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Thirteen witches : The memory thief /

Anderson, Jodi Lynn,


Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, When sixth-grader Rosie begins to see magic, she learns that her mother's dwindling memory is tied to an age-old battle between the light of the moon and the darkness of witches.
Date Published:2022

The thirteenth fairy /

De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971-


School Library Journal starred, December 2020. Booklist, November 2020. "Nothing ever happens in Cara Jefferson-Cho's sleepy little suburban town of North Pasadena. But one day, when Cara is walking home on her own, something strange happens. Cara is being followed by Jack Stalker, one of the heroes in the Thirteenth Fairy, a series of books she loves about a brave girl and her ragtag group of friends who save their world from an evil enchantress. She must be dreaming, or still reading a book. But Jack is insistent--he's real, the stories are real, and Cara must come with him at once! Soon, Cara is thrust into the world of evil fairies and beautiful princesses, sorcerers and slayers, where an evil queen drives her ruthless armies to destroy what is left of the Fairy tribes. To save herself and the kingdom of Westphalia, Cara must find the truth behind the fairytales and set the world back to rights before the cycle of sleep and destruction begins once more"--OCLC.
Date Published:2020

School Library Journal starred, December 2020. Booklist, November 2020. "Nothing ever happens in Cara Jefferson-Cho's sleepy little suburban town of North Pasadena. But one day, when Cara is walking home on her own, something strange happens. Cara is being followed by Jack Stalker, one of the heroes in the Thirteenth Fairy, a series of books she loves about a brave girl and her ragtag group of friends who save their world from an evil enchantress. She must be dreaming, or still reading a book. But Jack is insistent--he's real, the stories are real, and Cara must come with him at once! Soon, Cara is thrust into the world of evil fairies and beautiful princesses, sorcerers and slayers, where an evil queen drives her ruthless armies to destroy what is left of the Fairy tribes. To save herself and the kingdom of Westphalia, Cara must find the truth behind the fairytales and set the world back to rights before the cycle of sleep and destruction begins once more"--OCLC.

Date Published:2020

The stolen slippers /

De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971-


School Library Journal, February 2022. Kirkus Review, December 2021. Filomena Jefferson-Cho and her friends, Jack Stalker, Alistair, and Gretel are once again in Never After, to help Gretel fulfill a promise to her father to recover the glass slipper he made for her cousin, Hortense, which was stolen by the cunning and manipulative Cinderella, who is determined to become Princess of Eastphalia--to do that the friends will have to infiltrate the castle, and, of course, avoid being eaten by monsters.
Date Published:2022

School Library Journal, February 2022. Kirkus Review, December 2021. Filomena Jefferson-Cho and her friends, Jack Stalker, Alistair, and Gretel are once again in Never After, to help Gretel fulfill a promise to her father to recover the glass slipper he made for her cousin, Hortense, which was stolen by the cunning and manipulative Cinderella, who is determined to become Princess of Eastphalia--to do that the friends will have to infiltrate the castle, and, of course, avoid being eaten by monsters.

Date Published:2022

The broken mirror /

De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971-


"Ages 10-14, Grades 7-9"--Provided by publisher. School Library Journal, March 2023. Kirkus Review, November 2022. In their third adventure, Filomena and company set off to Snow Country, rescue Lord Sharif of Nottingham, reverse a spell that turned Prince Charming into a Frog, and find the League of the Seven--fearless warriors devoted to fighting the orges at any cost.
Date Published:2022

Such a bad influence

Muenter, Olivia,


Library Journal Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, Hazel Davis's life is less than perfect. Her career is stalling, she lives in a city she hates, and she's way less successful than her younger sister Evie, a mega-popular lifestyle influencer who went viral at five years old for a daddy-daughter dance and grew up in the public eye online. Ten years older and spotlight-averse, Hazel managed to avoid the family YouTube channel, but Evie is eighteen now, with a multimillion-dollar career, and Hazel can't help but worry about her younger sister and everyone who wants to take advantage of her. Then, Evie goes missing during an unsettling live stream that cuts out midsentence, and Hazel soon finds herself diving down a dangerous internet rabbit hole to uncover what happened to her sister.
Date Published:2024

Library Journal Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, Hazel Davis's life is less than perfect. Her career is stalling, she lives in a city she hates, and she's way less successful than her younger sister Evie, a mega-popular lifestyle influencer who went viral at five years old for a daddy-daughter dance and grew up in the public eye online. Ten years older and spotlight-averse, Hazel managed to avoid the family YouTube channel, but Evie is eighteen now, with a multimillion-dollar career, and Hazel can't help but worry about her younger sister and everyone who wants to take advantage of her. Then, Evie goes missing during an unsettling live stream that cuts out midsentence, and Hazel soon finds herself diving down a dangerous internet rabbit hole to uncover what happened to her sister.

