Kalynn Bayron
Author
Series
This poison heart volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Briseis, who possesses a supernatural power over plants, including poisonous ones, inherits a dilapidated estate in rural New York and must protect herself and her family from centuries-old secrets that threaten their lives.
When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Queer black girls team up to overthrow the patriarchy in the former kingdom of Cinderella"-- Provided by publisher
Two hundred years after Cinderella found her prince, the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl's display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again. Sophia would much rather marry Erin,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the "final girl" at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business. But the last weekend of the season, Charity's co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity's role as the final girl suddenly...
Author
Series
This poison heart volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Briseis races to save her family even as she discovers more about their ties to ancient goddesses and deadly curses"-- Provided by publisher.
Would you tempt even the most dangerous fate to save the ones you love? Briseis has one chance to save her mother, but she'll need to do the impossible: find the last fragment of the deadly Absyrtus Heart. To locate the missing piece, she must turn to the blood relatives she's never known, learn about their...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 6
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this reimagination of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger"-- Provided by publisher.
London, 1885. Gabriel Utterson, a 17-year-old law clerk, has returned to London for the first time since his life-- and that of his dearest friend, Henry Jekyll--was derailed by a scandal that led to his and Henry's expulsion from the London...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury YA
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Eve, gifted with rare magical abilities, believes it her purpose to defeat an evil Knight, but not everything is as it seems and Eve's mother, the Queen, knows more about the knight than she is telling her daughter.
Author
Series
Vanquishers volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In an alternate San Antonio, there have been no known cases of vampirism since a group of masked vampire hunters called the Vanquishers wiped out the last horde of the undead twenty years ago, but twelve-year-old Malika "Boog" Wilson's parents are not taking any chances, especially when Boog's new classmate Aaron goes missing.
Publisher
Amberjack Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren't sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country, and Horror Noire will get a little bit of everything they love--and a lot of what they fear--through a twisted blend of horror lenses, from the thoughtful to the terrifying. From haunted,...
Series
Untold legends volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A Vietnamese mermaid caught between two worlds. A siren who falls for Poseidon's son. A boy secretly pining for the merboy who saved him years ago. A storm that brings humans and mermaids together. Generations of family secrets and pain. Find all of these and more in this gripping new collection that will reel you in from the very first page! Welcome to an ocean of hurt, fear, confusion, rage, hope, humor, discovery, and love in its many forms."...
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A collection of seventeen short stories from young adult authors, includes a story in which an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels.
In this collection of short stories, fantastic queer YA authors explore new and familiar worlds. Worlds in which two teens get stuck in a time loop at a space station... In which only a nonbinary person can translate the binary code of a machine that predicts the future... In which...
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Featuring exclusively Black characters, this multi-genre story collection--drawing from contemporary, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, magical and realistic--celebrates and redefines the many facets of Blackness and geekiness, both in the real world and those imagined.