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Together We Can Be Custodians

Jeremy Scott talks with Chapter 16 about his second YA superhero novel, Strings

…works with his telepathic best friend, Henry, who uses a wheelchair to get around. In the second installment, Strings, the teens must deal with a national government hostile to the…

The Gift of the Magis

I wanted a bike — I got a chair

…on Christmas morning, what to my wondering eyes did appear but something decidedly not-a-bike. Something else that rolls. I knew what it was instantly. Even shrouded beneath a bedsheet, the…

Trapped in the Wrong Body

Meredith Russo’s new YA novel asks what you should do when everybody who “knows” you is wrong

…and Eric tell the story, Birthday belongs to Morgan. The novel opens on the friends’ thirteenth birthday, and the plot unfolds in installments over the course of five years, one…

Making Magic

Cressida Cowell brings readers the second installment in The Wizards of Once series

The wait will soon be over for readers clamoring for the second book in British author Cressida Cowell’s newest fantasy series. Twice Magic, the follow-up to 2017’s The Wizards of…

Welcome to the Machine

Characters come of age in the secret city of Oak Ridge in Janet Beard’s The Atomic City Girls

In an early chapter of The Atomic City Girls, the second novel from East Tennessee native Janet Beard, two young women walk down a city street, headed for a bowling…

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