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Ambika Vohra - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

In this heartfelt and hilarious debut from Ambika Vohra - that's Netflix's Never Have I Ever meets Jenny Han - one girl tackles a question that changes the trajectory of her senior year: "How have you gotten out of your comfort zone?" That's the Stanford admissions...
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Songlight (The Torch Trilogy Book 1)

Moira Buffini - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Star-crossed lovers, against-all-odds friendship, and a brutally unforgiving world make this first in a trilogy utterly unforgettable.We're two songs joined. And there's a word for that. A harmony.Elsa is used to hiding the most important parts of herself - her feelings for Rye,...
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Spells to Forget Us

Aislinn Brophy - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A witch and a non-magical girl get stuck in an endless cycle of meet-cutes and breakups in this heart-stopping romantic young adult fantasy.. "A seamless, mind-bending exploration of love and identity that manages to completely re-invent the time-loop story....You'll never read...
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Guava and Grudges

Alexis Castellanos - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

Ana Maria Ybarra dreams of becoming a world-famous pastry chef, but dreams have a cost. Her family can barely keep the family business running, let alone pay for culinary school. Ana Maria helps out at the family bakery, Café Y Mas, whenever she can, but they are struggling while the rival...
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Don't Let It Break Your Heart

Maggie Horne - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of The Half of It, Maggie Horne's debut YA contemporary novel is an ode to lifelong friendships and discovering queer community.. You only get one soulmate, and I'm not throwing mine away.. Alana and Gray have been the perfect couple ever since they got together...
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With Love, Echo Park

Laura Taylor Namey - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, this novel follows two Cuban teens in LA's Echo Park neighborhood who clash over their visions for the future, the secrets between their families ... and the sparks flying...
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We Don't Have Time for This

Brianna Craft - Disney Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Lemonade Mouth meets climate change activism in this enemies-to-lovers YA romance. A tied election throws two rival teen activists together to lead their school's environmental justice club, and they are taken by surprise when their clashes reveal deeper feelings hidden beneath their...
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One Last Chance to Live

Francisco X. Stork - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

What would you do if you had one last summer to live? Nico has always believed in his dreams. Especially the dream he has of becoming a writer; it's the reason why he started taking a creative writing class his senior year of high school. But then Nico has a dream about his own funeral....
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Pick the Lock

A.S. King - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King, a weird and insightful new novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family.. Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian...
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Everything We Never Had

Randy Ribay - Kokila
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships.. Watsonville, 1930. Francisco Maghabol...
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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 Blonde Dies First

Joelle Wellington - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adult thriller from the acclaimed author of Their Vicious Games, about a demonic force that acts according to horror movie rules in the spirit of the Scream movies.. Devon is always being left...
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Mysterious Ways: A Novel

Wendy Wunder - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

From acclaimed author Wendy Wunder comes a sharp and hilarious coming-of-age novel for fans of John Green and Nicola Yoon about an omniscient teenage girl who must grapple with whether there's such a thing as knowing too much.... Seventeen-year-old Maya knows everything. When she looks...
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The Champions (The Cheerleaders)

Kara Thomas - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Cheerleaders comes another dark YA thriller set in the same town of Sunnybrook. When a mysterious accident befalls a member of the all-star high school football team, the town's deadly history stands to repeat itself - and the price of discovering the truth is higher...
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The Loss of the Burying Ground

J. Anderson Coats - Candlewick Press
Format: Hardcover

In this twisting, page-turning read, shipwrecked teen girls from opposing sides of a long war must find common ground in order to survive.. When the Burying Ground goes down in neutral waters, it sends the delegations from two warring nations - and the peace treaty they were about to sign...
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The Other Ones

Fran Hart - Chicken House
Format: Hardcover

A beautiful and unputdownable story about love, friendship, and the ghosts that grief can leave behind, The Other Ones is a heartfelt, contemporary romance with a haunting twist ... Salem Amani is a world-weary sixteen-year-old living with his mother and older sister in a haunted house....
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Compound Fracture

