One of the best parts of my job is ordering new books for the Edge–reading the reviews, seeing what popular authors come up with next, or finding out about an upcoming sequel to an old favorite. Read on to find out about some of the new YA fiction titles coming to our shelves this month.

Star Splitter by Matthew J. Kirby
Grades 7 and up
Library Catalog / Libby
“In a far future with quantum communication and teleportation, something goes terribly wrong. After 6 years apart, it’s time for 17-year-old Jessica to be reunited with her parents—but at the cost of her life on Earth, as instead of coming home, her parents are making her join them on their interstellar scientific mission on a distant, post-extinction–event world. The teleportation technology destroys the original body and prints a new one at the other end, but when Jessica wakes up expecting to be in orbit, it’s obvious things have gone horribly, violently, lethally awry…. An intense, read-in-one-sitting kind of ride.” –Kirkus Reviews

Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu
Grades 9 and up
Library Catalog / Libby
“In this well-paced series opener by Lu (the Skyhunter duology), a secret agent teams up with a pop star to bring down a powerful crime syndicate. Chinese American 19-year-old Winter Young, ‘the most famous superstar in the world,' never imagined he’d be involved in a covert spy operation, until he’s recruited by espionage organization the Panacea Group—the institution his late older brother belonged to before his death. Winter is soon partnered with 19-year-old operative Sydney Cossette, a white polyglot hiding a fatal lung condition. Their mission: take down crime boss Eli Morrison, who’s suspected of transporting something called ‘chemical warfare’s answer to the atomic bomb.'” –Publisher's Weekly Annex

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
Grades 9 and up
Library Catalog / Libby
“Nearly 16-year-old Winifred Blight’s life is forever changed when she falls in love with a ghost. Business is bad at Toronto’s Winterson Cemetery. This means trouble for Winifred and her father, Thomas, the chief crematory operator. If the cemetery closes, Thomas will lose his job and they’ll have to move out of their apartment above the admin offices. It’s just been Winifred and her White father since her mother, Mary Kalder, who was Métis from Georgian Bay with Romanian traveler ancestry, died during childbirth. Now, Winifred tries to find a way to save her home while navigating the humiliating and humbling trials that come with growing up in a cemetery, including being ostracized at school by peers who call her Wednesday Addams.” –Kirkus Reviews

Queen Bee by Amalie Howard
Grades 8 and up
Library Catalog / Libby
“Lady Ela Dalvi knows all about betrayal. As the daughter of a destitute earl, Ela is a lady in name only. She doesn’t care for dresses and other high society baubles, but her best friend Poppy does. When a duke moves in next door to Ela, she instantly forms a friendship with the young Marquess of Ridley, Keston Osborn. Ela’s world falls apart when a jealous Poppy tells a lie that ruins Ela's reputation and gets her banished from society, leaving only one thing left for her to do: get revenge on her conniving ex–best friend and the boy who broke her heart.” –Booklist

If I See You Again Tomorrow by Robbie Couch
Grades 8 and up
Library Catalog / Libby
“Clark has been living a time loop that resets every night to Sept. 19. At first, it was fun doing whatever he wanted with no rules or consequences; now, by day 309, Clark feels stuck in a monotonous grind, reliving events and conversations in his dingy apartment with his younger sister and mother while best friend Sadie is living it up in Texas after leaving Illinois. Without hope of change, Clark feels increasingly disconnected from his relationships. But when a new boy, Beau, shows up in class on Day 310 and drags him off on a madcap adventure, Clark has a new goal in life: escape Sept. 19 and find Beau for real.” –Kirkus Reviews

Sequels:

Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens
Grades 9 and up
Library Catalog
“Two teens apprenticed to rival sorcerers start to fall for each other as the world around them implodes. Nonmagical almost-17-year-old Edison ‘Rook' Rooker just wants back into the world of magic that he lost when his grandmother passed away. And while being magicless himself is a major obstacle, his optimistic scheme to develop an illegal yet scientific way to access magic while being apprenticed to powerful sorceress Antonia Hex is pretty much going according to plan. Until, that is, the Magical Consortium gets wind of his detection device.” –Kirkus Reviews

The first book in the series, So This is Ever After, can be found here: Library Catalog / Libby.

Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Grades 7 and up
Library Catalog / Libby
“Hughie Wolfe is disappointed when budget restrictions result in his high school’s fall theater production being cut. A part-time job at a local haunted house attraction seems like just the thing to fill the theatrical hole in his heart, but things get complicated quickly. Hughie, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, is increasingly uncomfortable that the theme of the haunted house is tied to a local ghost story that involves the disappearance of an Indigenous girl and includes cartoonish portrayals of Native people. As he is figuring out how to speak up, a friend of his reports a creepy, possibly paranormal experience that sets off a whisper network among young women who have experienced the same thing.” –Booklist

The first book in the series, Hearts Unbroken, can be found here: Library Catalog / Libby.