#UNDEAD GIRL GANG BY LILY ANDERSON

[betterbooksandthings]

"You might be in a YA low fantasy book if you turn the corner to get to your locker and come upon a daemon. They contain everything odd about high school and literalize it with fantasy. Here is a must-read list of YA low fantasy books for genre lovers and novices alike.

Fantasy has a lot of sub-genres. Some are more well-defined than others, but on the broadest scale, there are high fantasy books and low fantasy books. Low fantasy books have fantastical elements in an otherwise normal world. You might be a witch working in a Starbucks who serves a cappuccino to a werewolf. The fact that you have magic may be well known. It could be a secret from others around you. As long as there is magic, abnormal beings, or paranormal somethings in the normal setting, it’s low fantasy."

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Title: Undead Girl Gang | Author: Lily Anderson | Publisher: Razorbill (2018)

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Found Family Trope: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List

Six Of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

If I Can Give You That by Michael Gray Bulla

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

The House In The Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Choksi

Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

[wormwoodandhoney]

Do you have any book suggestions for contemporary fantasy adventure stories with a focus on friendship?

you know i do! by contemporary i assume you mean set in modern times? here's what i've got. these all focus primarily on friendship and may include a small romance subplot, but mostly friends. if you want more with stronger romance subplots, or set in non-modern or fantasy worlds, hit me up, i got lots of those too:

Witchlings by Claribel A Ortega is a middle grade fantasy set in a fantasy world, but it's very modern- cell phones, etc. Also middle grade but more horror is Small Spaces by Katherine Arden, which is an incredible book I want to scream about all the time. I love middle grade but I know it's a tough sell, so I'll move on to-

Scout's Honor by Lily Anderson is about a Girl Scout-like troupe of young women fighting monsters, and how that messes them up. I also liked the author's Undead Girl Gang. These are both YA.

The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl is about friends at a boarding school where they find out they're cursed, tying their fates to fairy tales. Also YA.

If you're willing to go a little (or a lot) weird and slightly more literary, We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry is about a girls lacrosse team in the 80s who turn to witchcraft to win their games. Not as explicitly magical as the above, but really very good. Told in first person plural ("we"), which is pretty cool. I see this shelved as YA, but it's kinda dense for YA so idk.

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger is a YA book I'm always trying to sell- ace Indigenous teen who can see the ghosts of animals solves a murder with her ghost dog. :)

A Song Below Water by Bethany C Morrow is another magical modern world about Black sirens. Also YA.

Finally, I'm legally required to direct everyone to Seanan McGuire's beautiful novella series Wayward Children, about a school for children who have been to portal fantasy worlds and returned.

Contemporary fantasy in adult books tend to have a lot more romance, but I think VenCo by Cherie Dimaline is a pretty fun adventure about witches and the importance of sisterhood. I haven't read The Change yet, but it's on my TBR!

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

❤‍🔥 Books for Hispanic & Latine Heritage Month

❓What's your favorite book written by a Hispanic or Latine author?

❤‍🔥 The Luis Ortega Survival Club - Sonora Reyes ✨ With the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevedo ❤‍🔥 Brownstone - Samuel Teer & Mar Julia ✨ Suncatcher - Jose Pimienta ❤‍🔥 Mexican WhiteBoy - Matt de la Peña

❤‍🔥 The First to Die at the End - Adam Silvera ✨ Shut Up, This Is Serious - Carolina Ixta ❤‍🔥 Small Town Monsters - Diana Rodriguez Wallach ✨ I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika L Sanchez ❤‍🔥 Chronically Dolores - Maya Van Wagenen ✨ It's All Love - Jenna Ortega

❤‍🔥 Does My Body Offend You? - Mayra Cuevas & Marie Marquardt ✨ Bad at Love - Gabriela Martins ❤‍🔥 Northranger - Rey Terciero & Bre Indigo ✨ Before We Were Free - Julia Alvarez ❤‍🔥 Lucero - Maya Motayne ✨ Queerceañera - Alex Crespo

❤‍🔥 The Turning Pointe - Vanessa L. Torres ✨ Suddenly a Murder - Lauren Munoz ❤‍🔥 Always Isn't Forever - JC Cervantes ✨ It Sounds Like This - Anna Meriano ❤‍🔥 Flirting With Fate - JC Cervantes ✨ Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson

