Written by a mortician in question and answer chapters, this book explores some of the more icky and intriguing questions about human corpses. Examples include: Can I keep my parents’ skulls after ...

49 Days. By Agnes Lee. Art by the author. 2024. 341p. Levine Querido, paper, $18.99 (9781646143757). Gr. 7-12. 741.5973. Kit’s soul must travel for forty nine days as she and the family she left ...

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Nita is an expert at dissection. She dissects the dead bodies of “unnaturals” that her mother brings to her to sell the pieces on the dark web parts market. But when her mother brings a live specimen ...

Do you ever feel like you never get a chance to read older books because you’re so focused on trying to stay on top of new releases and current trends? We can relate. Lots of young adult librarians ...

Please describe your teenage self. Comic book nerd. Movie buff. TV sitcom aficionado. Avid reader. Closet novelist. Quiet. Completely without fashion sense. Wickedly funny if you were close enough to ...

14 year-old Sarah Smith has grown up as a “snipe,” a non-magical member of the servant class. One day, while in a panic, she shows a remarkable feat of magic in front of her employer. A snipe ...