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A Song of Salvation

Alechia Dow - Inkyard Press
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Sound of Stars and The Kindred comes a YA space opera about a reincarnated god and a grumpy pilot on a mission to save a beloved space DJ and stop an intergalactic war. Zaira Citlali is supposed to die. After all, she's the god Indigo reborn. Indigo, whose song...
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Iron Widow

Xiran Jay Zhao - Penguin Teen
Format: Hardcover

The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot,...
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Project Nought

Chelsey Furedi - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Kiss Number 8 and On a Sunbeam, this debut graphic novel is a fast-paced time travel adventure with a hint of romance that has garnered 1.5 million views as a Tapas webcomic.Ren Mittals last memory in the year 1996 is getting on a bus to visit his mystery pen pal Georgia. When...
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Made of Stars

Jenna Voris - ‎Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Inspired by the lawless love story of Bonnie and Clyde, Jenna Voris's heart-stopping tale of passion and crime will have you seeing stars."A thrill ride of the highest caliber. Made of Stars is an explosion of space warfare with beautifully violent criminals you'll love...

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The Upper World

Femi Fadugba - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

If you had the chance to change your future, would you take it?Perfect for fans of Neal Shusterman and Jason Reynolds, this powerhouse, mind-bending YA debut follows two teens, a generation apart, whose fates collide across time - and outside of it. TodayDuring arguably the worst week of Esso's...
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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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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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Dry

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

"The authors do not hold back." - BOOKLIST (starred review) "The palpable desperation that pervades the plot ... feels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The Shustermans challenge readers."...
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Stephen McCranie's Space Boy Volume 1

Stephen McCranie - Dark Horse Books
Format: Paperback

A sci-fi drama of a high school aged girl who belongs in a different time, a boy possessed by emptiness as deep as space, an alien artifact, mysterious murder, and a love that crosses light years.To Amy, everyone has a flavor. Her mom is the flavor of mint--sharp and bright. Her dad is like...
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The Infinity Courts

Akemi Dawn Bowman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto is certain her life is just beginning. She has a great family, just graduated high school, and is on her way to a party where her entire class is waiting for her - including, most importantly, the boy she's been in love with for years. The only problem?...
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Renegades

MARISSA MEYER - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Book

The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies -- humans with extraordinary abilities -- who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone...except the villains...

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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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Alone Out Here

Riley Redgate - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

What do you stand for, when you're one of the last left standing?The year is 2072. Soon a volcanic eruption will trigger catastrophic devastation, and the only way out is up.While the world's leaders, scientists, and engineers oversee the frantic production of a space fleet meant...
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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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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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Across a Field of Starlight:

Blue Delliquanti - Random House Graphic
Format: Hardcover

An epic sci-fi graphic novel romance between two non-binary characters as they find one another through time, distance, and war. An amazing story that explores the complexity of human nature and what brings us together.When they were kids, Fassen's fighter spaceship crash-landed on a planet...
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A Complicated Love Story Set in Space

Shaun David Hutchinson - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

When Noa closes his eyes on Earth and wakes up on a spaceship called Qriosity just as it's about to explode, he's pretty sure things can't get much weirder. Boy is he wrong. Trapped aboard Qriosity are also DJ and Jenny, neither of whom remember how they got onboard the ship....
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Early Departures

Justin A. Reynolds - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Justin A. Reynolds, author of Opposite of Always, returns with another charming and powerful YA contemporary novel with a speculative twist, perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon, Becky Albertalli, and Adam Silvera. What if you could bring your best friend back to life - but only for a short...
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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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More Happy Than Not

Adam Silvera - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

Happiness shouldnt be this hard... When it first gets announced, the Leteo Institutes memory-alteration procedure seems too good to be true to Aaron Soto; miracle cure-alls dont tend to pop up in the Bronx projects. Aaron cant forget how hes grown up poor, how his friends all seem to shrug...
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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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Catfishing on CatNet: A Novel

Naomi Kritzer - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover

How much does the internet know about YOU? A thought-provoking near future YA thriller that could not be more timely as it explores issues of online privacy, artificial intelligence, and the power and perils of social networks.Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn't lived anyplace...
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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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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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The Loneliest Girl in the Universe

Lauren James - Walker
Format: Paperback

A romance set in space from the beloved author of The Next Together series. Can you fall in love with someone you've never met, never even spoken to - someone who is light years away? Romy Silvers is the only surviving crew-member of a spaceship travelling to a new planet, on a mission...
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The house of the scorpion

Nancy Farmer - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover(Repackage)

Matteo Alacran was not Born; He was Harvested. His DNA came from El Patron, lord of a country called Opium -- a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. Then he was placed in the womb...
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Nyxia

Scott Reintgen - Ember
Format: Paperback

"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 Runner and the high-stakes...
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The Final Six

Alexandra Monir - HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17) ]In this action-packed lite sci-fi YA set in the near future, a group of teens compete for a chance to be the first to colonize a moon of Jupiter. But what awaits them may do more harm to the Earth's population than good
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The Kingdom

Jess Rothenberg - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the Kingdom ... where 'Happily Ever After' isn't just a promise, but a rule. Glimmering like a jewel behind its gateway, The Kingdom is an immersive fantasy theme park where guests soar on virtual dragons, castles loom like giants, and bioengineered species -- formerly...
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Life As We Knew It (Life As We Knew It Series)

Susan Beth Pfeffer - Harcourt
Format: Paperback

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's still would be open. High school sophomore Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one marble hits another." The result is catastrophic....
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