Are you a fan of the latest Addams Family adaptation? Here are some books for teens and adults that capture the spooky boarding school vibe of Wednesday. (Also, if you've been wanting to watch Wednesday but don't have Netflix--you can request the library's Roku with Netflix.)
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His hideous heart : thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's most unsettling tales reimagined
by Dahlia Adler An anthology of modern tales, written by leading young adult authors and inspired by favorite Edgar Allan Poe stories, includes Tiffany D. Jackson's reimagining of The Cask of Amontillado and Stephanie Kuehn's adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart. |
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Ninth house
by Leigh Bardugo Surviving a horrific multiple homicide, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks is unexpectedly offered a full scholarship to Yale, where her mysterious benefactors task her with monitoring the university’s secret societies. |
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We ride upon sticks
by Quan Barry Nearly three centuries after their coastal community’s witch trials, the women athletes of the 1989 Danvers Falcons hockey team combine individual and collective talents with 1980s iconography to storm their way to the state finals. |
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Meddling kids
by Edgar Cantero The surviving members of a forgotten teen detective club and their dog reunite as broken adults to embark on an effort to solve a terrifying cold case that ruined them all and sent the wrong man to prison. |
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The lights go out in Lychford
by Paul Cornell The borders of Lychford are crumbling. Other realities threaten to seep into the otherwise quiet village, and the resident wise woman is struggling to remain wise. The local magic shop owner and the local priest are having troubles of their own. And a mysterious stranger is on hand to offer a solution to everyone's problems. No cost, no strings (she says). But as everyone knows, free wishes from strangers rarely come without a price... |
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Plain bad heroines
by Emily M. Danforth A highly anticipated adult debut from the award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows the release of a best-selling book about an early 20th-century New England boarding school where gender-diverse students died under suspicious circumstances. |
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Her majesty's royal coven
by Juno Dawson If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple. At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls--Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle--took the oath to join Her Majesty's Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is now the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she's a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right. Juno Dawson explores gender and the corrupting nature of power in a delightful and provocative story of magic and matriarchy, friendship and feminism. Dealing with all the aspects of contemporary womanhood, as well as being phenomenally powerful witches, Niamh, Helena, Leonie and Elle may have grown apart but they will always be bound by the sisterhood of the coven. |
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The name of the star
by Maureen Johnson Rory, of Bénouville, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation |
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The house in the cerulean sea
by TJ Klune Given a curious classified assignment to evaluate the potential risks posed by six supernatural orphans, a case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth bonds with an enigmatic caregiver who hides dangerous secrets. |
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The very secret society of irregular witches
by Sangu Mandanna Breaking all the rules, Mika Moon travels to the mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic and, as she gets close to the Houses residents, must decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didnt know she was looking for. |
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A marvellous light
by Freya Marske Robin Blyth is accidentally named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society and is forced to contend with the beauty and danger operating beneath normal reality while uncovering what happened to his predecessor. |
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Every heart a doorway
by Seanan McGuire Sent away to a home for children who have tumbled into fantastical other worlds and are looking for ways to return, Nancy triggers dark changes among her fellow schoolmates and resolves to expose the truth when a child dies under suspicious magical circumstances. |
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Anatomy : a love story
by Dana Schwartz When Hazel, an aspiring female surgeon, meets Jack, a resurrection man who sells bodies for a living, they work together to uncover the secrets buried not just in unmarked graves but in the very heart of Edinburgh society. 100,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. |
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What big teeth
by Rose Szabo Returning to Maine after years at boarding school, Eleanor Zarrin barely remembers her monstrous family, but she sets off a series of events that could destroy them all |
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Squad
by Maggie Tokuda-Hall Becca moves to an upscale Silicon Valley suburb and is surprised when she develops a bond with girls who belong to the popular clique-and even more surprised when she learns their secrets. |