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Northranger

Rey Terciero - HarperAlley
Format: Paperback

In this swoony and spooky teen summer romance graphic novel set on a Texas ranch, sixteen-year-old Cade Muñoz finds himself falling for the ranch owner's mysterious and handsome son, only to discover that he may be harboring a dangerous secret.Cade has always loved to escape into the world...
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Sense and Second-Degree Murder

Tirzah Price
Format: Book

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Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, 1)

Joan He - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling new fantasy from New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He, Strike the Zither is a powerful, inventive, and sweeping fantasy that reimagines the Chinese classic tale of the Three Kingdoms.The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne....
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Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix (Remixed Classics, 5)

Anna-Marie McLemore - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Stonewall Honor recipient and two-time National Book Award Longlist selectee Anna-Marie McLemore weaves an intoxicating tale of glamor and heartache in Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix, part of the Remixed Classics series.New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender...
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My Fine Fellow

Jennieke Cohen - HarperTeen
Format: Paperback

Culinary delights abound, romance lingers in the air, and plans go terribly, wonderfully astray in this gender-bent take on My Fair Lady from Jennieke Cohen, author of Dangerous Alliance - perfect for fans of Bridgerton or A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. It's 1830s England,...
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Twelfth Grade Night (Arden High, Book 1)

Molly Booth - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Book

"Magical and full of queer joy -- this book is such a dream!" -- Alice Oseman, New York Times best-selling author of HeartstopperThe course of true love never did run smooth . . . and neither does high school in this new graphic novel series for fans of Heartstopper and The Prince...

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My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics, 6)

Kalynn Bayron - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

A teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance -- and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger -- in misty Victorian London, in Kalynn Bayron's My Dear Henry, a gothic YA remix of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, sixth in the Remixed Classics series.London,...
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Reader, I Murdered Him

BETSY CORNWELL - ‎Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

In this daring tale of female agency and revenge from a New York Times bestselling author, a girl becomes a teenage vigilante who roams Victorian England using her privilege and power to punish her friends' abusive suitors and keep other young women safe.Adele grew up in the shadows...
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An Arrow to the Moon

Emily X.R. Pan
Format: Book

Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He’s sick of being haunted by his family’s past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his little brother, a supernatural wind, and the bewitching girl at his new high...

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A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix

C. B. Lee - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

The sun is setting on the golden age of piracy, and the legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. Its ruthless leader, a woman known only as the Head of the Dragon, is now only a story, like the ones Xiang has grown up with all her life. She desperately wants...
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Lord of the Fly Fest

GOLDY MOLDAVSKY - HENRY HOLT
Format: Hardcover

At Fly Fest, true crime podcaster Rafi Francisco, hoping to score an interview with River Stone, a musician who rose to fame after the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend, finds herself fighting for her life along with hundreds of other influencers. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous...
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Debating Darcy

Sayantani DasGupta - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Hardcover

This Pride & Prejudice retelling brings New York Times bestselling Sayantani DasGupta's trademark wit and insight to her bright and funny YA debut!It is a truth universally acknowledged that Leela Bose plays to win.A life-long speech competitor, Leela loves nothing more than crushing...
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What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix (Remixed Classics Book 4)

Tasha Suri - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

What Souls Are Made Of, British Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri's masterful new take on Bronte's Wuthering Heights, will leave readers breathless.Sometimes, lost things find their way home...Yorkshire, North of England, 1786. As the abandoned son of a lascar - a sailor from...
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Spin Me Right Round

David Valdes - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

All Luis Gonzalez wants is to go to prom with his boyfriend, something his "progressive" school still doesn't allow. Not after what happened with Chaz Wilson. But that was ages ago, when Luis's parents were in high school; it would never happen today, right? He's determined...
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When You Get the Chance: A Novel

Emma Lord - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Nothing will get in the way of Millie Price's dream of becoming a Broadway star. Not her lovable but super introverted dad, who raised Millie alone since she was a baby. Not her drama club rival, Oliver, who is the very definition of Simmering Romantic Tension. And not her "Millie...

