Take a look at our new book picks for teens and young adults this March! Includes titles by Felicia Day, Cassidy Ellis Salter, Gayathiri Kamalakanthan and more. All these books and more are available to borrow for free with your library card.
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These Shattered Spires
Cassidy Ellis Salter
Entombed beneath a tooth-filled sky, the world rots. Those yet to succumb to the curse of decay inhabit Fourspires Castle, home to arcanists from across the four magical disciplines – blood, bone, stone and botany.
The castle is thrown into chaos when the ruler of Fourspires is assassinated. To crown a new ruler, the arcanists and their human familiars are forced to kill or be killed in the Slaughter, a bloody fight for succession at the top of the Fifth Tower. Familiars, both servants and sources of power to arcanists, are forbidden from even speaking. For them, the Slaughter means certain death.
When Nixie, a botanical familiar, learns that her fate can be avoided and the rotting curse of Fourspires lifted, she’ll stop at nothing to save herself. But she must work with familiars from across the rival disciplines – not easy when one of them is her bone witch ex-girlfriend, Taro – find four magical curse keys and climb the deadly Fifth Tower.
Bad Queer
Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
Surya knows exactly who they are. Coming out as non-binary to their queer parents and best friend? A total non-event. Catching feelings for Blessing – the boy in drama club whose smile makes their heart race? That’s trickier.
As their final year of school unfolds and the two of them grow closer, Surya starts to question: Does Blessing really see them? Or just a version of them that doesn’t exist? They’d ask their best friend for advice, but she’s busy falling in love too…
With gorgeous illustrations throughout, Bad Queer draws us deeply into queer friendship, family secrets, and the necessary act of loving yourself. Perfect for fans of Alice Oseman, Dean Atta and Sarah Crossan.
This is a love letter to queer futures – tender, curious, and fiercely alive.
The Lost Daughter of Sparta
Felicia Day and Rowan McColl
Helen. Clytemnestra. Timandra. Three famous sisters and one shared curse – that each will betray their husband. As the youngest sister, Philonoe is desperate not to follows in their footsteps. After pleading with the gods, Philonoe is sent on a quest by Aphrodite, to retrieve three impossible objects.
She’s expecting battle, but instead encounters women who have already lost everything to the gods. Every step of the way she’s accompanied by Artemis, who doesn’t understand exactly why she’s so drawn to Philonoe’s quest.
Will Philonoe become a victim of her own fate, or does she have the power to change it?
Project Fairytale
Salomey Doku
Brielle is living out her fairytale dream at Once Upon a Time University, but it’s exam season and with all the late-night studying and extra classes, she still hasn’t found a moment to tell Bear how she really feels about him.
As Bear starts to get closer to cheerleader Sasha, and Brielle reconciles with ex Pavão, divisions begin to form between the pair. After the summer holidays, Brielle determines to rewrite her fairytale rules and tries to reconnect with Bear.
But with the Masquerade Ball fast approaching, will she be too late to spark romance?
A Witch’s Guide to Love and Deception
Aamna Qureshi
Welcome to the University, where an ancient magic secures the right of elite society the Turnbull father. Born without magic and often disregarded, she decides to run away from the castle and leave her old life behind. Having never left the castle grounds, it isn’t long before she finds herself in trouble and wakes in a beautiful cottage with a handsome stranger sitting beside her – Azam, a ‘stitch-witch’.
He offers her a place to stay in exchange for taking care of his frail grandmother. Sonya falls in love with her new home with Azam and his kind grandmother, and their little cottage, where she is free to bake to her heart’s content.
But news of the missing princess soon spreads, and when Sonya’s new life is threatened, she must decide who she can trust.