Category: Children + YA
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Jupiter Rising by Gary Schmidt: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2024 Blurb: When Jack’s P.E. coach pairs him up with Jay Perkins for the cross-country team, neither of them is happy about it. Jack is grieving the loss of Joseph, his foster brother, and adjusting to his role as big brother to Jupiter, Joseph’s orphaned daughter. Dealing…
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The Letter For The King by Tonke Dragt: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 1962 Blurb: A young messenger. A secret mission. A kingdom in peril. It is the dead of night. Sixteen-year-old Tiuri must spend hours locked in a chapel in silent contemplation if he is to be knighted the next day. But, as he waits by the light of…
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The Wind and the Wild by Emily McCosh: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2025 Blurb: Living on the edge of the enchanted woods, Niamh often loses herself among the trees in search of food. Though her body bears reminders of a night long ago when monstrous hounds broke from those lands, she has not since glimpsed the fair folk, nor…
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Dust by Kara Swanson: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2020 Blurb: Claire Kenton believes the world is too dark for magic to be real—since her twin brother was stolen away as a child. Now Claire’s desperate search points to London… and a boy who shouldn’t exist. Peter Pan is having a beastly time getting back to…
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An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2017 Blurb: With a flick of her paintbrush, Isobel creates stunning portraits for a dangerous set of clients: the fair folk. These immortal creatures cannot bake bread or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and they…
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Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2001 Blurb: The great traction city London has been skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground. But now, the sinister plans of Lord Mayor Mangus Crome can finally unfold. Thaddeus Valentine, London’s Head Historian and adored famous…
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Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2013 Blurb: Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule…
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Two Degrees by Alan Gratz: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2022 Blurb: Fire. Ice. Flood. Three climate disasters. Four kids fighting for their lives. Akira is riding her horse in the California woods when a wildfire sparks–and grows scarily fast. How can she make it to safety when there are flames everywhere? Owen and his best friend,…
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Fun Fact: I Love You by Gina Lynn Larsen: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2024 Blurb: Fun fact: Nellie Samsin has ten days left of high school, and she’s never been kissed—which is fine with her. Being the yearbook editor and valedictorian has taken all her attention. But when she has a chance to kiss her longtime crush, she hopes it…
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I Am In Here by Creston Mapes: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2025 Blurb: Eighteen-year-old Hale Frodele is presumed braindead from a tragic church bus accident in which he lost his younger brother, Nate. Little does anyone know-Hale hears and understands everything with crystal clarity.Hale remembers when his mom died at age 44 of pancreatic cancer and his dad…
