Spooky Season is upon us! Want to get a little witchy? Check out this list of YA books about witches, ranging from light and fun to downright scary.
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All our hidden gifts
by Caroline O'Donoghue When her friend mysteriously vanishes after drawing an unsettling tarot card called The Housekeeper, Maeve uses her deep connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find. |
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Coven
by Jennifer Dugan When her family's coven members back east are murdered under mysterious circumstances, Emsy, a fire elemental, returns to upstate New York to find the killer before her family becomes their next target. |
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The drowned woods
by Emily Lloyd-Jones The last living water diviner, 18-year-old Mererid joins forces with her old handler to bring down the very prince who abused them both and, with a ragtag group of allies, sets out to topple a kingdom. |
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Hocus pocus & the all-new sequel
by A. W Jantha After accidentally bringing the Sanderson Sisters back from the dead, Max, Dani, and Allison race to stop their plans to torment Salem for all of eternity; then twenty-five years later it is up to Max and Allison's daughter to stop the Sanderson's newest scheme. |
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Improbable magic for cynical witches
by Kate Scelsa An atmospheric and romantic coming-of-age story about learning to make peace with the past in order to accept the beauty of the present finds 17-year-old Eleanor opening herself up to magic and romance again after a devastating loss. |
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Labyrinth lost
by Zoraida Córdova Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back. |
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Mamo
by Sas Milledge Orla O'Reilly, the youngest in a long line of hedge witches, is compelled to return home after the death of her grandmother, Mamo. In the wake of her Mamo's passing, seas are impossible to fish, crops have soured, even Jo Manalo's attic is taken over by a poltergeist! And to make matter worse it appears that the cause is Mamo, or her mislaid bones that is. Can Orla shoulder the responsibility of quieting her Mamo's spirit, saving her hometown, and will she have to step up as the new witch of Haresden? |
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Mooncakes
by Suzanne Walker When teen witch Nova Huang discovers that her childhood crush, Tam Lang, is a werewolf, they team together to face dark forces who are eager to claim the magic of wolves. |
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The nature of witches
by Rachel M. Griffin In one of the most anticipated young adult debuts of 2021 comes the fierce, romantic story about a world on the brink of destruction, the one witch Clara, an Everwitch who holds the power to save it and the choice that could cost her everything she loves. |
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Rust in the root
by Justina Ireland It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided--between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology--otherwise known as Mechomancy--not the traditional mystical arts. Laura disagrees. A talented young queer mage from Pennsylvania, Laura hopped a portal to New York City on her seventeenth birthday with hopes of earning her mage's license and becoming something more than a rootworker. But four months later, she's got little to show for it other than an empty pocket and broken dreams. With nowhere else to turn, Laura applies for a job with the Bureau of the Arcane's Conservation Corps, a branch of the US government dedicated to repairing the Dynamism so that Mechomancy can thrive. There she meets the Skylark, a powerful mage with a mysterious past, who reluctantly takes Laura on as an apprentice. As they're sent off on their first mission together into the heart of the country's oldest and most mysterious Blight, they discover the work of mages not encountered since the darkest period in America's past, when Black mages were killed for their power--work that could threaten Laura's and the Skylark's lives, and everything they've worked for. |
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Spells for lost things
by Jenna Evans Welch Dragged to Salem, Massachusetts, with her mostly absent mother to wrap up the affairs of an aunt she didn't know she had, Willow meets loner Mason who helps her unravel her family's ambiguous and dangerous history, while acting on their natural connection. |
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Toil & trouble : 15 tales of women & witchcraft
by Tess Sharpe A collection of fifteen stories involving female witches features contributions by Brenna Yovanoff, Andrea Cremer, and Brandy Colbert. |
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We All Fall Down
by Rose Szabo The lives of four individuals converge after the death of a corrupt police officer, not realizing they have been selected to act out an ancient ritual that will revive the flow of magic through their world. |
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Wild is the witch
by Rachel Griffin When a curse she concocts is stolen, witch Iris Gray begs witch-hating intern Pike Adler to help her get it back, and together they set out on a trek through the Pacific Northwest where they unexpectedly become more than friends. |
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The witch boy
by Molly Ostertag When a boy goes missing during a night of shapeshifting, thirteen-year-old Astor risks going against family tradition by using his magic to help locate him. |
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The Witch King
by H. E. Edgmon Wyatt, a transgender witch hiding in the human world, must face the royal fiance he left behind and decide what is more important--his people or his freedom. |
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Witches steeped in gold
by Ciannon Smart A tale inspired by Jamaican culture follows the rivalry of two witches who set aside their differences to become unlikely allies against an increasingly violent enemy. |