Category: Children + YA
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Legend by Marie Lu: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2011 Synopsis: What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic’s wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic’s…
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Mortal Queens by Victoria McCombs: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2024 Synopsis: Each year on the center island, one girl is chosen to be the next Mortal Queen of the idolized fae. The mortals praise these lucky girls, but their daughters are never seen again. The fae realm is eternal night, where disputes are settled by chess…
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The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J Maas: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2014 Synopsis: Celaena Sardothien is her kingdom’s most feared assassin. Though she works for the powerful and ruthless Assassin’s Guild, Celaena yields to no one and trusts only her fellow killer for hire, Sam. When Celaena’s scheming master, Arobynn Hamel, dispatches her on missions that take her…
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Crown of Midnight by Sarah J Maas: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2013 Synopsis: Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil. Keeping up the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when…
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The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys & Steve Sheinkin: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Synopsis: Summer, 1940. Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis and his quirky younger sister Lizzie share a love of riddles and puzzles. And now they’re living inside of one. The quarrelsome siblings find themselves amidst one of the greatest secrets of World War II—Britain’s eccentric codebreaking factory at Bletchley…
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Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas: Book Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2012 Synopsis: In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is…
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Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2016 Synopsis: When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI’s Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother’s murder. But now, everything Cassie thought she knew about what happened that night has been called into question. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her…
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All In by Jennifer Lynn Barnes: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2015 Synopsis: Three casinos. Three bodies. Three days. After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. But even with the team’s unique profiling talents, these murders seem baffling: unlike many serial killers, this one uses different…
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2009 Synopsis: To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an…
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Goodie Witch! by Karen Tennant: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2024 Synopsis: Not every kid is able to go trick-or-treating on Halloween. But there is a way you can help! In this book, Goodie Witch will teach you how. What To Expect: Combining the spirit of Halloween with the magic of giving, Goodie Witch! is a rhyming,…
