Category: Children + YA
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Orbiting Jupiter by Gary Schmidt: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: When Jack meets his new foster brother, he already knows three things about him: Joseph almost killed a teacher. He was incarcerated at a place called Stone Mountain. He has a daughter. Her name is Jupiter. And he has never seen her. What Jack doesn’t…
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Pay Attention, Carter Jones by Gary Schmidt: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2019 Blurb: Carter Jones is astonished early one morning when he finds a real English butler, bowler hat and all, on the doorstep—one who stays to help the Jones family, which is a little bit broken. In addition to figuring out middle school, Carter has to adjust…
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The Edge by Roland Smith: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2015 Blurb: Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello hasn’t climbed since intentionally failing to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He’s been enjoying life at sea level, spending his time with the Two Peas—his younger twin sisters—and being a regular, law-abiding teenager. But then his old climbing buddies, JR, Will,…
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A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2025 Blurb: Truyan Saigas didn’t choose to become a con artist, but after her father is lost at sea, it’s up to her to support her mother and two younger sisters. A gifted art forger, Tru has the unique ability to paint the future, but even such…
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Miles From Nowhere by Amy Clipston: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2015 Blurb: Chelsea Morris has always been responsible, dependable, and focused on her dreams of fashion design, a dream that will officially begin come fall, when she leaves for college in New York City. As she settles into her role as the lead designer for the local…
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The Red Palace by June Hur: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2025 Blurb: Joseon (Korea), 1758. There are few options available to illegitimate daughters in the capital city, but through hard work and study, eighteen-year-old Hyeon has earned a position as a palace nurse. All she wants is to keep her head down, do a good job, and perhaps…
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Chasing Echoes by Corinne Weber: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2025 Blurb: What do you do when you find out your childhood friend is a mermaid? When Gemma and Mariana reunite after a decade, it is world changing in more ways than one for the vivacious teen. Gemma and her brother Sebastian are shown the hidden magical…
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The Painted Fairytale by Lara d’Entremont: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2025 Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Wren Devine refuses to share her art with anyone-other than her parents and her sister (who died three years prior). But when her mother submits her artwork to a mentorship program, and she gets accepted, Wren is forced to display her artwork for the…
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If We Survive by Andrew Klavan: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2012 Blurb: Will Peterson is part of a mission team that has traveled to Costa Verde to rebuild the wall of a school. It’s been a great trip-until a revolution breaks out just before they board their plane to go home. But then it becomes a desperate…
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A Daughter of the Trolls by McKenzie Catron: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2022 Blurb: Eighteen-year-old Sparrow can’t remember a time when she wasn’t. And neither can her mother—or the trolls, imps, gnomes, and faeries who all live in the Glade and call it home. Though Sparrow’s weak heart keeps her wheelchair-bound, she and her mother have dedicated their lives…