Andrew Joseph White - Peachtree Teen
Format: Hardcover

NEW from bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White! . A queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches - following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them.. On the night Miles Abernathy - sixteen-year-old...
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Silent Sister

Megan Davidhizar - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

The must-read suspense novel of the summer about a mysterious sister's disappearance, her biggest betrayal and a deadly truth screaming to come out. Two sisters went missing on their class trip - Grace, the outgoing athlete who is friends with just about everyone, and Maddy, the wallflower...
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Drown Me with Dreams

Gabi Burton - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

In book two of this dark and seductive YA fantasy duology, perfect for fans of Fourth Wing and These Violent Delights, a siren assassin must decide between saving her kingdom and betraying the man she loves. . Wanted. Hunted. Banished.. Wanted: Now that everyone knows she's both a siren...
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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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Desert Echoes

Abdi Nazemian - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

From Abdi Nazemian, the award-winning author of Like a Love Story and Only This Beautiful Moment, comes a suspenseful contemporary YA novel about loss and love.Fifteen-year-old Kam is head over heels for Ash, the boy who swept him off his feet. But his family and best friend, Bodie, are worried....
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Better Left Buried

Mary E. Roach - Disney Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

KNIVES OUT meets A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER in Mary E. Roach's debut YA mystery Better Left Buried, in which two girls try to get to the bottom of a town full of secrets, a family full of mystery and an abandoned amusement park where people keep turning up dead.. Lucy Preston...
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Bridge Across the Sky

Freeman Ng - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A raw and honest historical novel in verse about a Chinese teen who immigrates to the United States with his family and endures mistreatment at the Angel Island Immigration Station while trying to navigate his own course in a new world.. Tai Go and his family have crossed an ocean wider...
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Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies

Abigail Hing Wen - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Tan Lee finds himself embroiled in an unusual love triangle, all while trying to defuse a heist, unravel a conspiracy, and navigate the most complicated babysitting assignment ever in this YA novel by New York Times and Indie bestselling author Abigail Hing Wen.. After a magical kiss at Prom,...
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The Ping-Pong Queen of Chinatown

Andrew Yang - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Ben Philippe and Mary H. K. Choi, this charming, insightful YA novel follows two high school students who form a complicated, ground-shifting bond while filming a movie.High school junior Felix Ma wants to prove to his parents that he's not a quitter. After crashing...
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Under the Surface

Diana Urban - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

An epic survival-thriller about four teens who get lost in the Paris catacombs for days - a gripping and propulsive story of love, danger, betrayal, and hope ... even when all seems lost.. "Tense and fast-moving, with a unique setting and compelling characters, Under the Surface is Diana...
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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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The Unfinished

Cheryl Isaacs - Heartdrum
Format: Hardcover

In her stunning debut, Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk) pulls the reader into an unsettling tale of monsters, mystery, and secrets that refuse to stay submerged.When small-town athlete Avery's morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople...
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Eighteen Roses

Shannon C. F. Rogers - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Lucia Cruz may be turning eighteen this year, but she is not the debutante type. Everything about a traditional Filipino debut feels all wrong for her. Besides, custom dictates that eighteen friends attend her for a special ceremony on her birthday, and Lucia only has one friend- Esmé...
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Medici Heist

Caitlin Schneiderhan - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

A sharp-witted teenage thief leads a team of skilled misfits in a dangerous and daring heist for fortune, freedom and revenge against a corrupt Pope in Renaissance Italy in Caitlin Schneiderhan's clever YA debut, Medici Heist. . Welcome to Florence, 1517, a world of intrigue and opulence,...
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Immortal Dark

Tigest Girma - Little, Brown Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister.It began long before my time, but something has always hunted our family.Orphaned...
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It's Only a Game

Kelsea Yu - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

In this twisty, fast-paced YA thriller, a dangerous game becomes all too real when Marina and her friends are framed for murder.. When Marina Chan ran from her old life, she brought nothing with her-not even her real name. Now she lives in fear of her past being discovered. But when her online...
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Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts