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Within These Wicked Walls: A Novel

Lauren Blackwood - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Andromeda is a debtera -- an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her mentor hadn't thrown her out before she could earn her license. Now her only hope of steady work is to find a Patron -- a rich, well-connected individual who will vouch...
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Legendborn

Tracy Deonn - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn's YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic.After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old...
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Tell Me My Name

Amy Reed - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Great Gatsby--that will linger long after the final lineOn wealthy Commodore Island, Fern is watching and waiting--for summer, for college, for her childhood best friend to decide he loves her. Then Ivy Avila lands on the island like a falling star. When Ivy shines on her, Fern feels seen....
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Waking Romeo

Kathryn Barker - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Kathryn Barker's Waking Romeo is a spectacularly genre-bending retelling of Romeo & Juliet asking the big questions about true love, fate, and time travelYear: 2083. Location: London. Mission: Wake Romeo.It's the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only...
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Epically Earnest

Molly Horan - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

In this delightfully romantic LGBTQ comedy-of-errors inspired by Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, a high school senior works up the courage to ask her long-time crush to prom all while deciding if she should look for her bio family. Jane Worthing's claim to fame is that...
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One for All: A Novel

Lillie Lainoff
Format: Hardcover

"There are no limits to the will -- and the strength -- of this unique female hero." -- Tamora Pierce, writer of the Song of the Lioness and the Protector of the Small quartetsOne for All is a gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness...
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Skin of the Sea

Natasha Bowen - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A way to survive.A way to serve.A way to save.Simi prayed to the gods, once. Now she serves them as Mami Wata - a mermaid - collecting the souls of those who die at sea and blessing their journeys back home.But when a living boy is thrown overboard, Simi does the unthinkable - she saves...
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So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix

Bethany C. Morrow - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

. As the American Civil War rages on, the Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island is blossoming, a haven for the recently emancipated. Black people have begun building a community of their own, a refuge from the shadow of the "old life." It is where the March family has finally...
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Daughters of a Dead Empire

Carolyn Tara O'Neil - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

Russia, 1918: With the execution of Tsar Nicholas, the empire crumbles and Russia is on the edge of civil war -- the poor are devouring the rich. Anna, a bourgeois girl, narrowly escaped the massacre of her entire family in Yekaterinburg. Desperate to get away from the Bolsheviks, she offers...
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The Bone Spindle

Leslie Vedder - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

When she pricks her finger on a bone spindle, treasure hunter Fi is stuck with the spirit of Briar Rose, a prince under a sleeping curse, and must team up with a tough-as-dirt girl warrior to free the prince--and herself. Fi is a bookish treasure hunter with a knack for ruins and riddles,...

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Where the Rhythm Takes You

Sarah Dass - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion, Where the Rhythm Takes You is a romantic, mesmerizing novel of first love and second chances. Seventeen-year-old Reyna has spent most of her life at the Plumeria, her family's gorgeous seaside resort in Tobago. But what once seemed like paradise...
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Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix

Aminah Mae Safi - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

A ragtag band of misfits gets swept up in Holy Land politics in Travelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae Safi, a thrilling YA remix of the classic legend of Robin Hood.Jerusalem, 1192. The Third Crusade rages on. Rahma al-Hud loyally followed her elder sister Zeena into the war over the Holy...
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Daughter of Sparta

Claire Andrews - Jimmy Patterson
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Daphne has spent her entire life honing her body and mind into that of a warrior, hoping to be accepted by the unyielding people of ancient Sparta. But an unexpected encounter with the goddess Artemis - who holds Daphne's brother's fate in her hands - upends the life...
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The Daughters of Ys

Anderson, M. T. - FIRST SECOND
Format: Book

Ys, city of wealth and wonder, has a history of dark secrets. Queen Malgven used magic to raise the great walls that keep Ys safe from the tumultuous sea. But after the queen's inexplicable death, her daughters drift apart. Rozenn, the heir to the throne,...
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The Dead Queens Club

Hannah Capin - Inkyard Press
Format: Hardcover

If your school's homecoming king had a little too much in common with Henry VIII, would you survive with your head still attached?You'd think being the new girl in a tiny town would equal one very boring senior year. But if you're me - Annie Marck, alias Cleves - and you accidentally...
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Sea Witch

SARAH HENNING - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Wicked meets The Little Mermaid in the captivating origin story of the sea's most iconic villainess, perfect for fans of Heartless and Dorothy Must Die.Ever since her best friend Anna died, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. Hiding her talents, mourning her loss, drowning...
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Baba Yaga's Assistant

Marika McCoola - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Amazon Editors recommend this book for readers who have recently discovered middle grade novels with more intricate story lines.Russian folklore icon Baba Yaga mentors a lonely teen in a wry graphic novel that balances gleefully between the modern and the timeless.Most children think twice...
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These Violent Delights

Chloe Gong - Margaret K. McElderry
Format: Hardcover

The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery. A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud...
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Never Look Back

Lilliam Rivera - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

Eury comes to the Bronx as a girl haunted. Haunted by losing everything in Hurricane Maria--and by an evil spirit, Ato. She fully expects the tragedy that befell her and her family in Puerto Rico to catch up with her in New York. Yet, for a time, she can almost set this fear aside, because...
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Anna K: A Love Story

