Category: Children + YA
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Light and Air by Mindy Nichols Wendell: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2024 Blurb: It’s 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. Everyone is afraid of this deadly respiratory illness. But what happens when you actually have it? When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned—and then they are sent to the J.N. Adam…
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Winter by Marissa Meyer: Content Guides
Publication Date: Nov 2015 Blurb: Princess Winter is admired for her grace, kindness and beauty, despite the scars on her face. She’s said to be even more breath-taking than her stepmother, Queen Levana… When Winter develops feelings for the handsome palace guard, Jacin, she fears the evil Queen will crush…
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Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2016 Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord’s daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father’s wishes and society’s expectations, Audrey often…
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Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 1995 Blurb: Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie’s mother sends her on a dangerous mission to bring back help. But beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a…
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Cress by Marissa Meyer: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2014 Blurb: In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a…
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Four Found Dead by Natalie D. Richards: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2023 Blurb: Tonight, Tempest Theaters is closing forever, the last remaining business in a defunct shopping mall. The moviegoers have left, and Jo and her six coworkers have the final shift, cleaning up popcorn and mopping floors for the last time. But after an unexpected altercation puts…
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Scarlet by Marissa Meyer: Content Guide
Publication Date: Mar 2016 Blurb: Cinder is back and trying to break out of prison―even though she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive if she does―in this second installment from Marissa Meyer. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t…
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Fake Skating by Lynn Painter: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2023 Blurb: From play dates on the playground to sneaking into movie theatres, Dani and Alec were inseparable as kids. Until Dani moved away. Years later, Dani is back in Minnesota, and exited to reconnect with the nerdy and comforting Alec. But teenage Alec is NOTHING like…
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Cinder by Marissa Meyer: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2012 Blurb: Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic,…
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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…