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The Chandler Legacies

Abdi Nazemian - Balzer Bray
Format: Book

A novel about the enclosed world of privilege and silence at an elite boarding school and the unlikely group of friends who dare challenge the status quo through their writing.

Beth Kramer is a “townie” who returns to her sophomore year after having endured...

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The Weight of the Stars

K. Ancrum - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

A vivid, evocative YA lesbian romance about how the universe is full of second chances.Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn't an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the "wrong" side of town. So Ryann becomes her circumstances...
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The Raven Boys

Maggie Stiefvater - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her. His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying...
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Heartstopper Volume One

Alice Oseman - Hodder Children's Books
Format: Paperback

Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. An LGBTQ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between - for fans of The Art of Being Normal, Holly Bourne and Love, Simon.Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when...
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The Resolutions

Mia Garcia - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

A heart-expanding novel about four Latinx teens who make New Year's resolutions for one another - and the whirlwind of a year that follows. Fans of Erika L. Snchez and Emery Lord will fall for this story of friendship, identity, and the struggle of finding yourself when all you want is to start...
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Akata Witch

Nnedi Okorafor - Viking Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

Read Nnedi Okorafor's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place...
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Crown of Feathers

Nicki Pau Preto - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

An Ember in the Ashes meets Three Dark Crowns in this lush debut fantasy novel about a girl who disguises herself as a boy to join a secret group of warriors that ride phoenixes into battle.I had a sister, once ... In a world ruled by fierce warrior queens, a grand...
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Undead Girl Gang

LILY ANDERSON - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Veronica Mars meets The Craft when a teen girl investigates the suspicious deaths of three classmates and accidentally ends up bringing them back to life to form a hilariously unlikely--and unwilling--vigilante girl gang.Meet teenage Wiccan Mila Flores, who truly could not care...
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The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1

KAIU SHIRAI - VIZ Media LLC
Format: Paperback

The children of the Grace Field House orphanage have their happy lives upended when they find out they're being raised to be fed to demons. Can they escape their fate before it's too late?Life at Grace Field House has been good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams...
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Six Angry Girls

Kisner, Adrienne - FEIWEL & FRIENDS
Format: Book

A story of mock trial, feminism, and the inherent power found in a pair of knitting needles.

Raina Petree is crushing her senior year, until her boyfriend dumps her, the drama club (basically) dumps her, the college of her dreams slips away, and her arch-nemesis triumphs.

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The Good Luck Girls

Charlotte Nicole Davis - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover

Westworld meets The Handmaid's Tale in this stunning fantasy adventure from debut author Charlotte Nicole Davis.Aster, the protectorViolet, the favoriteTansy, the medicMallow, the fighterClementine, the catalystTHE GOOD LUCK GIRLSThe country of Arketta calls them Good Luck...
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The Gilded Wolves

ROSHANI CHOKSHI - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER*From New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi comes The Gilded Wolves, a novel set in Paris during a time of extraordinary change--one that is full of mystery, decadence, and dangerous desires...No one believes in them....
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Pumpkin

Julie Murphy - Balzer Bray
Format: Book

Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City. His plan is to bide his time until he can graduate, move to Austin with his twin sister, Clementine, and finally go Full Waylon, so that he can live his Julie-the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-music-Andrews...

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Let Me Hear a Rhyme

Tiffany D Jackson - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

In this striking new novel by the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly and Monday's Not Coming, Tiffany D. Jackson tells the story of three Brooklyn teens who plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he's still alive. Brooklyn, 1998. Biggie Smalls was right:...
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The Unpopular Vote

Jasper Sanchez - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez's electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student's foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father. Optics can make or break...
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The Disasters

M. K. England - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

The Breakfast Club meets Guardians of the Galaxy in this YA sci-fi adventure by debut author M. K. England.Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it's not exactly a surprise when he's kicked out of the elite Ellis Station Academy in less than twenty-four hours....
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The Darkest Minds

Alexandra Bracken - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture!When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp."...
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Bruised

Tanya Boteju
Format: Book

To Daya Wijesinghe, a bruise is a mixture of comfort and control. Since her parents died in an accident she survived, bruises have become a way to keep her pain on the surface of her skin so she doesn’t need to deal with the ache deep in her heart.

So when chance and circumstances...

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Raybearer

Jordan Ifueko - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover

The epic debut YA fantasy from an incredible new talent - perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi and Sabaa Tahir Nothing is more important than loyalty. But what if you've sworn to protect the one you were born to destroy? Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was raised...
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The Most Dazzling Girl In Berlin

Kip Wilson - Versify
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, a former orphan, who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World War II and discovers her own voice and sexuality and finds a family when she gets a job at a cabaret, by award-winning author Kip WilsonAfter her eighteenth birthday, Hilde, a former...
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Mariam Sharma Hits the Road

SHEBA KARIM - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Three Pakistani-American teenagers, on a trip through the land of pork ribs, mechanical bulls, and Confederate flags. It's going to be quite an adventure.The summer after her freshman year of college, Mariam is looking forward to working and hanging out with her best friends: irrepressible...
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The Gilded Ones

Namina Forna - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

"Namina Forna Could Be The Toni Morrison Of YA Fantasy."-Refinery 29 The start of a bold and immersive West African-inspired, feminist fantasy series for fans of Children of Blood and Bone and Black Panther. In this world, girls are outcasts by blood and warriors by choice.Sixteen-year-old...
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I Wish You All the Best

Mason Deaver - Push
Format: Hardcover

When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection,...
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Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Enter the Grishaverse with the #1 New York Times-bestselling Six of Crows.Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price -- and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist...
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When We Were Magic

Sarah Gailey - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

A sly, witchy dark comedy about four teens whose magic goes wildly awry from Magic for Liars author Sarah Gailey, who Chuck Wendig calls an "author to watch." Keeping your magic a secret is hard. Being in love with your best friend is harder. Alexis has always been able to rely...
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Dress Codes for Small Towns

Stevens, Courtney
Format: Book

As the tomboy daughter of the town’s preacher, Billie McCaffrey has always struggled with fitting the mold of what everyone says she should be. She’d rather wear sweats, build furniture, and get into trouble with her solid group of friends: Woods, Mash, Davey, Fifty, and Janie...

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The Diviners

Libba Bray - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-toot-ly thrilled. New York is the city of speakeasies, shopping, and movie palaces! Soon enough, Evie is running with glamorous Ziegfield girls and rakish...
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