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Well, That Was Awkward

Rachel Vail - Viking
Format: Print book

Gracie has never felt like this before. One day, she suddenly can't breathe, can't walk, can't anything - and the reason is standing right there in front of her, all tall and weirdly good-looking: A.J. But it turns out A.J. likes not Gracie but Gracie's beautiful best friend, Sienna....
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Daughter of the Pirate King

Tricia Levenseller - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

There will be plenty of time for me to beat him soundly once I've gotten what I came for. Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map -- the key to a legendary treasure trove -- seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving...
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The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas - Balzer & Bray
Format: Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police...
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Keturah and Lord Death

Martine Leavitt - Boyds Mills Press
Format: Print book

Keturah, renowned for her storytelling, follows a legendary hart deep into the forest, where she becomes hopelessly lost. Her strength diminishes until, finally, she realizes that death is near - and learns then that death is a young lord, melancholy and stern. She is able to charm Lord...
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The Principles Behind Flotation: A Novel

Alexandra Teague - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

Echoing novels like Karen Russell's Swamplandia! and Carol Rifka Brunt's Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Alexandra Teague's lighthearted coming-of-age debut is perfect for anyone who's navigated the strange seas of adolescence, and lived to tell the tale.A.Z. McKinney is on the shores...
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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Thi Bui - Abrams ComicArts
Format: Hardcover

National bestseller ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. This beautifully illustrated...
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The Last of August

Brittany Cavallaro - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

In the second brilliant, action-packed book in the Charlotte Holmes trilogy, Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are in a chase across Europe to untangle a web of shocking truths about the Holmes and Moriarty families.Jamie and Charlotte are looking for a winter break reprieve in Sussex after...
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Empress of a Thousand Skies

Rhoda Belleza - Razorbill
Format: Print book

For fans of Pierce Brown and Firefly comes an epic sci-fi fantasy that Kiersten White, author of And I Darken, calls "dazzling--an adventure as sweeping in scope as the galaxies it spans!"Empress Rhee, also known as Crown Princess Rhiannon Ta'an, is the sole surviving...
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The You Ive Never Known

Ellen Hopkins - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

How do you live your life if your past is based on a lie? A new novel in both verse and prose from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Ellen Hopkins.. For as long as she can remember, its been just Ariel and Dad. Ariels mom disappeared when she was a baby. Dad says home is wherever the two of them...
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The Wish Granter

C J Redwine - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

An epic, romantic, and action-packed fantasy inspired by the tale of Rumpelstiltskin, about a bastard princess who must take on an evil fae to save her brother's soul, from C. J. Redwine, the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow Queen. Perfect for fans of Graceling and the Lunar...
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Dessert first

Dean M Gloster - Merit Press
Format: Print book

Upbeat--that's Kat, the girl in the family who everyone turns to when things get difficult. Especially now, when her beloved younger brother Beep is in his second leukemia relapse, and a bone marrow transplant from Kat may be his only chance. But Kat's worried that she and her bone marrow...
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Three Dark Crowns

Kendare Blake - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller * New York Public Library Best Books of 2016 * Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2016* Kirkus Best Books of the YearFans of acclaimed author Kendare Blake's Anna Dressed in Blood will devour her latest novel, a dark and inventive fantasy about three sisters...
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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

Benjamin Alire Sáenz - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

"Friendships, family, grief, joy, rage, faith, doubt, poetry, and love - this complex and sensitive book has room for every aspect of growing up!" - Margarita Engle, Newbery Honor-Winning author of The Surrender Tree Sal used to know his place with his adoptive gay father,...
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Behind the Canvas

Alexander Vance - Faber And Faber
Format: Print book

There is a world behind the canvas. Past the flat faade and the crackling paint is a realm where art lives, breathes, creates, and destroys.Claudia Miravista loves art but only sees what is on the surface-until the Dutch boy Pim appears in the painting in her room. Pim has been trapped...
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Ballantine. - Del Rey
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Go beyond the film with a novelization featuring new scenes and expanded material. As the shadows of the Empire loom ever larger across the galaxy, so do deeply troubling rumors. The Rebellion has learned of a sinister Imperial plot to bring entire...
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Oyster War

Ben Towle - Oni Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

"...a funny but wonderfully restrained pulp adventure." - io9 "...a cool, fantastical comic about oyster pirates and the ragtag crew intent on ending their pilfering ways." - Comic Book Resources "...solid storytelling using the tools readily available in the comics...
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Fish Girl

Donna Jo Napoli - Clarion Books
Format: Print book

The triple Caldecott winner David Wiesner brings his rich visual imagination and trademark artistry to the graphic novel format in a unique coming-of-age tale that begins underwater. A young mermaid, called Fish Girl, in a boardwalk aquarium has a chance encounter with an ordinary girl....
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Injustice: Gods Among Us Year Three Vol. 2

Brian Buccellato - DC Comics
Format: Print book

Superman has beaten back Batman and the resistance's forces at every turn. With his back against the wall, Batman asks the one person he would never trust for help--John Constantine! But even with the might of the dark mage's power, will it be enough against the primal and eternal...
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Road to Riverdale

