Our Not-as-Scary Book List, Part 2

Bernadette Crowley is the perfect storm of magical accidents. For the youngest in a long line of witches, demons used to be no big deal. A spell and a quick prick of the finger, and a witch like Ber could summon a demon to do anything she needed—clean a mess, send a message, you name it. But that was before Ber was diagnosed with diabetes. Now each time she tests her blood sugar, accidental demons are slipping into the human dimension…and causing absolute chaos.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction nominee, 2024

During bon, families remember and celebrate their ancestors. But ever since her obaachan died, Obon has lost its magic and Anzu doesn't feel much like celebrating anymore. While avoiding holiday festivities, Anzu spots a stray dog that seems to be staring right at her. But when she chases after it, she slips and falls down a ridge, losing consciousness. When she awakes, she’s in the Shinto underworld known as Yomi. The stray dog, she finds out, is actually the Gatekeeper of Yomi, and he warns her to return to the human realm before it’s too late.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction nominee, 2024

Atana’s island may be quiet and peaceful, but mostly, it’s lonely. With the outside world full of magic hunters who would stop at nothing to capture a mermaid like her, Atana has never been brave enough to swim far from her island’s shores and seek the answers to her mysterious past—until a firebird named Ren unexpectedly crashes into her life. Ren’s arrival does not go unnoticed, as it has been hundreds of years since a firebird last landed on Earth. Determined to both protect Ren and finally chase the answers she’s longed for, Atana embarks on an adventure that takes her and the firebird to strange new islands and entangles them with the powerful yet secretive Witch Queen.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Graphic Novel nominee, 2024

Caleb is not thrilled to be moving to the town where his mom grew up. It is a small and ridiculously kitschy place where every day is Halloween. Caleb is not a fan of Halloween when it only happens once a year, so Halloween-obsessed Samhain, Wisconsin, is really not the place for him. How is he supposed to cope with kids wearing costumes to school every single day? Caleb discovers Samhain is so much stranger than he ever could have imagined. As one of the only people who realizes what’s happening, can he save a town that doesn’t want saving?
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

The library is haunted! Beware of the ghost!
Frightening children is what Boo loves doing most. The library is Poppy’s favorite place to go but it’s haunted by a ghost named Boo who loves to frighten visitors away. Boo casts eerie shadows, rips out pages, and knocks books off the shelves. However, brave Poppy refuses to leave—she just wants to read in peace!
Fiction Picture Book nominee, 2024

Ice-skater Mina is on a one-track path to Olympic gold and glory—that is, until she totally wipes out at her biggest competition, and is kinda-sorta-kidnapped by undead kids on roller skates. Sucked into the high stakes world of Paranormal Roller Derby, she finds herself "recruited" by a squad of vampires who need a human player to complete their team—just in time to save the league from losing it all.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Graphic Novel submission

lejandro's supernatural ability to see the past with the use of his tarot cards makes it so the past is all he ever really focuses on. Alejandro would like to pour his passion into piano to prepare for the upcoming winter recital, but bizarre supernatural forces seem out to get him. When a time-traveling demon arrives with a mission to stop the upcoming high school winter recital from taking place, Alejandro must focus on the future to slay the demon, save the recital, and maybe get a second chance at love.
Poetry Novel in Verse nominee, 2024

After Ignacio "Iggy" Garcia bumps into Marisol (and her coffee) at school, his world is spun around. But Marisol has too much going on to be bothered with him. As Iggy stresses over how to get Marisol to like him, his grandfather comes to the rescue. The thing is, not only is his abuelito dead, but he also gives terrible love advice. The worst. With his ghost abuelito's meddling, Iggy's life begins to unravel as he sets off on a journey of self-discovery.
Young Adult Graphic Novel nominee, 2024

Jacob, the basketball star of a small town, has an appointment with the new doctor in town. The handsome new MD seems to have just what he needs but soon Jacob realizes his ailments―and those of his friends―seem to only be getting worse! The boys decide to confront the doctor at his office, but what they find is beyond their wildest imaginations.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

