Finalist, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, 2018
A Skinful of Shadows
Frances Hardinge (opens in a new tab)
In the English Civil War, a girl who can take in the ghosts of the dead escapes her late father's sinister family and runs into the war.
The ballot
- Akata WarriorNnedi OkoraforVikingWinner
- Summer in OrcusT. KingfisherSofawolf PressRunner-up
- In Other LandsSarah Rees BrennanBig Mouth House
- The Art of StarvingSam J. MillerHarperTeen
- The Book of Dust: La Belle SauvagePhilip PullmanKnopf