Barbara Saunders

age 8+ Funny, thrilling addition to Black girl-led fantasy series. Parents need to know that Amari and the Metalwork Menace by B. B. Alston is the fourth installment in the bestselling Supernatural Investigations series starring Amari Peters, an African American 8th grader with the gift of magic. In this title, Amari comes out of retirement to fight a mysterious ailment that turns people into machines and robs them of their lives.

age 16+ Podcaster looks into gruesome murders in thrilling mystery. Parents need to know that I Don't Wish You Well is amurder mystery novel for teens by Jumata Emill. Pryce, an 18-year-old Black, gay college freshman, goes on a quest to solve multiple murders that happened in his town five years prior, with the intention of creating a podcast about it.

age 14+ Exciting Great Gatsby reboot with queer, Black characters. Parents need to know that Ryan Douglass' The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay is loosely based on F. Scott's Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Seventeen-year-old Jay's the son of a Black mother and the White father who founded an integrated elite school in Harlem in the 1920s. Nick, the main character, also 17, ends up at the school after being driven out of his home in Oklahoma during the Tulsa massacre of 1921.