New Year New Genre: Fiction

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Does your reader like to use their imagination?

Green Round Banner Late one night, 11 year old Effie is handed over to her elderly aunt by protective services. Her mother has died, and spitfire Effie now finds herself in Brooklyn with two elderly women who are definitely witches.

Green Round Banner Libby has difficulty making friends, and talks to famous women in science that she’s learned about inside her head.

Green Round Banner Half-Japanese Ava Andrews has two invisible disabilities that complicate her life: a pacemaker from a genetic heart condition, and anxiety, which can trigger heart episodes. On top of all this, Ava’s best friend Zelia moved away and she has to navigate sixth grade alone.

Madalyn really loves naps, and I appreciate that personality quirk. She’s moved in with her Great Uncle, Papa Lobo, after an extremely miserable year at her previous school.

it can be hard to change genres, but let's try something new in 2k22!

Green Round Banner Lila has always felt secure that her Abuela knew everything about baking and cooking, but her entire world is opened up when she begins to bake in England and learn more than the Cuban staples that have previously surrounded her. Lila begins developing her own fusion recipes and finding her culinary voice.

Green Round Banner Told from three viewpoints, the reader gets the full scope of what life is like for these characters. Barely Missing Everything is a text that normalizes the experiences of working Latinx families barely making it, and the dreams that accompany hardly making ends meet.

Green Round Banner Four young girls (Rose, Alice, Maxine, and London) are all institutionalized at the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, also known as the Fernald School. Set in 1928, readers get a look inside the dismal and regimented existence that these girls as well as the rest of the inmates are subjected to.

Green Round Banner This is a primer for social justice terminology, defining ideas like collusion and nepotism in an easy to understand way for readers. This complex and beautiful story doesn’t shy away from the intricacies and failures that can come with the long haul of working for change.

Happy reading! I hope these suggestions piqued your interest, what genre should I do next?

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