When the mysterious Council of Witches summons Abby and her friends to their secret domain, then forbids the young coven from investigating the sinister events unfolding in Willow Cove, Abby begins to suspect the Council knows more about the disappearances than they're letting on. With the clock ticking and the danger getting closer and closer to Abby's doorstep, she and her best friend Robby O'Reilly must both decide what they're willing to risk to save everyone they love . . . before an ancient curse from Willow Cove's past sinks its teeth into them all.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction nominee, 2024

Marius Grey’s mom is back from the dead. After hunting monsters and performing forbidden spells, Marius is just happy she's there, helping him to take care of their Louisiana cemetery again.But it soon becomes clear that something has gone wrong. Marius's mother is growing more distant and strange things start happening around her. Worse yet, sometimes it feels like she’s a completely different person–one who definitely isn’t his mom.If Marius wants to save her, he’s going to need help. Serious help. Good thing he has a flesh-eating mermaid for a best friend and a classmate with extra strong magic.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

Manisha (16) is no stranger to monsters—she’s been running from them for years, from beasts who roam the jungle to the King’s army, who forced her people, the naga, to scatter to the ends of the earth. Pratyush (17) is a famed slayer of monsters, one of the King’s most prized warriors and a frequent visitor to the floating temples. For every monster the slayer kills, years are added to his life. When Pratyush and Manisha meet, each sees in the other the possibility to chart a new path. Unfortunately, the kingdom’s powerful have other plans.
YA Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

Ferris Wilkey's summer is sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferris’s mother’s chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement. And Charisse, Ferris’s grandmother, has started seeing a ghost, which seems like an alarming omen given that she is also feeling unwell. But the ghost is not there to usher Charisse to the Great Beyond. She has other plans—wild, impractical, illuminating plans. How can Ferris satisfy a specter with Pinky terrorizing the town, Uncle Ted sending Ferris to spy on her aunt, and her father battling an invasion of raccoons?
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction nominee, 2024

Kai Song dreams of being a warrior, but society isn't ready for a girl warrior. Her determination is countered by rumors that she is the granddaughter of Gumiho, the infamous nine-tailed fox demon whom her father killed years before. Everything comes crashing down the day Kai learns the deadly secret about her mother’s past. Now she must come to terms with the truth about her identity and take her destiny into her own hands. As Kai desperately searches for a way to escape her fate, she comes to find compassion, and even love, in the most unexpected places.
Young Adult Graphic Novel nominee, 2024

Tessa doesn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, where she can't confess her feelings for her best friend Maddie; and definitely not at home, where the rest of her family of werewolves make her feel like an outcast because she can't even shift into her full wolf form yet. Then word gets out that a group of werewolf hunters has infiltrated her pack's territory, and that they have a treatment that can make werewolves become human. Tessa thinks she's found the answer to her problems. But hen it turns out there might be more to the hunters' plans than anyone knows, it's up to Tessa to put herself on the line to protect the lives of those she loves the most.
Young Adult Graphic Novel nominee, 2024

Attending the prestigious Ashford College’s writing seminar is a dream come true for Jules Montgomery, but the summer isn’t unfolding as she hoped. When a fellow student goes missing, neither the police nor their teacher seem that concerned. Then there is the the strange man who frequents Jules’ aunt’s antique shop is eager to help—and his name is none other than Sherlock Holmes. What happened to their missing classmate? And how can it be that Watson and Holmes—two fictional characters from the Victorian era—are alive and well in the 21st century?
Young Adult Fiction submission, 2024

If you're a fraidy-ghost, enjoying Halloween is hard! When Finn is afraid, his stomach swoops, his hands sweat, and he can't move. Finn, a spooky little ghostie, is too afraid to leave the comfort of his attic to enjoy trick-or-treating with his family. He's afraid of everything--the color orange, trees, people, even flying! But then he realizes that if he wants his favorite Halloween candy, he'll need to overcome his fears. Through incremental exposures to the things he's afraid of, Finn finds courage to do things he enjoys with the people he loves.
Fiction Picture Book nominee, 2024

