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In a World Just Right

Jen Brooks - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Worlds collide in romantic, unexpected, and heartbreaking ways in this "picture-perfect" (VOYA, starred review) debut novel about a young man with a truly unique power.Sometimes high school senior Jonathan Aubrey wishes he could just disappear. And as luck - or fate - would...
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Not If I See You First

Eric Lindstrom - Little
Format: Print book

In the tradition of novels of Gayle Forman and John Green comes this extraordinary YA debut about a blind teen girl navigating life and love in high school.
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Lockwood & Co. Book Three The Hollow Boy

Jonathan Stroud - Disney-Hyperion, 2015.
Format: Print book

As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to demonstrate their effectiveness in exterminating spirits. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters...
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One of Us

Jeannie Waudby - RP Teens
Format: Print book

When Two Truths and One Lie Turn Deadly . . .A narrow escape from a bomb attack.A radical insurgent organization on the rise.A place and a people to call her own.K has a choice to make, and her answer is yes.Yes to spying.Yes to making right wrongs of the past.Yes to leading a double life.But...
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The Accidental Afterlife of Thomas Marsden

Emma Trevayne - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

What if you found your own grave - and it wasn't empty? Discover the dark delights of faeries and fortune-tellers in this gently spooky book from the author of Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times, sure to appeal to fans of Coraline.Grave robbing is a messy business.A bad business....
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After the Ashes

Sara K Joiner - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting coming-of-age survival story, a stubborn and intellectual teen must fight for her life when the mighty volcano Krakatau erupts and puts her hometown on the Javanese coast in mortal danger.In 1883, on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies, thirteen-year-old Katrien...
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Pretending to Dance: A Novel

Diane Chamberlain - St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She and her husband live in San Diego, where they hope to soon adopt a baby. But the process terrifies her.As the questions and background checks come one after another, Molly worries that the truth she's kept hidden about her North Carolina...
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Triple Moon

Melissa De la Cruz - G. P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Blue Bloods and Witches of East EndAfter they cause a terrible accident at their old high school, twin witches Mardi and Molly Overbrook are sent to live with their "Aunt" Ingrid Beauchamp in North Hampton, on Long...
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Mrs. Roosevelt's Confidante: A Maggie Hope Mystery

Susan Elia Macneal - Bantam
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this riveting mystery from Susan Elia MacNeal, England's most daring spy, Maggie Hope, travels across the pond to America, where a looming scandal poses a grave threat to the White House and the Allied cause.December 1941. Soon after the attack on Pearl...
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Inherit the Stars

Tessa Elwood - Running Press Teens
Format: Print book

LOVE AND LOYALTY. As the youngest daughter of the House of Fane, Asa lives every day of her life in honor of both, for herself and her people. But as her kingdom's food and energy crisis peaks, Asa must find more to fuel Fane's survival.Taking the place of her older sister in an arranged...
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Never Never

Brianna Shrum - Spencer Hill Press, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book

James Hook is a child who only wants to grow up. When he meets Peter Pan, a boy who loves to pretend and is intent on never becoming a man, James decides he could try being a child - at least briefly. James joins Peter Pan on a holiday to Neverland, a place of adventure created by children's...
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The Eye of Zoltar

Jasper Fforde - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format: Print book

Although she's an orphan in indentured servitude, sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange is pretty good at her job of managing the unpredictable crew at Kazam Mystical Arts Management. She already solved the Dragon Problem, avoided mass destruction by Quarkbeast, and helped save magic in the Ununited...
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Poached

Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Teddy Fitzroy’s back for another zoo mystery—this time it’s a koala caper—in this action-packed follow-up to Belly Up that SLJ called a “whopper of a whodunit that delivers plenty of suspects, action, slapstick, gross bodily functions, red herrings, and animal...
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Space Case

Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

It's a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author of Belly Up and Spy School that The New York Times Book Review called "a delightful and brilliantly constructed middle grade thriller."Like his fellow lunarnauts...
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