❤‍🔥 When We Make It - Elisabet Velasquez ✨ Diamond Park - Phillippe Diederich ❤‍🔥 Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera ✨ Libertad - Bessie Flores Zaldivar ❤‍🔥 This Is How We Fly - Anna Meriano ✨ Viva Lola Espinoza - Ella Ceron

❤‍🔥 The Grief Keeper - Alexandra Villasante ✨ Just Another Epic Love Poem - Parisa Akhbari ❤‍🔥 Sanctuary - Paola Mendoza & Abby Sher ✨ Solis - Paola Mendoza & Abby Sher ❤‍🔥 We Are Not From Here - Jenny Torres Sanchez ✨ Azar on Fire - Olivia Abtahi

❤‍🔥 Up in Flames - Hailey Alcaraz ✨ Beyond the Break - Heather Buchta ❤‍🔥 Chasing After Knight - Heather Buchta ✨ Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas ❤‍🔥 The Sunbearer Trials - Aiden Thomas ✨ What the River Knows - Isabel Ibañez

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As I mentioned in this post, I'm changing up how I do my TBR this year! I'm doing four bingo cards with 25 books each, with the plan to read them over three months. I'm still working on recovering from a reading slump, so I don't want to overwhelm myself right off the bat.

I'm super excited to try this method, and I had a lot of fun putting together my TBR for this first quarter! 

I also have a few library loans I want to finish this month:

Marked by P.C. Cast & Kristen Cast (for a project)

How to Succeed at Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy

The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson

Here's a full list of the books on my TBR and the prompts they fill for my 2023 Bingo Challenge!

When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler

A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger

Wait for Night by Stephen Graham Jones (Shortest book you own)

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (Disability Rep)

Skyhunter by Marie Lu (On your TBR for over a year)

Obie is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar (Trans author)

Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed edited by Saraciea J. Fennell (Latinx author)

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds (Banned book)

The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska

The Kinder Poison by Natalie Mae

Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Bérubé 

Jackpot by Nic Stone

All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno Garcia

The Dead Queens Club by Hannah Capin

Rouge Princess by B.R. Meyers

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

The Martian by Andy Weir

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

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a-z challenge: 2019

A: alex and eliza by melissa de la cruz B: a beautiful poison by lydia kang C: convenience store woman by sayaka murata D: dead girls by tim kizer E: educated by tara westover F: finding claire by lisa regan G: the good neigbor: the life and work of fred rogers by maxwell king H: hidden bodies by caroline kepnes I: instant mom by nia vardalos J: jar of hearts by jennifer hillier K: killman creek by rachel caine L: the long deception by mary mccluskey M: my kind of perfect by hannah ellis N: not the girl you marry by andie j. christopher O: once upon a river by diane setterfield P: playing with matches by hannah orenstein Q: q is for quarry by sue grafton R: the rules of magic by alice hoffman S: smoke by catherine mckenzie T: the thinnest air by minka kent U: undead girl gang by lily anderson V: verity by colleen hoover W: whiskey in a teacup by reese witherspoon X: xo by jeffery deaver Y: you know me well by nina lacour Z: the zen man by colleen collins

[mssarahmorgan]

Book 64 of 2023: Every Gift a Curse by Caroline O'Donoghue

I absolutely loved this whole trilogy, and this was a really strong, satisfying ending. Roe and Fiona are facing big opportunities that may pull them away from the group, Lily is on her own path, and Maeve is dealing with these growing bouts of rage that may be connected to the Housekeeper that started this whole thing. I loved the way O'Donoghue depicts that very real feeling of your friends passing you by--and the solution she finds for Maeve. If you haven't read this series yet, you are missing out!

What to read next: Undead Girl Gang, by Lily Anderson, for another stone-cold classic about teen witches & complicated friendships.

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(August 12th - August 26th)

Sorry for the gap in logs, but last week was so hectic that I didn't have the time to post. What with a crazy work schedule and a wedding to go to, I was absolutely wiped. Fortunately, the wedding was outside and had horses, so those were both big pluses. This week was a little less eventful, but still managed to pass by so quickly. I have so much to plan for, both at work and at home, that I feel like I have to make to do lists every week just to be sure that I'm actually getting everything done. Trying to see if I can set aside some time off this upcoming week so that I can give my mind a rest and just zone out for a bit.