For as long as she can remember, Chelsea Grant has tried everything she can think of to distance herself from the disastrous damage her father does to her social life. It's not easy to shake her reputation as Ghost Girl when Dad keeps advertising his business as a "paranormal removal expert" in big, bold, loud letters! Now she's attending a prestigious high school and she's finally made friends with the popular crowd. Things are looking up—until a night on the town backfires spectacularly, landing her in hot water at home. Her punishment? Working for her dad at Paranormal Removal Services. All. Summer.
Young Adult Graphic Novel nominee, 2024

When Izzy breaks a window in the creepy house next door, her summer plans suddenly go from playing baseball in the backyard to doing yard work for mysterious Mr. Johnson to pay for the damage. Just when she thinks it can't get any worse, she encounters a ghost girl with a cryptic HELP ME. As Izzy begins to unravel the mystery surrounding the girl's death, she discovers a whole new meaning to being friends... forever.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction nominee, 2024

Rosemary Thorpe has the uncanny and unfortunate ability to foresee people’s deaths. At the Fern’s School for Wayward Fae, Rosemary learns that her powers come from being part fae.
Here she meets others who are part fae – Trym, her banshee roommate whose screams can kill, and Essie, a djinn who grants wishes. Not long after Rosemary arrives a student vanishes in thin air. It's now up to all the kids to use their curious gifts to find their missing friend.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

After getting bullied at Figueroa Elementary, Stix Hart wants nothing more than to fly below the radar at middle school. He's heard all the horror stories, but none involved ghosts. On Stix's first day of sixth grade, his anxiety is off the charts. It doesn't help when he spots a kid who reminds him of his old bully, Xander Mack. Soon after, he encounters two other students who take a keen interest in him. He quickly learns the spooky truth—the trio are lost souls in need of a solid. When the ghosts tell him they've been stuck in middle school for decades, it's up to Stix to figure out how to help these not-so-normal new friends.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction nominee, 2024

Blue and their best friend Herschel are definitely not the coolest kids around, but when a group of popular bullies tell our main characters that their problems can be solved by finding the treasure buried beneath the school… well, Blue, Herschel and one annoyed night janitor have to investigate their school after dark!

What nightmares guard the treasure? The kind to give our heroes one bad case of the Heebie Jeebies!
Elementary/Middle-Grade Graphic Novel submission, 2024

Ffion is the last hedgewitch in Foxhall. Across the warring kingdoms of Wales, all magic is fading. Prince Taliesin would love nothing more than to watch magic die. When his father promises the throne to the son who can destroy King Offa's dyke. Tal begrudgingly asks for help from a witch,. He is willing to do whatever it takes to become king. Even if he’s forced to team up with a spitfire hedgewitch who hates him almost as much as he hates her magic.
YA Speculative Fiction nominee, 2024

Cousins Jalissa and Kim Vasquez move to the city of Los Aguaceros together. A curious incident on the beach gives them supernatural powers. And when monsters start attacking the city, Kim decides that using their powers to stop them is the perfect way for them to become famous. But being heroes isn’t as easy as it seems--and Los Aquaceros is in more danger than they imagine.
Young Adult Graphic Novel nominee, 2024

Joana is a young witch who secured her dream job with a coven in London. Creating potions (her favorite activity) in her favorite place. It isn't long before reality sets in. Finding a flat is an ordeal, her “dream job” is stressful, and she’s totally alone. Little by little, she makes her place, but fatigue, sadness, and doubts threaten to topple her hard-earned success . . . until she starts talking to a professional who helps her realize in order to take care of herself, she must know herself.
Young Adult Graphic Novel nominee, 2024

Ever since her Papi died, a ghost has been following Jasmine Garza. She doesn't acknowledge it, but it is still making trouble, and Jasmine and her mami are moving (again) to a new apartment. This time Jasmine is committed to living a normal life with normal friends. Except that her new friends are obsessed with all things supernatural. Together they set out to prove that Jasmine’s not just acting out. Ghosts are real and Jasmine is haunted, but not everyone agrees how to deal with the departed. As Jasmine’s hauntings increase in intensity, her resentment builds. Why is her Mami so secretive about her past? Why is she the center of such a terrible vortex of supernatural activity? And why hasn’t her Papi ever reached out to her since he passed?
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction nominee, 2024

