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Owl King
by Bex Hogan
In a world of glittering faery courts and dangerous magic, sisters Ilsette and Lyla are summoned to the Owl King’s realm, where the power‑hungry ruler drains magic from others and chooses brides to keep himself strong. When he sets his sights on Lyla, Ilsette races into strange worlds of twin moons and scarlet stars to steal the Owl King’s lost feather talisman and save her sister. Lyla keeps the king distracted with her stories, but time is slipping away, and Ilsette must outsmart tricksters, shadow faeries, and a sly magpie—only to learn that rescuing Lyla might mean breaking the fragile peace between all the faery realms.
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| Change of Plans by Sarah DessenFinley’s annual visit with her mom unexpectedly turns into a stay at a lake house with estranged family members. As Finley gets a job, makes new friends, and bonds with new-to-her family, she finds her whole outlook shifting. |
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Shards of Silence
by Brian Lee Young
A scholarship to an elite boarding school is a huge opportunity for Derrick, who grew up in Navajo Nation. While rocked by culture shock and academic pressure, he learns more about his beloved great-grandmother’s experience at a brutal residential school.
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The Last Best Quest Ever
by F. T. Lukens
Ellinore, the kingdom’s most famous quester, is secretly a fraud—but when her twin brother Zig bets his life on her retrieving the Elder Beast’s horn, she’s forced into one last dangerous mission. With Zig, her rival Aven, and a mismatched crew at her side, Ellinore faces monsters, messy feelings, and the truth about who she really wants to be before time runs out.
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Rolls and Rivalry
by Kristy Boyce
Hazel Buchanan has her senior year perfectly planned—until Max, her ex–best friend and longtime crush, suddenly moves back to town with a bad attitude and a pair of drumsticks. They bicker nonstop, and thanks to their meddling parents, Max ends up crashing her D&D campaign too. As Hazel tries to keep control as Dungeon Master, the game starts pulling them closer, and she realizes their rivalry might be hiding something a lot more complicated.
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Lake Life
by Tanya Boteju
Maya is stuck spending the summer at her family cabin, trying to avoid her best friend Rashida after confessing her unreturned crush. Gabe gets dragged to Spruce Lake by her mom and expects total boredom—until she meets Maya. The two team up in a fake‑dating plan to make Rashida jealous and convince Gabe’s mom she’s changed, but as protests, small‑town drama, and real feelings get in the way, Maya and Gabe realize love and friendship are way messier than they expected.
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Run Away With Me
by Brian Selznick
Danny is spending a lonely summer in Rome while his mother works there. A hand-drawn map leads him to Angelo, and romance blossoms as they explore the city.
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Renegade Girls
by Nora Neus
Stunt Girl follows seventeen-year-old Nell Nelson, an undercover reporter, as she works to expose the plight of young factory workers in nineteenth-century New York City with the help of her love interest, early street-photographer Alice Austen.
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Everything She Does Is Magic
by Bridget Morrissey
Darcy Keller lives for Fableview’s fall festivals, but she’s counting down the days until she can escape her parents’ Halloween empire for college. Then Anya Doyle—a broody almost‑witch who needs a mortal “protector” to join her coven—claims Darcy is her choice. Desperate for their own solutions, the girls team up for every autumn event in town, but as magic, expectations, and unexpected feelings collide, Darcy and Anya realize this fake partnership might be turning into something real.
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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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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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