**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) HarperTeen, 2022 ISBN-13: :978-0062954046 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Blood Scion is horrific but I don’t know if I would call it horror– it is African fantasy. Sloane Shade is a Scion– a blood descendant of an Orisha, a child […]
Category: YA books
BOOK REVIEW: THE LOST GIRLS BY SONIA HARTL
May 24, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Page Street Publishing, 2022 ISBN: 9781645673149 Available: Hardcover, e-book, audiobook ( Bookshop.org ) In this book, a group of young women who were turned by the same gaslighting vampire team up to take him down. Since 1987, Holly has been an eternal teenager, stuck with one of the era’s […]
Book Review: The Book of Living Secrets by Madeline Roux
March 15, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk. ** Quill Tree Press, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-0062941428 Available: Preorder (available March 8) hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) So many readers wish they could enter the worlds of their favorite books. The Book of Living Secrets will make them think twice. Adelle and Connie have been best friends for […]
**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-0062652638 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) In Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales, Soman Chainani brings us tales so sharp they cut, with teen protagonists who seize their agency, and subversive, unexpected re-visionings of 12 familiar stories. The standout story in this collection […]
Book Review: All These Bodies by Kendare Blake
February 24, 2022**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Quill Tree Books, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-0062977168 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) In All These Bodies, Kendare Blake imagines a murder spree throughout the Midwest in the summer of 1958, known as the “Bloodless Murders” or “Dracula Murders” because the victims have all been drained of blood. On September […]
Book Review: The Book of Living Secrets by Madeline Roux
February 19, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Quill Tree Press, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-0062941428 Available: Preorder (available March 8) hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) So many readers wish they could enter the worlds of their favorite books. The Book of Living Secrets will make them think twice. Adelle and Connie have been best friends for years, […]
Book Review: All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue
January 27, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Walker Books, 2021 ISBN: 978-1536213942 Available: Hardcover, audiobook, ebook (Bookshop.org) O’Donoghue’s foray into YA literature delivers tricks and treats for fans of Gothic, mystic stories dealing with social themes; but magic doesn’t solve everything this character-driven YA paranormal fantasy set in contemporary Ireland. Sentenced to cleanup duty in detention, 16 […]
Book Review: Ember of Night by Molly E. Lee
January 6, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk. ** Entangled Teen, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-1649370310 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Harley is just about to turn eighteen and escape her abusive father with her younger sister Ray when Draven comes into her life. There’s a chemistry between them she can’t deny, but her life is […]
Book Review: House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
October 29, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Delacorte, 2019 ISBN-13 : 978-1984831927 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) House of Salt and Sorrows is the strangest version of the fairytale “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” I have come across to date. The Duke of Salten had twelve daughters. His wife died in childbirth with […]
Book Review: Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters
October 26, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** HarperTeen, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0062894229 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Shady Grove grew up in a haunted house, and her father owned a violin that could raise ghosts, but it disappeared when he died in a car accident when she was twelve. Like him, Shady is a […]