Runner-up, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, 2018

Summer in Orcus

T. Kingfisher (opens in a new tab)

Hardcover, 270 pages

An eleven-year-old girl is sent by a witch into a strange land on a quest, and finds she is not the kind of hero the stories describe.

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The ballot

Akata WarriorNnedi OkoraforVikingWinner
In Other LandsSarah Rees BrennanBig Mouth House
A Skinful of ShadowsFrances HardingeMacmillan UK / Harry N. Abrams US
The Art of StarvingSam J. MillerHarperTeen
The Book of Dust: La Belle SauvagePhilip PullmanKnopf