Young adult
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Zélie lives in Orïsha, a mythical version of Nigeria and a kingdom once full of majis – people chosen by the gods to wield the gift of magic. All that remains of that magic now are whispered, impotent words in…
WaR: Wizards and Robots by will.i.am & Brian David Johnson
In 1489 in what is now Slovenia, a wizard witnesses an entire army and the castle it’s defending being destroyed by ‘mechanical men’.
In 2052, in Gainesville, Florida teenager Ada and her small robot companion, Kipp, celebrate their mum making…
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
Stay away from the Hazel Wood was the warning Alice’s mother Ella left before she vanished.
Bad luck isn’t new to Alice and Ella though, and they’ve spent years on the move doing their best to stay one step ahead…
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
After witnessing the murder of their parents, Jude and her sisters have been raised as the only mortals in the world of Faerie by the very man who committed the murders.
Constantly made to feel weaker than the Faerie Folk…
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
In Neal Shusterman’s latest dark, dystopian epic, Scythe, the age of mortality is over. All inhabitants of earth are now immune from disease, old age and even suicide in their stable, AI-governed utopia which ensures that famine and war…
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
The Librarian of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Dita Kraus, a 14-year-old girl imprisoned, together with her mother and father, in the family camp at Auschwitz. The family camp was an experimental initiative of the Nazis, to…
This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada
You may at first think, on picking this book up, that you’ve already read a lot like this. From the post-apocalyptic wasteland blighted by plague to the preternaturally capable young hacker prodigy Catarina (child of a genius scientist, no less)…
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
Set during the start of the English civil War, A Skinful of Shadows tells the story of Makepeace, a girl plagued by nightmares of ghosts tearing her apart, looking for the chance to possess her. Her mother, a cold, tight-lipped…
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
Vivian is one of the ‘nice girls’ at East Rockport High. She has a small group of friends, and her main mission is to fly under the radar and not draw too much attention to herself. Her grandparents describe her…
Thornhill by Pam Smy
Thornhill is a beautiful book, from its striking greyscale silhouetted cover to the pages in-between. The book contains two stories set in two different times. Mary’s story is set in 1982, in a children’s home called Thornhill. It’s told through…
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