Jenny Lee - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Meet Anna K! Every happy teenage girl is the same, while every unhappy teenage girl is miserable in her own special way...At seventeen, Anna K is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she prefers the company of her horses and dogs) ; she has the perfect (if perfectly...
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Lost in the Never Woods

Aiden Thomas
Format: Hardcover

It's been five years since Wendy and her two brothers went missing in the woods, but when the town's children start to disappear, the questions surrounding her brothers' mysterious circumstances are brought back into the light. Attempting to flee her past, Wendy almost runs...
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Once & Future

Cori McCarthy - jimmy patterson
Format: Hardcover

King Arthur as you've never imagined! This bold, sizzling YA retells the popular legend with the Once and Future King as a teenage girl -- and she has a universe to save.I've been chased my whole life. As a fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer corporation,...
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The Initial Insult

Mindy McGinnis - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

An Amazon Best Book of the Month! In the first book of a suspenseful YA duology, award-winning author Mindy McGinnis draws inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and masterfully delivers a dark, propulsive mystery in alternating points of view that unravels a friendship . . . forevermore. Perfect...
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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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Wicked as You Wish

Chupeco, Rin - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable alternative history fairytale series from the author of The Bone Witch trilogy about found family, modern day magic, and finding the place you belong.Many years ago, the magical Kingdom of Avalon was left desolate and encased in ice when the evil Snow Queen waged war on the powerful...
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Girl, Serpent, Thorn

Melissa Bashardoust - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A captivating and utterly original fairy tale about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch, and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse...There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. But for Soraya, who has lived her life...
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The Star-touched Queen

Roshani Chokshi - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Print book

Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you're only seventeen?Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father's kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly...
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The Last True Poets of the Sea

Julia Drake - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

From a stunning new voice in YA literature comes an epic, utterly unforgettable contemporary novel about a lost shipwreck, a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life. "Profound and page-turning." --Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times best-selling...
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Foul is Fair: A Novel

Hannah Capin - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Hannah Capin's Foul is Fair is a bloody, thrilling revenge fantasy for the girls who have had enough. Golden boys beware: something wicked this way comes.Jade and her friends Jenny, Mads, and Summer rule their glittering LA circle. Untouchable, they have the kind of power other girls...
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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

ELLEN OH - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings: these are the stuff of fairy tale, myth, and folklore that have drawn us in for centuries. Fifteen bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia...
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Dark and Deepest Red

Anna-Marie McLemore

Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyon
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Red Hood

Elana K. Arnold - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

Elana K. Arnold, author of the Printz Honor book Damsel, returns with a dark, engrossing, blood-drenched tale of the familiar threats to female power - and one girl's journey to regain it.You are alone in the woods, seen only by the unblinking yellow moon. Your hands are empty. You are nearly...
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A Blade So Black

L.L. McKinney - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

"Mixing elements of Alice in Wonderland and Buffy the Vampire Slayer... a delectable urban twist on beloved fairy tales." -- Entertainment Weekly"A brash, refreshing, vitally diverse retelling of a classic... You need this book." -- Tor.comA...
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Pride

IBI ZOBOI - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

Pride and Prejudice gets remixed in this smart, funny, gorgeous retelling of the classic, starring all characters of color, from Ibi Zoboi, National Book Award finalist and author of American Street.Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots....
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Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

Julie C. Dao - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

The Wrath and the Dawn meets Snow White and the Huntsman in this dark and mystical East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl's quest to become Empress."A richly developed fantasy world . . . Julie C. Dao is a talent to watch."...
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House of Salt and Sorrows

Erin A. Craig - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Get swept away in Erin A. Craig's mesmerizing House of Salt and Sorrows. As one by one her beautiful sisters mysteriously die on their isolated island estate, Annaleigh must unravel the curse that haunts her family. Be careful who you dance with. . . .In a manor by the sea, twelve...
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The Wrath and the Dawn

Renée Ahdieh - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times BestsellerA sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One NightsEvery dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have...
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A Study in Charlotte

Brittany Cavallaro - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

The first book in a witty, suspenseful new series about a brilliant new crime-solving duo: the teen descendants of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. This clever page-turner will appeal to fans of Maureen Johnson and Ally Carter.Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes;...
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Stepsister

Jennifer Donnelly - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Don't just fracture the fairy tale. Shatter it. Isabelle should be blissfully happy - she's about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn't the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince's heart. She's the ugly stepsister who's cut off her toes to fit into...
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Nothing Happened

Molly Booth - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

IT'S MUCH ADO . . . ABOUT EVERYTHING.This modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing takes place at the idyllic Camp Dogberry, where sisters Bee and Hana Leonato have lived their whole lives. Their parents own the place, and every summer they look forward to leading...
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