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Sara Farizan - Algonquin
Format: Hardcover

Edge-of-your-seat YA horror perfect for fans of Stranger Things   Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it's 1992, Sam has been missing for five years, and Cori and Maz aren't speaking...
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Love Somebody

Rachel Roasek
Format: Hardcover

Sam Dickson is a charismatic actress, ambitious and popular with big plans for her future. Ros Shew is one of the smartest people in school -- but she's a loner, and prefers to keep it that way. Then there's Christian Powell, the darling of the high school soccer team. He's...
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Golden Boys

Phil Stamper - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Book

It's the summer before senior year. Gabriel, Reese, Sal, and Heath are best friends, bonded in their small, rural town by their queerness, their good grades, and their big dreams. But they have plans for the summer, each about to embark on a new adventure.

Gabriel is volunteering...

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The Girl Who Never Was: Otherworld Book One

Skylar Dorset - Sourcebooks Fire

Romantic, suspenseful, and witty all at onceAlice in Wonderland meets Neverwhere.Claudia Gray, New York Times bestselling author of the Evernight seriesToday is my birthday.In Selkies family, you dont celebrate birthdays. You dont talk about birthdays. And you never, ever reveal your birth...
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Just Ash

Sol Santana - Carolrhoda Lab
Format: Hardcover

Ashley "Ash" Bishop has always known who he is: a guy who loves soccer, has a crush on his friend Michelle, and is fascinated by the gruesome history of his hometown -- Salem, Massachusetts. He's also always known that he's intersex, born with both male and female genitalia....
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Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel

A W JANTHA - Freeform
Format: Hardcover

Hocus Pocus is beloved by Halloween enthusiasts all over the world. Diving once more into the world of witches, this electrifying two-part young adult novel, released on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1993 film, marks a new era of Hocus Pocus. Fans will be spellbound...
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The Cousins

Karen M. McManus - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins, but they barely know each another, and they've never even met their grandmother. Rich and reclusive, she disinherited their parents before they were born. So when they each receive a letter inviting them to work at her island resort for the summer,...
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Last Man Out

Mike Lupica - Philomel Books
Format: Print book

From the #1 bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Fantasy League comes a story of heroes, family, the thrills of skateboarding, and football.When the Brighton Bears suit up on game day, 12-year-old Tommy Gallagher is the toughest kid on the football field. And the bravest....
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Here to Stay

Sara Farizan - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

For most of high school, Bijan Majidi has flown under the radar. He gets good grades, reads comics, hangs out with his best friend, Sean, and secretly crushes on Elle, one of the most popular girls in his school. When he's called off the basketball team's varsity bench and makes the winning...
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Yesterday Is History

Kosoko Jackson - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

A romantic, heart-felt, and whimsical novel about letting go of the past, figuring out what you want in your future, and staying in the moment before it passes you by.Weeks ago, Andre Cobb received a much-needed liver transplant.He's ready for his life to finally begin, until one night,...
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Don't Ask Me Where I'm From

Jennifer De Leon - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover

First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill out and racism at school ramps up, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand.Liliana Cruz is a hitting a wall - or rather, walls. There's...
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We Were Promised Spotlights

Sproul, Lindsay - G P PUTNAM

The Miseducation of Cameron Post meets Everything Leads to You in this queer young adult novel.

Taylor Garland's good looks have earned her the admiration of everyone in her small town. She's homecoming queen, the life of every party, and she's on every boy's most-wanted...

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The Line Tender

Kate Allen - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Heartbreaking but also filled with wit and hope, The Line Tender is the story of Lucy, the daughter of a marine biologist and a rescue diver, and the summer that changes her life. If she ever wants to lift the cloud of grief over her family and community, she must complete the research...
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These Witches Dont Burn

Isabel Sterling - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

"Infused with page-turning suspense, bittersweet romance, shocking twists, and tragic turns, Sterling has written a standout debut." (Dana Mele, author of People Like Us) Hannahs a witch, but not the kind youre thinking of. Shes the real deal, an Elemental with the power to control...
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How We Roll

Natasha Friend - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Quinn is a teen who loves her family, skateboarding, basketball, and her friends, but after she's diagnosed with a condition called alopecia which causes her to lose all of her hair, her friends abandon her. Jake was once a star football player, but because of a freak accident -- caused...
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Monstrous Beauty

Elizabeth Fama - Square Fish; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. When she abandons her life underwater for a chance at happiness on land, she is unaware that this decision comes with horrific and deadly consequences. Almost 140 years later, seventeen-year-old Hester meets...
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party

M.T. Anderson - Candlewick; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A gothic tale becomes all too shockingly real in this mesmerizing magnum opus by the acclaimed author of FEED.It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers,...
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My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park

