Age Category: YA

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……
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Gilded King

In the Blue, the world’s last city, all is not well. Julia is trapped. She serves the nobility until she meets Lucas, a boy who believes in fairytales that Julia’s world can’t accommodate. The Blue is her prison, and she’d escape into the trees if she didn’t know that contamination and death awaited humanity outside.…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Waking Land

Lady Elanna Valtai is devoted to the King who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder and must flee for her life. Returning to her homeland, Elanna is forced to reckon with her despised, estranged father. Feeling a strange, deep connection to the natural world,…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Girl and the Grove

Teenager Leila’s life is full of challenges. From bouncing around the foster care system to living with seasonal affective disorder, she’s never had an easy road. Leila keeps herself busy with her passion for environmental advocacy, monitoring the Urban Ecovists message board and joining a local environmental club with her best friend Sarika. And now…
Uptown Oracle Reads… To Kill a Kingdom

Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Blood Will Out

Ari Sullivan is alive—for now. She wakes at the bottom of a cistern with only the shadowy recollection of a low-pitched voice and a gloved hand. No one can hear her screams. And the person who put her there is coming back. The killer is planning a gruesome masterpiece, a fairytale tableau of innocence and blood,…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Children of Blood and Bone

Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zelie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were targeted and killed, leaving Zélie motherless and her people without hope. Now, Zélie has one chance…