Tessa Gratton and Justina Ireland. Razorbill, $19.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-35332-5
Gratton (Moon Dark Smile) and Ireland (Rust in the Root) team up to deliver a gripping fantasy about betrayal, forgiveness, loss, and loyalty amid a magical war. Seventeen-year-old Darling Seabreak cannot remember anything about her childhood before
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Shaun David Hutchinson, et al. Simon Pulse, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9111-2
Nine perspectives interweave in a novel composed of divergent, unsettling stories from authors that include Brandy Colbert, Justina Ireland, Alaya Dawn Johnson, and Stephanie Kuehn. A group of delinquent teens is sent to Zeppelin Bend, an outdoor...
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Justina Ireland. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4424-4464-5
As in Ireland’s first novel, Vengeance Bound, her sophomore offering brings creatures from Greek mythology into the modern world. After failing her Harpy trials, Zephyr Mourning was looking forward to a low-key life in the Mortal Realm....
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Justina Ireland. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-257060-4
In this alternate-history horror tale, shortly after Jane McKeene was born, the dead rose and attacked the living, effectively ending the Civil War. A reunified army fought the shambling hordes until Congress passed the Negro and Native Reeducation...
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Justina Ireland. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-291589-4
In 1920s Georgia, 12-year-old Ophelia Harrison, who is Black, learns that she can see ghosts when her father, killed hours earlier by a white lynch mob, wakes Ophie in the middle of the night to save her and her mother from the same fate. After...
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Justina Ireland. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $18.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-303822-6
Ireland (Dread Nation) delivers a knockout punch in this fantastical steampunk take on the Great Depression, in which the U.S. rebuilds after a magical blight throws the country into disarray. In 1937, Black 17-year-old Laura Ann Langston, a...
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Justina Ireland. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06328-782-2
Twelve-year-old Tasha Washington has just lost her mother, the only family she’s ever known. She’s taken in by her father, whom she’s never met. He “would rather watch basketball with his friends than get to know his own daughter,” though, so Tasha...
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Edited by Ibi Zoboi. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-269872-8
This collection of 17 original stories is written by contemporary black authors who explore “teens examining, rebelling against, embracing, or simply existing within their own idea of blackness.” The tales offer a wide array of perspectives and...
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