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The Kill Factor

Ben Oliver - Chicken House
Format: Hardcover

A brand-new game show that offers young criminals the chance at freedom has been greenlit. Little do they know, winning is their only chance at survival. A captivating examination of the dark truths around the criminal justice system, Ben Oliver, critically acclaimed author of The Loop...
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Kingdom of Without

Andrea Tang - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A wily young thief must use her wits to survive futuristic, alternate history Beijing in this Les Misérables-inspired young adult cyberpunk that is perfect for fans of Six of Crows and Fullmetal Alchemist.. When Zhong Ning'er takes the job, she expects a smash-and-grab burglary she's...
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Fireborne

Rosaria Munda - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Fireborne is everything I want in fantasy."--Rachel Hartman, New York Times bestselling author of SeraphinaGame of Thrones meets Red Rising in a debut young adult fantasy that's full of rivalry, romance . . . and dragons.Annie and Lee were just children...
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Hell Followed with Us

Andrew Joseph White - Peachtree Teen
Format: Hardcover

A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation."A defining voice of our generation." -H.E. Edgmon, author of The Witch King"Hands down the best YA horror...
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Immortal Dark

Tigest Girma - Little, Brown Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister.It began long before my time, but something has always hunted our family.Orphaned...
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Sanctuary

Paola Mendoza - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Co-founder of the Women's March makes her YA debut in a near-future dystopian where a young girl and her brother must escape a xenophobic government to find sanctuary--now in paperback!It's 2032, and in this near-future America, all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked....
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The Maze Cutter: A Maze Runner Novel

James Dashner - Delacorte Press
Format: Paperback

Seventy-three years after the events of THE DEATH CURE, when Thomas and other immunes were sent to an island to survive the Flare-triggered apocalypse, their descendants have thrived. Sadina, Isaac, and Jackie all learned about the unkind history of the Gladers from The Book of Newt...

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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: A Hunger Games Novel

Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Audio
Format: Paperback

It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the 10th annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that...
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Nyxia

Scott Reintgen - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"A high-octane thriller . . . Nyxia grabs you from the first line and never lets go." - Marie Lu, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Warcross Every life has a price in this sci-fi thriller - the first in a trilogy - that has the nonstop action of The Maze...
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The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness
Format: Paperback(Reissue)

The riveting Chaos Walking trilogy by two-time Carnegie Medalist Patrick Ness, reissued with compelling new covers - and a bonus short story in each book."Narrated with crack dramatic and comic timing. . . . The cliffhanger ending is as effective as a shot to the gut." - BOOKLIST...
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The Program

Suzanne Young - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

In Sloanes world, true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program. Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment....
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The 100

Kass Morgan - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Mti edition
Format: Paperback

No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now.Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earths radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents -- considered expendable by society -- are being sent on a dangerous mission to recolonize...
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Uglies (Uglies Trilogy)

Scott Westerfeld - Simon Pulse

The Uglies series has more than 3 million books in print, has been translated into twenty-seven languages, and spent more than fifty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now all four books feature fresh new covers and will reach an even wider audience. Tally's adventures begin in Uglies,...
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Snowglobe (Snowglobe, 1)

Soyoung Park - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

The gorgeous first edition hardcover of Snowglobe will feature two covers in one (a beautifully illustrated hardcover underneath the stunning jacket) and foil-stamped interior papers at the beginning and end of the book!. In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled...
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The Chaperone

M Hendrix - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

"Hendrix's dystopian society is somewhat of a Handmaid's Tale for YA, and offers a dark world with a glimmer of hope." -- BOOKLIST , STARRED reviewLike every young woman in New America, Stella knows the rules:Deflect attention.Abstain from sin.Navigate the world with...
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The Faint of Heart

Kerilynn Wilson - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

"Beautiful, tender, and relevant. Full of mystery, and not surprisingly, full of heart." - Tillie Walden, award-winning author of SpinningWhat would you do if you were the only person left with a heart? The only person left who felt anything at all? Would you give in to the pressure...
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Under This Forgetful Sky

Lauren Yero - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Paolo Bacigalupi and Laini Taylor, this futuristic star-crossed love story follows two teens in a starkly unequal world struggling to find their place.. Sixteen-year-old Rumi Sabzwari has spent his entire life behind the armored walls of St. Iago, which protect citizens...
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This Is the Way the World Ends: A Novel

Jen Wilde - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Fans of One of Us Is Lying and The Hazel Wood are cordially invited to spend one fateful night surviving an elite private school's epic masquerade ball in Jen Wilde's debut thriller, This Is the Way the World Ends.. As an autistic scholarship student at the prestigious Webber Academy...
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Monarch Rising

Harper Glenn - Scholastic Audio
Format: Audiobook

Today is the day Jo Monarch has been wishing on the moon about her entire life. It's the day of the Lineup, when she could be selected to leave her life in the Ashes behind. The day she could move across the mountains to a glittering, rich future.Once Jo is plucked from the Lineup,...
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The Getaway

LAMAR GILES - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts. He's got his family, his crew, and an incredible after-school job at the property's main theme park. Life isn't so great for the rest of the world,...
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Gearbreakers

Zoe Hana Mikuta - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

We went past praying to deities and started to build them instead...The shadow of Godolia's tyrannical rule is spreading, aided by their giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. War and oppression are everyday constants for the people of the Badlands, who live under the thumb of their...
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At the End of Everything

Marieke Nijkamp - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center is ironically named. No one has hope for the delinquent teenagers who have been exiled there; the world barely acknowledges that they exist.

Then the guards at Hope start acting strange. And one day...they don't show up. But when the teens...

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Dustborn

Erin Bowman - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Delta of Dead River has always been told to hide her back, where a map is branded on her skin to a rumored paradise called the Verdant. In a wasteland plagued by dust squalls, geomagnetic storms, and solar flares, many would kill for it - even if no one can read it. So when raiders sent...
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The Darkness Outside Us

Eliot Schrefer - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets The Loneliest Girl in the Universe in this mind-bending sci-fi mystery and tender love story about two boys aboard a spaceship sent on a rescue mission, from two-time National Book Award finalist Eliot Schrefer. Two boys, alone in space. Sworn enemies sent...
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WAR GIRLS

Tochi Onyebuchi - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Two sisters are torn apart by war and must fight their way back to each other in a futuristic, Black Panther-inspired Nigeria.The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky. In a war-torn...
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The Ones We're Meant to Find

Joan He - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

Cee awoke on an abandoned island three years ago. With no idea of how she was marooned, she only has a rickety house, an old android, and a single memory: she has a sister, and Cee needs to find her.STEM prodigy Kasey wants escape from the science and home she once trusted. The Metropolis...
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Internment

Samira Ahmed - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Rebellions are built on hope.Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend...
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Skyhunter

Marie Lu - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

In Skyhunter, a novel laced with adrenaline and filled with nonstop action, #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu creates an immersive world broken by war where the only hope against overwhelming evil lies with a team of young warriors willing to sacrifice everything to save what...
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