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2019 Selections

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

Julie C. Dao - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

The Wrath and the Dawn meets Snow White and the Huntsman in this dark and mystical East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl's quest to become Empress."A richly developed fantasy world . . . Julie C. Dao is a talent to watch."...
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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

Mackenzi Lee - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Paperback

A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush. An 18th-century romantic adventure for the modern age written by This Monstrous Thing author Mackenzi Lee - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets the 1700s.Henry "Monty"...
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All Rights Reserved:

Gregory Scott Katsoulis - Harlequin Teen
Format: Hardcover

In a world where every word and gesture is copyrighted, patented or trademarked, one girl elects to remain silent rather than pay to speak, and her defiant and unexpected silence threatens to unravel the very fabric of society. Speth Jime is anxious to deliver her Last Day speech and celebrate...
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The Astonishing Color of After

Emily X R Pan - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Emily X.R. Pan's brilliantly crafted, harrowing first novel portrays the vast spectrum of love and grief with heart-wrenching beauty and candor. This is a very special book."--John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way DownAn...
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We Are Okay

Nina Lacour - Dutton
Format: Book

From the award-winning author of Hold Still comes an achingly beautiful novel about grief and the enduring power of friendship.

You go through life thinking there's so much you need. . . . Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your...
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Long Way Down

JASON REYNOLDS - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young...
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The Wicked Deep

Shea Ernshaw - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge - and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them.Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow ... Where, two centuries ago, three...
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Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

With five starred reviews, Tomi Adeyemi's West African-inspired fantasy debut, and instant #1 New York Times Bestseller, conjures a world of magic and danger, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sabaa Tahir.They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us.Now we rise.Zlie...
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Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration

Rose Brock - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

Hope is a decision, but it is a hard one to recognize in the face of oppression, belittlement, alienation, and defeat. To help embolden hope, here is a powerhouse collection of essays and personal stories that speak directly to teens and all YA readers. Featuring Angie Thomas, Marie Lu, James...
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Dread Nation

Justina Ireland

Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania-derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever.In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Educa
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One of Us Is Lying

Karen M. McManus - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation...
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LIFEL1K3

Jay Kristoff - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Illuminae Files comes the first book in a new series that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Terminator, and all adrenaline.On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap....
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2018 Selections

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Kelly Regan Barnhill - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2017 Newbery Award The New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016 A Publishers Weekly Best Book...
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Dumplin (Dumplin, 1)

Julie Murphy - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

Now a Netflix feature film, starring Jennifer Aniston, Danielle Macdonald, and Dove Cameron, as well as a soundtrack from Dolly Parton!The #1 New York Times bestseller and feel-good YA of the year - about Willowdean Dixon, the fearless, funny, and totally unforgettable heroine who takes...
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The Hate U Give


Format: Paperback

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Dreamland Burning

Jennifer Latham - Little
Format: Print book

Some bodies won't stay buried.Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past... and the present.Nearly...
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The Serpent King

Jeff Zentner - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Named to ten BEST OF THE YEAR lists and selected as a William C. Morris Award Winner,The Serpent King is the critically acclaimed, much-beloved story of three teens who find themselves--and each other--while on the cusp of graduating from high school with hopes of leaving their small-town...
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Scythe

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

Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Printz Honor-winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered...
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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, And The Fight For Civil Rights

Steve Sheinkin

An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring
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Strange the Dreamer

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

A new epic fantasy by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around--and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared...
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Towers Falling

Jewell Parker Rhodes - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks. When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window,...
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Slasher Girls & Monster Boys

April Genevieve Tucholke - Speak
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, American Horror Story and The Walking Dead comes a powerhouse anthology featuring some of the best thriller and horror writers in YA. Stefan Bachmann, Leigh Bardugo, Kendare Blake, A. G. Howard, Jay Kristoff, Marie Lu, Jonathan Maberry, Danielle Paige,...
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller! Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf Bookclub Selection - May/June 2018"the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." -- NPR Books The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark...
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If I Was Your Girl

Meredith Russo - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book

A big-hearted, groundbreaking novel about being seen for who you really are, and a love story you can't help but root for Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she's determined not to get too close...
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2017 Selections

