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Michael Grant - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

Perfect for fans of The Book Thief and Code Name Verity, New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant unleashes an epic, genre-bending, and transformative new series that reimagines World War II with girl soldiers fighting on the front lines.World War II, 1942. A court decision makes...
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A Thousand Nights

E K Johnston - Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Format: Print book

"A story threaded with shimmering vibrance and beauty, A Thousand Nights will weave its spell over readers' hearts and leave them captivated long after the final tale has been told." -Alexandra Bracken, New York Times best-selling author of The Darkest Minds series
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I'm from nowhere

Suzanne Myers - Soho Teen
Format: Print book

A few weeks into her sophomore year at Ventura High School in California, Wren Verlaine is shipped off to Hardwick Hall, a prestigious boarding school in Connecticut, where clues begin appearing about the one secret her mother has ever kept from her.
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This Monstrous Thing

Mackenzi Lee - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

A wildly creative Gothic fantasy retelling of Frankenstein, This Monstrous Thing is a wholly new reimagining of the classic novel by Mary Shelley and is perfect for fans of retellings such as Cinder by Marissa Meyer, fantasy by Libba Bray and Cassandra Clare, and alternative history by Scott...
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The Mystery of Hollow Places

Rebecca Podos - Balzer + Bray
Format: Print book

The Mystery of Hollow Places is a gorgeously written, stunningly original novel of love, loss, and identity, from debut author Rebecca Podos.All Imogene Scott knows of her mother is the bedtime story her father told her as a child. It's the story of how her parents met: he, a forensic pathologist;...
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The Dark Days Club

Alison Goodman - Viking
Format: Print book

New York Times bestseller Alison Goodman's eagerly awaited new novel -- a Regency adventure starring a stylish and intrepid demon-hunter!Helen must make a choice: Save her reputation, or save the world.London, 1812. Eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall is on the eve of her debut...
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Endure

Sara B Larson - Scholastic Press, 2016.
Format: Print book

At last, Alexa and King Damian are engaged to be married. But their lives are far from safe. The kingdom of Antion is under siege, and Rylan is a prisoner of the enemy. Even worse, Alexa remains at the mercy of the evil Dansiian Rafe, who controls her mind and can force Alexa to kill or harm...
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Rebel Mechanics: All Is Fair in Love and Revolution

Shanna Swendson - Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2015. 2015
Format: Print book

It's 1888, and seventeen-year-old Verity Newton lands a job in New York as a governess to a wealthy leading family - but she quickly learns that the family has big secrets. Magisters have always ruled the colonies, but now an underground society of mechanics and engineers are developing...
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Glass Sword

Victoria Aveyard - HarperTeen
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling series!Perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series, Glass Sword is the high-stakes follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen. Mare Barrow's blood is red - the color of common folk - but her Silver ability, the power to control...
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The Siren

Kiera Cass - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

From Kiera Cass, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Selection series, comes a captivating stand-alone fantasy romance.Kahlen is a Siren, bound to serve the Ocean by luring humans to watery graves with her voice, which is deadly to any human who hears it. Akinli is human - a kind,...
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First & Then

Emma Mills - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

Recommended in John Green's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays 2015Devon Tennyson wouldn't change a thing. She's happy silently crushing on best friend Cas, and blissfully ignoring the future after high school. But the universe has other plans. It delivers Devon's cousin Foster, an unrepentant...
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See How They Run

Ally Carter - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book

For the past three years, Grace Blakely has been desperate to find out the truth about her mother's murder. She thought it would bring her peace. She thought it would lead her to answers. She thought she could put the past to rest. But the truth has only made her a target....
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The Illegal: A Novel

Lawrence Hill - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

Internationally best-selling author Lawrence Hill returns with an extraordinary, resonant novel about a man on the run.Lawrence Hill spellbound readers with Someone Knows My Name (made into the television mini-series, The Book of Negroes) , hailed as "transporting" (Entertainment...
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Truthwitch: A Witchlands Novel

Susan Dennard - Tom Doherty Associates
Format: Print book

On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with a "witchery," a magical skill that sets them apart from others.In the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are ways to get in trouble--as two desperate young women know all too well.Safiya is a Truthwitch,...
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Golden son

Pierce Brown - Del Rey
Format: Print book

"With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown's genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling...
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Deadpool by Posehn & Duggan Volume 2

Brian Posehn - Marvel
Format: Hardcover

Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehns hilarious, nonstop reinvention of the Merc With a Mouth continues! First, its a lost adventure from the groovy seventies as Deadpool hits the streets with Power Man and Iron Fist! Then, when Deadpools Weapon X past returns to haunt him, he recruits fellow...
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The Bitter Side of Sweet

