Tag: YA
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Nocturne by Alyssa Wees
This book has been called haunting, lyrical, and fantasy. It is all of that and more. The setting is 1930’s Chicago. Grace Dragotta has grown up here. In Little Sicily and she has had a hard life full of wanting and very little getting. She wants nothing more than to dance. To become a ballerina…
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EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES by HEATHER FAWCETT
A curmudgeonly professor journey to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love, in this heartwarming and enchanting fantasy. Well, that sounded interesting. Nothing I love more than an academic-based tale on faeries! Emily Wilde is a professor at Cambridge. She is an expert…
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The Wilderwomen by Ruth Emmie Lang
This is a YA, magical realism, fantasy story that is a bit of a mystery as well. Nora Wilder is coming unglued. Wandering at night, looking for something, forgetting who she is sometimes. Her two daughters, Zadie, and Finn know something is wrong, but Finn is young and Zadie doesn’t share her concerns about their…
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WILD is the WITCH by Rachel Griffin
When eighteen-year-old witch Iris Gray accidentally enacts a curse that could have dire consequences, she must team up with a boy who hates witches to make sure her magic isn’t unleashed on the world. Iris Gray and her mother run a wildlife refuge in Washington. It’s not where she is from but that place no…
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IRON WIDOW by KIRAN JAY ZHAO
While this draws on a few real characters in history, make no mistake, it is a Sci-Fy, Fantasy, Futuristic tale that touches on the place women still have in society. Second. Disposable. And then it just dives right in to giant fighting machines called Chrysalises, transforming robots that battle with mecha aliens that have almost…
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The NATURE of WITCHES by RACHEL GRIFFIN
Climate Change meets Climate Witches in this Contemporary Fantasy/Paranormal Young Adult debut novel. Witches have been maintaining the climate for a very long time. Their powers are the powers of the seasons. With the sun peaking in the season they are born. But the humans or shaders have gotten greedy and off-track wanting more of…
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HARLEY QUINN: BREAKING GLASS by Mariko Tamaki #DCINK
Harley is one of my favorite characters. In this prequel, Harleen is a teenager who is rebelling against everything. Angry at the world, she can choose to fight the change with Ivy or team up with The Joker. This is the first title in DC’s line of original graphic novels for MidGrade and YA readers.…
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The Nobody People by Bob Proehl
After decades in hiding, a group of outcasts with extraordinary abilities clashes with a world that is threatened by their power. Great world-building in this tale! It has rather an X-Men feel to it. These are ordinary people that you wouldn’t look twice at. Nobodies. And yet not quite as ordinary as they seem. They…
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As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti
What if you could ask for anything- and get it? In the sandy Mojave Desert, Madison is a small town on the road between nothing and nowhere. But Eldon wouldn’t want to live anywhere else, because in Madison, everyone gets one wish—and that wish always comes true. Some people wish for money, some people wish…
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Scion of the Fox (The Realms of Ancient) by S.M. Beiko * RELEASE DAY*
As the winter ice begins to thaw, the fury of a demon builds — all because one girl couldn’t stay dead . . . Roan Harken considers herself a typical high school student — dead parents, an infected eyeball, and living in the house of her estranged, currently comatose grandmother (well, maybe not so typical) — but…
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