Mark Waid - ARCHIE COMICS
Format: Print book

ROAD TO RIVERDALE is an entry-level collection featuring the first issues of all modern-day Archie relaunches. Featuring the top talents in comics, this graphic novel is perfect for those new fans of the CW's Riverdale TV series, debuting in January 2017. Timed alongside the first episode,...
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Goldie Vance Vol. 1

Hope Larson - BOOM! Box
Format: Paperback

Move over Nancy, Harriet, & Veronica. There's a new sleuth on the block!Sixteen-year-old Marigold "Goldie" Vance lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place. Her mom, who divorced her dad years ago, works as a live mermaid at a club downtown. Goldie has an insatiable...
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Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz

Michael Bornstein - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller"Both moving and memorable, combining the emotional resolve of a memoir with the rhythm of a novel." -- New York Times Book ReviewIn 1945, in a now-famous piece of World War II archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed...
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Dragonwatch: A Fablehaven Adventure

Brandon Mull - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover

In the long-awaited sequel to Fablehaven, the dragons who have been kept at the dragon sanctuaries no longer consider them safe havens, but prisons and they want their freedom. The dragons are no longer our allies.... In the hidden dragon sanctuary of Wyrmroost, Celebrant the Just,...
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One Blood Ruby

Melissa Marr - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

In this gripping follow-up to Melissa Marr's lush Seven Black Diamonds, Lily and her friends are forced to reckon with the truth of their own lineage and to protect one of their own, no matter what - or who - comes between them.Now that Lilywhite Abernathy is the heir to the Hidden Lands,...
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Hunted

Meagan Spooner - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner spins a thoroughly thrilling Beauty and the Beast story for the modern age, expertly woven with spellbinding romance, intrigue, and suspense that readers won't soon be able to forget. Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones--and in her blood....
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Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment

Deborah Kops - Calkins Creek Books
Format: Print book

Here is the story of extraordinary leader Alice Paul, from the woman suffrage movement - the long struggle for votes for women - to the "second wave," when women demanded full equality with men. Paul made a significant impact on both. She reignited the sleepy suffrage moment with...
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Yvain: The Knight of the Lion

M. T. Anderson - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

In his first graphic novel, National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson turns to Arthurian lore, with captivating art by Andrea Offermann bringing the classic legend to life.Eager for glory and heedless of others, Sir Yvain sets out from King Arthurs court and defeats a local lord in battle,...
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Blood Rose Rebellion

Rosalyn Eves - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"A magical tale unlike anything you've read before." - Bustle.com"[A] richly imagined 19th-century historical fantasy." - EW.com, A-The thrilling first book in a YA fantasy trilogy for fans of Red Queen. In a world where social prestige derives from a trifecta...
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The Great American Foot Race: Ballyhoo for the Bunion Derby!

Andrew Speno - Calkins Creek Books
Format: Print book

This accessible and thoroughly researched nonfiction debut introduces young readers to a fascinating, little-known event - the Transcontinental Foot Race, which came to be known as the Bunion Derby. It is set in 1928, the height of the Roaring Twenties - a time of optimism, a time of excess,...
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Just Fly Away

Andrew McCarthy - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller"Ever wish that you could just fly away?" When fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father has a child from a brief affair, an eight-year-old boy who lives in her own suburban New Jersey town, she begins to question everything...
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Overturned

L R Giles - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book

Nikki Tate is infamous, even by Las Vegas standards. Her dad is sitting on death row, convicted of killing his best friend in a gambling dispute turned ugly. And for five years, he's maintained his innocence. But Nikki wants no part of that. She's been working on Operation Escape Vegas:...
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Worthy

Donna D Cooner - Point/Scholastic Press
Format: Print book

Download the app. Be the judge.Everyone at Linden's high school is obsessed with Worthy. It's this new app that posts pictures of couples, and asks: Is the girl worthy of the guy?Suddenly, relationships implode as the votes climb and the comments get real ugly real fast.At first, Linden...
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Shadow Run

Michael Miller - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

Firefly meets Dune in this action-packed sci-fi adventure about a close-knit, found family of a crew navigating a galaxy of political intrigue and resource-driven power games. Nev has just joined the crew of the starship Kaitan Heritage as the cargo loader. His captain, Qole, is the youngest-ever...
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Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism

Marc Aronson - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." -Robert CapaRobert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers in the 1930s, they set off to capture their generation's most important struggle -- the fight against fascism....
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Strange the Dreamer

Laini Taylor - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

A breathtaking new novel by National Book Award finalist and "New York Times" bestselling author Laini Taylor"Strange the Dreamer" is the story of: the aftermath of a war between gods and men. a mysterious city stripped of its name. a mythic hero with blood on his hands....
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Strange the Dreamer

Laini Taylor - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

A breathtaking new novel by National Book Award finalist and "New York Times" bestselling author Laini Taylor"Strange the Dreamer" is the story of: the aftermath of a war between gods and men. a mysterious city stripped of its name. a mythic hero with blood on his hands....
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Strange the Dreamer

Laini Taylor - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

A breathtaking new novel by National Book Award finalist and "New York Times" bestselling author Laini Taylor"Strange the Dreamer" is the story of: the aftermath of a war between gods and men. a mysterious city stripped of its name. a mythic hero with blood on his hands....
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