Category: Children + YA
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Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2024 Blurb: Los Angeles, 1932: Lulu Wong, star of the silver screen and the pride of Chinatown, has a face known to practically anyone, especially to the Chow sisters—May, Gemma, and Peony—Lulu’s former classmates and neighbors. So the girls instantly know it’s Lulu whose body they discover…
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2005 Blurb: After being taught in boarding school that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue. What To Expect: Code Talker is a fictional…
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Better Than Revenge by Kasie West: Content Guide
Publication Date: Dec 2024 Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Finley has only ever had one to become a famous podcaster. This includes coming up with the perfect pitch to land her on her school’s podcast team. But when her football-obsessed boyfriend, Jensen, decides to also try out—and uses her idea—she’s left confused and betrayed. Determined to…
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Fast Break by Mike Lupica: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2015 Blurb: Forced to live on his own after his mom dies and her boyfriend abandons him, 12-year-old Jayson does whatever it takes to get by. He will do anything to avoid the foster care system. Besides, his real home has always been the beat-up basketball court behind…
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Hearts Overboard by Becky Dean: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2024 Blurb: After a very public breakup where her ex, Caleb, told her she is both, a.) boring, and b.) stuck in her ways, Savannah Moore decides her mom’s company cruise to Alaska is the perfect opportunity to show people that she can be fun. One new…
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The Betrayal of Eden by Erin Phillips: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: At 16, Eden Fortin sees nothing but a bright future ahead of her. With a valuable promotion on the horizon, she is granted a coveted spot as a debutante alongside her wealthy friend, Fallon Riviere, an important step in escaping the sordid South Bout and…
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The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 1996 Blurb: The king’s scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for his king, he needs a skillful thief, and he selects Gen from the king’s prison. The magus is interested only in the thief’s abilities. What Gen is…
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Calculated by Nova McBee: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2021 Blurb: She has many names – Octavia, Double 8, Phoenix, Josephine. She’s a math prodigy, a calculating genius and everyone wants her. In seventeen-year-old Jo River’s complicated world of numbers, there’s no such thing as coincidence. When she is betrayed by someone she loves, kidnapped by…
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We Won’t All Survive by Kate Alice Marshall: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2025 Blurb: Two years ago Mercy Gray was hailed as a hero for saving lives during a mall shooting. She still carries souvenirs from that incident: the fragment of a bullet lodged in her back, a mountain of medical debt, and guilt for ignoring her sister’s warnings…
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Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2025 Blurb: Born in the firelit domain of the under realm, Matilda is the youngest goddess of her clan, blessed with humble messenger magic. But in a land where gods often kill each other to steal power and alliances break as quickly as they are forged, Matilda…
