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Moonstorm

Yoon Ha Lee - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

In a society where conformity is valued above all else, a teen girl training to become an Imperial pilot is forced to return to her rebel roots to save her world in this adrenaline-fueled sci-fi adventure - perfect for fans of Iron Widow and Skyward!. Hwa Young was just ten years old when...
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Take All of Us

Natalie Leif - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

A YA unbury-your-gays horror in which an undead teen must find the boy he loves before he loses his mind and body.. Five years ago, a parasite poisoned the water of Ian's West Virginia hometown, turning dozens of locals into dark-eyed, oil-dripping shells of their former selves. With...
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Zombie Apocalypse Running Club

Carrie Mac - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

When twins Eira and Soren escape from their survivalist home into a world overcome by zombies, there's only one way to stay alive: run!. Eira and Soren are queer twins living with their survivalist parents when a plague starts spreading that turns people into zombie-like monsters. They...
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The Space between Here & Now

Sarah Suk - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and You've Reached Sam, this gripping, atmospheric YA novel follows a teen with a mysterious condition that transports her to the past when she smells certain scents linked to specific memories.Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time...
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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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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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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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Stars, Hide Your Fires

Jessica Best - Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover

"A delightfully mischievous adventure full of intrigue, betrayal, and a touch of romance. Get ready to join your new favorite rebel crew." - Dahlia Adler, author of Cool for the Summer. A wanted thief. A murdered emperor. A killer loose on the station. . Knives Out goes sci-fi...
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The Infinity Particle

Wendy Xu - Quill Tree Books
Format: Paperback

In this gorgeous graphic novel by Wendy Xu, co-creator of the award-winning Mooncakes, a young inventor falls for a lifelike AI and confronts questions of freedom and autonomy. Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella...
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This Delicious Death

Kayla Cottingham
Format: electronic resource

From the author of the New York Times bestselling My Dearest Darkest comes another incredible sapphic horror. When four best friends with a hunger for human flesh attend a music festival in the desert they discover a murderous plot to expose and vilify the girls and everyone like them....
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The Winter Soldier: Cold Front (Marvel Rebels & Renegades)

Mackenzi Lee - Marvel Press
Format: Hardcover

1954: The Winter Soldier is the Soviet Union's greatest weapon. Assigned the most dangerous covert missions from the USSR's secret military branch, and guided by a handler who knows him better than he knows himself, he has only one purpose: to obey orders.But he wasn't always...
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The Weight of the Stars

K. Ancrum - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

A vivid, evocative YA lesbian romance about how the universe is full of second chances.Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn't an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the "wrong" side of town. So Ryann becomes her circumstances...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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