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That's Not My Name

Megan Lally - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

She thought she had her life back. She was wrong. A gripping debut thriller perfect for fans of Natalie D. Richards and Vincent Ralph.It was a mistake to trust him.Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there -- or who she is. A passing...
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Stay with My Heart

Tashie Bhuiyan - Inkyard Press
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Counting Down with You and A Show for Two comes a new YA contemporary about a girl who accidentally sabotages an up-and-coming local band and falls for the guitarist while secretly trying to make up for her mistake.. Liana Sarkar lives and breathes music, hoping to follow...
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Out of Body

Nia Davenport - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

A high-stakes, propulsive YA thriller with a body-swap twist thoughtfully exploring themes of friendship and identity, perfect for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson.Seventeen-year-old Megan Allen has been jumping from friend group to friend group in her high school, trying on identities like outfits....
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No Time Like Now

Naz Kutub - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

A teen finds himself in a race against time when he learns he's given away more years than he has left to live in this thought-provoking speculative romp.. . It's been one year since Hazeem's father passed away unexpectedly, and one year since Hazeem got his special ability:...
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I Hope This Doesn't Find You

Ann Liang - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Unforgettable, snarky, and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead of love letters.Sadie Wen is perfect on paper: school captain, valedictorian, and a "pleasure to have in class."...
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Just Say Yes

Goldy Moldavsky - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Jimena Ramos had no idea she was undocumented.Now she's seventeen, and she needs to figure out a way to stay in New York City, the only home she can remember. There's only one possibility that will get her a green card quickly enough: Jimena is going to find an American to marry...
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Yours from the Tower

Sally Nicholls - Walker Books US
Format: Hardcover

Bridgerton fans rejoice! This epistolary confection - told in letters among three school friends - is perfect for devotees of gossipy costume drama.. Tirzah, Sophia, and Polly are best friends who've left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. The year is 1896, and Polly...
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The Invocations

Krystal Sutherland - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover

From the author of New York Times bestseller House of Hollow comes a darkly seductive witchy thriller where, though both men and demons lurk in shadows, girls refuse to go quietly into the night.. Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . .. Zara Jones believes in magic because...
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ASAP

Axie Oh - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Axie Oh's ASAP is the much anticipated companion novel to beloved romance XOXO, following fan favorites Sori, the wealthy daughter of a K-pop company owner, and Nathaniel, her K-pop star ex-boyfriend, in a swoon-worthy second chance love story.Sori...
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Into the Sunken City

Dinesh Thiru - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

"Steal-your-breath adventure." - Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Lunar ChroniclesPerfect for fans of Fable and House of Salt and Sorrows, this spectacular YA fantasy adventure debut is like nothing else, featuring a unique twist on Treasure Island,...
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Lunar New Year Love Story

Gene Luen Yang - First Second
Format: Hardcover

Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com about fate, family, and falling in love.. She was destined for heartbreak. Then fate handed her love.. Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's...
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This Day Changes Everything

Edward Underhill - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Dash & Lily meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off in Edward Underhill's new whirlwind rom-com about two queer teens who spend one life-changing day together in New York City. . Abby Akerman believes in the Universe. After all, her Midwest high school marching band is about to perform in the Macy's...
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Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear

Robin Wasley - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A painfully average teen's life is upended by a magical apocalypse in this darkly atmospheric and sweepingly romantic novel perfect for fans of The Raven Boys, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The Rest of Us Just Live Here. . High school is hard enough to survive without an apocalypse...
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With a Little Luck

Marissa Meyer - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

After being magically gifted with incredible luck, a boy discovers this gift just may be a curse when it comes to love, in this sweet romantic comedy by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer. . Jude is determined to fly under the radar. He just wants to draw comics, host D&D night...
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Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry

Alex Ritany - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

What does it mean when your best friend is dead and your instinct is relief? A stunningly immersive debut about toxic friendships, grief, romance, and new beginnings.. Friendship, at least for me, has never been anything but complicated.. Before:One year ago, best friends Nora and Julia...
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Bright Red Fruit

Safia Elhillo - Make Me a World
Format: Hardcover

An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene and the dangerous new relationship that could threaten all her dreams. From the award-winning poet and author of HOME IS NOT A COUNTRY.. Bad girl. No matter how hard Samira tries, she can't...
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THIS IS HOW YOU FALL IN LOVE

Anika Hussain
Format: Hardcover

Zara and Adnan are just friends. Always have been, always will be. Even if they have to pretend to be girlfriend and boyfriend.... Zara loves love in all forms: 90s romcoms and romance novels and grand sweeping gestures. And she's desperate to have her own great love story. Crucially,...
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10 Hours to Go

Keely Parrack - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

Lily wants to get home. Her friends want to get even. Lily needs a ride -- a fire warning in Oregon has cancelled her train home to California. Her ex-best friend, Natasha, has offered to pick Lily up on her way back from Portland, though they're barely on speaking terms. As it turns...
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Kindling

Traci Chee - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a standalone fantasy set against a war-ravaged world where kindling warfare - the use of elite, magic-wielding teenage soldiers - has been outlawed. In this rich and evocative novel, seven kindlings search for purpose and identity...
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A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea)

Hafsah Faizal - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of We Hunt the Flame comes the first book in a hotly-anticipated fantasy duology teeming with romance and revenge, led by an orphan girl willing to do whatever it takes to save her self-made kingdom.. On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir...
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Wander in the Dark

Jumata Emill - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

In this new pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Black Queen, two brothers must come together to solve the murder of the most popular girl in school after one of them is caught fleeing the scene of her death.. Amir Trudeau only goes to his half brother Marcel's birthday party...
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Promchanted

Morgan Matson - Disney Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Modern-day teens wander into Disney's Sleeping Beauty in this enemies-to-lovers rom-com from New York Times bestselling author Morgan Matson.. Two modern teens. One classic fairy tale. Absolutely no cell service. . Stella Griffin doesn't believe in fairy tales. Ever since her boyfriend...
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The Summer She Went Missing

Chelsea Ichaso - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

From the author of Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets and They're Watching You, a compelling new thriller!Last summer, they searched for Audrey Covington.This summer, they'll search for the truth.Paige Redmond has always felt lucky to spend her summers in Clearwater Ridge, with lazy...
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Tender Beasts

Liselle Sambury - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and clear her brother's name in this psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Taking of Jake Livingston and Ace of Spades.. Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer....
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Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal

Gretchen Schreiber - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

The Breakfast Club meets Five Feet Apart in this big-hearted novel from debut author Gretchen Schreiber.. Ellie Haycock has always separated her life into sections: Ellie at home and Ellie at the hospital. At home, Ellie is a proud member of her high school's speech and debate team...
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The No-Girlfriend Rule

Christen Randall - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Julie Murphy meets Casey McQuiston in this unforgettable queer romance about a teen girl whose foray into fantasy tabletop roleplaying brings her new confidence, true friends, and a shot at real, swoon-worthy love.. Hollis Beckwith isn't trying to get a girl - she's just trying...
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Kill Call

Jeff Wooten - CamCat Books
Format: Hardcover

Dreams do come true. It's Jude's job to make sure they don't. Born with the curse of prophetic nightmares, Jude sees violent murders through the eyes of the killer before they happen. His father, who shares Jude's dark gift, has trained Jude since birth to save the innocent...
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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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Where the Dark Stands Still

A. B. Poranek - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

A girl with dangerous magic makes a risky bargain with a demon to be free of her monstrous power in this young adult fantasy perfect for fans of An Enchantment of Ravens and House of Salt and Sorrows.. Liska knows that magic is monstrous, and its practitioners are monsters. She has done...
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Where Sleeping Girls Lie

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie -- a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades -- a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.. It's like I keep stumbling into a dark...
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The Reappearance of Rachel Price

Holly Jackson - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series and Five Survive comes a new true-crime fueled mystery thriller about a girl determined to uncover the shocking truth about her mother's disappearance while filming a documentary on the unsolved...
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Just Another Epic Love Poem

Parisa Akhbari - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance.. Over the past five years, Mitra Esfahani has known two constants: her best friend Bea Ortega and The Book - a dogeared moleskin she and Bea have been filling with the stanzas of an epic, never-ending...
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Icarus

K. Ancrum - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this suspenseful queer YA romance from critically acclaimed author K. Ancrum reimagines the tale of Icarus as a star-crossed love story between a young art thief and the son of the man he's...
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Something Kindred

