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Inter-generational themes -
Promoting social emotional learning -
Human choice & consequence -
Adventure on the High Seas -
Haunted houses where setting is a character -
Fiction about being disgraced -
YA set in Australia -
The poignant and complex lives of children -
Joyfully celebrate the magic in nature -
Sleuths who have enough problems without a mystery to solve -
Real people, real jobs, real lives -
A sense of history, oppression and exploitation -
For creating an unsettling atmosphere and place -
Leave you breathless with love, danger, and suspense -
Hard family circumstances for middle-grade readers -
Unconventional coming-of-age with quirky settings -
Cozy books pretending to be something else -
Traveling that are also insanely funny -
Gardening as community building -
Upstairs/downstairs historical sagas with mystery