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YOUNG ADULT / MAGICAL REALISM / COMING OF AGE
By Kellye Abernathy
Atmosphere Press
296 pages; eBook, paperback, hard cover
"This is a night for being brave." In the aftermath of a devastating sickness that shatters their close-knit beach town, six lonely kids are drawn together during the unpredictable autumn equinox. Among them are fourteen-year-old Lorelei, who yearns to be an oceanographer, and her peculiar younger brother, Tad, who possesses an otherworldly curiosity.
When Lorelei has a strange and almost deadly encounter in a sea cave, her loyal boyfriend, Casey, cannot reconcile her fantastical experience with the rational world. Condi, Lorelei's best friend, understands ocean magic but isn't free to share what she knows. When tides turn and the moon shifts, Isaac, the new kid in town who despises the ocean, is forced to face the truth--a profound and powerful magic lives in the deep.
YOUNG ADULT / MAGICAL REALISM / COMING OF AGE
By Kellye Abernathy
Atmosphere Press
247 pages; eBook, paperback, hard cover
“Age never matters, these things are about bravery and heart.”
Thirteen-year-old Condi Bloom’s dream is to learn to surf, but her laid-back beach town isn’t what it used to be. When a new surfer boy named Trustin shows up in town and invites Condi to a forbidden surfing spot, she’s swept into an extraordinary underwater adventure that changes her life.
Ebbing and flowing between reality and magic, times past and present, The Aquamarine Surfboard is a riveting beach tale about opening up to mystery, building community when and where you can — and discovering the ocean is filled with magic—the really BIG kind—the kind that changes the world.
YOUNG ADULT / COMING OF AGE / JEWISH FICTION / SMALL TOWN TEXAS
By Shanah Khubiar
Blackstone Publishing
254 pages; eBook, paperback, hard cover, audiobook
Action-packed, humorous, and bittersweet, this 1970s-era coming-of-age novel is more relevant than ever--exploring how a second-generation immigrant kid in a new hometown must navigate bullying, unexpected friendships, and the struggle of keeping both feet firmly planted in two very different cultures.
It's 1979, and thirteen-year-old Joseph Nissan can't help but notice that small-town Texas has something in common with Revolution-era Iran: an absence of fellow Jews.
Just a Hat is an authentically one-of-a-kind YA debut that fuses the humor of Firoozeh Dumas's Funny in Farsi with the poignancy of Daniel Nayeri's Everything Sad Is Untrue.
YOUNG ADULT / SCIENCE FICTION / ACTION & ADVENTURE / DYSTOPIAN ANIMAL KINGDOM
By Diane C. Jerome, Ed.D.
Atmosphere Press
142 pages; eBook, paperback, hard cover
In the 23rd century, a Great Shift occurred on planet Earth. After implanting animals with cloned human genes using DUST (Devices Uncovered through Star Technology), humans went extinct.
Meanwhile, Earth thought it lost all its rainforests. But wait! Two orangutan explorers, Orly and Adir, spotted something while scaling a mountain range. Could it be?
"The last existing rainforest on Earth was Jill’s home."
Jill the jaguar thought in pictures instead of words. Her sensitivities and creativity plunged her in and out of predicaments. An unlikely bond arose between Jill the jaguar and Cy the sloth.
"Cope, you must. All those visual spatial skills, have you. Your strengths, they are."
With an ailing father at home, would Jill be able to carry on the family legacy?
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