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| Sisters in the Wind by Angeline BoulleyWhen Lucy meets someone who claims to help Native American foster kids reconnect with their communities, she’s skeptical. She’s also pretty busy trying to outwit a violent stalker. Fans of Angeline Boulley’s Firekeeper’s Daughter and Warrior Girl Unearthed will recognize familiar characters in this powerful mystery. |
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| Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories by Cynthia Leitich Smith, editorSandy June’s Legendary Frybread Drive-In is a food truck that appears wherever Indigenous people across North America need to meet. It provides the setting for the linked stories in this touching and magical anthology that takes readers from Hawai’i to Alaska to Manitoba and many liminal places in between. |
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Bitten
by Jordan Gray
After losing her best friend and being bitten in a werewolf attack, 17-year-old Vanessa Hart, now a newly turned werewolf, seeks vengeance on the Wolf Queen's Court, where she becomes mesmerized by a prince who is promised to another.
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Verity Vox and the curse of Foxfire
by Don Martin
"Verity Vox is a witch-in-training who has never met a problem her spells can't solve. But when a cryptic plea for help sends her to the forgotten coal mining town of Foxfire, she soon learns even magic has its limits. Verity discovers a curse was laid years ago by a traveling magician who vanished into the ancient Appalachian hills to seek greater power. Crops won't grow. Bellies go hungry. Even treasured possessions fall apart. What's worse, people have gone missing amidst rumors that they've sought out the magician who is lying in wait for those foolish or desperate enough to strike a deal with him"
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Let's Split Up
by Bill Wood
Set in 2001 Sanera, California --a small, quiet community where nothing ever happens -- the shocking murders shake everyone, leaving them to believe the ghost of a murdered landowner has finally taken his revenge. Join Cam, Jonesy, Amber, and the new girl Buffy as they dig deeper into the sinister secrets of the mansion. With every clue they uncover, the eerie rumors seem frighteningly real. As they decide whether to stick together or split up to find evidence, they must face the ultimate question: will this decision be their salvation or their doom?
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| The Bad Ones by Melissa AlbertBefore Becca disappeared, she left clues only her former best friend Nora could decode. Now Nora must figure out how Becca’s disappearance ties to a childhood game of theirs. Fans of urban legends will enjoy this creepy supernatural horror laced with mystery.
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How to survive a slasher
by Justine Pucella Winans
CJ Smith's hometown of Satterville was the site of two massacres, which CJ and his dad survived, and when an unpublished manuscript from a mysterious writer shows up addressed to CJ predicting new murders, CJ sets out to stop them.
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| Immortal Dark by Tigest GirmaHoping to locate her kidnapped sister, Kidan enrolls in Uxlay Academy, where she can get close to the suspect, a vampire named Susenyos. She’s supposed to hate Susenyos, but she finds herself fascinated with him instead. Read-alikes: Sharina Harris’ Sign of the Slayer; Jenni Howell’s Boys With Sharp Teeth. |
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When devils sing
by Xan Kaur
Four unlikely allies in a small Southern town investigate the disappearance of a local teen, uncovering a dark and ancient evil rooted in their community, far more sinister than they could have imagined. In a small Southern town, four unlikely allies investigate the disappearance of a local teen, uncovering a dark and ancient evil lurking beneath their community, far more sinister than they ever imagined
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| The Dark We Know by Wen-Yi LeeHome for her abusive father’s funeral, art student Isadora Chang reunites with an estranged friend. Together they investigate their mutual friends' deaths. Is there a connection with the gruesome sketches Isadora doesn’t remember drawing? This enthralling Gothic novel spins horrors from childhood trauma and small-town secrets. |
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| Flawless Girls by Anna-Marie McLemoreUnsettled by the elite finishing school Alarie House, Isla left immediately. When her sister Renata graduates and returns home raging and unrecognizable, Isla must return to Alarie House to find out what happens there. This lyrical book highlights the horror of how women are pressured to achieve perfection.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Arkansas Library System
100 Rock St.
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201
501-918-3000www.cals.org/ |
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