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Hope Larson - Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Print book

It's 1860 in New York City. When 12-year-old twins Alexander and Cleopatra's father disappears, they join the Black Hook Gang and are caught by the police pulling off a heist. They agree to reveal the identity of the gang in exchange for tickets to New Orleans. But once there, Alex...
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United as One

Pittacus Lore - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

The seventh and final book in the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series brings the Garde's story to a breathtaking conclusion. The Garde didn't start this war, but they'll do whatever it takes to end it once and for all. . . .The Mogadorians have invaded Earth and the Garde...
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This savage song.

Victoria Schwab - Greenwillow Books
Format: Print book

There's no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from acclaimed author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains - and friends or enemies - with the future of their home at stake....
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Lucky Strikes

Louis Bayard - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister -- and of the family gas station. Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his fuel monopoly. To keep him at bay and keep...
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This Is My Brain on Boys

Sarah Strohmeyer - Balzer Bray
Format: Print book

Jane Austen's Emma meets The Rosie Project in this quirky, irresistible, romantic comedy from Sarah Strohmeyer, the author of Smart Girls Get What They Want.Addie Emerson doesn't believe in love. Not for herself anyway. With one year left of high school, she's more interested...
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The crimson skew

S E Grove - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The stunning conclusion to S. E. Grove's New York Times-bestselling Mapmakers trilogy - a historical, fantastical adventure perfect for fans of Philip Pullman!It is late August 1892, and Sophia Tims is coming home from a foreign Age, having risked her life in search of her missing...
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Hawkeye Vol. 6: Hawkeyes

Jeff Lemire - Marvel
Format: Paperback

Hawkeye and Hawkeye take aim at another season - but this time there's a twist! Arrows fly across two eras as a deep-seated rift stretches across time, bringing old man Clint and a wiser Kate back together to chase down mistakes from their past. But as the reluctantly reunited Team Hawkeye...
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Exile

Shannon Messenger - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

Sophie befriends the mythical Alicorn--and puts her mysterious powers to the test--in this enchanting sequel to Keeper of the Lost Cities.
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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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Life Before

Michele Bacon - Sky Pony Press
Format: Print book

Seventeen years is a long time to keep secrets, and Xander Fife has gotten very good at it. Everyone believes he has a normal life and a normal family. If he can just get through this summer, he'll start his real life in college with a clean slate--no risk, no drama, no fear.Even better,...
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The Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel

Melissa De la Cruz - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Evil tree. Bad Apple?Twenty years ago, all the evil villains were banished from the kingdom of Auradon to the Isle of the Lost--a dark and dreary place protected by a force field that makes it impossible for them to leave. Stripped of their magical powers, the villains now live in total...
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Scar: A Revolutionary War Tale

Jennifer Ann Mann - Calkins Creek Books
Format: Print book

Sixteen-year-old Noah Daniels wants nothing more than to fight in George Washington's Continental Army, but an accident as a child left him maimed and unable to enlist. He is forced to watch the Revolution from his family's hard scrabble farm in Upstate New York - until a violent...
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The Shadow Hour

Melissa Grey - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

The much-anticipated sequel to the book Danielle Page, author of Dorothy Must Die, says is "inventive, gorgeous, and epic--Grey dazzles." Everything in Echo's life changed in a blinding flash when she learned the startling truth: she is the firebird, the creature of light...
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The Girl I Used to Be

April Henry - Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Format: Print book

When Olivia's mother was killed, everyone suspected her father of murder. But his whereabouts remained a mystery. Fast forward fourteen years. New evidence now proves Olivia's father was actually murdered on the same fateful day her mother died. That means there's a killer still at large....
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Steeplejack: A Novel

A J Hartley - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover

Thoughtfully imaginative and action-packed, Steeplejack is New York Times bestselling A. J. Hartley's YA debut set in a 19th-century South African fantasy worldSeventeen-year-old Anglet Sutonga lives repairing the chimneys, towers, and spires of the city of Bar-Selehm. Dramatically...
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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

John Boyne - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

From the author of "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas "comes another extraordinary story of World War II and innocence in the face of evil. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy Austrian household....
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Whisper to Me

Nick Lake - Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Format: Print book

A remarkable story of strange beauty and self-discovery from Printz Award winner Nick Lake.Cassie is writing a letter to the boy whose heart she broke. She's trying to explain why. Why she pushed him away. Why her father got so angry when he saw them together. Why she disappears some nights....
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Tone Deaf

