Harley Smith

Gr 9 Up–A horror-romance crossover about love, hauntings, lies, overbearing relationships, and how to make it out alive. The elite Milford boarding school in Australia is reeling after a rising senior and heir to the Milford family, Jude, is killed in a hunting accident right at the beginning of the year. Roommates Lyssa, Jude’s girlfriend, and George, Jude’s ex-girlfriend, are not handling his death well and conjure Jude’s ghost back to campus.

Gr 9 Up–A fantastical foray into a Greek pantheon–inspired world of good and evil. Elysia Fields, aka Elle, is a skilled teenage con artist who comes from a family of thieves. As she tries to muddle her way through the disappearance of her parents and death of her brother, a mysterious stranger offers her a job to steal a soul from the Afterlife. Seeing an opportunity to save her late brother’s soul, she jumps at the chance and rallies a motley crew to pull off the heist of a lifetime.

Gr 6 Up–A fast-paced story of best friends Ruby Brookes and Deva Shah, who are in the middle of eighth grade and cannot wait for summer. The duo is inseparable and has plans to attend a prestigious theatre camp. However, both girls must pull their grades up in order to attend. Deva stumbles upon an AI app still in beta-testing; it’s called EchoStar. It claims to be an in-ear assistant to help people with social anxiety and schoolwork.