Category: Children + YA
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The Grandest Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2024 Synopsis: Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime. Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune,…
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Killer Instinct by Jennifer Lynn Barnes: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2014 Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother’s…
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Belladonna by Adalyn Grace: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2022 Synopsis: Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each one more interested in her wealth than her well-being—and each has met an untimely end. Her remaining relatives are the elusive Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at Thorn Grove, an…
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Lola by Karla Arenas Valenti: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2024 Synopsis: Ten-year-old Lola has always been touched by magic. In her Mexico City home, built around a towering tree, she is accustomed to enchanted blooms that change with the seasons, a sandbox that spits out mysterious treasures, and mischievous chaneques that scuttle about unseen by all…
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Island of Stars by Carrie Brownell: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2024 Synopsis: Twins Bert and Betty are thrown together with their new friend Cecily for a much-anticipated summer exploring an unknown island. Stumbling into a series of mysteries where history and mythology intertwine, they come to realize that they will need the help of the adults in…
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White Bird by R.J. Palacio: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2019 Synopsis: In R. J. Palacio’s collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian’s grandmother, Grandmère. Told in graphic-novel form, White Bird is Grandmère’s story as a young Jewish girl hidden away by a family in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.…
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Fable by Adrienne Young: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Sep 2020 Synopsis: For seventeen-year-old Fable, the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home she has ever known. It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. The next day her father abandoned…
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The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 1911 Synopsis: Sara Stanley is only fourteen, but she can weave tales that are impossible to resist. In the charming town of Carlisle, children and grown-ups alike flock from miles around to hear her spellbinding tales. And when Bev King and his younger brother Felix arrive for…
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Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2021 Synopsis: Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world. Ana’s parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago, and the only family she’s got left…
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Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Feb 2019 Synopsis: From fixing the class computer to repairing old radios, twelve-year-old Iris is a tech genius. But she’s the only deaf person in her school, so people often treat her like she’s not very smart. If you’ve ever felt like no one was listening to you,…
