Four top witchy, weird girl YA books

Gloria Muñoz is the author of They Called Us Wicked and of the poetry collection Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize. She is an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow, a Hedgebrook Fellow, an Esperimento Sul Respiro Fellow, a Macondista, a Highlights Foundation Diverse Verse Fellow, and a part of Las Musas. Her debut novel, This Is the Year, a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults title and winner of the International Literacy Association’s Young Adult Book Award, was hailed as “brilliantly layered” by Booklist in a starred review.

Muñoz's new novel is They Called Us Wicked.

At Book Riot the author tagged four "favorite recent books with witchy, weird-girl YA characters," including:

(S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi

This stunning novel in verse alternates between Marisol, the daughter of a soucouyant in Brooklyn, and Genevieve, a teen whose life is overshadowed by newborn twins and a painful struggle with cystic acne. Both characters are trying to navigate teenagehood and living as girls who have never felt at home in their own skin. Rooted in Caribbean folklore, a family secret comes to light. And they discover a racial trauma and history that binds them and makes them want to fight for answers to questions they’ve held onto for a long time.

Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue