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Unwind (Unwind Dystology)

Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

The first twisted and futuristic novel in the perennially popular New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology by Neal Shusterman.In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched...
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Wake Up Missing

Kate Messner - Walker Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Meet Quentin, a middle school football star from Chicago... Sarah, an Upstate New York girls' hockey team stand-out... Ben, a horse lover from the Pacific Northwest...And Cat, an artistic bird watcher from California. The four have nothing in common except for the head injuries that land...
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I Am the Traitor

Allen Zadoff - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The Program has sent Boy Nobody on countless missions, instructed to kill whichever target he was given. But now, after going rogue, he is on his own mission to rescue his friend Howard, who was captured by The Program. Boy Nobody manages to free Howard as well as Tanya, a mysterious girl...
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Burn

Sarah Fine - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Car chases, explosions and action galore - awesome." - Kirkus Reviews on ScanAt the cliffhanger ending of Scan, Tate loses the very thing he was fighting to protect, what his father had called the key to human survival. Tate doesn't have much time to worry about it because...
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Porcupine of Truth

Bill Konigsberg - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Hardcover

The Stonewall Book Award-winning novel from the author of The Bridge, Openly Straight, and Honestly Ben"Words like brilliant are so overused when praising novels--so I wont use that word. Ill just think it." -- Benjamin Alire Sáenz, author of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets...
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An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir - Razorbill
Format: Print book

Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Click Here to Read the First Two Chapters! Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy...
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What You Left Behind

Jessica Verdi - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

Jessica Verdi, the author of My Life After Now and The Summer I Wasn't Me, returns with a heartbreaking and poignant novel of grief and guilt that reads like Nicholas Sparks for teens.It's all Ryden's fault. If he hadn't gotten Meg pregnant, she would have never stopped...
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Neverwhere: Author's Preferred Text

Neil Gaiman - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times bestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text" - and including the special "Neverwhere" tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back."Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman's darkly...
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The Heart of Betrayal

Mary E. Pearson - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape . . . and even less of being together.Desperate to save her life, Lia's erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komisar that she has a magical gift, and the Komisar's interest in Lia is greater...
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Tommy: The Gun That Changed America

Karen Blumenthal - Roaring Brook Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would help Americans win on the battlefield. His Thompson submachine gun could deliver a hundred bullets in a matter of seconds -- but didn't find a market in the U.S. military. Instead, the Tommy...
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While You Were Gone

Amy K. Nichols - Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

An artist without a cause meets a rebel without a clue. Eevee is a promising young artist and the governor's daughter in a city where censorship is everywhere and security is everything. When a fire devastates her exhibition - years in the making - her dreams of attending an elite...
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The Odyssey

Gareth Hinds - Candlewick
Format: Paperback

With bold imagery and an ear tuned to the music of Homer’s epic poem, Gareth Hinds reinterprets the ancient classic as it’s never been told before."Gareth Hinds brings THE ODYSSEY to life in a masterful blend of art and storytelling. Vivid and exciting, this graphic novel...
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The Summer After You and Me

Jennifer Salvato Doktorski - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Print book

Will it be a summer of fresh starts or second chances? For Lucy, the Jersey Shore isn't just the perfect summer escape, it's home. As a local girl, she knows not to get attached to the tourists. They breeze in during Memorial Day weekend, crowding her costal town and stealing moonlit...
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Foodprints: The Story of What We Eat

Paula Ayer - Annick Press
Format: Hardcover

The everyday choices we make when it comes to food don't just have an effect on us -- they also affect other people and the planet. Today's teens are more attuned to what they eat and where it comes from than any generation before them. But there's still more to know. Foodprints...
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Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite

Barry Deutsch - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Hereville, home of the first-ever wisecracking, adventure-loving, sword-wielding Orthodox Jewish heroine. A delightful mix of fantasy, adventure, cultural traditions, and preteen commotion, this fun, quirky graphic novel series will captivate middle-school readers with its exciting...
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Kingsman: The Secret Service

