Category: Children + YA
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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…
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East by Edith Pattou: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Sep 2003 Synopsis: Rose has always been different. Since the day she was born, it was clear she had a special fate. Her superstitious mother keeps the unusual circumstances of Rose’s birth a secret, hoping to prevent her adventurous daughter from leaving home… but she can’t suppress Rose’s…
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Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson: Content Warnings
Publication Date: May 2014 Synopsis: It was Sloane who yanked Emily out of her shell and made life 100% interesting. But right before what should have been the most epic summer, Sloane just…disappears. All she leaves behind is a to-do list. On it, thirteen Sloane-inspired tasks that Emily would normally…
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The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen: Content Warnings
Publication Date: April 2012 Synopsis: In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king’s long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete…
