Category: Children + YA
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The Ruby Prince by Beth Brower: Content Warnings
Publication Date: April 2016 Synopsis: Queen Eleanor’s gambit worked. Aemogen, for now, has been spared from the ruthless Imirillian army. But Eleanor is still a captive, and Prince Basal is taking her into the North. As Eleanor is swept through the deserts of Imirillia to the magnificent city of Zarbadast,…
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Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Sep 1998 Synopsis: Luke has never been to school. He’s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend’s house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He’s…
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Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun by Tola Okogwu: Content Warnings
Publication Date: June 2022 Synopsis: Onyeka has a lot of hair—the kind that makes strangers stop in the street and her peers whisper behind her back. At least she has Cheyenne, her best friend, who couldn’t care less what other people think. Still, Onyeka has always felt insecure about her…
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My Way by Ashley Al Saliby: Content Warnings
Publication Date: July 2024 Synopsis: As their stories continue, the lives of Eden, Katya, Mei and Zahra will shift. Circumstances will change. New challenges will arise. One of them will find herself betrayed by someone she thought she could trust. Another will begin to question what she thought she knew.…
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Stain by A. G. Howard: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2019 Synopsis: To win back her kingdom of perpetual day, save her night prince, and reunite the sun with the moon, a princess incapable of speech or sound must prove herself everything a traditional princess is not: tough enough to sleep on a bed of nails, and…
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The Goddess Binding by Lydia Ruanna: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Sep 2024 Synopsis: Alira, the daughter of a vagabond, has lived her entire life in the House of the Earth Queen, an isolated clustering of underground dwellings surrounding a single hot spring. She has never seen beyond Persephone’s realm; she’s never wanted to. All she’s ever wanted is…
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Defender by C.C Urie: Content Warnings
Publication Date: July 2022 Synopsis: Cast out of her family, Larken Hale, the Daughter of the Military, is forced to take up the cause to appease her family. Leaving everything she knows and loves behind, Larken sets out and tries to find her own way. Captain Soren Deckard has only…
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Drake Hall (The Secrets of Ormdale #2) by Christina Baehr: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2024 Synopsis: Edith’s ancient home is full of secrets…and dragons are the least of them. As the new dragon keeper in the hidden valley of Ormdale, Edith expects her first dragon mating season to involve venomous bites and amorous wyverns. She doesn’t expect to find herself growing…
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The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary Schmidt
Publication Date: May 2023 Synopsis: Herc Beal knows who he’s named after—a mythical hero—but he’s no superhero. He’s the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical Hercules’s amazing feats in real life, he’s skeptical.…
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Caraval by Stephanie Garber: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Sep 2016 Synopsis: Scarlett Dragna has never left the tiny island where she and her sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval—the faraway, once-a-year performance where the audience participates…
