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12+
Release Date
November 07, 2025
In one version of her life, 15-year-old Ramie is just another nameless sophomore surviving the high school social wars. In this version, she has no choice but to be resourceful--and nearly fearless. In this version, she betrays her oldest friend in an act of self-protection. ...
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When foster kid Iz Beaufort starts a music outreach at a local community centre with her friends (and Teo, the boy she sort of kissed last summer), a little girl named Skye discloses something that throws Iz’s life into disarray. Iz knows she needs to help Skye,...
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Author(s)
Age Range
12+
Release Date
December 07, 2025
Two 14-year-old friends, Antoine and Alan, accidentally open a wormhole while exploring a cave in present-day Fredericksburg, Virginia, transporting them to the 1863 Civil War Battle of Chancellorsville. They immediately clash with Justus, a psychopathic Rebel who mistakes Antoine for an escaped slave, nearly killing him. Alan shows up...
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Author(s)
Age Range
13+
Release Date
February 06, 2026
One Town. Two Worlds. No Way Home. A boy washes up on the beach of a quiet seaside town, soaked, shaken, and wearing nothing but pyjamas. He insists he's from here, but the whole place feels... not quite right. ...
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Told through a series of redacted confessions recorded by a secret agency, this is the story of Talya— a girl who’ s equal parts Katniss Everdeen and Harriet the Spy. Sharp-eyed and fiercely independent, she navigates crushes, cliques, bullies, and conspiracies, all while proving one undeniable truth— high school...
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Author(s)
Age Range
13+
Release Date
September 10, 2025
THE STORY London in the year 1976, a place and a time desperate for change. Chris, a 17 year old expat American Air Force brat is shoved into the alien world of a British private (public) school. A gifted classical cellist, Chris struggles to reconcile the focus on form,...
270 0
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Age Range
12+
Release Date
May 12, 2026
Seventeen-year-old Birdie lives for danger— from rooftopping abandoned hotels to chasing the perfect shot for her Instagram alter ego, Bad Altitude. Her dying Florida beach town may be crumbling, but her follower count is rising fast. She’ s one viral post away from escaping the Space Coast for good....
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In the domed city of Tranquility, happiness isn’t just expected—it’s enforced. Every citizen wears an Alt, a wrist device that monitors emotions and punishes even the slightest hint of sadness, anger, or fear. Sixteen-year-old Ember Vinata has always played by the rules…until the sudden death of her mother shatters...
The Ballad of Innes of Skara Skaill
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Age Range
16+
Release Date
September 23, 2025
Returning to the Northern Isles of Skara Skaill, a bereaved son takes up with two young brothers living outcast on the village streets and moors of Skara Heath, and after running afoul of the corrupted local authority, they band together in a struggle both ancient and new, a struggle...
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Behind a bright red door on a random concrete wall on an ordinary street in New York, or Birmingham, or Tokyo is a thrift shop like no other. You don’t come to shop here, the shop comes to you. It beckons to you from where fate meets...
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Author(s)
Age Range
15+
Release Date
May 06, 2025
A desperate runaway. A beautiful stranger. A love powerful enough to destroy them both. Ren Cole is at the end of her rope. Consumed by the guilt of her father's death, the eighteen-year-old runaway is desperate and alone until...
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Haven Alexander is the whole package: co-captain of Cross Country and Track, excelling in her classes, volunteering at church, loving and supporting her neurodiverse older brother, Paul, and being—according to her friend (and sort-of crush) Alice—a babe. Albeit a fresh-faced, basketball shorts and flip flops wearing babe who could...
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Author(s)
Age Range
13+
Release Date
January 09, 2026
Seventeen-year-old Tulip Burns is already unraveling. She is grieving her father, drifting from her mother, and watching her friendships fracture when something impossible happens: her childhood friend Tony triggers an awakening and Tulip learns that she is Persephone, the reincarnated goddess of Spring. ...
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Genre(s)
Age Range
13+
Release Date
December 01, 2025
Her father died for his secrets. Now they might get her killed. In the divided world of Talish, magic is power, and power is tightly controlled. As a Crafter, Natsu is told to keep her head down, her abilities hidden, and her future planned- a future that comes with...
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Penny Hartley has big plans for the summer of 1975. Instead of spending time with her family, she plans to make memories with her friends in Moose Creek by picking peaches, listening to her favorite musicians, and having a fun 15th birthday. Her childhood friend, Darren, looks different when...
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