Tara Sullivan - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Linda Sue Park and A Long Way Gone, two young boys must escape a life of slavery in modern-day Ivory CoastFifteen-year-old Amadou counts the things that matter. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods he and his younger brother, Seydou, can chop down...
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Paper Hearts

Meg Wiviott - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

Amid the brutality of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, a forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this novel in verse that's based on a true story.An act of defiance. A statement of hope. A crime punishable by death. Making a birthday card...
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Brain Camp

Susan Kim - Square Fish; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Neither artistic, dreamy Jenna nor surly, delinquent Lucas expected to find themselves at an invitation-only summer camp that turns problem children into prodigies. And yet, here they both are at Camp Fielding, settling in with all the other losers and misfits whove been shipped off by their...
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Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original "Girl" Reporter, Nellie Bly

Deborah Noyes - Viking
Format: Print book

Work for a New York newspaper Fall in love Marry a millionaire Change the world Young Nellie Bly had ambitious goals, especially for a woman at the end of the nineteenth century, when the few female journalists were relegated to writing columns about cleaning or fashion. But fresh off a train...
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Throwing Strikes: My Quest for Truth and the Perfect Knuckleball

Sue Corbett - Dial
Format: Hardcover

A biography of Toronto Blue Jays American pitcher R.A. Dickey, who overcame a serious problem with his throwing arm to become the 2012 National League Cy Young Award winner and the only active player in the majors who uses the knuckleball as his primary pitch.
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Human Body Theater

Maris Wicks - First Second
Format: Print book

Welcome to the Human Body Theater, where your master of ceremonies is going to lead you through a theatrical revue of each and every biological system of the human body! Starting out as a skeleton, the MC puts on a new layer of her costume (her body) with each "act."...
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Getting to Know Ruby

Heather Moore Niver - Rosen Classroom
Format: Paperback

Computer programming can be intimidating for anyone, particularly a beginner. Making that task a bit easier is Ruby, an open-source programming language that is becoming increasingly popular among middle school and high school students. Readers are introduced to the many facets of Ruby,...
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Shallow Graves

Kali Wallace - Katherine Tegen Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

For fans of Holly Black and Nova Ren Suma, a gripping, hauntingly atmospheric novel about murder, revenge, and a world where monsters - human and otherwise - lurk at the fringes.When seventeen-year-old Breezy Lin wakes up in a shallow grave one year after her death, she doesn't remember...
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Unbecoming

Jenny Downham - David Fickling Books
Format: Paperback

Three women. Three generations. Three secrets.A Stonewall Honor Book!Katies life is falling apart: her best friend thinks shes a freak, her mother, Caroline, controls every aspect of her life, and her estranged grandmother, Mary, appears as if out of nowhere. Mary has dementia and needs...
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Bounders

Monica Tesler - Aladdin
Format: Print book

In the tradition of Michael Vey and The Unwanteds, twelve-year-old Jasper and his friends are forced to go up against an alien society in this first book in a brand-new adventure series!Thirteen years ago, Earth Force - a space-military agency - discovered a connection between brain structure...
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Anna and the Swallow Man

Gavriel Savit - Ember
Format: Hardcover

"[A] splendid debut novel. . . . This is masterly storytelling." - The New York Times Set in Poland during the Second World War, Anna and the Swallow Manis a stunning, literary, and wholly original New York Times bestseller and Publishers Weekly best book of the year perfect...
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Rebel, Bully, Geek, Pariah

Erin Jade Lange - Bloomsbury, 2016.
Format: Print book

The Rebel: Once popular, Andi is now a dreadlocked and tattooed wild child.The Bully: Sick of being the less favorite son, York bullies everyone, especially his brother.The Geek: Boston, York's brother, and obsessed with getting into an Ivy League school.The Pariah: Sam, now that her mom is sober,...
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The White Rose

Amy Ewing - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

The compelling and gripping sequel to Amy Ewing's debut, The Jewel, which BCCB said "Will have fans of Oliver's Delirium, Cass's The Selection, and DeStefano's Wither breathless."Violet is on the run - away from the Jewel, away from a lifetime of servitude, away from the Duchess...
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Monstrous

MarcyKate Connolly - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
Format: Print book

Reminiscent of Frankenstein and tales by the Brothers Grimm, this debut novel stands out as a compelling, original story that has the feel of a classic.The city of Bryre suffers under the magic of an evil wizard. Because of his curse, girls sicken and disappear without a trace, and all live...
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