An Indie Bestseller! 2021 Locus Award Finalist for Best Young Adult Novel2021 Dragon Award Finalist for Best Young Adult/Middle Grade Novel "As tender and intimate...
An Indie Bestseller! 2021 Locus Award Finalist for Best Young Adult Novel
2021 Dragon Award Finalist for Best Young Adult/Middle Grade Novel
"As tender and intimate as it is ferocious and volatile,
Scapegracers deserves to be this generation's go-to grimoire. May it launch a thousand covens of angry, loving, brilliant girls." --Amal El-Mohtar in
The New York Times Book Review Holiday Books Guide
The Craft for Gen Z:
The Scapegracers is an award-nominated, indie bestseller about witchcraft and friendship among a hell-raising coven of teen girls, told in an unapologetically fierce, inclusive, and vibrant voice.
Skulking near the bottom of West High's social pyramid, Sideways Pike lurks under the bleachers doing magic tricks for bottles of Coke. As a witch, lesbian, and lifelong outsider, she's had a hard time making friends. But when the three most popular girls pay her forty dollars to cast a spell at their Halloween party, Sideways gets swept into a new clique. The unholy trinity are dangerous angels, sugar-coated rattlesnakes, and now--unbelievably--Sideways' best friends.
Together, the four bond to form a ferocious and powerful coven. They plan parties, cast curses on jerks, and try to find Sideways a girlfriend, all while eluding the fundamentalist witchfinders hell-bent on stealing their magic. But for Sideways, the hardest part is the whole "having friends" thing. Who knew that balancing human interaction with supernatural peril could be so complicated?
Rich with the urgency of feral youth,
The Scapegracers is an atmospheric, voice-driven novel of the occult that explores magic, growing up, and the complexities of friendship with all the rage of a teenage girl.
Author: H. A. Clarke
Publisher: Erewhon Books
Published: 09/15/2020
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781645660002
Audience: Young Adult
Review Citation(s): School Library Journal 03/06/2020 pg. 1
Publishers Weekly 04/13/2020
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2020
About the AuthorH.A. Clarke is here and queer, etc. They have been published in
PRISM international,
Portland Review, and
Eidolon. They were a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Fiction and a Pushcart nominee. They currently research queerness, labor, and monstrosity in grad school.
The Scapegracers is their first novel.
