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Saturday is Pancake Day by Bernadette Green & Daniel Gray-Barnett
When Dada Henry doesn’t get out of bed for Saturday morning pancakes with their family, Papa Milo is worried. Perhaps Henry doesn’t want pancakes today? Milo and the kids – Lily, Lena, and Gwendolyn – get creative in the kitchen…
Anne of Greenville by Mariko Tamaki
Anne Shirley is a disco-loving, queer, Japanese-American teen whose artistic talents and fun-loving attitude is constantly misunderstood. When she moves to the small town of Greenville with her two adoptive mothers, she knows it’s going to be hard to fit…
The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le
Vanessa Le is a Vietnamese-American author who recently graduated from Brown University with a focus on health and human biology. The Last Bloodcarver is her first novel in a debut duology. It is a wonderful fusion of science and fantasy…
Look Me in the Eye by Jane Godwin
One of the most important parts of adolescence is trust: earning it, testing it, losing it. What Jane Godwin’s newest YA novel Look Me in the Eye understands is that for the teenagers growing up in the 2020s, where restrictions…
The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland
Australian author Krystal Sutherland has once again written an evocative story of powerful women and dark magic in this thrilling young adult story.
Three very different women have their own reasons why they are searching for women who have been…
I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang
The winner of the The Readings Young Adult Prize 2023 for her debut novel If You Could See the Sun, Ann Liang returns with her third novel I Hope This Doesn’t Find You, an enemies-to-lovers rom-com about what…
The Rumor Game by Thomas Mullen
Pearl Harbor has been attacked and America looks set to join her allies in the war in Europe. On the streets of Boston, far from the killing fields, there are battles of a different sort taking place, all somehow linked…
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
Everyone thinks Lucy was the one who killed her best friend, Savvy. It makes sense – Lucy was found stumbling through the streets, covered in Savvy’s blood, and claiming she couldn’t remember anything that happened. But the police never found…
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
Amid the ferocious winds on a small and idyllic Greek island owned by the reclusive movie star Lana Farrar, a murder occurs. With only seven people on the island, the six possible suspects are left scrambling in the wake of…
Joy Moody Is Out of Time by Kerryn Mayne
For their whole lives, Joy Moody has told her adopted twin daughters Andromeda and Cassiopeia that they are both from the future, and on their 21st birthday they will be transported back to the year 2050 to save the world…
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