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Sarah Dessen - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a big-hearted, sweeping novel about a girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasn't seen since she was a little girl - and falls in love, all over the course of a magical summer. Emma Saylor doesn't remember a lot about...
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This Book Is Not Yet Rated

Peter Bognanni - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

In this enormously funny, smart, and moving contemporary YA novel, fighting for the thing you love doesn't always turn out like in the movies."Hilarious, big-hearted, poignant...An unadulterated triumph." --Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent KingMovies have always helped...
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Tell Me How You Really Feel

Aminah Mae Safi - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Sana Khan is a cheerleader and a straight A student. She's the classic (somewhat obnoxious) overachiever determined to win. Rachel Recht is a wannabe director who's obsesssed with movies and ready to make her own masterpiece. As she's casting her senior film project, she knows she's...
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The Princess and the Fangirl: A Geekerella Fairytale

Ashley Poston - Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover

The Prince and the Pauper gets a Geekerella-style makeover in this witty and heartfelt novel for those who believe in the magic of fandom. Imogen Lovelace is an ordinary fangirl on an impossible mission: to save her favorite Starfield character, Princess Amara, from...
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Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks

'Nathan Burgoine - Bold Strokes Books
Format: Paperback

Being the kid abducted by old Ms. Easton when he was four permanently set Cole's status to freak. At seventeen, his exit plan is simple: make it through the last few weeks of high school with his grades up and his head down. When he pushes through the front door of the school and finds...
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When the Ground Is Hard

Malla Nunn - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Edgar Award nominee stuns in this heartrending tale set in a Swaziland boarding school where two girls of different castes bond over a shared copy of Jane Eyre.Adele Joubert loves being one of the popular girls at Keziah Christian Academy. She knows the upcoming semester at school...
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Under Water

JL Powers - Cinco Puntos Press
Format: Hardcover

"a captivating narrative" -- Kirkus Reviews "raw and honest" -- BOOKLIST , Advanced Review After her grandmother dies, seventeen-year-old Khosi must learn to survive on her own-taking care of her little sister Zi, making a living as a healer, and trying to finish school...
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The Meaning of Birds

Jaye Robin Brown - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

"An evocative story of the thrills of first love and the anguish of first loss. This will break you and heal you." - Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin'Not to be missed by fans of Nina LaCour and Becky Albertalli, this powerful novel - from the acclaimed...
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Going Off Script

Jen Wilde - Swoon Reads
Format: Hardcover

A TV writer's room intern must join forces with her crush to keep her boss from ruining a lesbian character in this diverse contemporary YA romance from the author of Queens of Geek.Seventeen-year-old Bex is thrilled when she gets an internship on her favorite tv show, Silver...
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Fake It Till You Break It

Jenn P. Nguyen - Swoon Reads
Format: Hardcover

Mia and Jake have known each other their whole lives. They've endured summer vacations, Sunday brunches, even dentist visits together. Their mothers, who are best friends, are convinced that Mia and Jake would be the perfect couple, even though they can't stand to be in the same room together....
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I Wish You All the Best

Mason Deaver - Push
Format: Hardcover

When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection,...
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Hope and Other Punchlines

Julie Buxbaum - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things and What to Say Next delivers a poignant and hopeful novel about resilience and reinvention, first love and lifelong friendship, the legacies of loss, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.Sometimes...
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If It Makes You Happy

Claire Kann - Swoon Reads
Format: Hardcover

Claire Kann's If It Makes You Happy is a coming-of-age novel about a young girl learning to embrace her cultural and sexuality identity.Winnie is living her best fat girl life and is on her way to the best place on earth. No, not Disneyland--her Granny's diner, Goldeen's, in the small...
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Belly Up

Eva Darrows - Inkyard Press
Format: Hardcover

There's a first time for everything.First time playing quarters. First time spinning the bottle.First totally hot consensual truck hookup with a superhot boy whose digits I forgot to get. First time getting pregnant.Surprised you with that one, didn't I?Surprised me, too. I'd planned to spend...
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Small Town Hearts

Lillie Vale - Swoon Reads
Format: Hardcover

Fresh out of high school, Babe Vogel should be thrilled to have the whole summer at her fingertips. She loves living in her lighthouse home in the sleepy Maine beach town of Oar's Rest and being a barista at the Busy Bean, but she's totally freaking out about how her life will change when...
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I Love You So Mochi

Sarah Kuhn - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Kimi Nakamura loves a good fashion statement.She's obsessed with transforming everyday ephemera into Kimi Originals: bold outfits that make her and her friends feel like the Ultimate versions of themselves. But her mother disapproves, and when they get into an explosive fight, Kimi's entire...
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This Time Will Be Different

Misa Sugiura - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Jenny Han, Morgan Matson, and Sandhya Menon, critically acclaimed author Misa Sugiura delivers a richly crafted contemporary YA novel about family, community, and the importance of writing your own history.The author of the Asian Pacific American Award-winning It's Not Like...
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Since We Last Spoke

Brenda Rufener - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Jennifer Niven and Nicola Yoon, this heartbreaking and uplifting novel captures the ups and downs of teen love in the face of unimaginable grief and the rocky journey to healing, peace, and forgiveness. From breakout author Brenda Rufener (Where I Live) .When Aggi...
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How It Feels to Float

Helena Fox - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

"Profoundly moving...Will take your breath away." --Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces"This book will explode you into atoms." --Margo Lanagan, author of Tender MorselsA stunning, gutting, deeply hopeful YA novel about love and loss and living with...
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All Our Broken Pieces

L.D. Crichton - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

You can't keep two people who are meant to be together apart for long...Lennon Davis doesn't believe in much, but she does believe in the security of the number five. If she flicks the bedroom light switch five times, maybe her new LA school won't suck. But that doesn't feel right,...
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Ordinary Girls

Blair Thornburgh - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Sarah Mlynowski and Jenny Han, this heartfelt and humorous contemporary take on Sense and Sensibility follows two sisters - complete opposites - who discover the secrets they've been keeping make them more alike than they'd realized. For siblings as different as Plum...
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Symptoms of a Heartbreak

Sona Charaipotra - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

"A tender YA romance set in the thick of the medical world." -- Entertainment WeeklyThe youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds -- and falls head over heels -- in the contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak. Fresh from...
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Stealing Home

Becky Wallace - Page Street Kids
Format: Hardcover

Fight for your dreams, even if it means breaking a few rules."A wonderful baseball story." - Miranda Kenneally, author of Catching Jordan"This one's sure to be a home run with readers!" - Katy Upperman, author of Kissing Max Holden"A strong...
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