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Make Some Magic: Witchy YA Books
Looking for some spooky or magical reading? These books will put a spell on you. From funny spells to family curses, the titles below all feature witches.
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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 fantasy…
- Ten years ago, Malik's life changed forever the night his mother mysteriously vanished and he discovered he had uncontrollable powers. Since then, he has kept his abilities hidden, looking out for himself and his younger foster brother, Taye. Now,…
- 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 inspired novel…
- 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 standing…
- 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.
- 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 with…
- Gwen, an aspiring witch, and her two monster best friends try to have a fun-filled Halloween, but must contend with a local kid obsessed with hunting the supernatural.
- 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 desecrated…
- 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 worlds…
- 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 witches…
- 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 follows reports…
- 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 and…
- 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 Diggory…
- 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 debut. At the…
- This remix of Disney's "The Little Mermaid" ponders what might have happened if mermaid Ariel had never defeated the nefarious sea witch Ursula. Rather than having a fairy-tale wedding to Prince Eric, Ariel is made to serve her undersea home,…
- 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 their peaceful…
- Sabrina saved the day--saved her friends, her family--the whole town of Greendale really, and she should be riding high. But things are never quite that simple. She's trapped in a love triangle, she's having trouble balancing the mortal and witch…
- 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.
- While investigating the supposed suicides of her best friend, Riley, and mean girls June and Dayton, sixteen-year-old Wiccan Mila Flores accidentally brings them back to life.
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