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• Akata Witch

  Okorafor, Nnedi

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Babysitters Coven

  Williams, Kate, 1980-

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  After new student Cassandra Heaven joins 17-year-old Esme Pearl's babysitters club, the girls learn that being a babysitter really means a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals and saving the innocent from evil in this contemporary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Witch Burning

  Lewis, Jessica, 1994-

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  Sixteen-year-old Katrell uses her witchy powers to talk to the dead and escape her home life, but when she disregards the dead's warnings to stop, dark forces begin to close in, forcing Ketrell to make some hard decisions in this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood Like Magic

  Sambury, Liselle,

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  A teen witch is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first love to save her family’s magic. The problem is, she’s never been in love, so she’ll have to find the perfect guy before she can kill him. This Trinidadian and Canadian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Buried and the Bound

  Hassan, Rochelle,

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  Seventeen-year-old Aziza El-Amin, the only hedge witch in Blackthorn, Massachusetts, teams up with a cursed boy looking for answers and a young necromancer in order to eradicate a new threat in the woods and take back her hometown.

• Cemetery Boys

  Thomas, Aiden,

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  Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family in this story that stirs together the paranormal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches

  Scelsa, Kate,

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  An atmospheric and romantic coming-of-age story about learning to make peace with the past in order to accept the beauty of the present finds 17-year-old Eleanor opening herself up to magic and romance again after a devastating loss. Fans…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kingdom of the Wicked

  Maniscalco, Kerri,

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  Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe, witches who live secretly among humans in 1800s Italy. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lantern's Ember

  Houck, Colleen,

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  In this romantic tale with steampunk elements, 17-year-old Ember, a young witch living in the quiet New England town of Hallowell, crosses into the Otherworld. Jack the gatekeeper sets out to find her before the supernatural and mortal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lobizona

  Garber, Romina,

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  When her mother is arrested by ICE, 16-year-old Argentinian Manu—who thinks she is hiding in a Miami apartment because she is an undocumented immigrant—embarks on a journey that leads her to a secret magical society of werewolves and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Scapegracers

  Clarke, Hannah Abigail,

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  Forging an unexpected coven with the three most popular girls in school, an outcast lesbian witch casts curses, searches for love and eludes fundamentalist witch hunters while privately struggling with the realities of human friendships…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Serpent & Dove

  Mahurin, Shelby,

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  In this slow-burn, paranormal romance where enemies become lovers, Louise le Blanc has fled her coven and taken shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. As a huntsman of the Church, Reid…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Snow & Poison

  De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971-,

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  Known as Snow White, Lady Sophie has led a sheltered life in the mountains of Bavaria. Until now. Her father, the widowed Duke Maximilian, is at last remarrying, and on the day of his historic wedding, Sophie is making her high-society…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spells Trouble

  Cast, P. C.,

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  When their mother becomes the first victim in a string of murders, devastated twin witches Hunter and Mercy Goode vow to avenge her death. But it will take more than magic to rein in the ancient mythological monsters who have infected…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• These Witches Don't Burn

  Sterling, Isabel,

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  When evidence of dark magic begins to appear all over Salem, Massachusetts, Elemental Witch Hannah and her ex-girlfriend Veronica are forced to team up to stop the deadly attacks.

• The Witch Haven

  Peyton Smith, Sasha,

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  Whisked away to Haxahaven Academy for Witches in 1911, 17-year-old Frances Hallowell soon finds herself torn between aligning herself with Haxahaven's foes, the Sons of St. Druon, to solve her brother's murder or saving Manhattan and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Witch King

  Edgmon, H. E.,

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  Wyatt, a transgender witch, hides in the human world after he loses control of his magic, but his fiancé, Emyr, a fae prince, is at risk of losing his throne if he does not find and marry Wyatt. This coming-of-age tale pairs romance with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Witches Steeped in Gold

  Smart, Ciannon,

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  This Jamaican-inspired fantasy novel is imbued with a dense magic system and, in the center of it all, two witches fighting a common enemy. Princess Jazmyne's mother all but wiped out prisoner Iraya's family, a former ruling faction on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Burn the Witch, Vol. 1

  Kubo, Tite

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  Behind the world you think you know lies a land of magic and fairy tales—but Reverse London isn't the pretty picture that's painted in children's books. Fairy tales have teeth, and the dedicated agents of Wing Bind are the only thing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mooncakes

  Walker, Suzanne (Suzanne Wakeen)

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  Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers' bookshop, where she helps loan out spell books and investigate supernatural occurrences in their New England town. One fateful night, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation