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Ros has finally found Eddy, the girlfriend they’ve always wanted. But Ros can’t tell her the truth: that they are trans, and want to live in a male body. At a party Ros’s classmates “discover” they’re a lesbian – but that’s not the true story....
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Age Range
13+
Release Date
August 18, 2026
The stakes only get higher for Patya in this heart-stopping sequel to Call of the Owl Woman, which features a tenacious heroine and vivid villains who will mesmerize fans of the magical and keep armchair travelers at the edge of their seats. In sixth-century Peru, Patya’s world...
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Age Range
12+
Release Date
November 15, 2025
Character Revolt is an audacious and darkly comedic fantasy novel that pulls back the curtain on what happens when fictional characters, tired of their fates, declare open rebellion against their creator. Author Hank Quense, renowned for crafting the world of Zaftan 31B and the medieval land of Gundarland, finds...
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Age Range
13+
Release Date
May 13, 2025
In a tale inspired by Peru’s Andean cosmovision and earth-centered spirituality, Call of the Owl Woman is a gripping coming-of-age story for people who like to immerse themselves in other times, places, and cultures, people who love adventure, and those who are drawn to the mystical and magical. ...
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Co-Authors / Illustrators
- Caroline Gracely
- Ethan Gettman
- Gill Donovan
Age Range
12+
Release Date
October 02, 2022
By age thirteen, the list of nasty foster homes Goff had lived in was longer than he was old. He'd given up on having friends long ago. He survived by keeping his head down, hiding from bullies, ignoring teasing morons, and pouring himself into earning a Scholarship to Amworth...
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Age Range
14+
Release Date
August 27, 2025
Seventeen-year-old Grey Evans loves her job cleaning cages each morning at the pet shop before school: the parakeets hanging upside down from her hair, the mice with pinto pony patches and especially a baby guinea pig who trills and purrs when she’s nearby. Even though she’s convinced she’ll forget...
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Sixteen-year-old Alice Carroll is a self-illustrated girl; grieving her mother's death two years before, hating her father for abandoning her and resenting her grandmother's low expectations, she armors herself with ink before entering a new high school in a privileged neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Her entry into that Wonderland...
Moon Spirit
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Age Range
13+
Release Date
October 13, 2024
Her magic orb wasn't supposed to wake up for a human, but it chose him and turned his world upside down. Literary Titan Silver Medal, Booklife Editor's Pick, Indie Reader Approved, Kirkus Verdict: Get It For...
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Age Range
12+
Release Date
July 27, 2025
She wanted to prove girls can code. Unleashing an alien invasion? Not so much. Lexi just wanted to shut up some online trolls and prove she could hack with the best of them. But when her code helps unlock a mysterious signal from deep space, it unleashes...
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Age Range
14+
Release Date
October 15, 2025
In a hilarious near-future romp, a chill surf-obsessed teen and a digitally banished girl are humanity's last hope to stop an AI takeover—and save us all from eternal detention. Wyoming Plankston is a master of doing nothing. Senior year at Lockhead—the boarding school for America's dimmest rich...
A Fix of Light
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14+
Release Date
May 06, 2025
A queer love story with a dark magical twist, from an astonishing new Irish voice. Be careful. The dark is listening. Hanan is supposed to be dead. The forest outside Skenashogue sent him home alive – but changed. A strange new magic makes...
Blood Circus: Ice Moon, Book 2
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Genre(s)
Age Range
13+
Release Date
September 23, 2025
Return to the untamed wilderness where survival demands sacrifice in the gripping sequel to the dark, seductive world of Blood Circus. Ava may have survived the deadly Blood Race at Circo, but on human soil, she is a fugitive, hiding her true identity for...
Solo
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Author(s)
Age Range
14+
Release Date
May 27, 2025
A YA verse novel about first love and friendship, lost and found. Daisy can feel like a solo act at home. On the outside of her twin brothers’ intense relationship, she leans towards her parents, particularly her father, for support. As a passionate classical musician, she is not...
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Age Range
12+
Release Date
April 17, 2025
Meet Rossamünd, a foundling, a boy with a girl's name who is about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor of the Half-Continent. What starts as a simple journey becomes a dangerous and complicated set of battles and decisions. Humans, monsters, unearthly creatures . ....
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Genre(s)
Age Range
12+
Release Date
December 10, 2024
The Half-Continent grows ever more dangerous—monster attacks are rising, and every far-ung village cries out for help. Into this perilous world, lamplighters journey daily, lighting roads to safeguard travelers. It's not a job for the faint-hearted, with new reports of deadly theroscades arriving each week. Rossamünd Bookchild,...
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