Everyone deserves a quiet, restful retirement. But for John, a newly retired classroom skeleton, life is just beginning. When John is adopted by Grams and Gramps and leaves the classroom to live on their farm, every day is an exciting new adventure: John rides in the car for the first time, makes a snow angel, scares away crooks, and becomes a source of comfort for Grams, Gramps, and their grandkids.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Fiction submission

Since her mother died when she was five years old, it’s always just been Ronnie Miller and her dad. As long as Ronnie has her dad and her best friend Jack, she is Ronnie is 99% certain she can get through anything. As much as she wants everything to stay the same, they don't ... like going to sleepaway camp! At Camp Foster there are new friends, new foes, and souls with unfinished business, For a girl who wants everything to stay the same, nothing is scarier than all the changes Camp Foster brings.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction nominee, 2024

Lavinia “Vin” Lucas is out of control and out of options. After years of detention, suspension, and expulsion from magic schools far and wide, she’s now being sent to the Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents. If she gets expelled, it’s the end of the line. Now, Vin is determined to behave. Except no one at Last Hope seems to want her to. Her new teachers—particularly the school’s kind headmistress—push her to explore her magic, and her mischievous classmates delight in every accident. When a former student begins attacking the school, Vin must question just how much she knows about the headmistress and her new home. Is this place worth saving? And are her budding abilities—and every trick, trap, and deception in her friends’ delinquent arsenal—enough to protect Last Hope?
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction nominee, 2024

Indu, a boy from the moon, feels like he doesn’t belong. he kids at school think he’s weird, he has a crush on his pen pal who might not like him back, and his stepfamily doesn’t seem to know what to do with him. Worst of all, his mom is so busy he can't talk with her about his feelings. When the moon hears Indu's plea to take him back, they agree. Indu can come home on the first day of the the New Year. As the promised day draws nearer, Indu finds friendship in unlikely places and discovers that home is more than where you come from. When the moon calls again, is Indu willing to give up what he’s just found?
Elementary/Middle-Grade Graphic Novel nominee, 2024

Ever since her dad died, Jerry Blum (11) and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into the woods, never to been seen again. When her mother doesn’t come home one morning, Jerry springs into action. In her quest, Jerry learns her mother isn't a housekeeper at all. She has been defending the town from demons that have been haunting it for generations. Jerry and her friends head into the woods to save her mom, and must unravel the truth behind the town’s legend, or risk losing what’s left of her family.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction nominee, 2024

Learn about the wild, wacky and downright disgusting ways some animals react out of fear. Are you afraid of the dark? Of getting lost? Or of something you saw in a movie? Maybe someone laughed at you for being scared or called you a chicken. That’s okay! In fact, it’s how humans stay safe in scary situations. While people might run or scream, animals have amazing ways of protecting themselves when they’re afraid.
Elementary Nonfiction submission, 2024

Up on a scruffy hill, beside a ramschackle house, Millie Fleur plants her marvelously strange garden, filled with Sneezing Stickyweed, Fanged Fairymoss, and Grumpy Gilliflower. Millie Fleur finds it enchanting, but the townspeople of Garden Glen call it poison! But Millie is proud of her beloved little garden. If some townspeople are going to be sticks in the mud, she'll find the kindred spirits who appreciate everything the garden has to offer.

Fiction Picture Book nominee, 2024

Merrick Darling’s life as daughter of the Manor Lord of Sussex is better than most. Unlike the commoners, she is immune to the toxic fog that encroached on England generations earlier. She will never become a Phantom—one of the monstrous creatures that stalk her province’s borders—and as long as the fires burn to hold them back, her safety is ensured. Everything is turned on its head, though, when Merrick’s father dies suddenly. A recent string of attacks along the province’s borders has turned their formerly bucolic countryside into a terrifying and unpredictable landscape. The fog is closing in and the fires aren’t holding, which makes Merrick and her sister Essie vulnerable in more ways than one.

