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The Witch of White Lady Hollow by C. David Belt

The Witch of White Lady Hollow by C. David Belt

Magnus, the masked, mysterious High Priest of the Circle, will stop at nothing to possess Tabitha Moonshadow and her Power… and Tabitha has no idea she’s a witch. Tabitha Moonshadow and her mom, Molly, are running away. It’s 1978, and seventeen year-old Tabitha has just spent a disastrous summer with her dad, Molly’s ex-husband. So mother and daughter flee to a small town in southeast […]

November 15, 2021 / 0 Comments
She Who Rides the Storm by Caitlin Sangster

She Who Rides the Storm by Caitlin Sangster

Long ago, shapeshifting monsters ruled the Commonwealth using blasphemous magic that fed on the souls of their subjects. Now, hundreds of years later, a new tomb has been uncovered, and despite the legends that disturbing a shapeshifter’s final resting place will wake them once again, the Warlord is determined to dig it up. But it isn’t just the Warlord who means to brave the traps […]

September 21, 2021 / 0 Comments
Duplex by Orson Scott Card

Duplex by Orson Scott Card

Ryan wakes up to find his contractor dad building walls to turn their big old house into a duplex. The family that moves into the other side includes Bizzy Horvat, the pretty girl he has a crush on at school. Bizzy claims her mother is a witch with the power to curse people with clumsiness or, in Bizzy’s case, astonishing beauty. When a bee gets […]

September 7, 2021 / 0 Comments
Lost and Found by Orson Scott Card

Lost and Found by Orson Scott Card

“Are you really a thief?” That’s the question that has haunted fourteen-year-old Ezekiel Blast all his life. But he’s not a thief, he just has a talent for finding things. Not a superpower—a micropower. Because what good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, especially when you return them to their owners and everyone thinks you must have stolen them in the first place? If […]

September 10, 2019 / 0 Comments
The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Ally Condie

The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Ally Condie

Who do you become when you have nothing left to lose? There is something Poe Blythe, the seventeen-year-old captain of the Outpost’s last mining ship, wants far more than the gold they tear from the Serpentine River. Revenge. Poe has vowed to annihilate the river raiders who robbed her of everything two years ago. But as she navigates the treacherous waters of the Serpentine and […]

March 26, 2019 / 0 Comments
Quantum Faith Effect: Emergence by Carolyn Twede Frank

Quantum Faith Effect: Emergence by Carolyn Twede Frank

Life is just getting more complicated for Josh Sawyer… He won the big debate against his teacher, and he’s just made it onto the high school basketball team. He thinks things are starting to smooth out, but a mysterious pill bottle shows up in his locker, and something strange is going on in the school’s basement. When his biology teacher begins bashing Josh’s newfound faith, […]

July 24, 2016 / 0 Comments
My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

The comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, and only a passing resemblance to actual history—because sometimes history needs a little help. At sixteen, Lady Jane Grey is about to be married off to a stranger and caught up in a conspiracy to rob her cousin, King Edward, of […]

June 7, 2016 / 1 Comment
Quantum Faith Effect: Existence by Carolyn Twede Frank

Quantum Faith Effect: Existence by Carolyn Twede Frank

What if a book really could take you into another world? A strange girl… A creepy teacher… A cool invention… And the hardest question anyone has ever been asked. Josh Sawyer’s big mouth usually gets him in trouble, but when his high school debate coach challenges him to prove the existence of God, Josh uses the things he learns at the feet of such amazing […]

April 23, 2016 / 0 Comments
Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins

Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins

Country clubs and garden parties. The last thing Cassandra wants is to spend the summer before her senior year marooned in a snooty Massachusetts shore town. Cass craves drama and adventure, which is hard when she just feels stuck. But when a dreamy stranger shows up on her family’s private beach, claiming that it is his property—and that the year is 1925—Cass is swept into […]

November 7, 2015 / 0 Comments
Airships of Camelot by Robison Wells

Airships of Camelot by Robison Wells

It was said to be the “war to end all wars,” but in the end, the millions who died in the trenches of France were nothing more than a speck—a germ—in the true world war that left nation after nation devastated. The Spanish Influenza (known colloquially to survivors as merely “The Spain”) killed a higher percentage of its victims than the machine guns raking No […]

October 16, 2015 / 0 Comments