Synopsis Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider, taunted by her tight-knit classmates for growing up far away. So, when a local girl includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet giveaway to honor her missing sister, Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends. Instead, a girl […]
Synopsis Castillo Torres, Student Body Association event chair and serial planner could use a fairy godmother. After a disastrous mishap at her sister’s quinceañera, all of Cas’s plans are crumbling. So when a local lifestyle-guru-slash-party-planner opens up applications for the internship of her dreams, Cas sees it as the perfect opportunity to learn every […]
THE GHOST OF WHISPERING WILLOW Second Edition By AMANDA M. THRASHER Children’s Horror / Fantasy / Magic / Chapter Book Publisher: Progressive Rising Phoenix Press Page Count: 246 Publication Date: January 9, 2024 Synopsis Full of surprises, feuds, kidnappings and a family reunited! Stewart sees a ghostly figure out of the […]
Synopsis Edwardian England Gwendolyn Deering was sent away to St Ursula’s School for Young Ladies six years ago, and she has no idea why. Estranged from her own family, she forms a new one with the troubled teens at her school, and tries to be at least a tiny bit happy. Except that […]
Synopsis Joaquin Zoido is out and proud of it. And while he knew his dad and sister, Carmen, would be super supportive, he wasn’t quite ready for them to surprise him with a “queerceñera,” a coming out party to celebrate him. Between all the talks of tastings, venues, and the chirping of his family’s […]
JUST A HAT By Shanah Khubiar Young Adult / Coming of Age / Jewish Fiction / Small-Town Texas / 1970s Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Page Count: 254 Publication Date: July 18, 2023 Scroll down for giveaway! Action-packed, humorous, and bittersweet, this 1970s-era […]
Synopsis Dying has its perks…mostly. Bullied teen, Ember O’Neill goes from the weird girl to the tyrant of her school when she is resurrected from a deadly prank. Now secretly supernatural, she dethrones the school drama queen and snags the hot new guy, but her reign is at risk when the Order, […]
Synosis Twelve-year-old James Rhyder is being hunted by people from a hidden world he never knew existed. Unlike most people his age, James doesn’t dream at night of becoming a hero. Rather, his dreams are filled with shadowy figures and cryptic warnings about the end of the world. As these strange […]
Amethyst, The Shallows by Kellye Abernathy YA / Magical Realism / Coming of Age Publisher: Atmosphere Press Page Count: 296 pages Publication Date: February 6, 2024 Scroll down for a giveaway! “This is a night for being brave.” In the aftermath of a devastating sickness […]
Synopsis A supernatural journal. Two kids in over their heads. Can they lead a new Chicago police officer to success in the dangerous south side of the city? Danielle and Noah’s curiosity gets the best of them when they find another magical diary about an officer’s second year in the country’s second-largest […]