A Steeping of Blood
by Hafsah Faizal
Middle grade · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 750L · 352 pages · 2025
Why we'd hand it over
A richly textured contemporary-fantasy mystery with a South Asian Muslim protagonist that takes its world-building and themes of identity seriously—atmospheric and genuinely page-turning, though the pacing lags slightly in the second act.