In Melanie Tem's Prodigal, eleven-year-old Lucy is grappling with the mysterious death of her older brother–a suspected drug overdose–when her older sister Rae mysteriously disappears. The losses alone are too much for her family, but now Lucy is visited by the ghost of her brother, leading her into a dangerous supernatural world. 

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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab

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