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Cassandra James - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Prepare to set sail with this riveting romantasy - the first in a duology - that's filled with complex characters, sizzling chemistry, and evocative action. A must-read for fans of Daughter of the Pirate King and Fable!Ximena Reale has spent most of her life training at La Academia...
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A World Worth Saving

Kyle Lukoff - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking, action-packed, and ultimately uplifting adventure that intertwines elements of Jewish mythology with an unflinching examination of the impacts of transphobia, from Newbery Honor-winner Kyle Lukoff. "Rare and beautiful - a novel that combines wondrous fantasy, searing...
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All Better Now

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

From New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman comes a young adult thriller about a world where happiness is contagious but the risks of catching it may be just as dangerous as the cure.. A deadly and unprecedented virus is spreading. But those who survive it experience long-term...
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A Better Nightmare

Megan Freeman - Chicken House
Format: Hardcover

If the entire world believes in a lie, does that make it the truth? A dark and absorbing allegory for the power that young people possess in their bones to change things that feel far bigger than them, A Better Nightmare is a whirlwind adventure -- a story of friendship, romance, and a radical...
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On the Wings of la Noche

Vanessa L. Torres - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Noche is a Lechuza by night, an ethereal jet-black owl who guides the dead to the after. Except now, Noche cannot bring herself to escort her dead girlfriend, whose soul is fading the harder Noche holds on - an aching romance about first and second loves and finding the strength to let go.....
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The Rose Bargain

Sasha Peyton Smith - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Vying for the hand of one brother.Falling in love with the other. A new Victorian-inspired romantasy, perfect for fans of Bridgerton, The Selection, and The Cruel Prince."If you're looking for the next YA sensation, here it is." - Adalyn Grace, #1 New York Times bestselling...
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Why on Earth: An Alien Invasion Anthology

Vania Stoyanova - Page Street YA
Format: Hardcover

What starts as a simple rescue mission for a crew of teen aliens to recover one of their own soon becomes an interstellar encounter no one will forget.. Captain Iona is organizing an impromptu retrieval for her brother, an undercover alien posing as a movie star. But her efforts go awry...
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Under the Same Stars

Libba Bray - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author Libba Bray comes an evocative and groundbreaking young adult historical mystery that examines truth, rebellion, reconciliation, and what must be sacrificed for a better world.. It was said that if you write to the Bridegroom's Oak, the love of your...
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Wings of Starlight

Allison Saft - Disney Press
Format: Hardcover

Brimming with magic and romance, a young fairy queen must form an unlikely alliance or risk an unspeakable danger destroying all she holds dear in this fantasy adventure from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft.. It's been centuries since a warm-season fairy in Pixie Hollow...
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The Underwood Tapes

Amanda DeWitt - Peachtree Teen
Format: Hardcover

A captivating and profoundly moving novel with hints of supernatural intrigue, blending We Were Liars and Your Name into a can't-miss read for fans of You've Reached Sam.. Thirty years ago, Grace's mom left her hometown of Hermitage, Florida and never looked back - which is exactly...
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The Beasts We Bury

D. L. Taylor - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

In this electric enemies-to-lovers romantic fantasy, the heir to the throne falls for a thief who plans to manipulate her into helping him steal from her father in an act of revenge and desperation.. Will he steal her heart or her chance at the throne? . Daughter and heir to the throne,...
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Ibi Zoboi - Versify
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her groundbreaking contemporary fantasy debut - a novel in verse based on Caribbean folklore - about the power of inherited magic and the price we must pay to live the life we yearn for."Our new home with itsthick...
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Lover Birds

Leanne Egan - PUSH
Format: Paperback

A fantastic, queer enemies-to-lovers story -- in one corner, a girl with ADHD experiencing her first girl crush in a monumental way; in the other corner, a posh, rich girl who's new to school and has her own reasons to be guarded. Told with humor and heart, this is a perfect novel for Alice...
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Needy Little Things

Channelle Desamours - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

In this debut speculative YA mystery, a Black teen with premonition-like powers must solve her friend's disappearance before she finds herself in the same danger.Sariyah Lee Bryant can hear what people need - tangible things, like a pencil, a hair tie, a phone charger - an ability only...
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Where Shadows Bloom

Catherine Bakewell - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Allison Saft and Margaret Rogerson will be swept away into this lush and beguiling sapphic romantasy from the bestselling author of Flowerheart, Catherine Bakewell. Ofelia has lived her life dreaming of entering Le Chteau Enchanté - the mysterious court of the gods-blessed King...
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It's a Love/Skate Relationship