YA Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

Zach Darlington saved the world from total apocalypse and all he got was grounded. He’s not even allowed to watch his favorite horror movies anymore, and now his parents want to ship him off to boarding school! But before Zach can talk some sense into his parents, his little sister, Naomi, lands in an unexplainable coma. Zach and his friends will have to face terrifying angels, monsters, and a serpent to get to the tree and save Naomi’s life. He just hopes he won’t be grounded till the end of time if they ever make it back.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

For Violet Hart very little felt like it fit anymore. Not their new home, or Violet's group of friends. Sometimes, Violet tells herself, change is okay. That is, until Violet sees her attic bedroom in the family's new house. It is shadowy, creaky, and wrapped in old yellow wallpaper covered with a faded tangle of twisting vines and sickly flowers. After moving in, Violet falls ill . As days turn into weeks without any improvement, she finds herself spending more time alone in the room with the yellow wallpaper, the shadows moving in the corners, wrapping themselves around her at night. And soon, Violet starts to suspect that she might not be alone in the room at all.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

Nox Winters (12) thinks of his "home town" of Evergreen as a tourist trap for amateur cryptozoologists hoping to spot its infamous legend, a batlike creature known as the Evergreen Devil. His twin brother, Noah, has been wasting away from an illness that has left medical professionals stumped. As Noah’s condition worsens, Nox begins to suspect that Evergreen is doing more harm than good—and that there might be some truth to its tales of fearsome cryptids and mysterious disappearances. When Noah falls into a deep sleep that Nox can’t wake him from, Nox’s only chance at saving him lies in the surrounding forest, where he discovers a hidden world where it’s always nighttime. Nox must venture deeper into an endless night and successfully bargain with the terrifying Keepers of the forest for a cure to Noah’s ailment or else neither twin will leave Evergreen alive.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

Diana and her little brother, Georgie, know every inch of the land around the old Willis place, a crumbling mansion that some people say is haunted. They climb trees, swim in the pond, and do whatever they want. Except leave the grounds. Or make friends. Lissa is the new caretaker's daughter and someone Diana would like to befriend. But. If Diana makes contact with Lissa she could unleash evil forces beyond her control. Then they'll all be sorry.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Graphic Novel nominee, 2024

Japan, 17th Simon Grey and Oyuki Winter, born with the ability to see the spirit world, are given a rare chance to visit an enchanted undersea kingdom. But this gift soon becomes a curse, as they return to find themselves stranded in a country where their presence is a crime. Their only hope of survival lies with the mystical young warrior Amakusa Shiro, leader of a ragtag band of rebels against a tyrannical lord. With samurai, monsters, and magicians attacking them from all sides, even the new powers they gain from their allies among the yokai may not be enough to save them.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

Krescent Dune (17) is determined to keep her head down and fulfill her role as the dutiful bodyguard, even though she is trapped underground with her childhood enemy and a company of people who would gladly kill her if they knew who her parents were. As they come across creatures she believed only existed in legends, it becomes clear they are in far more danger than she could have imagined. But someone doesn’t want her to make it out alive. And she’ll have to figure out who before she’s left alone… in the dark.
YA Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

Luna is a powerful witch. Aoife is a non-magical girl. Just when they are at their lowest, Aoife and Luna find each other and start dating. As decreed by magic law, Luna casts a spell that will erase Aoife’s memories of their history together if they ever break up. But when Aoife and Luna end things, it’s both of them who forget . . . that is, until they meet again, fall for each other, and recover all the memories of their last attempt at dating. When they set out to break the cycle, will they be strangers forever or together at last?
YA Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

When Rami sees a floating girl in the museum, he knows he has seen her somewhere before. Then he realizes: She looks just like the girl in the painting that has gone missing. But how does her appearance connect to the theft?Agatha the turtle knows—she has been watching from the garden. But she can’t exactly tell anyone…can she? Will Rami, with the help of his classmate, Veda, be able to solve the mystery? The clues are all around them, but they’ll have to be brave enough to really look.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction nominee, 2024

Blip - a.ka. the Bad Luck Princess - isn't bothered by the swamp rats, three-eyed toads, and hungry alligarks of Zone 13, and she's certainly not phased by the chaos of her everyday life. But then again, she's never been summoned by the siren of the swamp before now ... or been tasked to save her radioactive homeland.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