Date Published:2024

Rolls and rivalry

Boyce, Kristy,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, Hazel Buchanan is ready for the perfect senior year with her plans to become color guard captain, start her first D&D campaign, and avoid all distractions, but that becomes impossible when Max, her former best friend and longtime crush, returns to town. They soon find themselves butting heads as members of different sections of the marching band, and then things get even more complicated when Max joins her D&D group, causing Hazel to reexamine her relationship with Max and question her true feelings for him.
Date Published:2026

Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, Hazel Buchanan is ready for the perfect senior year with her plans to become color guard captain, start her first D&D campaign, and avoid all distractions, but that becomes impossible when Max, her former best friend and longtime crush, returns to town. They soon find themselves butting heads as members of different sections of the marching band, and then things get even more complicated when Max joins her D&D group, causing Hazel to reexamine her relationship with Max and question her true feelings for him.

Date Published:2026

Pride and prejudice in space

Lampley, Alexis,


Library Journal, Reimagines Jane Austen's classic novel as taking place in a future, space-faring society centered around a gas giant named Londinium with a system of habitable moons. Elizabeth Bennet lives on a small moon with her four sisters and her parents, dreaming about flying her own starship one day. Her dreams are upended when the handsome Mr. Bingley lands his Netherfield StarCruiser at the neighboring estate and introduces her to his friend, the wealthy, lunar socialite Fitzwilliam Darcy.
Date Published:2024

Library Journal, Reimagines Jane Austen's classic novel as taking place in a future, space-faring society centered around a gas giant named Londinium with a system of habitable moons. Elizabeth Bennet lives on a small moon with her four sisters and her parents, dreaming about flying her own starship one day. Her dreams are upended when the handsome Mr. Bingley lands his Netherfield StarCruiser at the neighboring estate and introduces her to his friend, the wealthy, lunar socialite Fitzwilliam Darcy.

Date Published:2024

Pomona Afton can so solve a murder a novel /

Rose, Bellamy,


Library Journal Starred, Publishers Weekly, Upper East Side hotel heiress Pomona "Pom" Afton lives a privileged carefree life until her grandmother, the family matriarch, is murdered. Pom's greedy and mean grandmother thought something like this would happen so her will stipulates her assets are to be frozen until the murderer is caught. Pom is kicked out of her hotel suite and forced to move in with Gabe, her former nanny's son, and get a job at the coffee shop he manages. After a day of working there, Pom decides she will solve the murder to get her trust fund back. Gabe, whose mother also is to receive a sum from the will, agrees to help her and in the process the two begin to fall for one another.
Date Published:2026

Library Journal Starred, Publishers Weekly, Upper East Side hotel heiress Pomona "Pom" Afton lives a privileged carefree life until her grandmother, the family matriarch, is murdered. Pom's greedy and mean grandmother thought something like this would happen so her will stipulates her assets are to be frozen until the murderer is caught. Pom is kicked out of her hotel suite and forced to move in with Gabe, her former nanny's son, and get a job at the coffee shop he manages. After a day of working there, Pom decides she will solve the murder to get her trust fund back. Gabe, whose mother also is to receive a sum from the will, agrees to help her and in the process the two begin to fall for one another.

Date Published:2026

Mal goes to war

Ashton, Edward, (Science fiction writer),


Library Journal Starred, Publishers Weekly, As a free A.I., Mal doesn't really care about the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists, although he's not above scouting the battlefield for salvage when the opportunity presents itself. But he winds up directly in the middle of the conflict when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace, and he becomes trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting. Mal and the girl soon find themselves banding together with a crew of misfits to try and survive in a warzone where danger lurks around every corner.
Date Published:2024

Library Journal Starred, Publishers Weekly, As a free A.I., Mal doesn't really care about the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists, although he's not above scouting the battlefield for salvage when the opportunity presents itself. But he winds up directly in the middle of the conflict when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace, and he becomes trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting. Mal and the girl soon find themselves banding together with a crew of misfits to try and survive in a warzone where danger lurks around every corner.

