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Candice Marley Conner Author Of The Existence of Bea Pearl

From Candice's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Reader Tree hugger Bookseller Swamp witch

Candice's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Candice Marley Conner Why Candice loves this book

The Steps is Riverdale meets The Inheritance Games. What I loved most about this book is that it’s perfect for young teen lit—12yo+ readers who are bridging the current middle grade and YA gap. We have a 14 yo protagonist< Ruby< whose family, from her grandmother matriarch to her absentee dad to her ex-bestie/cousin, is absolutely dysfunctional and makes you feel bad for her. But that just means she rises further from the ashes. Even when the ashes are literal. Lots of twists and deliciously psycho behavior.

By Wendelin Van Draanen ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Steps as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 12, 13, 14, and 15.

What is this book about?

Riverdale meets The Queen's Gambit in this fun, twisty thriller by an Edgar Award-winning author, featuring a deliciously dysfunctional family with dark secrets and shifting alliances.

Fourteen-year-old chess whiz Ruby Vossen tries to keep to herself. She refuses to be a pawn in her wealthy family's web of deception.

But ever since Ruby's mother and aunt died in a car wreck, the battle lines drawn within the Vossen clan have ruled her life. Ruby's father and uncle became irreparably estranged, and within months, Ruby's cousin/BFF was banished from her life, her father remarried, and she wound up with a gold-digging…


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The Time-Jinx Twins by Carol Fisher Saller,

Twelve-year-old identical twins Ellie and Kat accidentally trigger their physicist mom’s unfinished time machine, launching themselves into a high-stakes adventure in 1970 Chicago. If they learn how to join forces and keep time travel out of the wrong hands, they might be able find a way home. Ellie’s gymnastics and…

Book cover of The Bane Witch

Candice Marley Conner Author Of The Existence of Bea Pearl

From Candice's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Reader Tree hugger Bookseller Swamp witch

Candice's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Candice Marley Conner Why Candice loves this book

Plant and fungi -based magic witchy book? Yes please! Ava Morgyn’s The Bane Witch is Practical Magic meets Murders in a Small Town. Piers is clever, resourceful, and definitely misdiagnosed with pica as a child when in reality she comes from a powerful family of poison-eaters. I love it when the bad guys get their dues.

By Ava Morgyn ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Bane Witch as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Practical Magic meets Gone Girl in Ava Morgyn's next dark, spellbinding novel about a woman who is more than a witch-she's a hunter.

Piers Corbin has always had an affinity for poisonous things-plants and men. From the pokeweed berries she consumed at age five that led to the accidental death of a stranger, to the husband whose dark proclivities have become. concerning, poison has been at the heart of her story.

But when she fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her volatile marriage and goes to stay with her estranged great aunt in the mountains, she realizes…


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