Adam Sass - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A swoony contemporary romance from Adam Sass following a boy who is cursed to doom any romantic relationship - and the summer that changes everything.. Grant Rossi is never getting a happily-ever-after.. Ever since he was a kid and made a wish on his family's iconic Wishing Rose, his romantic...
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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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Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel

Candice Jalili - Disney Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

The Princess Diaries meets reality television in a story about fame (the kind you definitely didn't ask for) , first love (the kind you didn't even know you wanted) , and most importantly, family (the kind you can't live without) .. Ever since her mom died, Josie Lawrence has been...
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Sunrise Nights

Jeff Zentner - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Two young artists have a chance meeting on the last night of summer arts camp in this YA novel in verse and dialogue cowritten by acclaimed authors Jeff Zentner and Brittany Cavallaro. Jude loves photography, and he's good at it, too. Between his parents' divorce and his anxiety,...
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Stefi and the Spanish Prince

Donna Freitas - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Red, White, and Royal Blue and Loveboat, Taipei will swoon for this steamy, outrageously fun royal romance set against the backdrop of beautiful Barcelona.In Barcelona, the beach is beautiful, the tapas are delicious, and the boys are plentiful. Good thing, too, because Stefi's...
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Death at Morning House

Maureen Johnson - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Praise for NINE LIARS: "The exploration of the importance of friendship adds emotional vulnerability to this book, which has a well-developed sense of place and features the series signature humor and layered mystery elements. Immersive and genre-savvy." Kirkus Reviews(starred...
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I Will Never Leave You

Kara A. Kennedy - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

This emotional debut thriller follows a teen girl being haunted by the ghost of her toxic ex-girlfriend, who gives her a chilling ultimatum - help her possess another girl or go down for her murder.. "A blistering exploration of the ugliest and tenderest parts of love, Kennedy turns...
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Trespass Against Us

Leon Kemp - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Ace of Spades and The Taking of Jake Livingston, this young adult horror debut follows a group of teens as they visit an abandoned reform school - and then return two years later to confront the supernatural evil they awoke there. Two years ago, four friends went into...
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The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover

13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED... THE FIRST KILL.. The White Guy Dies First includes thirteen scary stories by all-star contributors and this time, the white guy dies first. . Killer clowns, a hungry hedge maze, and rich kids who got bored. Friendly cannibals,...
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Such Charming Liars

Karen M. McManus - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

The newest mystery from the author One of Us Is Lying, the Queen of thrillers, Karen M. McManus! When mother-daughter grifters set out on their final job, the heist gets deadly and dangerously personal.. For all of Kat's life, it's just been her and her mother, Jamie - except for the forty-eight...
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The Second Chance of Darius Logan

David F. Walker - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Eisner award-winning author David F. Walker explodes onto the YA literary scene with a remarkable story about justice and second chances and all the ways we can make our own world in the image of our dreams.Darius Logan is far from a hero. Since his parents were killed, he has spent most...
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Break to You

Neal Shusterman - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author of Scythe and Challenger Deep Neal Shusterman, here with coauthors Debra Young and Michelle Knowlden, tells an intense yet tender story of two teens, trapped in impossible circumstances and unjust systems, willing to risk everything for love - no matter the consequences....
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49 Miles Alone

Natalie D. Richards - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Five Total Strangers and Seven Dirty Secrets, a tense new thriller!Four days alone in the desert. Except they're not as alone as they think.A year ago, Katie and her cousin Aster survived a night that left their world and easy friendship...
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Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orisha, 3)

Tomi Adeyemi - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Featuring gorgeous spray-painted and stenciled edges, dazzling metallic foil designs on the jacket and case, and an exclusive endpaper map that reveals new unexplored territories, Tomi Adeyemi's #1 New York Times-bestselling Legacy of Orïsha series comes to an earth-shaking conclusion.New...
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Grief in the Fourth Dimension: A Novel

Jennifer Yu - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover

Jennifer Yu's Grief in the Fourth Dimension is a moving and unique speculative YA novel about the afterlife and the unexpected connections that can be made in death. In life, high school classmates Caroline Davison and Kenny Zhou existed in separate universes - Caroline in one of softball...
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Dead Girls Talking

