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We Are the Ants

Shaun David Hutchinson - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

From the "author to watch" (Kirkus Reviews) of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes a brand-new novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving.Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens...
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The outliers

Kimberly McCreight - Harper

It all starts with a text: Please, Wylie, I need your help. Wylie hasn heard from Cassie in over a week, not since their last fight. But that doesn't matter. Cassie in trouble, so Wylie decides to do what she has done so many times before: save her best friend from herself. This time...
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Shadowshaper

Daniel José Older - Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.
Format: eBook

Paint a mural. Start a battle. Change the world. -- Full of a joyful, defiant spirit and writing as luscious as a Brooklyn summer night, Shadowshaper introduces a heroine and magic unlike anything else in fantasy fiction, and marks the YA debut of a bold new voice.
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Nemesis

Brendan Reichs - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Orphan Black meets Lord of the Flies in this riveting new thriller from the co-author of the Virals series. It's been happening since Min was eight. Every two years, on her birthday, a strange man finds her and murders her in cold blood. But hours later, she wakes up in a clearing...
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Adaptation

Malinda Lo - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Reese can't remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. She only knows one thing: She's different now.Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people...
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The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey - Listening Library
Format: Paperback

The Passage meets Enders Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey. After the first wave, only darkness remains. After the second, only the lucky escape. And after the third, only the unlucky survive. After the fourth wave, only one rule applies: Trust no one. Now,...
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Replica

Lauren Oliver - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

Two girls, two stories, one epic novel.From Lauren Oliver, New York Times best-selling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy, comes an epic, masterful novel that explores issues of individuality, identity, and humanity. Replica contains two narratives in one: Lyras story and Gemmas...
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Spill Zone

Scott Westerfeld - First Second
Format: Hardcover

Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone.The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't spoken...
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The Sacrifice Box

MARTIN STEWART - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A horror story about friendship, growing up, and finding a place in the world: Gremlins meets The Breakfast Club by way of Stephen King and Stranger Things.In the summer of 1982, five friends discover an ancient stone box hidden deep in the woods. They seal inside of it treasured...
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Nyxia

Scott Reintgen - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"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...
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs - Quirk Books
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times best-selling series. Includes an excerpt from Hollow City and an interview with author Ransom Riggs A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss...
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This Savage Song

Victoria Schwab - Greenwillow Books
Format: Print book

There's no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from acclaimed author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains - and friends or enemies - with the future of their home at stake....
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Gone

Michael Grant - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

The first in New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant's breathtaking dystopian, sci-fi saga, Gone is a page-turning thriller that invokes the classic The Lord of the Flies along with the horror of Stephen King.In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young....
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Not Your Sidekick

C.B. Lee - Duet
Format: Paperback

Welcome to Andover... where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect...
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Little Brother

Cory Doctorow - Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Format: Hardcover

Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works-and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.But...
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The Forgetting

Sharon Cameron - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book

What isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes. Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse,...
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The Agony House

Cherie Priest - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover

Denise Farber has just moved back to New Orleans with her mom and step-dad. They left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and have finally returned, wagering the last of their family's money on fixing up an old, rundown house and converting it to a bed and breakfast.Nothing seems to work around...
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Bone Gap

Laura Ruby - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award Finalist * Printz Award Winner for Best Young Adult Book of the Year"Rubys novel deserves to be read and reread. It is powerful, beautiful, extraordinary." - School Library JournalEveryone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps.So when young, beautiful Roza went missing,...
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Monday's Not Coming

Tiffany D. Jackson
Format: electronic resource

"Jackson's characters and their heart-wrenching story linger long after the final page, urging readers to advocate for those who are disenfranchised and forgotten by society and the system." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List")From the critically acclaimed...
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The Testing

Joelle Charbonneau - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

It's graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. All Cia can think about - hope for - is whether she'll be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates...
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