Carli J. Corson - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Rachael Lippincott, Elise Bryant, and Dahlia Adler will love this joyful debut novel, a sapphic enemies-to-lovers romance between a hotheaded hockey player and the ice princess at the figure skating rink next door.Charlie Porter is a force to be reckoned with, both on and off the hockey...
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A Language of Dragons

S. F. Williamson - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

In an alternate London in 1923, one girl accidentally breaks the tenuous truce between dragons and humans in this sweeping debut and epic retelling of Bletchley Park steeped in language, class, and forbidden romance. Perfect for teen fans of Fourth Wing and Babel.Dragons soar through the skies...
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Mystery Royale

Kaitlyn Cavalancia - Disney Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

THE INHERITANCE GAMES meets HOTEL MAGNIFIQUE in this genre splicing YA fantastical mystery.. The only thing sixteen-year-old Mullory Prudence has left of her mom is a warning: "Run if the strange finds you." But mysterious warnings don't pay the bills or help take care of her sick...
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After Life

Gayle Forman - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

"After Life is a masterful tale about a family coping with loss, showing the way grief affects us and people we don't even know in ways we don't see. Once I met Amber and her family, I didn't want to let them go." - - Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author...
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The Last Bookstore on Earth

Lily Braun-Arnold - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Two teen girls fall in love and fight for survival in an abandoned bookstore weeks before another cataclysmic storm threatens to bring about the end of the world in this unforgettable YA debut. Perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last of Us.. "A thoroughly original, intimate,...
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Everything Is Poison

Joy McCullough - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A Blood Water Paint-style historical YA in prose and verse from New York Times bestselling author Joy McCullough.. Early Seventeenth-Century RomeFor as long as she can remember, Carmela Tofana has desperately wanted one thing: to be a part of La Tofana's, her mother's apothecary...
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This Is the Year

Gloria Muñoz - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

This dazzling YA cli-fi written in prose and verse will speak to any reader struggling with the state of our world and how to understand their place in it.. "In outer space, no one will know me as the girl with the dead sister.". Seventeen-year-old self-proclaimed Goth and aspiring...
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The Queen's Spade

Sarah Raughley - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

"Every page brims with rage and grief, but the only thing more harrowing than Ina's journey is the knowledge that it was based in reality. You will bow before this queen." - Sara Raasch, New York Times bestselling author of Night of the WitchIn this riveting historical thriller...
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First Love Language

Stefany Valentine - Penguin Workshop
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Frankly in Love and Tokyo Ever After comes a romantic dramedy about finding love and reconnecting with your culture in the most surprising ways.. Taiwanese American Catie Carlson has never fit in with her white family. As much as she loves her stepmom and stepsister, she yearns...
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Biology Lessons

Melissa Kantor - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Biology Lessons is a heartfelt and profound contemporary young adult novel about the strength and importance of female friendship in a time when bodily autonomy is outlawed, from acclaimed author Melissa Kantor."This is a book that Judy Blume would approve of." -- BCCB. Grace...
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My Fairy God Somebody

Charlene Allen - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Author Charlene Allen blends mystery, romance, and friendshipin this contemporary YA novel perfect for fans of We Deserve Monuments and Far from the Tree.The way Clae's mom tells it, her dad took off when Clae was a baby, end of story. Ever since, it's just been the two of them,...
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What the Woods Took: A Novel

Courtney Gould - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

"A visceral, unflinching, and emotionally powerful horror novel...this is Gould at her most poignant and most electric." -Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in DrowningYellowjackets meets Girl, Interrupted when a group of troubled teens in a wilderness therapy...
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A Cruel Thirst (Joy Revolution)

Angela Montoya - Joy Revolution
Format: Hardcover

A fledgling vampire and a headstrong vampire huntress must work together--against their better judgment--to rid the world of monsters in this irresistible romantic fantasy.. Carolina Fuentes wants to join her family in hunting the bloodthirsty vampiros that plague her pueblo. Her father,...
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When the Mapou Sings

Nadine Pinede - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Infused with magical realism, this story blends first love and political intrigue with a quest for justice and self-determination in 1930s Haiti.. Sixteen-year-old Lucille hopes to one day open a school alongside her best friend where girls just like them can learn what it means to be Haitian:...
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Darkly

