Maunakea, Malia
Summary: 12-year-old Lei is forced to spend summers in Hawaiʻi with her grandma who is determined to make sure she knows all her family's moʻolelo--stories the kids back home donʻt care about or believe. But after insulting Pele, the Goddess of Fire, she learns just how real these legends are when the goddess takes her best friend and places a curse on her family--one that only Lei can lift.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAUMarais, Bianca
Summary: Five octogenarian witches gather as an angry mob threatens to demolish Moonshyne Manor. All eyes turn to the witch in charge, Queenie, who confesses they've fallen far behind on their mortgage payments. Still, there's hope, since the imminent return of Ruby--one of the sisterhood who's been gone for thirty-three years--will surely be their salvation. But the mob is only the start of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MaraisCruz, Caris Avendaño
Summary: Swept into Engkantos, the land of gods and spirits, ten-year-old Marikit embarks on a quest to save her family from a sinister shadow god.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CRULu, Marie
Summary: When nineteen-year-old international pop sensation Winter Young is recruited by a covert organization to take down a criminal tycoon, he is paired with Sydney Cossette, a fierce and unpredictable secret agent, but suspicions soon turn to sparks as the two are drawn into a tangled web of secrets and deception.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LULu, Marie
Summary: Mara has fallen to the Karensa Federation's tyranny. Its destruction has unleashed Talin's worst nightmare: her friends are scattered; her mother held captive by the Premier; and she was forced to betray her fellow Strikers. Now she is the Federation's most deadly war machine: a Skyhunter. The link between Red and Talin may be weak, but it could be the only hope to salvage their past and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUHansen, Regina Marie
Summary: Beet MacNeill, raised on tales of wild magic around her Prince Edward Island home, must protect her loved ones when the stories of a shape-shifting sea creature and the cold, beautiful woman who controls him begin coming true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HANMcLemore, Anna-Marie
Summary: Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who's doubling for his brother. Valencia Palafox is a young dama attending the future queen of Eliana. Gael Palma is the infamous boy assassin Cade has vowed to protect. Patrick McKenna is the reluctant heir to a kingdom, and the prince Gael has vowed to destroy. Cade doesn't know that Gael and Valencia are the same person. Valencia doesn't know that every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2023