Olivia Rivers - Sky Pony Press
Format: Print book

His world is music. Her world is silent.Ali Collins was a child prodigy destined to become one of the greatest musicians of the twenty-first century - until she was diagnosed with a life-changing brain tumor. Now, at seventeen, Ali lives in a soundless world where she gets by with American...
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Beware That Girl

Teresa Toten - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

For fans of "We Were Liars, " "The Girl on the Train, " and "Gone Girl, " this powerful psychological thriller with multiple mysteries is set against the backdrop of the megawealthy elite of New York City. Toten delves into the mesmerizing yet dysfunctional...
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Girl Against the Universe.

Stokes Paula. - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Art of Lainey and Liars, Inc. comes a fresh, contemporary story about a girl coping with PTSD and the boy who wants to help her move on from the past. Perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen or Jenny Han.Sixteen-year-old Maguire knows the universe is against...
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The Safest Lies

Megan Miranda - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Jennifer Donnelly and E. Lockhart will be captivated by this YA psychological mystery about a girl who must face her darkest fears - but can she outrun the past? Kelsey has lived most of her life in a shadow of fear, raised to see danger everywhere. Her mother hasn't set foot...
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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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Highly Illogical Behavior

John Corey Whaley - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Teen and adult fans of All The Bright Places, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and Everything, Everything will adore this quirky story of coming-of-age, coming out, friendship, love...and agoraphobia. Sixteen-year-old Solomon is agoraphobic. He hasn't left the house...
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Wild Crush

Simone Elkeles - NLA Digital
Format: Print book

Bad boy Vic Salazar breaks all the rules except one: Don't make a move on your best friend's girl. It's a Guy Code that Vic lives by. It doesn't matter that he's had a crush on her for years. Monika Fox is off limits. Monika has a secret of her own and when a tragedy...
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Shuffle, Repeat

Jen Klein - Random House
Format: Print book

When Harry Met Sally for YA romance readers. This opposites-attract love story is perfect for fans of Huntley Fitzpatrick, Stephanie Perkins, and Jenny Han. June wants high school to end and real life to begin. Oliver is soaking up senior year's glory days. They could have coasted...
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Lucky Few

Katie Ormsbee - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

In the tradition of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl comes a hilarious, madcap, and quirky debut novel about a group of oddball teens struggling to find themselves when facing their own mortality.The life of homeschooler Stevie Hart gets all shook up when she meets a strange boy, Max,...
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Ivory and Bone

Julie Eshbaugh - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

"Exquisitely written, ferocious, and haunting. Don't miss this one!" - Sarah J. Maas, New York Times bestselling author of the Throne of Glass series"Julie Eshbaugh is a unique new voice with talent enough for a whole team of writers. I'm still under the spell of her storytelling."...
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Empty Places

Kathy Cannon Wiechman - Calkins Creek Books
Format: Print book

It is 1932, in Harlan County, Kentucky. Times are tough in the mining community, especially for thirteen-year-old Adabel Cutler's family. As they fight to survive, Adabel has to figure out her own identity while dealing with her volatile father, her dutiful sister, her defiant brother,...
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Girl About Town

Adam Shankman - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

Acclaimed film producer/director Adam Shankman and coauthor Laura Sullivan pen a sparkling, witty, romantic mystery inspired by Nick and Nora Charles and Hollywood glamour.Not too long ago, Lucille O'Malley was living in a tenement in New York. Now she's Lulu Kelly, Hollywood's newest It Girl....
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Suffer Love

Ashley Herring Blake - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

Sam Bennett falls for Hadley St. Clair before he knows her last name. When Sam finds out she is that St. Clair, daughter of the man who destroyed Sam's family, he has a choice: follow his heart or tell the truth about the scandal that links their families. Funny and passionate, Suffer...
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Please Don't Tell

Laura Tims - Harper Teen
Format: Hardcover

Debut author Laura Tims writes an intense and utterly gripping contemporary YA tale perfect for fans of Pretty Little Liars. Joy has done everything to protect her twin sister...including murder.Joy killed Adam Gordon for what he did to her sister, Grace. At least, that's what she thinks...
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The Thing About Leftovers