Date Published:2024

Lady Tremaine a novel /

Hochhauser, Rachel,


Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Starred, In this retelling of "Cinderella," twice-widowed Lady Etheldreda Verity Isolde Tremaine Bramley struggles to provide for her two children, stepdaughter, and deteriorating manor. Ethel is determined to use whatever resources she has to secure her daughters' future through marriage. When a royal ball is announced, Ethel risks her pride to get an invitation for her three daughters only to have the wrong one engaged to the future king. Then Ethel discovers the royal family is hiding a secret and she is forced to chose between a secure future and her stepdaughter.
Date Published:2026

Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Starred, In this retelling of "Cinderella," twice-widowed Lady Etheldreda Verity Isolde Tremaine Bramley struggles to provide for her two children, stepdaughter, and deteriorating manor. Ethel is determined to use whatever resources she has to secure her daughters' future through marriage. When a royal ball is announced, Ethel risks her pride to get an invitation for her three daughters only to have the wrong one engaged to the future king. Then Ethel discovers the royal family is hiding a secret and she is forced to chose between a secure future and her stepdaughter.

Date Published:2026

Julie Chan is dead a novel /

Zhang, Liann,


Supermarket cashier Julie Chan is nothing like her identical twin sister, Chloe Van Huusen, a popular influencer, and the two have rarely spoken over the years ever since they were separated at a young age after their parents died. But when Julie discovers Chloe's lifeless body under mysterious circumstances, she finds herself taking over Chloe's glamorous and luxurious life. Julie soon realizes that everything in Chloe's picture-perfect life was not as it seemed, and she starts to wonder if her death was an accident. During a weeklong island retreat with Chloe's exclusive group of influencer friends, Julie starts to worry that assuming Chloe's identity may have led her somewhere far more dangerous than she ever anticipated.
Date Published:2025

Supermarket cashier Julie Chan is nothing like her identical twin sister, Chloe Van Huusen, a popular influencer, and the two have rarely spoken over the years ever since they were separated at a young age after their parents died. But when Julie discovers Chloe's lifeless body under mysterious circumstances, she finds herself taking over Chloe's glamorous and luxurious life. Julie soon realizes that everything in Chloe's picture-perfect life was not as it seemed, and she starts to wonder if her death was an accident. During a weeklong island retreat with Chloe's exclusive group of influencer friends, Julie starts to worry that assuming Chloe's identity may have led her somewhere far more dangerous than she ever anticipated.

Date Published:2025

Hearts on the fly

Shiloh, Toni,


Library Journal Starred, Publishers Weekly, After a traumatic brain injury leaves professional hockey player Jabari Hall facing macular degeneration, he is lost and wonders about his future. To cheer him up, his friends set him up on a blind date, who happens to be Val Elliott, his former girlfriend's sister. Though Val is fiercely loyal to her family, she is sympathetic to Jabari's plight and they form a friendship that quickly leads to something more. Both Jabari and Val must overcome personal obstacles to their being together and must decide if taking the risk is worth it.
Date Published:2026

Library Journal Starred, Publishers Weekly, After a traumatic brain injury leaves professional hockey player Jabari Hall facing macular degeneration, he is lost and wonders about his future. To cheer him up, his friends set him up on a blind date, who happens to be Val Elliott, his former girlfriend's sister. Though Val is fiercely loyal to her family, she is sympathetic to Jabari's plight and they form a friendship that quickly leads to something more. Both Jabari and Val must overcome personal obstacles to their being together and must decide if taking the risk is worth it.

Date Published:2026

First love, second draft

Kinzer, Becca,


Includes discussion questions. She's a romance writer burned out on love. He's her famous baseball star ex-husband. The last man she wants to be forced to work with is the one who broke her heart. Rom-com writer Gracie Parker hasn't written a bestseller since she and her husband, a major league baseball star, divorced five years ago. On thin ice with her publisher--and with a looming deadline--Gracie couldn't have picked a worse time for a painful injury that has her flat on her back. At this point, she'd accept help from anybody . . . except her first love and ex-husband, Noah Parker. The baseball season has just ended in massive disappointment for Noah. He's facing the stark reality that he gave up everything for a career that's let him down and that it might be too late to get back the one person he should've held on to. So when Gracie's nephew calls, saying Gracie's looking for a tenant for her next-door rental, it feels like it's meant to be. All Gracie cares about is turning in her manuscript on time, which is directly at odds with Noah's attempts to win her back, even if she is slightly charmed by his kindness. But can people ever really change? Then Noah throws a curveball that could give Gracie the extension she needs, but it will mean working directly with Noah, something she's not sure she can face. With no other choice, and everything on the line, Gracie must decide if it is too late for a second draft of their own love story.
Date Published:2025

