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When Aunt Agatha sends Hannah a book about the Connemara Witches strange things begin to happen. Hannah has no idea that she comes from a family of witches but on her 12th birthday, she is shocked to learn that she is a Grand Witch and must go to the...
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Author(s)
Age Range
15+
Release Date
September 12, 2016
Who would want to execute my brother? Branded as a slave by a wicked ruler, 17-year-old Camilla has just received a cryptic note warning that her brother is being hunted down for a crime Camilla knows he didn’t commit, or so she thinks… The Sacrifice...
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When was the last time you confronted the skeletons in your closest? Immediately following book one, “Elephant,” Matthew “Matty” Smith awakens from his coma and discovers that his worst nightmare is all true: his grandmother, Jamie, and Derek have gone missing and his mother murdered his father...
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Author(s)
Age Range
12+
Release Date
April 01, 2021
A charming coming of age story wrapped around a murder, a betrayal and a national crisis. Eleven-year-old Johnny tries to make sense of a murder, an absent father, and the FLQ Crisis through heart and humour-filled letters to hockey legend Dave Keon. Dripping with nostalgia...
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Age Range
14+
Release Date
July 08, 2021
Heartbreaking yet heartwarming – a coming-of-age story filled with love, loss, and blossoming friendships. Freddie’s life isn’t like it used to be – he’s alone, homeless, and carrying a secret that threatens to swallow him up. Every day is a struggle, until he meets Violet Johnson. Violet’s...
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Author(s)
Age Range
14+
Release Date
February 11, 2021
The story follows Vũ Thanh, a smart but cynical girl who always thinks things through before making any decision, on her trip back home for the Lunar New Year. On her way home, she met Điền Mục, a young man of whom she had a strong disliking first impression....
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Eighth grader Penny Preston is worse than suspended. She's misaligned: that means she exists in more than three dimensions at once, which gives her the power to fix and prevent dimensional rifts. She must embrace her special powers when dangerous higher-dimensional beings threaten to invade Piper Falls. ...
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Author(s)
Genre(s)
Age Range
13+
Release Date
February 14, 2021
Roses are red Violets are blue Out of all of the boys Why am I stuck with you Finn I didn’t mean to volunteer for the Valentine’s Day Planning Committee. I was just reaching out to pass Shay Munroe her folder when Mrs. Darcy thought I’d raised my hand....
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Co-Authors / Illustrators
- Sonia Liao
Genre(s)
Age Range
12+
Release Date
April 27, 2021
An action-adventure original graphic novel, The Curie Society follows a team of young women recruited by an elite secret society—originally founded by Marie Curie—with the mission of supporting the most brilliant female scientists in the world. The heroines of the Curie Society use their smarts, gumption, and cutting-edge technology...
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How do you succeed where a legend failed? Eighth-grader Penny Preston thought she knew how to handle the Bodach, spirits from the 5th dimension. But when a primordial power threatens to tear the fabric of the multiverse, higher-dimensional energy seeps into Piper Falls, New York, and re-energizes...
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There’s more to this scepter than meets the eye. Eighth grader Penny Preston unwittingly releases two time-travelers from the distant past. One is an elf-like spirit from Celtic myth with a penchant for igniting fires, and the other is the sole survivor from an ancient civilization that...
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When was the last time you were shut down for experiencing a mental health struggle or feeling unheard by others, including those closest to you? Summer of 2006. Four childhood best friends. A family secret. After a strange encounter leaves him hospitalized, a timid teenage...
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Author(s)
Age Range
13+
Release Date
June 03, 2021
A laugh-out-loud coming of age story of one teen’s preposterous experience in a wilderness therapy program. Daniel grew up in the shadow of his older sister, the brash, self-assured, and utterly reckless Jackie, now living with her dirtbag boyfriend and wandering through dead-end jobs. When his parents...
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Joy Luminieé, a scrappy teen from Queens, NY, can barely hold together her own sanity. But with having to babysit her lovesick mother, who is still pining away for her abusive husband, the last thing Joy expects is her best friend, Giovanni, needing help with his seemingly perfect family....
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Author(s)
Age Range
12+
Release Date
June 15, 2021
CONNECTING IS TOUGH WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN TOUCH Sixteen-year-old Phoebe Benson wasn't always germophobic. There was a time she didn't worry obsessively about rogue pathogens lurking on every surface, lying in wait to contaminate her. But that was before her brother Toby's premature birth left him with underdeveloped lungs....
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