Gloria Muñoz is the author of They Called Us Wicked, out now from Holiday House. Below, she recommends three more witchy, weird-girl YA novels.
As a speculative fiction author, I’ve never shied away from fabulism or magical realism when writing. But when my book was marketed as “witchy, weird-girl YA,” I thought, aren’t all teenage girls weird and witchy in their own way? Coming of age pushes characters into an awkward metamorphosis through which they become more firmly themselves. There are growing pains, and it’s awful a lot of the time.
When Lucero, the main charact...
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