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Me & Earl & the Dying Girl

Jesse Andrews - FBA Powersetup
Format: Hardcover

It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the basic existential question: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? His strategy: remain at the periphery at all times....
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45 Pounds

Kelly Barson - Viking
Format: Hardcover

Here are the numbers of Ann Galardi's life:She is 16.And a size 17.Her perfect mother is a size 6.Her Aunt Jackie is getting married in 2 months, and wants Ann to be a bridesmaid.So Ann makes up her mind: Time to lose 45 pounds (more or less).Welcome to the world of informercial diet...
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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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What to Say Next

Julie Buxbaum - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

"What to Say Next reminds readers that hope can be found in unexpected places." -Bustle.comFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things comes a story about two struggling teenagers who find an unexpected connection just when they need...
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A Heart in a Body in the World

Deb Caletti - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

"This is one for the ages." - Gayle Forman, author of the #1 bestseller If I Stay "A book everyone should read right now." - The New York Times Book Review "A vital and heartbreaking story that brings together the #MeToo movement, the effects of gun violence,...
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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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What Happened to Goodbye

Sarah Dessen - Viking Juvenile; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Since her parents' bitter divorce, McLean and her dad, a restaurant consultant, have been on the move-four towns in two years. Estranged from her mother and her mother's new family, McLean has followed her dad in leaving the unhappy past behind. And each new place gives her a chance...
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Blind

Rachel DeWoskin - Viking Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

When Emma Sasha Silver loses her eyesight in a nightmare accident, she must relearn everything from walking across the street to recognizing her own sisters to imagining colors. One of seven children, Emma used to be the invisible kid, but now it seems everyone is watching her. And just...
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A Matter of Heart

Amy Fellner Dominy - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

"A novel that will make your heart pound--anxiously, joyfully, triumphantly."--New York Times Bestselling Author, Lauren Myracle. Readers will happily sink into this emotionally grounded, contemporary young adult novel about the sudden end of one girl's Olympic swimming dreams...
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The Rules for Disappearing

Ashley Elston - Hyperion
Format: Book

She's been six different people in six different places: Madeline in Ohio, Isabelle in Missouri, Olivia in Kentucky . . . But now that she's been transplanted to rural Louisiana, she has decided that this fake identity will be her last. Witness Protection has taken nearly everything...
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The Great American Whatever

Tim Federle - Simon & Schuster BFYR
Format: Print book

"Teenaged Quinn, an aspiring screenwriter, copes with his sister's death while his best friend forces him back out into the world to face his reality"--
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Turtles All the Way Down

John Green - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Wrenching and revelatory." An instant #1 bestseller, the widely acclaimed Turtles All the Way Down is John Green's brilliant and shattering new novel.Featured on 60 Minutes, Fresh Air, Studio 360, Good Morning Amercia, The TODAY Show"A tender story about learning...
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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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That's Not What Happened

Kody Keplinger - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend, Sarah, was killed in a bathroom stall during the mass shooting. Everyone knows Sarah's story--that she died proclaiming her faith.But it's not true.I know because I was with her when she died....
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Finding Audrey

Sophie Kinsella - Ember
Format: Hardcover

A ZOELLA Book Club Pick!From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shopaholic series comes a terrific blend of comedy, romance, and psychological recovery in a contemporary YA novel sure to inspire and entertain.Audrey wears dark glasses all the time, even in the house. She almost...
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All We Can Do Is Wait

RICHARD LAWSON - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Debut author and Vanity Fair film critic Richard Lawson makes your heart stop and time stand still in his extraordinary and life-affirming novel that's perfect for fans of If I Stay and We All Looked Up.In the hours after a bridge collapse rocks their city, a group...
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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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All We Have Left

Wendy Mills - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Interweaving stories from past and present, All We Have Left brings one of the most important days in our recent history--September 11th--to life, showing that love and hope will always triumph.Now:Sixteen-year-old Jesse is used to living with the echoes of the past. Her older...
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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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Underwater: A Novel

Marisa Reichardt - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Print book

Morgan didn't mean to do anything wrong that day. Actually, she meant to do something right. But her kind act inadvertently played a role in a deadly tragedy. In order to move on, Morgan must learn to forgive -- first someone who did something that might be unforgivable, and then,...
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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...
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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

Benjamin Alire Sáenz - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

"Friendships, family, grief, joy, rage, faith, doubt, poetry, and love - this complex and sensitive book has room for every aspect of growing up!" - Margarita Engle, Newbery Honor-Winning author of The Surrender Tree Sal used to know his place with his adoptive gay father,...
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The Beginning of Everything

Robyn Schneider - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Paperback

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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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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The Wrong Side of Right

Jenn Marie Thorne - Dial Books
Format: Print book

Fans of Sarah Dessen and Huntley Fitzpatrick will enjoy this smart debut young adult novel, equal parts My Life Next Door and The Princess Diaries - plus a dash of Aaron SorkinKate Quinn's mom died last year, leaving Kate parentless and reeling. So when the unexpected shows...
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Game Seven

Paul Volponi - Speak
Format: Hardcover

A fastball of a book by Paul Volponi - an author who knows sports and suspense! Julio Ramirez Jr. lives in the shadow of his famous father. Not just because Julio Senior is a pitcher for the Miami Marlins and famous for his scorching fastball, but because he defected from Cuba, leaving...
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Highly Illogical Behavior

John Corey Whaley - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Teen and adult fans of All The Bright Places, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and Everything, Everything will adore this quirky story of coming-of-age, coming out, friendship, love...and agoraphobia. Sixteen-year-old Solomon is agoraphobic. He hasn't left the house...
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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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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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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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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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