with his dad . . . at the World Trade Center in New York City. When two planes hit the towers, Brandon and his father are trapped inside a fiery nightmare…
