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All that it ever meant : a novel
by Blessing Musariri
Reeling from the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Mati's family leaves England to visit their native Zimbabwe, where Mati finds comfort in Meticais, a gender-neutral spirit or ghost who only she can see, and who helps her navigate her mercurial interpersonal relationships and feelings of grief.
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The making of Yolanda la bruja
by Lorraine Avila
Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She's starting to feel at home at Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with Josâe, a senior boy she's getting to know. She's confident her initiation into her family's bruja tradition will happen soon. But then a white boy, the son of a politician, appears at Julia De Burgos High, and his vibes are off. And Yolanda's initiation begins with a series of troubling visions of the violence this boy threatens. How can Yolanda protect her community, in a world that doesn't listen? Only with the wisdom and love of her family, friends, and community--and the Brujas Diosas, her ancestors and guides
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Cool. Awkward. Black
by Karen Strong
A girl who believes in UFOs; a boy who might have finally found his Prince Charming; a hopeful performer who dreams of being cast in her school's production of The Sound of Music; a misunderstood magician of sorts with a power she doesn't quite understand.
Cool. Awkward. Black is a multi-genre YA anthology of bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors challenging the concept of the geek, featuring contributions from Amerie, Kalynn Bayron, Terry J. Benton-Walker, Roseanne A. Brown, Elise Bryant, Tracy Deonn, Desiree S. Evans, Isaac Fitzsimons, Lamar Giles, Jordan Ifueko, Leah Johnson, Amanda Joy, Kwame Mbalia, Tochi Onyebuchi, Shari B. Pennant, K. Arsenault Rivera, Julian Winters, and Ibi Zoboi.
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Lakelore
by Anna-Marie McLemore
Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who've been there...Then the lines between air and water begin to blur. The world under the lake drifts above the surface. If Bastián and Lore don't want it bringing their secrets to the surface with it, they have to stop it and to do that, they have to work together.
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How to succeed in witchcraft
by Aislinn Brophy
Half-Black witch Shay Johnson is cast as the lead in her school musical and must decide between exposing her predatory drama teacher and getting the scholarship she desperately needs
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The song that moves the sun
by Anna Bright
With chaos spreading after a disruption in the harmony between the spheres, Rora and Claudia embark on a whirlwind journey of secrets, romance and powerful truths to find the source of the disharmony.
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Echoes of Grace
by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
On the Texas-Mexico border, eighteen-year-old Grace's relationship with her older sister Mercy is fractured when Mercy's two-year-old son dies in an accident, bringing to the surface old family traumas and literal ghosts as the family struggles to heal.
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The astonishing color of after
by Emily X. R. Pan
A teen grieving the loss of her mother travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time and search for her mother's spirit while uncovering tragic family secrets and struggling to reconcile the truth about how her mother's life really ended. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Mark of the wicked
by Georgia Bowers
When sixteen-year-old witch Matilda grows closer to Oliver bizarre things begin to happen in their town, but as she faces blame for these strange occurances, Matilda sets out to discover the true culprit before anyone else turns up dead
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Lumara
by Melissa Landers
Accompanying her Mystic boyfriend to a his cousin's wedding, boarding school student Talia Morris enters a fantastical world filled with magic and peace until an accusation sends her on a journey to find the truth in a world where reality is not all it seems.
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At midnight : fifteen beloved fairy tales reimagined
by Dahlia Adler
"This enchanting collection of original and reimagined fairy tales from 15 acclaimed and best-selling YA writers includes such treasured stories as Rumplestiltskin, The Nightingale, Snow White and Hansel and Gretel.
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Wildblood : a novel
by Lauren Blackwood
Determined to prove herself after being passed over for a promotion, Victoria, a Wildblood who uses magic to protect travelers in a Jamaican jungle teeming with ghostly monsters, instead falls in love with her new client who entrusts her with his life.
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Remember me gone
by Stacy Stokes
Learning her family's unique ability to remove people's painful memories, 16-year-old Lucy Miller, after practicing on her father, wakes up with no memory of what happened and teams up with a local to fill in the missing pieces.
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For All Time
by Shanna Miles
Through countless lives, seventeen-year-olds Tamar and Fayard have fallen in love, fought to be together, and died but when they discover what it will take to break the cycle, will they be able to make the sacrifice?
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An Arrow to the Moon
by Emily X. R. Pan
Navigating their families' enmity and secrets, Hunter and Luna find everything falling apart around them and must rely on their love to see them through, in this powerful story about the magic and mystery of the moon that connects us all.
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