Gateway to Fourline

Pamela Brondos - Skyscape, 2015.
Format: Print book

Years before, a gateway opened between their world and ours. Sending one young woman through may be the key to survival for the kingdom of Fourline.Strapped for cash, college student Natalie Barns agrees to take a job at a costume shop. Sure, Estos - her classmate who works in the shop...
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All American Boys

Jason Reynolds - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover

A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature. In this Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winning novel, two teens - one black, one white - grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their...
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All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven - Ember
Format: Hardcover

NOW A NETFLIX FILM, STARRING ELLE FANNING AND JUSTICE SMITH! The New York Times bestselling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge. And dont miss Take Me with You When You Go, Jennifer Nivens highly anticipated new book with bestselling author David Levithan!...
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Etiquette & Espionage

Gail Carriger - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.
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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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Wolf by Wolf (Wolf by Wolf, 1)

Ryan Graudin - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Walled City comes a fast-paced and innovative novel that will leave you breathless.Her story begins on a train. The year is 1956, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan rule. To commemorate their Great Victory, they host the Axis Tour: an annual...
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Every Exquisite Thing

Matthew Quick - Little
Format: Print book

Nanette O'Hare is an unassuming teen who has played the role of dutiful daughter, hardworking student, and star athlete for as long as she can remember. But when a beloved teacher gives her his worn copy of The Bubblegum Reaper--a mysterious, out-of-print cult classic--the rebel...
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Ready Player One

Ernest Cline - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadThe bestselling cult classic - now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting,...
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The Thing About Jellyfish

Ali Benjamin - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

This stunning debut novel about grief and wonder was an instant New York Times bestseller and captured widespread critical acclaim, including selection as a 2015 National Book Award finalist! Oddlot Entertainment has acquired the screen rights to The Thing About Jellyfish, with...
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The Rose and the Dagger

Renée Ahdieh - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

The much anticipated sequel to the breathtaking The Wrath and the Dawn, lauded by Publishers Weekly as "a potent page-turner of intrigue and romance."I am surrounded on all sides by a desert. A guest, in a prison of sand and sun. My family is here. And I do not know...
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Wink Poppy Midnight

April Genevieve Tucholke - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

The intrigue of The Raven Boys and the "supernatural or not" question of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer coalesce in this young adult mystery, where nothing is quite as it seems, no one is quite who you think, and everything can change on a dime. Every story needs a hero....
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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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2016 Selections

Afterworlds

Scott Westerfeld - Simon & Schuster Books, 2015.
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld comes a "masterful" (Cory Doctorow) novel-within-a-novel that you won't be able to put down.Darcy Patel has put college on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds. With a contract in hand, she arrives in New York...
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Everything, everything

Nicola Yoon - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller--soon to be a major motion picture starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson!If you love Eleanor and Park, Hazel and Augustus, and Mia and Adam, you'll love the story of Maddy, a girl who's literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly,...
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Dodger

Terry Pratchett - HarperCollins

Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's Dodger, a Printz Honor Book, combines high comedy with deep wisdom in a tale of one remarkable boy's rise in a fantasy-infused Victorian London. Seventeen-year-old Dodger is content as a sewer scavenger. But he enters a new world...
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Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt...
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Nimona

Noelle Stevenson - Harper Teen
Format: Print book

National Book Award Finalist The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically acclaimed web comic, which Slate awarded its Cartoonist Studio Prize, calling it "a deadpan epic."Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more...
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Bone Gap

Laura Ruby - Balzer Bray
Format: Print book

National Book Award Finalist"Ruby's novel deserves to be read and reread. It is powerful, beautiful, extraordinary." - School Library JournalEveryone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps.So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren't surprised. But Finn...
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The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

Shaun David Hutchinson - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

A heartbreaking yet uplifting story of grief about a boy who has lost everything, but finds new hope drawing in the shadows of a hospital. Features a thirty-two-page graphic novel.Andrew Brawley was supposed to die that night, just like the rest of his family. Now he lives in the hospital,...
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Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

A #1 New York Times bestsellerKetterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price--and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams....
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Doll Bones

Holly Black - Doubleday Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Discover the Newbery Honor winner Doll Bones, from Holly Black, the cocreator of the Spiderwick Chronicles. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book. A School Library Journal Best Book. A BOOKLIST Editors Choice Books for Youth. A Publishers Weekly Best Childrens Book. A NYPL "100 Titles for Reading...
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The Walls Around Us

