Category: Children + YA
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My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2022 Blurb: Bel doesn’t want to think about the future. College apps? You’re funny. Extracurriculars? Not a chance. Joining a robotics club filled with boys who ignore her or–even worse–constantly ask if she needs help? Please, anything but that. But when she accidentally reveals a talent for…
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Standing in the Light by Mary Pope Osbourne: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 1998 Blurb: Catharine Carey Logan and her family have enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous life as the Quakers and Delaware Indians share a mutually trusting relationship. Recently, however, this friendship has been threatened by violence against the Indians. Then, Catharine and her brother are taken captive by…
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Room to Breathe by Kasie West: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2026 Blurb: When the walls close in, the truth comes out. When Indy’s life came crashing down, she made a no one could know. To the world, she’s still the same Indy—cool, calm, unshaken. But behind the scenes? It’s chaos. Her tight-knit crew—Beau, Caroline, and Ava—were once…
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The Color of Lies by CJ Lyons: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2018 Blurb: High school senior Ella Cleary has always been good at reading people. Her family has a rare medical condition called synesthesia that scrambles the senses—her Gram Helen sees every sound, and her uncle Joe can literally taste words. Ella’s own synesthesia manifests itself as the…
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Scythe by Neal Shusterman: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2016 Blurb: Thou shalt kill. A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep…
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The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2021 Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, working as the prison healer. When the Rebel Queen is captured, Kiva is charged with keeping the terminally ill woman alive long enough for her to undergo…
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Beauty and the Bad Boy by Sarah Sutton: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2026 Blurb: She’s the perfect girl that gave him his bad boy image.And now he’s back for revenge. My name is Eleanor Brighton, and I’m the perfect daughter. P-E-R-F-E-C-T. For the past four years, I’ve painstakingly built my life to be impressive in every way–great grades, steadfast…
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The Eve a Saint First Raced by Angola Hone: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2026 Blurb: The north is dark. The sun cannot rise. Holidays never come. Not while tyrant Queen Brumal keeps it so, hoarding power over the winds. Air currents answer to those who can ride them fastest. And the speed of the witch’s flying sleigh has never been…
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The Cruel Prince by Holly Black: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2018 Blurb: Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes…
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Or Give Me Death by Ann Rinaldi: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2003 Blurb: Sarah Henry, wife of the famous statesman Patrick Henry, is losing her mind, and she’s secretly being kept in the cellar because she is a danger to herself and her children. Daughter Anne has a secret, too. She knows which child will inherit Sarah’s madness,…