Middle grade/YA. Contemporary fantasy, I suppose. Follows a teen Lipan Apache girl on not-quite-our-Earth and a cottonmouth snake animal person in the world of animal people that is a sort of reflection of Earth, an alternate dimension with which it was once wholly joined but which is now only connected through a small number of …
YA contemporary fantasy. A young Black woman in Brooklyn whose touch, and sometimes mere presence, causes plants to grow, bloom, move. From a hitherto unknown relative, she inherits an old mansion outside a small town in upstate New York. Adventure ensues and she learns more about her powers and the heritage she has been born …
YA fantasy. Towards the “high fantasy” end of the genre. Set in Orisha, a nation based loosely on Nigeria. It is a kingdom in which magic had suddenly ceased to work and all adults who had been able to use it were killed by the king’s soldiers about a decade before the start of the …
YA fantasy. This author’s take on the secret British magic school and the ‘chosen one.’ Was pretty skeptical before I picked it up, but it drew me in fairly quickly. It manages a good balance of taking things seriously and poking a little bit of fun at, ahem, a certain similar series. The book enters …
YA fantasy, nominally, but it overflows both parts of that label. A teenage girl who grows roses from her wrist and who spilled mysteriously out of a water tower when she was five, a teenage boy who paints moons and hangs them from every tree, the bond between them, the family of four red-headed sisters …
YA. Another book set in our world except that things supernatural are common and widely known. The two viewpoint characters are young Black women in their junior year of high school. One of those two is a siren. In this world, though only a tiny proportion of Black women are sirens, all sirens are Black …