Kind of Major

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Book Description: They’re a coven of four: Lucy, who can hear a whisper in a crowded room. Clara, who can read your innermost thoughts. Fabiola, who can see the future. And Sirena, who can manipulate your every emotion. They’ve been best friends since they met on the astral plane as kids, each of them hiding their gifts from a world that insists magic and witchcraft are a threat to humanity.

But they’ve never met in the real world. . .until now.

Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the award-winning author ofThis is the Year, which won the 2026 International Literacy Award for Young Adult Fiction and an International Latino Book Award. Her latest novel, They Called Us Wicked, follows four young women as they explore deep questions about power, technology, magic, and community. Her acclaimed poetry collections Your Biome Has Found You, andDanzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award, dazzle with thought-provoking images and creative use of language and form. Her other honors include anAcademy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, a Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, and Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award. Gloria is proud to be a part of MNBIPOC Kidlit Creators collective and Las Musas.

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Did we need this adaptation of the Stephen King classic about a telekinetic teenager who gets relentlessly bullied by her classmates? Our short answer: Yes! Listen to find out why, our fan theories, and what's ~sparking~ joy in us lately.

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Creature Feature. Alternative title: Fear and Misunderstood Monsters!

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA

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FALL into Books. Alternative title: Kind of Major Book Rec Episode!

BODEGA STORIES by Amaris Castillo

OTHER SHANE HINTONS by Shane Hinton

THE COIN by Yasmin Zaher

PERFECTION by Vincenzo Latronico

THE WITCHES OF EL PASO by Luis Jaramillo

MAYRA by Nicky Gonzalez

MONSTRILIO by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

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Notes: Gloria was a teen goth, obsessed with death rituals, while Tyler secretly loved Mean Girls. They both had the potential to be mean girls -- as SO many teens do -- but they did not succumb to that darkness. They are here to spread love and light.

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