A. R Capetta
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Language
English
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Description
Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin's queer community when a batch of post-being-dumped brownies turns out to be magical--and makes everyone who eats them break up. Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Being dumped is no different, except now Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer bakery and community space in Austin. And everyone who eats Syd's breakup brownies...breaks...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Danny didn't know what she was looking for when she and her mother spread out a map of the United States and Danny put her finger down on Tempest, California. What she finds are the Grays: a group of friends who throw around terms like queer and witch like they're ordinary and everyday, though they feel like an earthquake to Danny. But Danny didn't just find the Grays. They cast a spell that calls her halfway across the country, because she has something...
Author
Series
Hocus and Pocus ; 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Determined to be adopted together from the Shelter for Slightly Magical Pets, Hocus and Pocus cause magical mayhem, and with the help of Jinx the witch and her young apprentices, must fix their mess, discovering the right home has been under their noses the whole time."--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, home to director Leopold Henneman, to play a dream role in Echo and Ariston, the Greek tragedy that taught her everything she knows about love. When the director asks Zara to promise that she will have no outside commitments, no distractions, it's easy to say yes. But are the deaths at the theater accidents, or murder, or a curse that always comes in threes? When assistant lighting director Eli Vasquez,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"A young shapeshifter has to learn to control her powers, while simultaneously using them to disguise herself as a boy and confront the people who murdered her father." --
Everyone in Vinalia knows that magic isn't real... but Teodora has the power to turn her family's enemies into music boxes and other decorative objects. When the Capo, the land's new ruler, sends poisoned letters to the heads of the Five Families that have long controlled Vinalia,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"By turns thrilling, witty, and heartbreaking, this dramatic conclusion to the Brilliant Death duet transports us to a Vinalia on the verge of transformation and radiates with the electric power of love. With her power over magic finally in hand, and her love for Cielo at last confessed, Teodora di Sangro should be on top of the world. But the country of Vinalia is in chaos as the dictator like Capo threatens to plunge them all into war and capture...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
In a mind-bending MITeen anthology, ten top YA authors use emerging technologies to explore startling new realities.
What does the future hold? Ten speculative short stories by leading young-adult authors imagine what the world could be through the lens of technologies emerging today. When the modification industry transforms how humans look, sound, and interact, a nonbinary teen braves the "reinvention room" to accept a gift
Author
Series
Once and future ; 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Resets the Arthurian legend in outer space, with King Arthur reincarnated as seventeen-year-old Ari, a female king whose quest is to stop a tyrranical corporate government, aided by a teenaged Merlin.
Ari Helix is a fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer corporation. When she crash-lands on Old Earth and pulls a sword from its ancient resting place, she is revealed to be the newest reincarnation of King Arthur. Merlin,...
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Series
Once and future ; 2
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this epic sequel to Once & Future, Ari and her Rainbow knights must pull off a Holy Grail heist thousands of years in the past -- without destroying their own destinies. Ari Helix may have won her battle against the tyrannical Mercer corporation, but the larger war has just begun. Ari and her cursed wizard Merlin must travel back in time to the unenlightened Middle Ages and steal the King Arthur's Grail -- the very definition of impossible. It's...
10) Rebel Robin
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hawkins, Indiana. As sophomore year starts, Robin's Odd Squad friends have decided to try to be just like everyone else. Her best friends couple up, and they can't stop talking about school and college and careers. Robin has been hiding out with the band kids since middle school, hoping nobody would notice that she's gay. Convinced the only way she can learn to be herself is by fleeing to Europe for a summer to experience real life, Robin has no...
Publisher
MITeen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"What does the future hold? Ten speculative short stories by leading young-adult authors imagine what the world could be through the lens of technologies emerging today. When the modification industry transforms how humans look, sound, and interact, a nonbinary teen braves the 'reinvention room' to accept a gift from the dead. In an accidental city in space, a young apprentice holds neighborhoods together with braided carbon filaments until distraction...
12) Once & Future
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
King Arthur as you've never seen her! This bold, sizzling YA novel reimagines the Once and Future King as a teenage girl determined to save the universe from an evil curse. My name is Ari Helix. I have a magic sword, a cranky wizard, and a revolution to start. I've been chased my whole life. As a fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer corporation, I've always had to hide who I am....
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Transness is as varied and colorful as magic can be. In Transmogrify!, you'll embark on fourteen different adventures alongside unforgettable characters who embody many different genders and expressions and experiences--because magic is for everyone, and that is cause for celebration"--