C C Payne - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Print book

C. C. Payne intertwines heartache with humor and hope in a novel about navigating divorce and blended families, following your passion, and celebrating who you are. Fizzy is a good Southern girl who just wants to be perfect. And win the Southern Living cook-off. The being perfect part...
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Love Blind

Christa Desir - Simon Pulse
Format: Print book

Shy high schooler Kyle Jamieson and Hailey Bosler, a musician with degenerative blindness, team up to tackle a bucket list of greatest fears in this compelling novel that explores what it means to take risks.It starts with a list of fears. Stupid things really. Things that Hailey shouldn't...
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Never Missing, Never Found

Amanda Panitch - Random House
Format: Print book

A juicy thriller about a girl who returned from the missing. . . . Hand to fans of We Were Liars, Bone Gap, and Vanishing Girls. Some choices change everything. Scarlett chose to run. And the consequences will be deadly. Stolen from her family as a young girl, Scarlett...
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Love Bomb

Jenny McLachlan - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Betty Plum has never been in love. She's never even kissed a boy. But when Toby starts school it's like Betty has been hit with a thousand of Cupid's arrows. A bomb has exploded -- a love bomb.More than ever Betty wishes her mom didn't die when Betty was a baby. She really needs her mom here...
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And I Darken

Kiersten White - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

This vividly rendered novel reads like HBO's Game of Thrones . . . if it were set in the Ottoman Empire. Ambitious in scope and intimate in execution, the story's atmospheric setting is rife with political intrigue, with a deftly plotted narrative driven by fiercely passionate characters....
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The Art of Being Normal: A Novel

Lisa Williamson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring and timely debut novel from Lisa Williamson, The Art of Being Normal is about two transgender friends who figure out how to navigate teen life with help from each other. . David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think hes gay. The school bully thinks hes a freak....
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Poison Is Not Polite

Robin Stevens - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

A tea party takes a poisonous turn leaving Daisy and Hazel with a new mystery to solve in the second novel of the Wells & Wong Mystery series.Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home, Fallingford, for the holidays. Daisy's glamorous mother is throwing a tea party...
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Even If the Sky Falls

Mia Garcia - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

One midsummer night. Two strangers. Three rules: No real names. No baggage. No phones. A whirlwind twenty-four-hour romance about discovering what it means to feel alive in the face of one of life's greatest dangers: love.Who would you be if you had one night to be anyone you want?Volunteering...
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Jonathan Unleashed: A Novel

Meg Rosoff - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"[A] comic masterpiece." - People magazine's "Book of the Week""A charming comedy on love, friendship, and the surprising influence of man's best friend." - Harper's BazaarNational Book Award finalist and bestselling author Meg Rosoff's charming,...
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My Lady Jane

Cynthia Hand - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

The comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey. In My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen,...
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When Friendship Followed Me Home

Paul Griffin - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

A breathtaking middle-grade novel about happiness, loss, and an unforgettable dog named Flip"This story convinced me all over again that love and imagination are life's biggest magic." - Rebecca Stead, author of Newbery Award winner When You Reach Me Ben Coffin has never...
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Drag Teen

Jeffery Self - Push
Format: Print book

A fantastic, fabulous, funny YA debut from Jeffery Self, one of the gay icons of the YouTube generation! Debut author Jeffery Self takes us on a road trip with an insecure high school senior who was one goal: to be the first in his family to leave Clearwater, Florida, and go to college....
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The Flash Vol. 2: Rogues Revolution

Francis Manapul - DC Comics,
Format: Paperback

A New York Times Bestseller!Struck by a bolt of lightning and doused in chemicals, Central City Police scientist Barry Allen was transformed into the fastest man alive. Tapping into the energy field called The Speed Force, he applies a tenacious sense of justice to protect an serve the world...
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A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight

Maria Toorpakai - Twelve
Format: Print book

Amazon Best Book of the Month"Maria Toorpakai is a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own paths to autonomy, fulfillment, and genuine personhood." --Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns,...
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The Flash Vol. 2: Rogues Revolution

Francis Manapul - DC Comics,
Format: Paperback

A New York Times Bestseller!Struck by a bolt of lightning and doused in chemicals, Central City Police scientist Barry Allen was transformed into the fastest man alive. Tapping into the energy field called The Speed Force, he applies a tenacious sense of justice to protect an serve the world...
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