Today’s post is sponsored by Robert W. Adams in honor of the release of Tabitha Unleashed, a queer YA speculative novel about sisterhood, first love, identity, and surviving long enough to believe you deserve to be saved.
Tabitha Griffin is a suicide-attempt survivor hiding a secret: she can move objects with her mind.
When her twin sister’s cancer returns, Tabitha enters the country’s biggest televised talent competition for one reason: the prize money could pay for the only treatment that might save Kayla’s life.
Her act? Using her telekinetic power disguised as stage illusion.
With every round, the internet wants to learn more about this mysterious girl.
But the competition is changing Tabitha, too. She finds unexpected friendships, falls for a girl who gives her another reason to keep fighting, and discovers that being seen isn’t always something to fear.
Then a presidential candidate’s anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric puts a target on her back, turning the girl who never wanted the spotlight into an unwilling symbol of resistance.
Winning means keeping her secret. And keeping secrets is killing her.
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Middle Grade
Realmsweep by H.E. Edgmon
In a fantastical version of the United States filled to the brim with magic and dragons, the tween prince of Texas must compete in a notoriously dangerous scavenger hunt.
Rowdy Buckner, the twelve-year-old prince of Texas, has a problem. More than anything, he wants access to the transfiguration tonics that will transform him from head to toe into the prince he is, in a body that feels more his down. His parents are skeptical–not because they aren’t supportive, but because they don’t believe that self-absorbed, spoiled Rowdy is responsible enough to be trusted with such powerful magic just yet.
In order prove himself, Rowdy signs up to compete in Realmsweep, a notoriously dangerous scavenger hunt held across the Allied Lands every five years, and sends his personal guard to assemble a team. The resulting ragtag crew of preteens isn’t exactly impressive at first glance, but they’re all Rowdy has. With them, he’ll face off against everything from monstrous creatures to the monstrosity of humans, and maybe, if he’s lucky, become the person he so desperately wants to be.
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“Come to me, and be mine for eternity.”
All’s fair in love and Color War.
Verity Vox is a witch-in-training who has never met a problem her spells can’t solve. But when a cryptic plea for help sends her to the forgotten coal mining town of Foxfire, she soon learns even magic has its limits.
Alex Wise is no superhero. Or at least, he doesn’t feel like one. Sure, he vanquished Death and saved his sister Mags—with the help of some new magic powers, his best friend Loren and demi-god Liam. But the apocalypse shows no signs of slowing down. Now, Alex and his friends will have to find new allies and face new dangers—from battling a giant snake in a literal ghost town and infiltrating the Horsemen’s new home base on the Vegas Strip…on the back of a dragon.
Lulu Sinagtala can’t wait for a fun Christmas break. She’s excited to hang out with her sister, Kitty, and best friend, Bart; to reenact her favorite legends from Tagalog folklore (like the amazing tale of Bernardo Carpio); and, of course, to eat as much yummy street-side inihaw as possible!