Category: Children + YA
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Once A Queen by Sarah Arthur: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2024 Blurb: When fourteen-year-old Eva Joyce unexpectedly finds herself spending the summer at the mysterious manor house of the English grandmother she’s never met, troubling questions arise. Why the estrangement? What’s with the house’s employees and their guarded secrets? Why must Eva never mention trains, her father,…
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The Unraveling of Emlyn DuLaine by Lindsay A. Franklin: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Feb 2025 Blurb: Emlyn DuLaine just wants to know what happened to her sister, Camille, seven years ago on the fateful day she vanished—literally. Emlyn witnessed Camille unravel and disappear, but no one believes her. Since they think she’s crazy, the least the cops could do is solve…
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A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Feb 2021 Blurb: It is 1940 and Anna, 9, Edmund, 11, and William, 12, have just lost their grandmother. Unfortunately, she left no provision for their guardianship in her will. Her solicitor comes up with a preposterous plan: he will arrange for the children to join a group…
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The Will of the Many by James Islington: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: May 2023 Blurb: The Catenan Republic – the Hierarchy – may rule the world now, but they do not know everything. I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has…
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Lethal Kings by Victoria McCombs: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Nov 2024 Blurb: You’ve been warned many times, you cannot trust the kings . . . The old queen is dead, a new queen is in play, and the realm has descended into darkness. For the first time in history, a queen has rejected the game. Eliza will…
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Echo Nova by Clint Hall: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2025 Blurb: As a poor teenager living in the Dregs, Dash Keane can only escape his dismal reality by competing in illegal rooftop races and staying up late to watch the timenet with his younger brother. When there is an opportunity to participate in a competition set…
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Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 1976 Blurb: Why is the land so important to Cassie’s family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she’s black—to show Cassie that having a place of…
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Millie Maven and the Bronze Medallion by Ted Dekker: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2020 Synopsis: Millie Maven, a fearful orphan girl who lives with her strict, evil aunt is trapped in a life of cruel punishment without any friends. So on the night of her twelfth birthday, when old Aggie of the woods invites her to take a journey that…
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Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2024 Synopsis: Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway. Crucial to this plan is to bring back her high school’s spring musical, but when Riley takes her mom’s car without permission, she’s grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school…
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Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2016 Synopsis: Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy’s most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right…
