Category: Children + YA
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The Songs of a Warrior by Katy Morgan: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2023 Blurb: Danae Collins’ stable, quiet life as an elementary school librarian is upended when she becomes the guardian for one of her students in foster care. She carefully plans for every contingency on the road to permanent adoption—every contingency except crossing paths with a famous baseball player. Griffin…
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Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2011 Blurb: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from her father, forced onto…
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Year of the Reaper by Makiia Lucier: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2021 Blurb: Before an ambush by enemy soldiers, Lord Cassia was an engineer’s apprentice on a mission entrusted by the king. But when plague sweeps over the land, leaving countless dead and devastating the kingdom, even Cas’ title cannot save him from a rotting prison cell and…
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Quarter Labyrinth by Victoria McCombs: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2025 Blurb: EVERY FOUR YEARS, THE LABYRINTH AWAKENS. It shifts location, resets its deadly puzzles, and demands a new game. The rich pay for clues to find it and keys to get in, while the poor fight for entrance. This year, the first to reach the center wins…
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The Disappearing Seat by Heather Elizabeth Holleman: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2025 Blurb: December normally brings joy to Elita Brown’s heart with the coziness of winter and the anticipation of Christmas. But when Elita compares her life to others, her best friends seem to have it so much better. Margo hosts a fancy holiday dinner party; Joy discovers…
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The Lovely and the Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Publication Date: June 2025 Blurb: Kira Bennett’s earliest memories are of living alone and wild in the woods. She has no idea how long she was on her own or what she had to do to survive, but she remembers the moment that Cady Bennett and one of her search-and-rescue…
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The Mystery of the Broken Towers by Andrew K Johnston: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2025 Blurb: Get ready to embark on an action-packed adventure in The Mystery of the Broken Towers. An urgent message from Barnaby Beakfeather reveals the towns of Cluckton Gulch and Prairie Town are in grave danger. The towns’ protective towers have mysteriously malfunctioned, leaving their residents exposed to…
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Hunting Sirens by Mary Mecham: Content Guide
Publication Date: Dec 2023 Blurb: Trapped on an island nation and surrounded by bloodthirsty sirens, the starving people of Haven Harbor are losing hope. Treva, a Deaf blacksmith immune to the tempting call of the sirens lurking in the deep, steps into the perilous role of Siren Hunter. If she…
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The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2014 Blurb: It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs—once thought of almost as gods—were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability…
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Ascent by Roland Smith: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2018 Blurb: After conquering the mountains in Afghanistan, Peak Marcello goes to Myanmar, a country that has been in the grips of a brutal military regime for more than fifty years, to visit Alessia. When he’s invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains…