Ciera Burch - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Magical realism meets Southern Gothic in this commanding young adult debut from Ciera Burch about true love, the meaning of home, and the choices that haunt us. Welcome to Coldwater. Come for the ghosts, stay for the drama. Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior...
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Ariel Crashes a Train

Olivia A. Cole - Labyrinth Road
Format: Hardcover

"A gorgeously kind, wonderfully gentle, and unfailingly compassionate depiction of OCD...bursting with light." - Ashley Woodfolk, critically acclaimed author of NOTHING BURNS AS BRIGHT AS YOU. Exploring the harsh reality of OCD and violent intrusive thoughts in stunning, lyrical...
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Made Glorious

Lindsay Eagar - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

In a vicious, delicious contemporary novel inspired by Shakespeare's Richard III, thelauded author of The Family Fortuna lifts the curtain on a high school thespian who'll stop at nothing to land the lead.. Rory is an antihero for the ages. Like Shakespeare's Richard III, she confides...
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Canto Contigo: A Novel

Jonny Garza Villa - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot -- what he gets instead is a tenacious current lead with a very familiar, very kissable face.. In a twenty-four-hour span, Rafael Alvarez led North Amistad High School's Mariachi Alma...
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The Breakup Lists

Adib Khorram - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Love is more complicated than "boy meets boy" in bestselling author Adib Khorram's sharply funny new romantic comedy, set in the sordid world of high school theater. Jackson Ghasnavi is a lot of things - a techie, a smoothie afficionado, a totally not obsessive list-maker...
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The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver Duology)

Vanessa Le - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

"Brilliantly rendered. You'll gasp, you'll scream, you'll cry, and you'll be begging for the next book." -- Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of These Violent Delights"A gritty world filled with a beautifully crafted cast and an intricate...
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Under This Red Rock

Mindy McGinnis - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning author Mindy McGinnis comes a mesmerizing YA psychological mystery following a teen girl who is grappling with the death of her brother as she starts a new job in the caverns of Ohio - only to become the number one suspect in her coworker's murder. Perfect for fans...
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Six Truths and a Lie

Ream Shukairy - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Six Muslim teens are falsely accused of a deadly attack in this timely and harrowing examination of America's justice system, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas and Samira Ahmed.. As fireworks pop off at a rowdy Fourth of July bonfire party, an explosion off the California coast levels...
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No Going Back

Patrick Flores-Scott - Christy Ottaviano Books
Format: Hardcover

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. "Powerful ... . The excellent pacing and heart-wrenching exploration of redemption will sweep readers up." - Kirkus Reviews. In this tour de force about one teen's quest for redemption from the award-winning author of American...
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The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist: A Novel

Sophie Gonzales - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

A fanfic writer brings her favorite TV character to life in this friends-to-enemies-to-lovers novel full of humor and heart. Ivy Winslow has the house to herself for a week while her parents are away. She's planning to use this newfound freedom to binge-watch her favorite fantasy...
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Otherworldly

F.T. Lukens - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

A skeptic and a supernatural being make a crossroads deal to achieve their own ends only to get more than they bargained for in this lively young adult romantic adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After.. Seventeen-year-old Ellery is a non-believer...
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In the Orbit of You

Ashley Schumacher - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

In the Orbit of You is a YA story of enduring love from acclaimed author Ashley Schumacher, where a personality test reunites two friends and makes them second guess their careful plans.It's been years since Nova Evans last saw Sam. She was too young then to understand why he had to move...
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Strong Like You

T. L. Simpson - North Star Editions
Format: Paperback

I haven't cried one time since you disappeared. Not even at football practice when Paton Roper told the whole team you were probably dead. He said, "You know how sometimes a dog gets sick or bites somebody and you have to put it down?" Somebody said, "Yep." "That's...
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Chronically Dolores

Maya Van Wagenen - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Maya Van Wagenen, bestselling author of Popular, tells Dolores's story with humor, heartache, and an occasional bit of telenovela flair.. "A striking fiction debut." - Publishers Weekly, starred review"An insightful, funny, and realistic coming-of-age story." - Kirkus....
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The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories

Desiree S. Evans - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A YA anthology of horror stories centering Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, and who survive to the end . Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one.Celebrating a new generation of bestselling and acclaimed Black writers, The Black Girl Survives...
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