Includes discussion questions. She's a romance writer burned out on love. He's her famous baseball star ex-husband. The last man she wants to be forced to work with is the one who broke her heart. Rom-com writer Gracie Parker hasn't written a bestseller since she and her husband, a major league baseball star, divorced five years ago. On thin ice with her publisher--and with a looming deadline--Gracie couldn't have picked a worse time for a painful injury that has her flat on her back. At this point, she'd accept help from anybody . . . except her first love and ex-husband, Noah Parker. The baseball season has just ended in massive disappointment for Noah. He's facing the stark reality that he gave up everything for a career that's let him down and that it might be too late to get back the one person he should've held on to. So when Gracie's nephew calls, saying Gracie's looking for a tenant for her next-door rental, it feels like it's meant to be. All Gracie cares about is turning in her manuscript on time, which is directly at odds with Noah's attempts to win her back, even if she is slightly charmed by his kindness. But can people ever really change? Then Noah throws a curveball that could give Gracie the extension she needs, but it will mean working directly with Noah, something she's not sure she can face. With no other choice, and everything on the line, Gracie must decide if it is too late for a second draft of their own love story.

Date Published:2025

Fine young people a novel /

Bruno, Anna, 1981-,


Publishers Weekly, After the suicide death of a student at her elite prep school, senior Frankie decides to investigate the death of another student mentioned in the suicide note--a former hockey player named Woolf Whiting--for her senior journalism project. Woolf's story is revealed through interviews with his family and friends, and a web of dark secrets unfolds.
Date Published:2025

Every time I go on vacation, someone dies a novel /

Mack, Catherine,


Library Journal Starred, Publishers Weekly, Successful mystery novelist Eleanor Dash is on a book tour of Italy touting her latest novel and is plotting her next one, in which she plans to kill off her main character, a con man named Connor Smith. The character is named after the real-life Connor Smith, a man she dated of the same name, who now won't leave her alone because he wants royalties from her use of his name. Connor is among a large group of authors and fans who are joining her on the tour, but when his life is threatened and someone on the tour is murdered, her fiction turns real as she must team up with her Connor and others to solve the crime.
Date Published:2024

Library Journal Starred, Publishers Weekly, Successful mystery novelist Eleanor Dash is on a book tour of Italy touting her latest novel and is plotting her next one, in which she plans to kill off her main character, a con man named Connor Smith. The character is named after the real-life Connor Smith, a man she dated of the same name, who now won't leave her alone because he wants royalties from her use of his name. Connor is among a large group of authors and fans who are joining her on the tour, but when his life is threatened and someone on the tour is murdered, her fiction turns real as she must team up with her Connor and others to solve the crime.

Date Published:2024

Every borrowed beat

Stewart, Erin, 1982-,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Starred, Sydney Wells was supposed to have died, but she received an unexpected heart transplant after the tragic death of another girl her age, Mia. Looking into Mia's life out of gratitude, Sydney meets Clayton, Mia's best friend, and together they decide to honor Mia by checking things off of her life vision board. The one thing holding Sydney back from falling for Clayton, though, is that she lied to him about having known Mia--she has kept her heart transplant a secret, and worries she will never be able to tell him.
Date Published:2025

Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Starred, Sydney Wells was supposed to have died, but she received an unexpected heart transplant after the tragic death of another girl her age, Mia. Looking into Mia's life out of gratitude, Sydney meets Clayton, Mia's best friend, and together they decide to honor Mia by checking things off of her life vision board. The one thing holding Sydney back from falling for Clayton, though, is that she lied to him about having known Mia--she has kept her heart transplant a secret, and worries she will never be able to tell him.