Mark Millar - Marvel; Mti edition

Kick-Ass writer Mark Millar, Watchmen legend Dave Gibbons, and superstar director Matt hew Vaughn team up to reinvent the spy genre for the 21st century in one of the most brilliant new comics of recent years. A British secret agent feels guilty about never spending time with his deadbeat...
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Emmy & Oliver

Robin Benway - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Sarah Dessen will devour Robin Benways story of romance, coming-of-age emotion, and heartache, now in paperback.Emmy just wants to be in charge of her own life....She wants to stay out late, surf her favorite beach - go anywhere without her parents relentless worrying. But Emmys...
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Bob's Burgers

Mike Olsen - Dynamite, 2015 2015
Format: Print book

Now you can read about the Belcher family (parents Bob and Linda, and their children Tina, Gene and Louise) with brand-new in-canon stories created by the TV show's producers, writers, and animators! That's right, all-original stories that expand upon the fan-favorite animated series,...
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Ms. Marvel Vol. 3: Crushed

G. Willow Wilson - Marvel
Format: Print book

Love is in the air in Jersey City as Valentine's Day arrives! Kamala Khan may not be allowed to go to the school dance...but Ms. Marvel is! Well sort of - by crashing it attempting to capture Asgard's most annoying trickster! Yup, it's a special Valentine's Day story featuring...
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Kingdom Come

Mark Waid - DC Comics
Format: Paperback

Winner of five Eisner and Harvey Awards, KINGDOM COME is the best-selling graphic novel form acclaimed writer Mark Waid and superstar painter Alex Ross. Set in the not so distant future, the DC Universe is spinning inexorably out of control. The new generation of heroes has lost their...
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Randoms

David Liss - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A science fiction superfan finds himself on his very own space adventure when he's randomly selected to join an alien confederacy in this hilarious middle grade debut novel.Zeke Reynolds comes from a long line of proud science fiction geeks. He knows his games, comics, movies, and TV shows...
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Alive: Book One of the Generations Trilogy

Scott Sigler - Del Rey
Format: Print book

For fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising comes a gripping sci-fi adventure in which a group of teenagers wake up in a mysterious corridor with no knowledge of who they are or how they got trapped. Their only hope lies with an indomitable young woman who must lead them not only...
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P.S. I Still Love You

Jenny Han - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Look out for the Netflix original movie starring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo in 2020! In this highly anticipated sequel to the "lovely, lighthearted" (School Library Journal) New York Times bestselling To All The Boys I've Loved Before, Lara Jean still has letters...
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Every Last Breath

Jennifer L. Armentrout - Harlequin Teen
Format: Paperback

Some loves will last 'til your dying breath Every choice has consequences - but seventeen-year-old Layla faces tougher choices than most. Light or darkness. Wickedly sexy demon prince Roth, or Zayne, the gorgeous, protective Warden she never thought could be hers. Hardest of all, Layla...
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The Fixer

Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

When her grandfather develops dementia, sixteen-year-old Tess, who has been keeping his Montana ranch going, is whisked away to Washington, D.C., by a sister she barely knows and thrown into a world of politics, power, wealth, love triangles, and family secrets.
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Mark of the Thief

Jennifer A. Nielsen - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing the lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds much more than gold and gemstones: He discovers an ancient bulla, an amulet that belonged to the great Caesar and is filled with a magic once reserved...
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Scarlett Undercover

Jennifer Latham - Little
Format: Print book

Meet Scarlett, a smart, sarcastic fifteen-year-old, ready to take on crime in her hometown. When Scarlett agrees to investigate a local boy's suicide, she figures she's in for an easy case and a quick buck. But it doesn't take long for suicide to start looking a lot like murder.
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

Sue Townsend

Adrian Mole's first love, Pandora, has left him; a neighbor, Mr. Lucas, appears to be seducing his mother (and what does that mean for his father?) ; the BBC refuses to publish his poetry; and his dog swallowed the tree off the Christmas cake. "Why" indeed.
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