Published: 3/28/23 Publisher: Delacorte Press Author: Website Info: Goodreads Theo and her brother, Marco, threw the biggest party of the year. And got caught. Their punishment? Leave Arizona to spend the summer with their grandmother in the rainy beachside town of Nightfall, Oregon–population 846 souls. The small town is cute, when it’s not raining, but their grandmother is superstitious and strangely antisocial. Upon their arrival she lays out the one house rule: always be home before dark. But Theo and Marco are determined to make the most of their summer, and on their first day they meet ..read more

Published: February 21, 2023 Publisher: Wednesday Books Author: Website Info: Goodreads The town of Bishop is known for exactly two things: recurring windstorms and an endless field of sunflowers that stretches farther than the eye can see. And women—missing women. So when three more women disappear one stormy night, no one in Bishop is surprised. The case is closed and their daughters are left in their dusty shared house with the shattered pieces of their lives. Until the wind kicks up a terrible secret at their mothers’ much-delayed memorial. With secrets come the lies each of the girls is ..read more

Published: February 7, 2023 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Author: Website Info: Goodreads In the city of Ombrazia, saints and their disciples rule with terrifying and unjust power, playing favorites while the unfavored struggle to survive. After her father’s murder at the hands of the Ombrazian military, Rossana Lacertosa is willing to do whatever it takes to dismantle the corrupt system—tapping into her powers as a disciple of Patience, joining the rebellion, and facing the boy who broke her heart. As the youngest captain in the history of Palazzo security, Damian Venturi ..read more

Pub Date: January 31, 2023 Publisher: Delacorte Press Author: Website Info: Goodreads Nova Albright, the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High, is dead. Murdered the night of her coronation, her body found the next morning in the old slave cemetery she spent her weekends rehabilitating. Tinsley McArthur was supposed to be queen. Not only is she beautiful, wealthy, and white, it’s her legacy—her grandmother, her mother, and even her sister wore the crown before her. Everyone in Lovett knows Tinsley would do anything to carry on the McArthur tradition. No one is more certain of that than ..read more

Published: October 11, 2022 Publisher: Annick Press Author: Website Info: Goodreads With her dad’s incarceration, escalating fights with her mom, and an overbearing stepdad she’s not sure she can trust, Asha is desperate for the fresh start promised by a move to the country. Her great aunt Aggie’s crumbling, pest-ridden house isn’t exactly what she had in mind, but the immediate connection she makes with her new neighbor Cole seems like a good sign. Soon, though, Asha’s optimism is shadowed by strange and disturbing occurrences within the old house’s walls: footsteps stalking the halls; a per ..read more

Published: September 6, 2022 Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Author: Website Info: Goodreads When Springville residents—at least the ones still alive—are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation… Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she’s dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of ..read more

RAISING THE HORSEMAN by Serena Valentino Where did I stop? 24% in Why? I was so incredibly excited for this book and so incredibly let down by it. The prologue is just a tl;dr of the headless horseman story. It adds nothing to the story I’m supposed to be reading. The third omniscient voice is just not a fit for me. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it in YA, but it created such a huge narrative distance between me and Kat that I just couldn’t care about her. I appreciate what the voice was trying to do, but I just don’t think it fits for YA. Then Sleepy Hollow is made to be this incredibly isola ..read more

Published: February 24, 2011 Publisher: Dead River Books (self) Author: Website Info: Goodreads So far, life in Peachville has been tough for Harper Madison. She’s survived attacks on her life, learned how to control her magic, and met the most gorgeous boy — who also happens to be a demon. After her latest stunt at Brighton Hospital, the Order of Shadows is determined to tighten their control on her life. So when a future Prima from a nearby demon gate comes to town, she and Harper decide to use magic to switch places at a party. All Harper wants is to have a little fun. But the night will e ..read more

Published: September 6, 2022 Publisher: Wednesday Books Author: Website Info: Goodreads Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of Sherlock, is now living independently in London and working as a scientific perditorian (a finder of persons and things). But that is not the normal lot of young women in Victorian England. They are under the near absolute control of their nearest male relative until adulthood. Such is the case of Enola’s friend, Lady Cecily Alastair. Twice before Enola has rescued Lady Cecily from unpleasant designs of her caddish father, Sir Eustace Alastair, Baronet. And when Eno ..read more

Published: September 6, 2022 Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Books for Young Readers Author: Website Info: Goodreads Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell–or were they pushed?–remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day. . . . Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ghost tour on Toronto Island. He tries to make it scary enough to satisfy the tourists, but he doesn’t actually believe in ghosts–until he finds himself face to face with Rebecca Strand. Th ..read more