Category: Children + YA
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The Healer’s Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2010 Synopsis: Rose has been appointed as a healer’s apprentice at Hagenheim Castle, a rare opportunity for a woodcutter’s daughter like her. While she often feels uneasy at the sight of blood, Rose is determined to prove herself capable. Failure will mean returning home to marry the…
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The Party by Natasha Preston: Content Guide
Publication Date: Dec 2024 Blurb: Are you invited? In the heart of the English countryside, a group of teenagers gather at a remote castle for a weekend of fun and games. But when the first of them dies, the party takes a deadly turn. As the body count rises, the remaining…
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The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern: Content Guide
Publication Date: Dec 1943 Synopsis: For almost seventy years, people the world over have fallen in love with Frank Capra’s classic Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life. But few of those fans know that Capra’s film was based on a short story by author Philip Van Doren Stern, which came…
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Prodigy by Marie Lu: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2013 Synopsis: A New York Times Bestselling Author It has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Believed dead‚ Day lost his brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. June is now the…
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Picture Perfect Boyfriend by Becky Dean: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2023 Synopsis: Aspiring nature photographer Kenzie Reed just can’t get her straitlaced family of optometrists to take her art seriously. She’s resigned to putting aside her dreams and accepting the depressing life that awaits her at the family business. She even makes up a fake, boring boyfriend—Jacob—to…
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Heir of Fire by Sarah J Maas: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2014 Synopsis: Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak-but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth . . . a truth about her heritage that could change her life-and her future-forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces…
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Games Untold by Jennifer Lynn Barnes: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2024 Synopsis: An amnesiac playboy and the woman with every reason to hate him. A daredevil, his favorite heiress, and three nights in Prague. An unlikely pairing between a cowboy and a goth. Four brothers with an inescapable bond, strengthened by the family they chose, in a…
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Heist Society by Ally Carter: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2010 Synopsis: When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre…to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria…to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own—scamming her…
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The Realm Beneath by Allison Tebo: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Synopsis: A girl who must kill a kraken to save her people. A ruined civilization seeking a new and unknown shore. A boy investigating a mysterious sighting at an aquarium. A mermaid determined to rob a sea dragon’s hoard. Find all of this and more in…
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One Must Die by Candice Pedraza Yamnitz: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Synopsis: You are invited… To the annual game where teenage competitors search Sky Manor for the key to open a vault hidden behind the deceptive walls. The winner will have the wealth of a lifetime, but there is one catch. One contestant must die. This year,…
