Age Category: YA

Uptown Oracle Reads… The Heart Forger

No one knows death like Tea. A bone witch who can resurrect the dead, she has the power to take life…and return it. And she is done with her self-imposed exile. Her heart is set on vengeance, and she now possesses all she needs to command the mighty daeva. With the help of these terrifying…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Beyond a Darkened Shore

The ancient land of Éirinn is mired in war. Ciara, Princess of Mide, has never known a time when Éirinn’s kingdoms were not battling for power, or Northmen were not plundering their shores. Because of Ciara’s unearthly ability to control her enemies’ minds and actions, Mide has always been safe. But lately, a mysterious crow…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Falconer

Edinburgh, 1844. Eighteen-year-old Lady Aileana Kameronhas everything a girl could dream of: brains, charm, wealth, a title—and drop-dead beauty. But she’s leading a double life: She has a rare ability to sense the sìthíchean and, with the aid of a mysterious mentor, has spent the year since her mother died learning how to kill them.…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Island

Newly arrived from America, Link is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. What kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. When his parents…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Wendy

Wendy Darling is an orphan, living in an overcrowded almshouse, ridiculed for believing in a future she can never have. More than anything in the world, she wants to be the captain of a ship. By 1789, she’s sixteen, old enough to be sold into service as a dressmaker or a servant. When she learns…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Blackheath

Seventeen-year-old Maggie Ellmes is dogged by a case of chronic bad luck. She figures that’s just her lot in life—that is, until the psychic at Blackheath’s annual carnival reveals that Maggie’s problems are caused by more than just ordinary misfortune; she’s actually been cursed. Desperate to shake the hex, Maggie has no choice but to…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Bone Witch

When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different. Her gift for necromancy means that she’s a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone witch, who takes Tea and her brother to another…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Here We Are Now

Despite sending him letters ever since she was thirteen, Taliah Abdallat never thought she’d ever really meet Julian Oliver. But one day, while her mother is out of the country, the famed rock star from Staring Into the Abyss shows up on her doorstep. This makes sense – kinda – because Julian Oliver is Taliah’s…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Sunflowers in February

Lily wakes up one crisp Sunday morning on the side of the road. She has no idea how she got there. It is all very peaceful. and very beautiful. It is only when the police car, and then the ambulance arrive, and she sees her own body, that she realises that she is in fact……