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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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Survive the Dome

Kosoko Jackson - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

The Hate U Give meets Internment in this pulse-pounding thriller about an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out during a city-wide protest.Jamal Lawson just wanted to be a part of something. As an aspiring journalist, he packs...
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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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Shatter Me

Tahereh Mafi - Harper
Format: Print book

I have a curse.I have a gift.I'm a monster. I'm more than human.My touch is lethal.My touch is power.I am their weapon.I will fight back.No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon. But Juliette has plans of her own....
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Space Trash Vol. 1 (1)

JENN WOODALL - Oni Press
Format: Hardcover

In Jenn Woodall's debut graphic novel series, three teenagers attending school on the moon try to keep their boredom and resentments at bay as they stumble across an exciting secret that could change the course of their future. In 2115, Earth has been abandoned as a lost cause and mankind...
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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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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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The Rule of One

ASHLEY SAUNDERS - Skyscape
Format: Hardcover

In their world, telling the truth has become the most dangerous crime of all.In the near-future United States, a one-child policy is ruthlessly enforced. Everyone follows the Rule of One. But Ava Goodwin, daughter of the head of the Texas Family Planning Division, has a secret - one her mother...
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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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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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Verify

Joelle Charbonneau - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

"Wow! Shades of Fahrenheit 451 and Orwell's 1984. Painfully real and urgent. Read this book." - Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the Gone seriesBestselling author Joelle Charbonneau's eerily timely, high-stakes page-turner is destined to start important conversations...
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WE LIVE

Inaki Miranda - Aftershock Comics
Format: Paperback

WHERE ALL IS LOST, HOPE IS FOUND.The year is 2084 and the world has changed. Wracked by calamities and crawling with monsters, the last remaining humans face a dangerous existence. And now, the Earth has been sent a message from the deepest reaches of space - a dark countdown to the extinction...
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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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You & Me at the End of the World

Brianna Bourne - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Hannah Ashton wakes up to silence. The entire city around her is empty, except for one other person: Leo Sterling. Leo might be the hottest boy ever (and not just because he's the only one left) , but he's also too charming, too selfish, and too much of a disaster for his own good,...
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The Electric Kingdom

David Arnold - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The 5th Wave in a genre-smashing story of survival, hope, and love amid a ravaged earth.When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are eighteen-year-old Nico and her dog, on a voyage devised by Nico's father to find a mythical...
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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 Loop

Ben Oliver - Chicken House
Format: Hardcover

Life inside The Loop-the futuristic death row for teens under eighteen-is one long repetitive purgatory. But when news of the encroaching chaos in the outside world reaches the inmates and disorder begins to strike, the prison becomes the least of their worries. Perfect for fans of The Fifth...
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Rebel Seoul

AXIE OH - Tu Books
Format: Hardcover

EAST ASIA, 2199. After a great war, the East Pacific is in ruins. In brutal Neo Seoul, where status comes from success in combat, ex-gang member Lee Jaewon is a talented pilot rising in the academy's ranks. Abandoned as a child in the slums of Old Seoul by his rebel father, Jaewon desires...
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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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The Hive

Barry Lyga - Kids Can Press
Format: Hardcover

Cassie McKinney has always believed in the Hive. Social media used to be out of control, after all. People were torn apart by trolls and doxxers. Even hackers --- like Cassie's dad --- were powerless against it. But then the Hive came. A better way to sanction people for what they do online....
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Cinderella Is Dead

Kalynn Bayron - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

"Wholly original and captivating." - Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of A Curse So Dark and LonelyGirls team up to overthrow the kingdom in this unique and powerful retelling of Cinderella from a stunning new voice that's perfect for fans of A Curse So Dark...
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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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The Grace Year

Kim Liggett - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

The Instant New York Times Bestseller!A speculative thriller in the vein of The Handmaid's Tale and The Power. Optioned by Universal and Elizabeth Banks to be a major motion picture!"A visceral, darkly haunting fever dream of a novel and an absolute page-turner....
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Want

CINDY PON - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author Cindy Pon comes an edge-of-your-seat sci-fi thriller, set in a near-future Taipei plagued by pollution, about a group of teens who risk everything to save their city.Jason Zhou survives in a divided society where the elite use their wealth to buy longer...
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All Rights Reserved:

Gregory Scott Katsoulis - Harlequin Teen
Format: Hardcover

In a world where every word and gesture is copyrighted, patented or trademarked, one girl elects to remain silent rather than pay to speak, and her defiant and unexpected silence threatens to unravel the very fabric of society. Speth Jime is anxious to deliver her Last Day speech and celebrate...
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Agnes at the End of the World

Kelly McWilliams - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The Handmaid's Tale meets Wilder Girls in this unique, voice-driven novel from Kelly McWilliams. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times; min-height: 16.0px} Agnes loves her home of Red Creek--its quiet,...
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The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline - DCB
Format: Paperback

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting...
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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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Scythe

Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Printz Honor-winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered...
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Red Queen

Victoria Aveyard - HarperTeen
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling series!Red Queen, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard, is a sweeping tale of power, intrigue, and betrayal, perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series. Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood - those with common,...
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