Nova Ren Suma - Algonquin Of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book

"With evocative language, a shifting timeline and more than one unreliable narrator, Suma subtly explores the balance of power between the talented and the mediocre, the rich and the poor, the brave and the cowardly . . . To reveal more would be to uncover the bloody heart that beats...
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Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

Steve Sheinkin - Flash Point
Format: Hardcover

In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked...
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Smead End Tab File Folder, Shelf-Master Reinforced Straight-Cut Tab, Letter Size, Manila, 100 per Box (24110) 100 per Box File Folder

Neal Shusterman - ‎Quill Tree Books; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

The industry standard for efficient shelf filing, these folders feature a reinforced tab for strength, embossed lines for easy label application and an undercut front panel for label readability. Popular for medical, dental and hospital filing systems as well as for very large records management...
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2015 Selections

The Beginning of Everything

Robyn Schneider - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Robyn Schneiders The Beginning of Everything is a witty and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of books by John Green and Ned Vizzini, novels such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and classics like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye.Varsity tennis captain Ezra...
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Where things come back : a novel

John Corey Whaley - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.
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A Little Something Different

Sandy Hall - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Paperback

The distinctive new crowdsourced publishing imprint Swoon Reads proudly presents its first published novel--an irresistibly sweet romance between two college students told from 14 different viewpoints.The creative writing teacher, the delivery guy, the local Starbucks baristas, his best...
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Winger

Andrew Smith - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A teen at boarding school grapples with life, love, and rugby in a heartbreakingly funny novel.Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids. He's living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby...
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The Hero and the Crown

Robin McKinley - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback

A Newbery Medal WinnerAlthough she is the daughter of Damar's king, Aerin has never been accepted as full royalty. Both in and out of the royal court, people whisper the story of her mother, the witchwoman, who was said to have enspelled the king into marrying her to get an heir to rule...
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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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The Sky Is Everywhere

Jandy Nelson - Speak
Format: Paperback

Adrift after her sister Bailey's sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive Toby—Bailey's boyfriend who shares her grief—and Joe, the new boy in town who bursts with life and musical genius. Each offers Lennie something she desperately needs......
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We Were Liars

E Lockhart - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerOne of James Patterson's "Favorite Thrillers for the Beach" (New York Times) "Haunting, sophisticated . . . a novel so twisty and well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to adolescents." - Wall Street...
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Deadline

Chris Crutcher - Greenwillow Books; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

Ben Wolf has big things planned for his senior year. Had big things planned. Now what he has is some very bad news and only one year left to make his mark on the world.How can a pint-sized, smart-ass seventeen-year-old do anything significant in the nowheresville of Trout, Idaho? First,...
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The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman - HarperCollins; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well...
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Mockingbird

Kathryn Erskine - Philomel; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In Caitlins world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. Thats the stuff Caitlins older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devons dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl with...
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Noggin

John Corey Whaley - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

2014 National Book Award Finalist A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)
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2014 Selections

Every Day

David Levithan - Ember
Format: Paperback

In his New York Times bestselling novel, David Levithan, co-author of bestsellers Will Grayson, Will Grayson and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, introduces readers to what Entertainment Weekly calls a "wise, wildly unique" love story about A, a teen...
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Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Best Seller!"Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book."-John Green, The New York Times Book ReviewBono met his wife in high school, Park says.So...
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Divergent

Veronica Roth - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Paperback

This first book in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy is the novel the inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet. This dystopian series set in a futuristic Chicago has captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult...
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The Spectacular Now

Tim Tharp - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

This National Book Award Finalist is now a major motion picture -- one of the most buzzed-about films at Sundance 2013, starring Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller.SUTTER KEELY. HE’S the guy you want at your party. He’ll get everyone dancing. He’ ll get everyone in your...
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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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The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey - Listening Library
Format: Paperback

The Passage meets Enders Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey. After the first wave, only darkness remains. After the second, only the lucky escape. And after the third, only the unlucky survive. After the fourth wave, only one rule applies: Trust no one. Now,...
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Everybody Sees the Ants

