YA Book Club Reads 'Mirror Girls' In January

“Mirror Girls” by Kelly McWilliams is the YA Book Club pick for January.

As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and  Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress to a cotton plantation in rural Georgia.

The sisters reunite as teenagers in the deeply haunted town of Eureka, Ga., where ghosts linger centuries after their time and dangers lurk behind every mirror. They couldn’t be more different, but they will need each other to put the hauntings of the past to rest, to break the mirrors’ deadly curse — and to discover the meaning of sisterhood in a racially divided land. 

Pick up copies at the library. Digital e-books and audiobooks are available on Libby.

Discussions occur from 4-5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, and from 12-1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, in the Rosalyn Jones Room/YA Space.

Email Michelle, [email protected], or Amber, [email protected], with questions.