Starting the Conversation: Teen Fiction


Showing 1 - 7 of 7  There are a total of 68 valid entries on the list.
Book cover for "Akata witch"
Star rating for Akata witch
Series:
Akata series volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.
Book cover for "A blade so black"
Star rating for A blade so black
Series:
Nightmare-verse volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
An ... urban fantasy retelling of Alice in Wonderland... The first time the nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew. Life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high-maintenance best friend, and a slipping GPA. Keeping the...
Book cover for "Don't date Rosa Santos"
Star rating for Don't date Rosa Santos
Description:
Rosa Santos, a Cuban American, works to save her Florida town, seeks admittance to study abroad in her homeland, and wonders if love can break her family's curse.
Book cover for "Labyrinth lost"
Star rating for Labyrinth lost
Series:
Brooklyn brujas volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back.
Book cover for "Shadowshaper"
Star rating for Shadowshaper
Series:
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.
Book cover for "Snapdragon"
Star rating for Snapdragon
Author:
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"[This] is a magical realist graphic novel about a young girl who befriends her town's witch and discovers the strange magic within herself"--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "A song below water"
Star rating for A song below water
Series:
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
"Bethany C. Morrow's A Song Below Water is the story for today's readers -- a captivating modern fantasy about black mermaids, friendship, and self-discovery set against the challenges of today's racism and sexism."--