A.S. King - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Lucky Linderman didn't ask for his life. He didn't ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vietnam War. He didn't ask for a father who never got over it. He didn't ask for a mother who keeps pretending their dysfunctional family is fine. And he didn't ask to be the target...
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Out of The Easy

Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Print book

It's 1950 and the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie Moraine wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled...
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We Were Here

Matt de la Pena - Delacorte Press
Format: Library Binding

The story of one boy and his journey to find himself.When it happened, Miguel was sent to Juvi. The judge gave him a year in a group home—said he had to write in a journal so some counselor could try to figure out how he thinks. The judge had no idea that he actually did Miguel a favor....
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Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

Lish McBride - Square Fish; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Sam leads a pretty normal life. He may not have the most exciting job in the world, but he's doing all right--until a fast food prank brings him to the attention of Douglas, a creepy guy with an intense violent streak. Turns out Douglas is a necromancer who raises the dead for cash...
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Emily M. Danforth - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed book behind the 2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning movie"LGBTQ cinema is out in force at Sundance Film Festival," proclaimed USA Today. "The acerbic coming-of-age movie is adapted from Emily M. Danforths novel, and stars Chloe Grace Moretz as a lesbian teen...
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Boxers & Saints Boxed Set

Gene Luen Yang - First Second
Format: Print book

Boxers & Saints Boxed Set Edition One of the greatest comics storytellers alive brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing new work. In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose...
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2013 Selections

Ship Breaker

Paolo Bacigalupi - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Print book

In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper...
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The Fault In Our Stars

John Green - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

A 1 New York Times Bestseller An Amazon Best Book of the Month, January 2012 Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augusta Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support...
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Girl, Stolen

April Henry - Square Fish; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mom fills her prescription for antibiotics. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, their car is being stolen. Griffin hadn't meant to kidnap Cheyenne, but once his dad finds out that Cheyenne's father...
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky - MTV Books; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover

Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Now a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting...
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Sources of Light

Margaret McMullan - HMH Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Print book

It's 1962, a year after the death of Sam's father--he was a war hero--and Sam and her mother must move, along with their very liberal views, to Jackson, Mississippi, her father's conservative hometown. Needless to say, they don't quite fit in. People like the McLemores...
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The Scorpio Races

Maggie Stiefvater - Scholastic Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the 1 New York Times bestselling author of Shiver and Linger comes a brand new, heartstopping novel.Some race to win. Others race to survive. It happens at the start of every November the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish...
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Stitches: A Memoir

David Small - W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist that "breaks new ground for graphic novels" (Francois Mouly, art editor, The New Yorker). David Small, a best-selling and highly regarded children's book illustrator, comes forward with this unflinching graphic...
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Delirium

Lauren Oliver - Harper
Format: Paperback

Lauren Oliver's powerful New York Times bestselling novel Delirium - the first in a dystopian trilogy - presents a world as terrifying as George Orwell's 1984 and a romance as true as Romeo & Juliet.In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government...
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The Unnaturalists

Tiffany Trent - Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In an alternate London where magical creatures are preserved in a museum, two teens find themselves caught in a web of intrigue, deception, and danger.Vespa Nyx wants nothing more than to spend the rest of her life cataloging Unnatural creatures in her father’s museum, but as she gets...
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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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If I Stay

Gayle Forman - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD

The critically acclaimed, bestselling novel from Gayle Forman, author of Where She Went, Just One Day, and Just One Year. Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Chloe Grace Moretz! In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only...
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The Diviners

Libba Bray - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-toot-ly thrilled. New York is the city of speakeasies, shopping, and movie palaces! Soon enough, Evie is running with glamorous Ziegfield girls and rakish...
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2012 Selections

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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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other...
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Unwind

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

In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would "unwind" them Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding...
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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding

The extraordinary 1New York Timesbestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusaks unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel...
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah - Sarah Crichton Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life."Why did you leave Sierra Leone?""Because there is a war.""You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?""Yes, all the time.""Cool."I...
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Luna

Julie Anne Peters - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Regan's brother Liam can't stand the person he is during the day. Like the moon from whom Liam has chosen his female namesake, his true self, Luna, only reveals herself at night. In the secrecy of his basement bedroom Liam transforms himself into the beautiful girl he longs to be, with...
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