Books Finished:

Mysteries of Thorn Manor by Margaret Rogerson (4.5)

How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino (4/5)

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree (3/5) (Review)

Selected Poems of Gwendolyn Brooks by Gwendolyn Brooks (4/5)

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor (4/5)

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson (3/5)

Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee (3/5)

Books Currently Reading:

Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor (39% done)

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman (56% done)

The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud (36% done)

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (55% done)

Books to Read Next:

Pageboy by Elliot Page

An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.R. Pan

[bookclub4m]

Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023

This episode we’re giving our book pitches for our Battle of the Books 2023! Each of us has picked one title that we think we should all read and discuss and you get to vote for which one it is! Will we read Spear by Nicola Griffith, Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi, or The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing? You decide! 

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Books We Pitched

Meghan - Spear by Nicola Griffith

Jam - Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Matthew - Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi

Anna - The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Vote for which we should read!

Our “Long List” of Titles

Meghan

Women of the Fur Trade by Frances Koncan (Wikipedia)

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Jam

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla joy bergman

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Anna

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love (Jacob Geller video in which he recommended this book in the outro.)

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

Matthew

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

The New Teen Titans, vol. 1 by Marv Wolfman, George Pérez, and Romeo Tanghal

Podcast Episodes

Episode 178 - Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs (listen to the end of this episode!)

Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read?

Episode 083 - The Fifth Season

Episode 103 - Battle of the Books 2020

Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021

Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Episode 154 - Book pitches

Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart

Links, Articles, Books, and Things

The Coode Street Podcast

Episode 576: Nicola Griffith and Spear

French Makes No Sense: Pronouns by Loic Suberville

Gender Reveal: Episode 136 with Sabrina Imbler

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

Cursed Princess Club, vol. 1 by LambCat

Read on Webtoon

Jacob Geller - Who’s Afraid of Modern Art: Vandalism, Video Games, and Fascism

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston

Teen Titans Go! (Wikipedia)

15 Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors - to help readers to diversify their reading and library professionals to diversify their readers' advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

One for the Morning Glory by John Barnes

Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis C. Chen

The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel

The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust

From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain by Minister Faust

Tears of the Trufflepig by Fernando A. Flores

The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales

Severance by Ling Ma

Popisho by Leone Ross

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood

Super Extra Grande by Yoss

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 1st we’ll be discussing the fiction genre of Pulp!

Then on Tuesday, August 15th we’ll be talking about books and other media we’ve recently enjoyed in our Summer 2023 Media Update!

[haveyoureadthismgyabook]

Little Thieves (Margaret Owen)

The Boneless Mercies by April Tucholke

aurora rising by aime kaufman

Seafire by Natalie C. Parker

Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

Cold the night, fast the wolves by Meg Long

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Mariam Sharma Hits the Road by Sheba Karim

Howl’s moving castle Diana Wynne Jones

Calling on Dragons by Patricia C Wrede

On it 🦘

[the-book-ferret]

“A scoop of dried rosemary goes into the bag, followed by salt. Sometimes, magic looks a lot like how my mom prepares chicken.” ― Lily Anderson, Undead Girl Gang

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

If you liked Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson, try The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta

They both include:

teenage witch covens

atmospheric small town settings

bodies turning up where they shouldn’t

You can find more of my rec posts under the “book recommendations” tag on my blog!

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Undead Girl Gang || Lily Anderson || 305 pages ------------------------------------------------ Top 3 Genres: Young Adult / Fantasy / Paranormal

Synopsis: Mila Flores and her best friend Riley have always been inseparable. There's not much excitement in their small town of Cross Creek, so Mila and Riley make their own fun, devoting most of their time to Riley's favorite activity: amateur witchcraft.

So when Riley and two Fairmont Academy mean girls die under suspicious circumstances, Mila refuses to believe everyone's explanation that her BFF was involved in a suicide pact. Instead, armed with a tube of lip gloss and an ancient grimoire, Mila does the unthinkable to uncover the truth: she brings the girls back to life.

Unfortunately, Riley, June, and Dayton have no recollection of their murders, but they do have unfinished business to attend to. Now, with only seven days until the spell wears off and the girls return to their graves, Mila must wrangle the distracted group of undead teens and work fast to discover their murderer...before the killer strikes again.

Publication Date: May 2018. / Average Rating: 3.77. / Number of Ratings: 7290~.

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Currently Reading

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Published: May 8th 2018

My mother was a Mexican wiccan and this book makes me feel closer to her. I'm loving it so far! Fingers crossed this book lives up to my expectations because I'd love to keep it with my favorites for sentimental reasons.