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I Killed the King
by Rebecca Mix and Andrea Hannah
One of Us Is Lying meets Knives Out, with beasts, murder, and magic, in this first book in a locked-room whodunnit YA fantasy duology. Before signing a treaty to end the 10-year conflict between kingdoms Avendell and Istellia, King Costis of Avendell is murdered in his private chambers. Now the suspects--necromancer Ellion, mercenary Vesryn, beast tamer Clove, kingsguard Oak, and heir apparent Prince Kellam from Avendell, as well as his betrothed, Istellian princess Melarie--must keep the king's death secret and uncover the killer's identity or risk upending the nations' tentative peace.
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Truth Is : A Novel in Verse
by Hannah V. Sawyerr
For seventeen-year-old Truth Bangura, writing and performing is her only solace in a life overwhelmed by a drifting relationship with her best friend, and an emotionally turbulent home environment. At an open mic night, Truth finally gains the courage to perform a piece that dives into her rocky relationship with her mother–and reveals a big decision she never told her. But when a video of Truth’s performance is posted online and starts going viral, her decision quickly becomes everyone’s business–including her mother’s.
You might also like: The Story of My Anger by Jasminne Mendez or Split the Sky by Marie Arnold.
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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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| This Place Kills Me by Mariko TamakiElizabeth, beloved member of the Wilberton Academy’s exclusive Theatrical Society, is found dead after her premier performance as Juliet. New girl Abby, perhaps the last to see Elizabeth alive, doubts the authorities who rule the death a suicide.
Read-alikes: Karen M. McManus’ Nothing More to Tell; Mary Roach's Seven for a Secret. |
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| My Perfect Family by Khadijah VanBrakleWhen Leena’s estranged grandfather and great aunt come into her life for the first time, she begins to experience both the joys and the pressures of having family beyond her single mother. This thought-provoking coming of age story explores religion, race, and grief with nuance and compassion. |
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| The House of Quiet by Kiersten WhiteImpoverished children who fail to adjust to the Procedure meant to give them supernatural powers end up at the House of Quiet. Birdie gets a job there in order to find her missing sister, but instead she finds aristocratic teens who pull her into a dangerous conspiracy.
Read-alikes: Ginny Myers Sain’s Dark and Shallow Lies; Diana Rodriguez Wallach's The Silenced.
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If Looks Could Kill
by Julie Berry
It’s autumn 1888, and Jack the Ripper is on the run. As London police close in, he flees England for New York City seeking new victims. But a primal force of female vengeance has had enough. With serpents for hair and a fearsome gaze, an awakened Medusa is hunting for one thing: Jack. Salvation Army volunteers Tabitha and Pearl discover that a girl they once helped has been forced to work in a local brothel. Their brittle partnership is tested as they team up with an aspiring girl reporter and a handsome Irish bartender to mount a rescue effort, only to find their fates entwine with Medusa’s and Jack’s.
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How to Survive a Horror Movie
by Scarlett Dunmore
Horror movie buff Charley Ryan isn’t expecting much when she’s enrolled at a girls’ boarding school on a remote island. That is, until someone starts killing off the senior class. From elaborate scare tactics to severed heads in fridges, these gruesome murders are straight out of Charley’s favorite films. To top it off, she’s also seeing the ghosts of her former classmates. No one’s surprised when Charley’s taste in movies makes her the prime suspect. Determined to clear her name, she sets out to find the killer before her campus becomes more graveyard than school.
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The Dead of Summer
by Ryan La Sala
Ollie Veltman is finally coming home to the quaint island of Anchor’s Mercy after a year away while his mom battled cancer. It should be a celebration, but Ollie’s (now ex) best friends think he abandoned them, and he’s returning with a lot of questions. Because for a place that’s perfect on the surface, a secret rots below the waves. A secret that could explain his mom’s illness, and the illness of so many other locals. Ollie’s desperate search for the truth turns life-or-death when a storm descends upon the island. In its wake, a long-sunken horror rises.
You might also like: Hello, Sunshine by Keezy Young.
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Blood Moon
by Britney S. Lewis
Mirabella Owens grew up with legends of wolves that traveled to her midwestern town to protect humans from vampires. She stopped believing in a lot of things after her mom left without a trace when she was only thirteen. As Mira begins her freshman year at Lakeland University, strange animal attacks are occurring around campus, reopening cold cases tied to her mother's disappearance.
You might also like: Bitten by Jordan Gray.
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When We Were Monsters
by Jennifer Niven
A simmering psychological thriller about a dead teacher at an elite New England boarding school, the students invited to work with her who had reasons to want her gone and the tangled web of rivalry and romance concealing the truth.
You might also like: Keep Your Friends Close by Cynthia Murphy.
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