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The Rig

Joe Ducie - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

Fifteen-year-old Will Drake has made a career of breaking out from high-security prisons. His talents have landed him at the Rig, a special juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. No one can escape from the Rig. After hatching some escape plans - and making the first...
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The Rest of Us Just Live Here

Patrick Ness - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

A new YA novel from novelist Patrick Ness, author of the Carnegie Medal- and Kate Greenaway Medal-winning A Monster Calls and the critically acclaimed Chaos Walking trilogy, The Rest of Us Just Live Here is a bold and irreverent novel that powerfully reminds us that there are many different...
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The Awesome

Eva Darrows - Rebellion
Format: Paperback

Seventeen-year-old Maggie Cunningham is tough, smart, and sassy. She's also not like other girls her age, but then, who would be when the family business is monster hunting? Combat boots, ratty hooded sweatshirts, and hair worn short so nothing with claws can get a grip, Maggie's concerns...
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Lock & Mori

Heather W. Petty - Simon & Schuster BFYR
Format: Print book

In modern-day London, two brilliant high school students meet. A murder will bring them together. The truth very well might drive them apart.You know their names. Now discover their beginnings. Someone has been murdered in London's Regent's Park, and sixteen-year-old Lock has challenged...
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The Scorpion Rules

Erin Bow - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Print book

The children of world leaders are held hostage in an attempt to keep the peace in this "slyly humorous, starkly thought-provoking" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) novel.Greta is a Duchess and a Crown Princess. She is also a Child of Peace, a hostage held by the de facto...
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Dark Shimmer

Donna Jo Napoli - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Print book

Set in medieval Venice, this captivating fairy tale retelling by award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli explores belonging, beauty, and the transformative power of love through the eyes of a teenage girl. Dolce has grown up hidden away on an island in a lagoon. She is a giant, a freak, tormented...
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