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Not My Problem

Ciara Smyth - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Nina LaCour, this queer coming-of-age story from the author of The Falling in Love Montage is wry, multilayered, and unflinchingly honest. Aideen has plenty of problems she can't solve. But when she stumbles upon overachiever Meabh Kowalska...
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Curse of the Specter Queen

Jenny Elder Moke - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Samantha Knox put away her childish fantasies of archaeological adventure the day her father didn't return home from the Great War, retreating to the safety of the antique bookshop where she works. But when a mysterious package arrives with a damaged diary inside, Sam's peaceful...
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The Summer of Lost Letters

Hannah Reynolds - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg isn't exactly looking forward to the summer before her senior year. She's just broken up with her first boyfriend and her friends are all off in different, exciting directions for the next three months. Abby needs a plan--an adventure of her own....
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The Summer of Lost Letters

Hannah Reynolds - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg isn't exactly looking forward to the summer before her senior year. She's just broken up with her first boyfriend and her friends are all off in different, exciting directions for the next three months. Abby needs a plan--an adventure of her own....
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Every Body Shines: Sixteen Stories About Living Fabulously Fat

Cassandra Newbould - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

Fat girls and boys and nonbinary teens are: friends who lift each other up, heroes who rescue themselves, big bodies in space, intellects taking up space, and bodies looking and feeling beautiful. They express themselves through fashion, sports and other physical pursuits, through food,...
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Fix

J. Albert Mann - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Everything was fine before. When Eve and Lidia could hide their physical differences inside goofy Burger Hut costumes. When Lidia shook Eve up and Eve made Lidia laugh. When Lidia was there. Everything is different now. Cut open . . . rearranged . . . stapled shut, Eve is left alone to recover...
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The Box in the Woods

Maureen Johnson
Format: Hardcover

After solving the case of Truly Devious, Stevie Bell investigates her first mystery outside of Ellingham Academy in this spine-chilling and hilarious stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.Amateur sleuth Stevie Bell needs a good murder. After catching...
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Bruised

Tanya Boteju
Format: Hardcover


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Don't Breathe a Word

Jordyn Taylor - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

"A fast-paced, exhilarating story about a boarding school shrouded in secrecy and the girl who will do anything to right the institution's wrongs." - Jessica Goodman, Indiebound bestselling author of They Wish They Were UsCritically acclaimed author Jordyn Taylor weaves an addictive...
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One Great Lie

Deb Caletti - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice with the charismatic and brilliant Luca Bruni, it's a dream come true. Writing is her passion, she loves Bruni's books, and going to that romantic and magical sinking city gives her the chance to solve a long-time...
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Aetherbound

E.K. Johnston - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Set on a family-run interstellar freighter called the Harland and a mysterious remote space station, E. K. Johnston's latest is story of survival and self-determination. Pendt Harland's family sees her as a waste of food on their long-haul space cruiser when her genes reveal an undesirable...
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Luck of the Titanic

Stacey Lee - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

on its ill-fated maiden voyage.Valora Luck has two things: a ticket for the biggest and most luxurious ocean liner in the world, and a dream of leaving England behind and making a life for herself as a circus performer in New York. Much to her surprise though, she's turned away at the gangway;...
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In the Ravenous Dark

A.M. Strickland
Format: Hardcover

In Thanopolis, those precious few gifted with magic are assigned undead spirits who guard them--and closely control them. Ever since Rovan's father died trying to keep her from this fate, Rovan has hidden her magic. But when she accidentally reveals her powers to save a life, she's...
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This Poison Heart

Kalynn Bayron - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch.When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers,...
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Fire with Fire

Destiny Soria - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Dani and Eden Rivera were both born to kill dragons, but the sisters couldn't be more different. For Dani, dragon slaying takes a back seat to normal high school life, while Eden prioritizes training above everything else. Yet they both agree on one thing: it's kill or be killed...
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Six Crimson Cranes

Elizabeth Lim - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"A dazzling fairytale full of breathtaking storytelling." --Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of CaravalShiori'anma, the only princess of Kiata, has a secret. Forbidden magic runs through her veins. Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal...
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On the Hook

Francisco X. Stork
Format: Hardcover

Hector has always minded his own business, working hard to make his way to a better life someday. He's the chess team champion, helps the family with his job at the grocery, and teaches his little sister to shoot hoops overhand.

Until Joey singles him out. Joey, whose older...
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Girls at the Edge of the World

Laura Brooke Robson - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

In a world bound for an epic flood, only a chosen few are guaranteed safe passage into the new world once the waters recede. The Kostrovian royal court will be saved, of course, along with their guards. But the fate of the court's Royal Flyers, a lauded fleet of aerial silk performers,...
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A Chorus Rises: A Song Below Water novel

Bethany C. Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Teen influencer Naema Bradshaw has it all: she's famous, stylish, gorgeous?and she's an Eloko, a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore. Everyone loves her? until she's cast as the villain who exposed a Siren to the whole world. Dragged by the media, and canceled...
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Perfectly Parvin

Olivia Abtahi - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Parvin Mohammadi has just been dumped--only days after receiving official girlfriend status. Not only is she heartbroken, she's humiliated. Enter high school heartthrob Matty Fumero, who just might be the smoking-hot cure to all her boy problems. If Parvin can get Matty to ask her to Homecoming,...
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Meet Cute Diary

Emery Lee
Format: Hardcover


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Eat Your Heart Out

Kelly deVos - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

3--We'll be eaten by thin and athletic zombies (odds: excellent) Vivian Ellenshaw is fat, but she knows she doesn't need to lose weight, so she's none too happy to find herself forced into a weight-loss camp's van with her ex-best friend, Allie, a meathead jock who can barely...
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The Great Godden

Meg Rosoff - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Everyone talks about falling in love like it's the most miraculous, life-changing thing in the world. Something happens, they say, and you know . . .I looked into his eyes and I knew.Only, everyone else knew too. Everyone else felt exactly the same way.This is the story of one family...
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Realm Breaker

Victoria Aveyard - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Irresistibly action-packed and full of lethal surprises, this stunning new fantasy series from Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Queen series, begins where hope is lost and asks: When the heroes have fallen, who will take up the sword? A strange darkness...
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Blood Like Magic

Liselle Sambury - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

After years of waiting for her Calling - a trial every witch must pass in order to come into their powers - the one thing Voya Thomas didn't expect was to fail. When Voya's ancestor gives her an unprecedented second chance to complete her Calling, she agrees - and then is horrified...
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