"Leftwich Blues/Elfwitch Rules" is an engaging fantasy novel in which teenagers in an alternate reality receive powerful messages about faith and family. Adventure, alternative worlds, and the strength of family come together in Jeffrey... Read More

The magic system of Jamie Pacton’s delightful, haunting fantasy novel "The Vermilion Emporium" pays tribute to the Radium Girls, who met tragic ends. Quinta is an orphan who fears she will never live up to her mother’s magical life.... Read More

Lauri Starling’s "Poison Forest" recasts the epic high fantasy quest with queer teenagers in love, mixing dark violence with a tempestuous cocktail of hormones, high drama, and happy endings. It’s Princess Thedramora’s death day,... Read More

An action-packed space opera that’s not afraid of guts, glory, or going against the grain, K. M. Watts’s "Born Andromeda" showcases a new type of princess whose success hinges on being true to herself. Andromeda of Celestine isn’t... Read More

In Lori Weber’s enthralling historical novel "The Ribbon Leaf", a girls’ friendship changes after Kristallnacht, though their memories still sustain them across an ocean and a decade. In 1938 in Germany, twelve-year-old Sabine is... Read More

Sacha Lamb’s "When the Angels Left the Old Country" is a luminescent novel about two incidental supernatural emigres. In a shtetl too small to warrant its own name, an angel and a demon argue Talmud together, wrapping themselves in the... Read More

Rose Egal’s fantastical novel "The Sevenfold Hunters" follows the seven students who are humanity’s best hope against vampiric alien invaders, the Nosaru. To casual observers, Carlisle Academy appears to be an elite boarding school... Read More

An African teenager comes of age between countries and cultures in Ebele Chizea’s engrossing young adult novel "Aquarian Dawn". In the 1960s, Ada moves to Pennsylvania from Nabuka, a country riven by civil war and genocide. Her mother,... Read More