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Anna and the Apocalypse

Katharine Turner - Imprint
Format: Paperback

School's out for the end of the world.Anna and the Apocalypse is a horror comedy about a teenager who faces down a zombie apocalypse with a little help from her friends.Anna Shepherd is a straight-A student with a lot going on under the surface: she's struggling with her mom's...
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Dumplin'

Julie Murphy - Balzer Bray
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times BestsellerFor fans of John Green, Rainbow Rowell, and Sarah Dessen comes this powerful novel with a fearless heroine - self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson - from Julie Murphy, the acclaimed author of Side Effects May Vary. With starry Texas nights, red candy suckers,...
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To All the Boys Ive Loved Before

Jenny Han - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

To All the Boys Ive Loved Before is now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix! What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them...all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They arent love letters that...
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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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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald The Original Screenplay

J K Rowling - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover

At the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured in New York with the help of Newt Scamander. But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escapes custody and sets about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true...
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Between Shades of Gray

Ruta Sepetys - Philomel; 1 edition
Format: Book

Movie Title: Ashes in the Snow Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from...
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P.S. I still love you

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

Given the way love turned her heart in the New York Times bestselling To All The Boys I've Loved Before, which School Library Journal called a "lovely, lighthearted romance," it's no surprise that Laura Jean still has letters to write.Lara Jean didn't expect...
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Five Feet Apart

Rachael Lippincott - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Now a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson! In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that's perfect for fans of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication - they can't get within a few feet...
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Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Paperback

Twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has discovered a world below ground of armed and dangerous--and extremely high-tech--fairies. He kidnaps one of them, Holly Short, and holds her for ransom in an effort to restore his family's fortune. But he may have underestimated the fairies'...
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The Darkest Minds: Darkest Minds, Book 1

Alexandra Bracken - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

When Ruby woke up on her 10th birthday, something about her had changed. Something frightening enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious...
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All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Book

"A do not miss for fans of Eleanor and Park and The Fault in Our Stars, and basically anyone who can breathe."--Justine MagazineA New York Times bestsellerSoon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning!A 2016 Zoella Book Club Pick! Theodore...
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The Sun Is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton! The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling author of Everything, Everything will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with...
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The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking: Book One

Patrick Ness - Candlewick; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A dystopian thriller follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard and the passage to manhood embodies a horrible secret.Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think,...
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Looking for Alaska

John Green - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our StarsWinner of the Michael L. Printz Award * A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist * A New York Times Bestseller * A USA Today Bestseller * NPRs Top Ten Best-Ever...
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post

emily m. danforth - Balzer + Bray
Format: Paperback

Set in rural Montana in the early 1990s, emily m. danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a powerful and widely acclaimed YA coming-of-age novel in the tradition of the classic Annie on My Mind. Cameron Post feels a mix of guilt and relief when her parents die in a car accident....
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Becky Albertalli - Balzer + Bray
Format: Paperback

Now a major motion picture: Love, Simon, starring Nick Robinson and Katherine Langford!William C. Morris Award Winner: Best Young Adult Debut of the Year * National Book Award Longlist"A remarkable gift of a novel." - Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle"I am so in love...
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Wonder

R J Palacio - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, OWEN WILSON, AND JACOB TREMBLAY!Over 6 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller WONDER and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. The book that inspired the Choose Kind...
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A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

Madeleine L'Engle - Square Fish; Special Edition, 50th Anniversary Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Fifty years ago, Madeleine L'Engle introduced the world to A Wrinkle in Time and the wonderful and unforgettable characters Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe. When the children learn that Mr. Murry has been captured by the Dark Thing, they time travel...
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Ready Player One: A Novel

Ernest Cline - Broadway Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines - puzzles that are based on their creator's...
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Every Day

David Levithan - Ember
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by BOOKLIST * Kirkus ReviewsCelebrate all the ways love makes us who we are with the romance that Entertainment Weekly calls "wise, wildly unique"--from the bestselling co-author of Nick and Norahs Infinite...
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The Death Cure

James Dashner - Delacorte Books for Young Readers; Exclusive Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Read the third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent. The first and second books, The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials, are now major motion pictures featuring the star of MTV's Teen Wolf, Dylan O'Brien;...
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Fallen

Lauren Kate - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

There's something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price's attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He's the one bright spot in a place where cell...
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Drink, Slay, Love

Sarah Beth Durst - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

Pearl is a sixteen-year-old vampire . . . fond of blood, allergic to sunlight, and mostly evil . . . until the night a sparkly unicorn stabs her through the heart with his horn. Oops. Her family thinks she was attacked by a vampire hunter (because, obviously, unicorns don’t exist),...
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Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher - Razorbill
Format: Paperback

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**THE BOOK THAT STARTED IT ALL, NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES** "Eerie, beautiful, and devastating." - Chicago Tribune "A stealthy hit with staying power. . . . thriller-like pacing." - The New York Times "Thirteen...
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

J.K. Rowling - Scholastic (Us)
Format: Print book

J.K. Rowling's screenwriting debut is captured in this exciting hardcover edition of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay. When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced...
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A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd

Patrick Ness - Candlewick; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting--...
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul

Jeff Kinney - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover

Greg Heffley and his family hit the road in author-illustrator Jeff Kinney's latest installment of the phenomenal bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs - Quirk Books
Format: Audiobook

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs.It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific...
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Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life

James Patterson - jimmy patterson
Format: Hardcover

Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off: With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's...
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Before I Fall

Lauren Oliver - Harper
Format: Print book

The Before I Fall movie - based on Lauren Oliver's beloved first novel and starring Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, and Kian Lawley - is opening in theaters in spring 2017.With this stunning debut novel, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver emerged as one of today's foremost authors...
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Everything, Everything

Nicola Yoon - Ember
Format: Paperback

Risk everything . . . for love with this #1 New York Times bestseller. What if you couldnt touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face . . . or kiss the boy next door? In Everything, Everything, Maddy is a girl whos literally allergic...
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