Runner-up, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, 2021

A Deadly Education

Naomi Novik (opens in a new tab)

Hardcover, 336 pages

A girl who would be the darkest sorceress of her age keeps her power hidden, at a school for wizards where monsters come for the students.

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The ballot

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive BakingT. KingfisherArgyll ProductionsWinner
ElatsoeDarcie Little BadgerLevine Querido
LegendbornTracy DeonnMargaret K. McElderry/ Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Cemetery BoysAiden ThomasSwoon Reads
RaybearerJordan IfuekoAmulet / Hot Key