Age Category: YA
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Uptown Oracle Reads… Nothing But Sky
Grace Lafferty only feels alive when she’s dangling 500 feet above ground. As a post-World War I wing walker, Grace is determined to get to the World Aviation Expo, proving her team’s worth against flashier competitors and earning a coveted Hollywood contract. No one’s ever questioned Grace’s ambition until Henry Patton, a mechanic with plenty of…
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Uptown Oracle Reads… Looking for Dei
Fifteen-year-old Nara has never liked secrets. Yet it seems that her life has been filled with them, from the ugly scar on her back to the strange powers she possesses. Her mysterious father refuses to say anything about her origins, and soon, she and her best friend must attend the announcement ceremony, in which youths…
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Uptown Oracle Reads… Winterfolk
Rain is a homeless teen living with her father in the woods outside Seattle, near a community of other homeless people called the Winterfolk. She finds safety and sanctuary in this hidden world – until the day that safety is shattered when she learns the city plans to clear the woods of everyone who lives…
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Uptown Oracle Reads… Roar
In a land ruled and shaped by violent magical storms, power lies with those who control them. As the sole heir of Pavan, Aurora’s been groomed to be the perfect queen. She’s intelligent and brave and honorable. But she’s yet to show any trace of the magic she’ll need to protect her people. To keep her…
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Uptown Oracle Reads… Inkmistress
Asra is a demigod with a dangerous gift: the ability to dictate the future by writing with her blood. To keep her power secret, she leads a quiet life as a healer on a remote mountain, content to help the people in her care and spend time with Ina, the mortal girl she loves. But…
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Uptown Oracle Reads… Switched
Things at Fairy Tale Reform School are great. Rumpelstiltskin has been chased off, and everyone is excited that Beauty and the Beast have joined the teaching staff. Everyone, that is, except Gilly, who can’t seem to focus on anything but Anna. How is it that her sister somehow went bad and joined up with Rump?…
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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…
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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…
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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…