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The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things

Ann Aguirre - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Sage Czinski is trying really hard to be perfect. If she manages it, people wont peer beyond the surface, or ask hard questions about her past. Shes learned to substitute causes for relationships, and its working just fine . . . until Shane Cavendish strolls into her math class. Hes a little...
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Kiss & Make Up

Katie D. Anderson - Skyscape
Format: Hardcover

Lip gloss addict Emerson Taylor and her best friend, Trina, have declared this year the Year of the Boy and vowed to find boyfriends. But for Emerson, theres just one problem she can read the mind of anyone whose lips touch hers. Its totally creepyand at first it seems like a curse. But Emerson...
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Ann Brashares - Delacorte Press
Format: Book

Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn't look all that great: they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they're great. She'd love to have them. Lena and Bridget...
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A Week of Mondays

Jessica Brody - Farrar
Format: eBook

When I made the wish, I just wanted a do-over. Another chance to make things right. I never, in a million years, thought it might actually come true... Sixteen-year-old Ellison Sparks is having a serious case of the Mondays. She gets a ticket for running a red light, she manages...
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The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

The first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot.Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra. Is she ever in for a surprise.First Mom announces that...
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The Story of Us

Deb Caletti - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

A fresh and bittersweet story of love and family from National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti.Cricket's on a self-imposed break from her longtime boyfriend - but she's picked a bad week to sort out her love life. For one thing, her mother's romance is taking center stage: After...
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Don't Cosplay with My Heart

Cecil Castellucci - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

When Edan Kupferman dresses up like her favorite character, Gargantua, she feels tall and powerful. That's important right now, because her family is a mess, her best friend is gone for the summer, her crush is confusing, and Edan's feeling small and not sure which end is up. When...
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American Panda

Gloria Chao - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

An incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with germs and crush on a Japanese classmate.At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade...
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Catch a Falling Star

Kim A Culbertson - Point, 2014
Format: Paperback

Overview A deliciously charming novel about finding true love . . . and yourself. Nothing ever happens in Little, CA. Which is just the way Carter Moon likes it. But when Hollywood arrives to film a movie starring former child star turned PR mess Adam Jakes, everything changes. Carter's...
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Something Real

Heather Demetrios - Holt & Company
Format: Print book

Seventeen-year-old Bonnie Baker has grown up on TV -- she and her twelve siblings are the stars of one-time hit reality show Baker's Dozen. Since the show's cancellation, Bonnie has tried to live a normal life, under the radar and out of the spotlight. But it's about to fall apart...
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The Season

Jonah Lisa Dyer - Viking Children'S Books
Format: Print book

She can score a goal, do sixty box jumps in a row, bench press a hundred and fifty pounds ... but can she learn to curtsey? Megan McKnight is a soccer star with Olympic dreams, a history major, an expert at the three Rs of Texas (readin', ridin', and ropin') , but she's not a girly girl....
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The Fault in Our Stars

John Green - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

From John Green, the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down"The greatest romance story of this decade." - Entertainment Weekly-Millions of copies sold-#1 New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller#1 USA Today Bestseller#1 International BestsellerTIME...
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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

To All the Boys I've Loved Before is now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix! Lara Jean's love life gets complicated in this New York Times bestselling "lovely, lighthearted romance" (School Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Summer...
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Between Us and the Moon

Rebecca Maizel - Harper Teen
Format: Hardcover

A luminous YA love story that evokes Judy Blume's Forever for a new generation. Sarah - Bean to her friends and family - is an aspiring astronomer and champion mathlete. She lives behind her beloved telescope, with her head in the stars and her feet planted firmly on the ground. For as long...
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Save the Date

MORGAN MATSON - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

All first editions will be signed by the author - available while supplies last! Father of the Bride meets Sixteen Candles in the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Morgan Matson.Charlie Grant's older sister is getting married this weekend at their family home, and Charlie...
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The Unexpected Everything

Morgan Matson - Simon & Schuster Books
Format: Print book

From Morgan Matson, the bestselling author of Since You've Been Gone comes a feel-good story of friendship, finding yourself, and all the joys in life that happen while you're busy making other plans.Andie has a plan. And she always sticks to her plan. Future? A top-tier medical...
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The Year Of Secret Assignments

Jaclyn Moriarty - Arthur A. Levine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Three girls. Three boys. One of them's a total psycho.It's teenage life as it really feels. Only funnier.The Ashbury-Brookfield pen pal program was designed to bring together the "lowlife Brooker kids" (as they're known to the Ashburyites) and the "rich Ashbury...
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Even in Paradise

