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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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Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

Isabel Quintero - Cinco Puntos Pr
Format: Print book

Named to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014Named to School Library Journal Best Books of 2014Gabi Hernandez chronicles her last year in high school in her diary: college applications, Cindy's pregnancy, Sebastian's coming out, the cute boys, her father's meth habit, and the food...
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Charm & Strange

Stephanie Kuehn - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

The 2014 Winner of the William C. Morris AwardWhen you've been kept caged in the dark, it's impossible to see the forest for the trees. It's impossible to see anything, really. Not without bars . . . In Stephanie Kuehn's brilliant debut Charm & Strange, Andrew Winston...
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Seraphina

Rachel Hartman - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Lyrical, imaginative, and wholly original, this New York Times bestseller with 8 starred reviews is not to be missed. Rachel Hartman's award-winning debut will have you looking at dragons as you've never imagined them before ... In the kingdom of Goredd, dragons and humans live...
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Where Things Come Back

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

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The Freak Observer

Blythe Woolston - Carolrhoda Lab
Format: Hardcover

The Freak Observer is rich in family drama, theoretical physics, and an unusual, tough young woman--Loa Lindgren. For eight years, Loa Sollilja's world ran like one of those mechanical models of the solar system, with her baby sister, Asta, as the sun. Asta suffered from a genetic disorder...
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Flash Burnout

L. K. Madigan - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book

Winner of the 2010 William C. Morris Award!Fifteen-year-old Blake has a girlfriend and a friend who's a girl. One of them loves him; the other one needs him.When he snapped a picture of a street person for his photography homework, Blake never dreamed that the woman in the photo was his friend...
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A Curse Dark as Gold

Elizabeth C. Bunce - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover

Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide...
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Graceling

Kristin Cashore - Harcourt
Format: Print book

In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
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Absolute Brightness

James Lecesne - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Darkness: Where light is not.Light: Brightness or illumination from a particular source.Absolute brightness: The mystery of Leonard Pelkey. This is the story of a luminous force of nature: a boy who encounters evil and whose magic isn't truly felt until he disappears.
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Madapple

Christina Meldrum - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Book

THE SECRETS OF the past meet the shocks of the present.Aslaug is an unusual young woman. Her mother has brought her up in near isolation, teaching her about plants and nature and language - but not about life. Especially not how she came to have her own life, and who her father might be.When...
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Me, the Missing, and the Dead

Jenny Valentine - HarperTeen
Format: Book

Me: Lucas Swain - I'm nearly sixteen years old and live in London. I was fairly normal until the night I found Violet. Then everything changed.The Missing: Dad. He disappeared five years ago. Nobody knows what happened to him, and nobody cares except me. It's enough to drive you crazy.The...
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