Marisha Pessl - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

A seemingly ordinary high school student. A mysterious summer internship. And a legendary game designer, now dead, leaving a dark legacy. The New York Times bestselling author of Night Film spins a twisted web in this masterful YA psychological thriller. What would you kill for?. When an ad for an internship...
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Streetlight People

Charlene Thomas - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A little bit Twin Peaks, a little bit Black Mirror, Streetlight People is a story of growing up in - and out of - a small town with a huge secret.. For most, Streetlight is a dot on the map you pass on your way to somewhere else. But if you live there, you're either a Have-Not, like...
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The Party

Natasha Preston - Delacorte Press
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Natasha Preston is back with another pulse-pounding, twisty read!. Are you invited?. In the heart of the English countryside, Bessie and her closest friends gather at a remote castle for a secret party destined to make this the best spring...
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Perfect Girl

Tracy Banghart - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Jessa has been raised to be the "perfect girl." She is unfailingly polite, never rocks the boat, and always follows the rules -- no matter what. Her friends love to give her a hard time for being such a goody two-shoes, but Jessa likes it this way. She knows what's expected...
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The Donut Prince of New York

Allen Zadoff - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

"A masterful page-turner. You'll root for Eugene long after the final chapter. Chef's kiss!" - Lisa Fipps, author of Starfish. Eugene Guterman's junior year in high school is off to a rocky start. No love life, no new theater production, and if his mother has her way,...
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Games Untold (The Inheritance Games, 5)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD OF THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES!. Romance, luxury, and secrets abound in this thrilling new collection that take readers deeper into the world of the #1 bestselling Inheritance Games series There is nothing frivolous about the way a Hawthorne man loves. An amnesiac...
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Legend of the White Snake

Sher Lee - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

A snake spirit transforms into a boy and must hide his true identity after falling for a headstrong prince in this lush, romantic retelling of the traditional Chinese folktale. When Prince Xian was a boy, a white snake bit his mother and condemned her to a slow, painful death. The only...
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The Bletchley Riddle

Ruta Sepetys - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A stunning collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin, this middle grade historical adventure follows two siblings at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers, as they try to unravel a mystery surrounding their mother's disappearance.....
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Twenty-Four Seconds from Now

Jason Reynolds - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds tackles it - you know ... it - from the guy's perspective in this unfiltered and undeniably sweet stream of consciousness story of a teen boy about to experience a huge first.. Twenty-four months ago: Neon gets chased by a dog all around...

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Zodiac Rising (Descendants of the Zodiac Book 1)

Katie Zhao - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Magic meets dark academia at a New York boarding school that's hidden from mortal eyes. When a student is killed over priceless treasure, the Descendants of the Zodiac assemble a crew to avenge their classmate's murder and heist back what's rightfully theirs. Perfect for fans...
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The Forbidden Book

Sacha Lamb - Levine Querido
Format: Hardcover

Dybbuks. Illegal printing. A genderqueer lesbian with a knife. Set against a backdrop of literary censorship and growing Jewish political consciousness, Sydney Taylor and Stonewall award-winning Sacha Lamb's sophomore novel is a soaring exploration of identity, survival, and ultimately,...
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This Fatal Kiss

Alicia Jasinska - Peachtree Teen
Format: Hardcover

Spirit away with a whimsical fantasy filled with dark magic and flirty, polyamorous romance.. Cursed to haunt the river running through the magical spa town where she drowned, Gisela is a water nymph who dreams of returning to the living world and the family she left behind. All it takes...
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Twin Flames

Olivia Abtahi - Lee & Low Books
Format: Hardcover

On estranged twins Leila and Bianca's eighteenth birthday, Leila suddenly gains a djinn's superpowers, and the twins realize that their town can only survive the djinns' secret plans if they learn to work together as sisters. An action-packed YA fantasy! Twins Bianca and Leila...
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The Monstrous Kind

Lydia Gregovic - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

An atmospheric, haunting, romantasy inspired by Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, set in Regency era England about two sisters fighting to hold on to their manor while deadly monsters prowl along its perimeters - perfect for fans of House of Salt and Sorrows and Anatomy: A Love Story.....
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When Haru Was Here

Dustin Thao - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author Dustin Thao, We Are Okay meets Wandavision in this novel about loss, and learning to let go. . After the death of his best friend, Eric Ly creates imaginary scenarios in his head to deal with his grief. Until one of them becomes real when a boy he met last...
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