Date Published:2025

Young world

Chainani, Soman,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, High school senior Benton Young's world is turned upside down when he winds up with his name on the ballot for the next presidential election following an impulsive move to impress a girl. Provoked by the sentiment of disillusionment shared by many of his generation, he uploads a video daring everyone to interfere with the vote and write him in for President. This sparks a national movement, and soon the Supreme Court intervenes and Benton winds up in the White House. Inspired by Benton's rise, more global youth take to the streets, and more governments fall, until suddenly eight of the world's most powerful nations are led by teenagers. As the young leaders convene at their first summit in Sweden, this new world order is shattered when one of them is murdered and Benton becomes the prime suspect. Benton finds himself in a race against the clock to prove his innocence and identity the real killer while also uncovering a dangerous conspiracy.
Date Published:2026

Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, High school senior Benton Young's world is turned upside down when he winds up with his name on the ballot for the next presidential election following an impulsive move to impress a girl. Provoked by the sentiment of disillusionment shared by many of his generation, he uploads a video daring everyone to interfere with the vote and write him in for President. This sparks a national movement, and soon the Supreme Court intervenes and Benton winds up in the White House. Inspired by Benton's rise, more global youth take to the streets, and more governments fall, until suddenly eight of the world's most powerful nations are led by teenagers. As the young leaders convene at their first summit in Sweden, this new world order is shattered when one of them is murdered and Benton becomes the prime suspect. Benton finds himself in a race against the clock to prove his innocence and identity the real killer while also uncovering a dangerous conspiracy.

Date Published:2026

You, me, and infinity

Caletti, Deb,


Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Seventeen-year-old Margaret never lets her heart love because she's afraid of getting hurt. But when she delivers pizza to Mars's house, the two fall in love and spend hours stargazing under the night sky. Mars shares his obsession with space and Voyager's Golden Record that preserves a time capsule of humanity for infinity. When tragedy strikes, Margaret is devastated, but as she struggles to escape her grief and go on living, she eventually returns to the stars and learns to accept life's beauty and pain.
Date Published:2026

Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Seventeen-year-old Margaret never lets her heart love because she's afraid of getting hurt. But when she delivers pizza to Mars's house, the two fall in love and spend hours stargazing under the night sky. Mars shares his obsession with space and Voyager's Golden Record that preserves a time capsule of humanity for infinity. When tragedy strikes, Margaret is devastated, but as she struggles to escape her grief and go on living, she eventually returns to the stars and learns to accept life's beauty and pain.

Date Published:2026

The verdant cage

Lourey, Jess, 1970-,


School Library Journal, Apothecary Rose Allgood has lived within Noah's Valley all her life, a village surrounded by a stone wall that keeps everyone safe. However, when her mother is murdered on her wedding day and her twin brother framed for the crime, Rose begins an investigation into who killed her mother, and it leads her to uncover her community's terrible secrets and a beast that could kill them all.
Date Published:2026

School Library Journal, Apothecary Rose Allgood has lived within Noah's Valley all her life, a village surrounded by a stone wall that keeps everyone safe. However, when her mother is murdered on her wedding day and her twin brother framed for the crime, Rose begins an investigation into who killed her mother, and it leads her to uncover her community's terrible secrets and a beast that could kill them all.

Date Published:2026

Until next summer

Ashley, Allison,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal Starred, Amelia's favorite thing about summer in Cape Cod is spending all day at the beach with her best friend Kat, but when Kat announces she's leaving to get a head start on tennis training at her new boarding school, Amelia feels totally lost. To pass the time, Amelia gets a job at Pearl's, the local seafood joint, where she finds herself working with Myles Ford, her and Kat's forever crush, but things get complicated when Myles starts to show interest in her. She and Kat have always agreed Myles was off-limits so no boy would ever come between them, so she knows pursuing anything with Myles could drive her and Kat apart. But at the same time, Amelia meets a Gregory, a boy who is new to the area but might not be around for long, and she soon finds herself torn between the two boys and her loyalty to Kat.
Date Published:2026

Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal Starred, Amelia's favorite thing about summer in Cape Cod is spending all day at the beach with her best friend Kat, but when Kat announces she's leaving to get a head start on tennis training at her new boarding school, Amelia feels totally lost. To pass the time, Amelia gets a job at Pearl's, the local seafood joint, where she finds herself working with Myles Ford, her and Kat's forever crush, but things get complicated when Myles starts to show interest in her. She and Kat have always agreed Myles was off-limits so no boy would ever come between them, so she knows pursuing anything with Myles could drive her and Kat apart. But at the same time, Amelia meets a Gregory, a boy who is new to the area but might not be around for long, and she soon finds herself torn between the two boys and her loyalty to Kat.

Date Published:2026