Steve Kluger - Speak
Format: Hardcover

Best friends and unofficial brothers since they were six, ninth-graders T.C. and Augie have got the world figured out. But that all changes when both friends fall in love for the first time. Enter Al‚. Shes pretty, sassy, and on her way to Harvard. T.C. falls hard, but Al‚ is playing...
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Trell

DICK LEHR - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

From the co-author of Black Mass comes a gripping YA novel inspired by the true story of a young man's false imprisonment for murder - and those who fought to free him.On a hot summer night in the late 1980s, in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury, a twelve-year-old African-American...
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All We Can Do Is Wait

RICHARD LAWSON - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Debut author and Vanity Fair film critic Richard Lawson makes your heart stop and time stand still in his extraordinary and life-affirming novel that's perfect for fans of If I Stay and We All Looked Up.In the hours after a bridge collapse rocks their city, a group...
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A Madness So Discreet

Mindy McGinnis - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

Mindy McGinnis, the acclaimed author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust, combines murder, madness, and mystery in a beautifully twisted gothic historical thriller perfect for fans of novels such as Asylum and The Diviners as well as television's True Detective and American...
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Rules for 50/50 Chances

Kate McGovern - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Rose Levenson has a decision to make: Does she want to know how she's going to die? Because when Rose turns eighteen, she can take the test that tells her if she carries the genetic mutation for Huntington's disease, the degenerative condition that is slowly killing...
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Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Ally Carter - Hyperion Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

When Cammie Morgan visits her roommate Macey in Boston, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer. After all, she's there to watch Macey's father accept the nomination for vice president. But when you go to the world's best school (for spies), "exciting"...
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We Were Liars

E Lockhart - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerOne of James Patterson's "Favorite Thrillers for the Beach" (New York Times) "Haunting, sophisticated . . . a novel so twisty and well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to adolescents." - Wall Street...
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American Panda

Gloria Chao - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

An incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with germs and crush on a Japanese classmate.At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade...
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Ironheart Vol. 1: Those With Courage

Eve Ewing - Marvel
Format: Paperback

Riri Williams, the armored hero called Ironheart who took the comics world by storm, takes center stage! When a group of world leaders is held hostage by one of Spider-Man's old foes, Riri must step up her game. But she's thrown for a loop when an old acquaintance from back in Chicago re-enters...
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A Line in the Dark

Malinda Lo - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"A twisty, dark psychological thriller that will leave you guessing til the very end." - Teen Vogue"[A] riveting read ... " - NPR. The line between best friend and something more is a line always crossed in the dark. Jess Wong is Angie Redmonds best friend. And thats...
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What Came from the Stars

Gary D. Schmidt - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

The Valorim are about to fall to a dark lord when they send a necklace containing their planet across the cosmos, hurtling past a trillion stars . . . all the way into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Mass. Mourning his late mother, Tommy doesn't notice much...
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Openly Straight

Bill Konigsberg - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover

A funny, honest novel about being out, being proud . . . and being ready for something else.Rafe is a normal teenager from Boulder, Colorado. He plays soccer. He's won skiing prizes. He likes to write. And, oh yeah, he's gay. He's been out since 8th grade, and he isn't...
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Holly Black - Little
Format: Hardcover

Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave. One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party,...
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Lizzie

Dawn Ius - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

From acclaimed author Dawn Ius comes an edge-of-your-seat reimagining of one of the most chilling mysteries in modern history - Lizzie Borden.Seventeen-year-old Lizzie Borden has never been kissed. Polite but painfully shy, Lizzie prefers to stay in the kitchen, where she can dream of becoming...
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Identity Crisis

Melissa Schorr - Merit Press
Format: Print book

Who does she think she is? Annalise's audacious freshman-year hookup with Cooper Franklin has a trio of friends thirsting for revenge. So they catfish Annalise by creating the perfect virtual guy, with Noelle playing along reluctantly only because her lifelong crush, Cooper, is in love...
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How to Hang a Witch

Adriana Mather - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller!. Its the Salem Witch Trials meets Mean Girls in this New York Times bestselling novel from one of the descendants of Cotton Mather, where the trials of high school start to feel like a modern-day witch hunt for a teen with all the wrong connections to Salems...
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X: A Novel

Ilyasah Shabazz - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/TeensA 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor BookCowritten by Malcolm X's daughter, this riveting and revealing novel follows the formative years of the man whose words and actions shook the world.Malcolm Little's...
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The President's Daughter

Ellen Emerson White - Feiwel & Friends; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Meghan Powers likes her life just the way it is She likes living in Massachusetts She likes her school And she has plenty of friends But all that is about to change Because Megs mother one of the most prestigious senators in the country is running for President And shes...
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