It's 1926 and reapers, the once-human vampires with a terrifying affliction, are on the rise in New York. But the Saint family's thriving reaper-hunting enterprise holds reign over the city, giving them more power than even the organized criminals who run the nightclubs. Layla Quinn is a young reaper haunted by her past. Though reapers have existed in America for three centuries, created by New World atrocities and cruel experiments, Layla became one just five years ago. The night she was turned, she lost her parents, the protection of the Saints, and her humanity, and she'll never forget how Elise Saint betrayed her. nce close friends, now bitter enemies, Elise and Layla explore the city's underworld, confronting their intense feelings for one another and uncovering the sinister truths about a growing threat to reapers and humans alike.
YA Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

Come follow thirteen trick-or-treaters down Scary Street. Dare to stop at the vampire’s lair? Tempted to take a bite of the witch’s delight? How about a peek inside a ghostly haunt? Who will make it to the end. . . and what last trick (or treat) awaits?
Fiction Picture Book submission, 2024

the Botanic Hill detectives, travel to Llanfair, a fictitious Welsh village in present-day California, to solve the mystery of the Shocking Specter. The green-glowing apparition reportedly roams the countryside, setting fire to buildings and meadows during the new moon. Readers will enjoy learning about real-life horror film star Boris Karloff, Frankenstein author Mary Shelley, other key players in the movie’s production, and some early Hollywood cinematic history. Our fabulous four might need to kick some monsters to the curb to solve this challenging mystery!
Elementary/Middle-Grade Fiction nominee, 2024

Ruby Santos (18) has been unmoored since her mother’s death. She can’t apply to art school like she’s always dreamed, and she and her father have had to move into the basement of their home and rent out the top floor while they work to pay back her mother’s hospital bills. Then Ruby finds out her father has been living a secret life as a delivery person for a magical underworld—he “jumps” train lines to help deliver packages for a powerful family. But this is no ordinary job. Ruby soon realizes that the trains are much more than doors to romance and they’re also doors to trafficking illicit goods and fierce rivalries. As she becomes more entangled with the magical underworld and the mysterious boy who’s helped her to learn magic, she realizes too late that she may be in over her head. Can she free her father and save her mother’s house? Or has she only managed to get herself pulled into the dangerous web her father was trapped in?
YA Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

Frankie is bored and lonely up in Frankenstein Castle. He needs is a friend. Since the other monsters are mean and the werewolves are scary, Frankie decides to make his own friend: a human!
But his is a monstrous mind, and this new friend might make Frankie realize why humans were banned from Monsterweld in the first place.
Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction submission, 2024

World of Rot takes readers on a deep dive into the process of decay, from the science behind it to an up-close and personal look at the organisms that do the dirty work to make our planet livable. With a touch of humor and quirky full-color illustrations, kids will learn about the life-recycling system happening all around us—in the sea, in the soil, and even inside our own bodies.
Middle Grade Nonfiction submission, 2024

Once there was magic in Britain. There were dragons and wizards and green knights and round tables and kings that pulled swords out of stones. But now, the doors to the Otherworld have closed, and the magic is gone. Young Hag has grown up hearing those tales. When tragedy strikes and their world is shaken, Young Hag turns her back on magic. She is sick of the tales of family curses, faerie doors, lost magic, and ancient swords. If they are witches, where is their magic when they really need it? When she finds
a changeling baby in the woods., Young Hag is confronted with real magic. She has no choice but to believe, and she sets off on the greatest quest of her life; to bring the magic back to Britain.
Young Adult Graphic Novel nominee, 2024

Zak vs. Zombies is the story of a cellphone-less boy in a cellphone-crazed world. When a strange, techno-fied virus spreads through the town via cellphone calls and texts turning everyone into mumbling, stumbling, drooling zombies, Zak and a handful of kids from his class must come together despite their differences and embark on the adventure of a lifetime to save their town (and possibly the world) from the digital Zombie apocalypse!
Elementary/Middle-Grade Graphic Novel submission, 2024