“DEATH IS JUST ANOTHER OBSTACLE” – YA FANTASY

S.K. ALI’s Fledgling: The Keeper’s Records of Revolution explores what an Upper Earth princess is to do when she agrees to an arranged marriage to prevent civil war, gets kidnapped by Lower Earth freedom fighters, and then falls in love with one of them. SUSAN DENNARD concludes her pulse-pounding Luminaries trilogy with The Whispering Night, in which Winnie Wednesday’s loyalty comes into question as secrets about her family and a masked Diana are revealed against the backdrop of the Nightmare Masquerade. DARCIE LITTLE BADGER returns to the world of Elatsoe with Sheine Lende, a myth-forward story about Shane, who must track down her missing mother across worlds and perhaps even time itself. And in R. M. ROMERO’s Death’s Country, a rebellious and artistic boy who made a bargain with Death relocates from São Paolo to Miami and finds solace in a polyamorous relationship. But after a shattering incident, he must return to the underworld to retrieve one from the dead without succumbing to his own demons. Moderated by DELANEY MILIAN, Miss Carnaval Miami. Grades 9-12

Buy Fledgling: The Keeper’s Records of Revolution – Ali

Buy The Whispering Night – Dennard

Buy Sheine Lende: A Prequel to Elatsoe – Little Badger

Buy Death’s Country – Romero