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Adrift

Paul Griffin - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

From critically acclaimed writer Paul Griffin comes a fast-paced young adult novel about five very different teens lost at sea with no one to count on but each other. Matt and John are best friends working out in Montauk for the summer. When Driana, JoJo and Stef invite the boys to their...
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BACKFIELD BOYS

JOHN FEINSTEIN - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

In Backfield Boys, "The best writer of sports books in America today" (The Boston Globe) tells a thrilling story of friendship, football, and a fight for justice.Renowned sports journalist and New York Times-bestselling author John Feinstein's young adult...
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The Caldera

JOHN FLANAGAN - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

The Herons take to the high seas to fend off pirates and rescue the heir to an empire in the newest adventure from John Flanagan, author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger's Apprentice!Includes BONUS content--a brand-new Ranger's Apprentice short story featuring fan-favorites Will and Maddie!In...
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Challenger Deep

Neal Shusterman - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Caden Bosch is on a ship thats headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior. Caden Bosch is designated the ships artist in residence,...
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Deacon Locke Went to Prom

BRIAN KATCHER - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

The love life of an awkward teen takes an unforgettable turn after he brings his grandmother to prom in this funny, offbeat, and smile-inducing contemporary romance that is pitch perfect for fans of Jesse Andrews and Robyn Schneider.Promposals are taking over Deacon Locke's high school...
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Dirt Bikes, Drones, and Other Ways to Fly

Conrad Wesselhoeft - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family....
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Game Change

JOSEPH MONNINGER - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Zeb Holloway is happy to work in his uncle's auto repair shop and cruise through school without much effort. He's a quarterback on his high school's undefeated football team, but he never plays. Why would he when T.T. Munroe - a walking, talking highlight real - is around?...
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Generation One

PITTACUS LORE - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

The first book in a pulse-pounding new series that's set in the world of the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series. The war may be over - but for the next generation, the battle has just begun!It has been over a year since the invasion of Earth was thwarted in Pittacus Lore's...
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The Hunted

Matt De La Peña - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Pea's The Hunted is a high-energy, action-packed survival story and the sequel to The Living."De la Pea has created a rare thing: a plot-driven YA with characters worthy of a John Green novel."-Entertainment Weekly review...
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Illuminae

Amie Kaufman - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Marie Lu comes the first book in an epic series that bends the sci-fi genre into a new dimension. "A truly beautiful novel that redefines the form." - Victoria Aveyard, bestselling author of Red Queen This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest...
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The Leaving

Tara Altebrando - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to. Until today. Today five of those kids return. They're sixteen, and they are . . . fine. Scarlett comes home and finds a mom she barely recognizes,...
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The Screaming Staircase

Jonathan Stroud - Disney-Hyperion Books
Format: Print book

A sinister Problem has occurred in London: all nature of ghosts, haunts, spirits, and specters are appearing throughout the city, and they aren't exactly friendly. Only young people have the psychic abilities required to see-and eradicate-these supernatural foes. Many different Psychic...
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Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

Alan Gratz - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage.World War II is raging. Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Ireland, now lives in Nazi Germany with his parents. Like the other boys in his school, Michael is a member of the Hitler Youth.But Michael has a secret. He and his parents are spies. Michael despises...
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Railhead

Philip Reeve - Switch Press
Format: Hardcover

The Great Network is an ancient web of routes and gates, where sentient trains can take you anywhere in the galaxy in the blink of an eye. Zen Starling is a nobody. A petty thief from the filthy streets of Thunder City who aimlessly rides the rails of the Network. So when the mysterious...
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Skink--No Surrender

Carl Hiaasen - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

Carl Hiaasen serves up his unique brand of swamp justice in the New York Times bestseller Skink - No Surrender. A National Book Award Longlist Selection When your cousin goes missing under suspicious circumstances, who do you call? There's only one man for the job:...
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Solo

Kwame Alexander - Blink
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller!Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he'd give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure,...
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The Trials of Apollo Book One The Hidden Oracle

Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

"After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. He must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor"--
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Turtles All the Way Down

John Green - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Wrenching and revelatory." An instant #1 bestseller, the widely acclaimed Turtles All the Way Down is John Green's brilliant and shattering new novel.Featured on 60 Minutes, Fresh Air, Studio 360, Good Morning Amercia, The TODAY Show"A tender story about learning...
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Thanks for the Trouble

Tommy Wallach - Simon & Schuster BYFR
Format: Print book

Tommy Wallach, the New York Times bestselling author of the "stunning debut" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) We All Looked Up, delivers a brilliant new novel about a young man who overcomes a crippling loss and finds the courage to live after meeting an enigmatic...
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Waste of Space

Gina Damico - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Cram ten hormonal teens into a spaceship and blast off: that's the premise for the ill-conceived reality show Waste of Space. The kids who are cast know everything about drama - and nothing about the fact that the production is fake. Hidden in a desert warehouse, their spaceship...
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