Megan Cooley Peterson - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

The town of Wolf Ridge calls him The Smiley Face Killer. Bettina Holland calls him her father.. Everyone knows Bettina's father was the one who murdered her mother a decade ago. It's the subject of podcasts, murder tours, and even a highly anticipated docuseries. But after growing...
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Not About a Boy

Myah Hollis - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

"This debut is a gritty teen drama full of mature themes that unfurl in compassionate ways and will resonate with many readers...Heartbreaking and powerful." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Euphoria meets Girl in Pieces in this coming-of-age story of a girl trying to put a grief-stricken...
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Girls Who Burn

MK Pagano - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover

Jessica Goodman meets Jesse Q. Sutanto in this twisty enemies-to-lovers thriller, full of secrets, privilege, and murder.. Eighteen-year-old Addie Blackwood regrets nothing more than one horrible, mistake-filled night last summer. Hours after she hurled the worst words she could think of at her sister,...
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The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky

Josh Galarza - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Mark Oshiro and Adam Silvera comes a fiercely funny and hopeful story of one boy's attempts to keep everything under control while life has other plans.. Ever since cancer invaded his adoptive mother's life, Brett feels like he's losing everything, most of all control....
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The Grandest Game (Volume 1) (The Grandest Game, 1)

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

Get ready for a new series that brings readers deeper into the lush, romantic, and puzzle-filled world of the #1 bestselling Inheritance Games series (over 3 million copies sold!) , set a year after we last saw Avery and the Hawthornes.. Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime.....
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So Witches We Became

Jill Baguchinsky - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A queer, feminist spin on Stephen King's The Mist, this ode to female-rage is a perfect pick for fans of She Is a Haunting, and a reminder that if "boys will be boys", girls will fight back. For high school senior Nell and her friends, a vacation house on a private Florida...
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If You Can't Take the Heat

Michael Ruhlman - Penguin Workshop
Format: Hardcover

From James Beard award-winning author Michael Ruhlman, a coming-of-age story about finding a new life and love in the kitchen ... and trying not to get burned along the way.. When high school football star Theo Claverback breaks his leg just weeks after a devastating break-up, he's...
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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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Lockjaw

Matteo L. Cerilli - Tundra Books
Format: Hardcover

Death is neither the beginning nor the end for the children of Bridlington in this debut trans YA horror book for fans of Rory Power and Danielle Vega.. Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident - there's a monster under the town,...
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Have You Seen This Girl

Nita Tyndall - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Courtney Summers and Tess Sharpe will devour this standalone YA thriller following a nonbinary teen investigating a series of copycat murders targeting girls in their small town - murders based on their serial killer dad's MO.Another girl has gone missing in Cardinal Creek.Sid...
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Of Jade and Dragons

Amber Chen - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Mulan meets Iron Widow in this thrilling silkpunk fantasy about a girl who must disguise herself as a boy and enter the famed and dangerous Engineer's Guild trials to unravel the mystery of her father's murder.. Eighteen-year-old Aihui Ying dreams of becoming a world-class engineer...
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Out of Blue Comes Green

M.E. Corey - Page Street YA
Format: Hardcover

Kinkade wants what every other teenage boy wants: a girlfriend and a successful rock band but that's not as easy as it sounds.. After a killer school talent show performance in full masculine presentation, trans boy Kinkade is quickly knocked back down to earth when his crush rejects...
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Looking for Smoke

K. A. Cobell - Heartdrum
Format: Hardcover

In her powerful debut novel, Looking for Smoke, author K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet) weaves loss, betrayal, and complex characters into a thriller that will illuminate, surprise, and engage readers until the final word. A must-pick for readers who enjoy books by Angeline Boulley and Karen...
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The Quince Project: A Novel

Jessica Parra - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Most Anticipated by HipLatina . Castillo Torres, Student Body Association event chair and serial planner, could use a fairy godmother. After a disastrous mishap at her sister's quinceañera and her mother's unexpected passing, all of Cas's plans are crumbling. So when a local...
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