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Star Wars Visions: Tsukumo
by Eiichi Shimizu
Among the survivors is Jedi Knight Nagi Tsukumo. Betrayed, poisoned, and on the run, he joins forces with two droid outcasts searching the galaxy for coordinates to a fabled Droid Paradise. With an Imperial assassin hot on their tail, Nagi, along with droids Dee-Seven and Ee-Ten, must find the rumored utopia before the Empire catches up with them. But when they finally reach their destination, all seems lost. Can one Jedi overcome the Empire's influence, or will peace demand the ultimate sacrifice?
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Practically Magic
by Jen Calonita
The Hadley sisters of Mystic Hollow are magic. Literally. But for all the generations of witches behind her, Kat Hadley could swear that she's utterly invisible to boys. Then she learns that her perfect older sister, Harriet, cast a curse to protect her from heartbreak. Kat is so furious, she loses control--and it's not just their sisterhood that shatters. It's magic itself. Suddenly, every spell a Hadley witch has ever cast starts reversing. Spells to do good start bringing evil. Curses to repel suddenly attract. And the veil between worlds begins to thin. If Kat and Harriet don't do something fast, this Halloween might be Mystic Hollow's last. As they race to repair the balance of magic--and their relationship--Kat notices that every crush who's ever rejected her is suddenly magically lovesick.
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| Such Great Heights by Rajani LaroccaSiya was 10 years old when her attorney mother died in a car accident. Now a high school senior on the mock trial team, Siya encounters a case mirroring her mother’s story, prompting her to uncover family secrets. This sweeping novel is a retelling of Hindu epic the Ramayana. |
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| Nest of Tongues by Randy RibaySiblings Lily and Caleb are Bay Area teens with a big secret: they’re vampires. When a monster hunter targets Caleb, the two seek to uncover the hunter’s identity before it’s too late. This page-turning horror novel is rooted in Filipino vampire mythology. |
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Monster Monarch Maiden
by Rae Carson
Bria's life was simple until raiders took everything from her. Now, with only her strange Gift and a mysterious traveler named Titus, she must face a dangerous quest that will test what she believes and discovers who she truly is.
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Beast
by Richard Van Camp
Lawson Sauren's life has always been entwined with the lives of the Cranes brothers. Cody Cranes became an unexpected friend when they shared a tent at summer camp--but now he's disappeared. Star athlete Stanley Cranes survived the canoe accident that killed Lawson's mother but has been a shell of himself ever since. Silver Cranes--jeez, the guy was downright scary even before he made some kind of occult pact resurrecting the Dead One, a ghoulish, cruel, powerful spirit hellbent on destroying peace treaties like the centuries-old one between the Dogrib and Chipewyan which Lawson and the Cranes boys are tasked with preserving. Determined to save his community from the Dead One's ravenous maw, Lawson must step into his role as a Dogrib Yabati, or protector, and recruit his friends Isaiah Valentine, a Cree Grass Dancer, and Shari Burns, a Metis psychic, to face what Silver Cranes has called back.
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Where Wolves Don't Die
by Anton Treuer
Ezra is suspected of setting his bully’s house on fire. To escape a potentially racist police investigation, he goes to Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation in Canada, where his grandfather teaches him wilderness knowledge and family history.
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A Snake Falls to Earth
by Darcie Little Badger
Nina, a 16-year-old Lipan Apache girl from Texas, believes her family's stories about shapeshifting animal people. Oli, a cottonmouth snake person, who emerges from the Reflecting World seeking help for an ancient friend. Together, Nina and Oli must untangle the interconnected problems of Earth and the Reflecting World.
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The Marrow Thieves
by Cherie Dimaline
In a world where most people have lost the ability to dream, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous boy who is still able to dream struggles for survival against an army of "recruiters" who seek to steal his marrow and return dreams to the rest of the world
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Hunting by Stars (a Marrow Thieves Novel)
by Cherie Dimaline
French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just how much, and whom, he is willing to sacrifice to survive and be reunited with Rose and the others.
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