Age Category: YA

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Heart of Iron

    Found as a child drifting through space with D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the crew she now calls family. But D09 – one of the last remaining illegal Metals – has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him. Ana’s desperate effort leads…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Secret of Spellshadow Manor

    Alex Webber thought he was hallucinating. But when he sees the mysterious man following Natalie multiple times, he can no longer disbelieve his eyes. Alex sees her walking with him down a road in his neighborhood he’s never seen before – and can’t help but follow where he finds himself standing before a decrepit old…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Tombs

    New York, 1882. A dark, forbidding city, and no place for a girl with unexplainable powers. Sixteen-year-old Avery Kohl pines for the life she had before her mother was taken. She fears the mysterious men in crow masks who locked her mother in the Tombs asylum for being able to see what others couldn’t. Avery…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Ready Player One

    In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade’s devoted his life to studying Halliday’s past to unlock the puzzles and win the ultimate prize. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Traitor Prince

    Javan has been at school for 10 years and is only just returning to his kingdom and father. Before he has the chance however, he miraculously survives assassination attempts only to find that an impostor is posing as him. When he tries to let the palace guards know, his uncle betrays him and he’s sent…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Hazel Wood

    Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the bad luck at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Wren Hunt

    Every Christmas, Wren is chased through the woods by her family’s enemies—the Judges—and there’s nothing that she can do to stop it. Once  the Augurs controlled a powerful magic. But now that power lies with the Judges, who are set on destroying her kind for good. In a  bid to save her family, Wren takes a…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Queen’s Rising

    When her seventeenth summer arrives, Brienna desires to master her passion and to be chosen by a patron. Growing up in at the renowned Magnalia House should have prepared her. While some are born with an innate talent for one of the five passions, Brienna struggled to find hers until she chose to study knowledge. However,…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Keeper

    When a 200-year-old witch attacks her, Lainey Styles is determined to find a logical explanation. Even with the impossible staring her in the face, Lainey refuses to believe it—until she finds a photograph linking the witch to her dead mother. Lainey discovers that she, like her mother, is a Keeper: a witch with the ability…