Chelsey Philpot - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

The Great Gatsby meets Looking for Alaska in this stunning debut novel.When Julia Buchanan enrolls at St. Annes at the beginning of junior year, Charlotte Ryder already knows all about her. Most people do . . . or think they do. Charlotte certainly never expects shell be Julias friend....
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Anatomy of a Misfit

Andrea Portes - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

"Its rare that a book can be as funny and absolutely delightful as it is moving and thought provoking, and Anatomy of a Misfit is both." (Lauren Oliver, author of Before I Fall) Anika Dragomir is the third-most-popular girl at Pound High School. But inside, she knows shes a freak;...
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Geekerella

Ashley Poston - Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover

Cinderella goes to the con in this fandom-fueled twist on the classic fairy tale romance. Part romance, part love letter to nerd culture, and all totally adorbs, Geekerella is a fairy tale for anyone who believes in the magic of fandom. Geek girl Elle Wittimer lives and breathes Starfield,...
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Fangirl: A Novel

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

In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life--and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them...
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It's All Your Fault

Paul Rudnick - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book

"Paul Rudnick makes me lie hysterical on the floor, screeching with laughter and sobbing with fury that I can't write the way he does." -- E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-BanksUp until forty-eight hours ago, Caitlin...
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The Truth About My Success

Dyan Sheldon - Candlewick
Format: Print book

What happens when a bratty teenage star and a hardworking waitress get a taste of each other's worlds? Featuring the best-selling Dyan Sheldon at her snarky, entertaining best.Paloma Rose is sixteen and already a major TV star. She has money, franchises, adoring fans - and an agent...
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What My Mother Doesn't Know

Sonya Sones
Format: Book

My name is Sophie.This book is about me.It tellsthe heart-stoppingly riveting storyof my first love.And also of my second.And, okay, my third love, too.It's not that I'm boy crazy.It's just that even thoughI'm almost fifteenI've been having sort of a hard timetrying to figure out the differencebetween...
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Kissing Ted Callahan

Amy Spalding - Poppy
Format: Hardcover

Sneak out. Make out. Rock out.Riley and her best guy friend, Reid, have made a pact: they'll help each other pursue their respective crushes, make something happen, and document the details in a shared notebook.While Reid struggles with the moral dilemma of adopting a dog to win over...
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Every Last Word

Tamara Ireland Stone - Hyperion, 2015.
Format: Print book

New York Times Bestseller
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Girls Like Me

Lola StVil - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

Fifteen-year-old Shay Summers is trying to cope with the death of her father, being overweight, and threats from a girl bully in school. When she falls in love with Blake, a mysterious boy online, insecure Shay doesn't want to tell him who she is. But with the help of her two best friends,...
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The List

Siobhan Vivian - Push
Format: Hardcover

An intense look at the rules of high school attraction -- and the price that's paid for them.It happens every year. A list is posted, and one girl from each grade is chosen as the prettiest, and another is chosen as the ugliest. Nobody knows who makes the list. It almost doesn't...
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Pretties

Scott Westerfeld - Simon Pulse; Original edition
Format: Paperback

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Upon Tally's 16th birthday she undergoes an operation to turn from an ugly duckling into a stunning girl, but she makes a promise just before the surgery to be the guinea pig for a future experiment. SEQUELS: Pretties (2005), Specials (2006), Extras (2007).
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Eliza and Her Monsters

FRANCESCA ZAPPIA - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she's worked for begins to crumble.Scott Westerfeld's Afterworlds meets Nimona in this novel about art, fandom, and finding...
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Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters

Meredith Zeitlin - Putnam Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

Laugh-out-loud funny high school drama - perfect for fans of Lauren Myracle and Meg Cabot Let's say you're fourteen and live in New York City. You'd think your life would be like a glamorous TV show, right? And yet . . . You don't have a checking account, much less a personal...
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Sophomore Year Is Greek to Me

Meredith Zeitlin - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A laugh-out-loud high school adventure set in Greece, perfect for fans of Meg Cabot High school sophomore Zona Lowell has lived in New York City her whole life, and plans to follow in the footsteps of her renowned-journalist father. But when he announces they're moving to Athens for six months...
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Lies I Told

Michelle Zink - HarperTeen
Format: Book

Grace Fontaine has everything: beauty, money, confidence, and the perfect family. But it's all a lie.Grace has been adopted into a family of thieves who con affluent people out of money, jewelry, art, and anything else of value. Grace has never had any difficulty pulling off a job,...
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