Author: Natalia Heroux

Sponsored by The Robber Girl by Franny Billingsley

Part literary mystery, part magical tour de force—an incantatory novel of fierce beauty, lyricism, and originality. The Robber Girl has a good dagger. Its voice in her head is as sharp as its two edges that taper down to a point. She and her dagger will ride with Gentleman Jack into the Indigo Heart to claim the gold that’s rightfully his. But instead of gold, she finds a dollhouse cottage with doorknobs the size of apple seeds. She finds two dolls who give her three tasks, even though she knows that three is too many tasks.

Sponsored by Sourcebooks

It is 1913, revolution rages in Mexico. Twelve-year-old Petra’s mama has died and before her papa is dragged away by soldiers, Petra vows to care for her abuelita, little sister Amelia, and baby brother Luisito, until they can be reunited. They flee north through the unforgiving desert as their town burns, searching for safe harbor in a world that offers none.

Through battlefields and deserts, hunger and fear, Petra stops at nothing to keep her family safe and lead them to a better life across the U.S. border – a life where her barefoot dreams could finally become reality.

Sponsored by Simon & Schuster, publishers of The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman.

Readers first fell in love with the Owens family over twenty-five years ago in Alice Hoffman’s beloved novel Practical Magic. Now in Magic Lessons, travel back three hundred years to meet their ancestor, the formidable Maria Owens, whose fierce independence is tested when she falls for the wrong man and sparks the curse which will affect generations of her family to come. Don’t miss this “enchanting” (Esquire) prequel celebrating family, magic, and fierce women who will do anything for love.

Sponsored by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Alice meets Felix and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.

While still young, life is catching up with them. They desire each other, delude each other, get together, and break apart. They have sex, worry about sex, worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

Sponsored by Soho Teen

Kwame Ivery’s searing YA debut follows the joys, complexities, and heartbreaks of an interracial romance between high school sophomores that blossoms during a volatile school election marred by bigotry, privilege, and racism.