The Spiritualists by Kristin O’Donnell Tubb
Bonded by grief in the wake of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a medium and an art forger team up to get revenge against the man responsible. Centering a heist perfect for fans of Gilded Wolves, Tubbs’ YA debut offers both a touching found-family story and an immersive high-stakes tale.
The Spiritualists by Kristin O’Donnell Tubb, (List Price: $19.99, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 9781665985734, June 2026)
Reviewed by Matilda, Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Georgia
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“I’ve always really been fascinated in maps and the idea of mapping and the impulse to map. I think it is a real human instinct to do it. It actually – as humans, it predates our ability to write. You know, the first known map in the world is an Iron Age map on the walls of a cave in what’s now the Italian Alps in a place called Bedolina. And somebody at some point was filled with the urge to draw, to scratch into the rock this exquisite rendering of their home – their fields and huts and their sort of town, I suppose you would call it. And it’s just such an interesting representation of the urge to say, this is who I am. This is where I am. But of course, you fast-forward a – say, a thousand years or so and you get to the Roman Empire. And from that point on, it’s impossible to disentangle the urge to map from the urge to possess, the – from colonialism.” 
