Books like Hawthorn by Carol Goodman

Tithe is a young‑adult fantasy in which a girl learns she is a faerie and must navigate the consequences of her true identity.

Set in 1896 London, Gemma Doyle balances a school break, a budding romance and family duty while visions pull her into a secret realm of magic that threatens both worlds.

When pixie Kaye declares her love to King Roiben during his coronation, he sends her on a daring quest to find a faerie who can tell a lie – a mythical task that could change her destiny.

Gemma Doyle balances a painful past, a boarding‑school life at Spence Academy, and the enchanting, perilous realm of magic as she prepares her London debut and faces new alliances and threats from The Order and Rakshana.

Teen Rue Silver grapples with her mother’s disappearance and her own fading sanity until she discovers the uncanny truth: she is a Faerie, one of the invisible "Good Neighbors" that protect the human world.

At Oakhurst Academy, students must decide whether to fight the Shadow Knights, now covertly ruling the campus through the guise of Breakthrough Adventure Systems. Spirit, Burke, Muirin, Loch, and Addie unravel the dark agenda, risking life and trust for freedom.

David Eliot returns to Groosham Grange, a haunted boarding school, where he must race to win the Unholy Grail while the creature terrorizing the school also threatens his chances.

Seventeen‑year‑old Ava Hall, freshly released from a mental institution, enrolls at Blythewood, a seemingly innocuous finishing school for young ladies that harbors hidden truths and unexpected adventures.

Deirdre Monaghan, a shy violinist, receives help from the mysterious Luke Dillon to compete, leading her into the perilous faerie realm.

A fairy born beneath an old oak tree rises from humble beginnings to become the group’s Hunter, learning to wield battle skills and confronting the dangers of the outside world.

380 pages ; 22 cm.HL720L Lexile; Ages 12 and up.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

367 pages ; 22 cmHL730L Lexile

Detectives Hawthorn and Child investigate a string of bizarre clues in London—ghost cars, a crime boss, a pick‑pocket, a dead racing driver, and even a pack of wolves—while confronting the instinct that drives every mystery.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.

At Oakhurst Academy, a boarding school for orphaned future magicians, magical attacks force a suspicious alumnus to protect the campus and train students for war.

A former student returns to her Adirondack boarding school as a Latin teacher, uncovering hidden diary pages that reveal the secret of a decade‑old tragedy and the sudden deaths of students.