Does October put you in the mood for something witchy? If so, you’re in luck! Check out one of these teen novels and let it cast a spell over you.
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (2011). Also available as an e-book and downloadable audiobook in the Indiana Digital Library.
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.
Cemetery Boys by Aidan Thomas (2020). Also available as an e-book and downloadable audiobook in the Indiana Digital Library.
Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school’s bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy (2022). Also available as an e-book and downloadable audiobook in the Indiana Digital Library.
A talented witch competes for a prestigious scholarship at her cutthroat high school in this contemporary fantasy for fans of Never Have I Ever and Sabrina the Teen Witch.
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (2016). Also available as an e-book and downloadable audiobook in the Indiana Digital Library.
Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she’s hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back.
Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker (2019). Also available as an e-book in the Indiana Digital Library.
Nova is a small-town witch, fulfilling her apprenticeship at her grandmothers’ New England bookshop. When rumors surface of a white wolf wandering the forest, Nova knows it’s her long-lost werewolf friend Tam. Nova goes to find them, only to encounter a terrifying demon who’s possessing a neighbor’s horse—and who can’t be defeated by any magic she knows.
These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling (2019). Also available as an e-book in the Indiana Digital Library.
When evidence of dark magic begins to appear all over Salem, Massachusetts, Elemental Witch Hannah and her ex-girlfriend Veronica are forced to team up to stop the deadly attacks.
The Witch King by H. E. Edgmon (2021). Also available as an e-book and downloadable audiobook in the Indiana Digital Library.
Wyatt, a transgender witch hiding in the human world, must face the royal fiance he left behind and decide what is more important—his people or his freedom.
The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag (2017). Also available as an e-book in the Indiana Digital Library.
In thirteen-year-old Aster’s family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still hasn’t shifted . . . and he’s still fascinated by witchery, no matter how forbidden it might be. When a mysterious danger threatens the other boys, Aster knows he can help — as a witch.
Witches Steeped in Gold by Ciannon Smart (2021). Also available as an e-book and downloadable audiobook in the Indiana Digital Library.
Two enemy witches must enter into a deadly alliance to take down a tyrant who threatens both their worlds-with unpredictable results.
