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Summer in the City of Roses

Michelle Ruiz Keil - Soho Teen
Format: Paperback

Inspired by the Greek myth of Iphigenia and the Grimm fairy tale "Brother and Sister," Michelle Ruiz Keil's second novel follows two siblings torn apart and struggling to find each other in early '90s Portland. All her life, seventeen-year-old Iph has protected her sensitive...
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All the Crooked Saints

Maggie Stiefvater - Scholastic Audio
Format: Hardcover

From best-selling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full...
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If You Could See the Sun

Ann Liang - Inkyard Press
Format: Hardcover

"Utterly unique, thought-provoking, and wonderfully written... a thrilling ride that hooked me from start to finish." - Gloria Chao, author of American Panda and Rent a BoyfriendIn this genre-bending YA debut, a Chinese American girl monetizes her strange new invisibility powers...
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A Snake Falls to Earth

Darcie Little Badger - Levine Querido
Format: Hardcover

Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories.Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks...
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A Song Below Water: A Novel

Bethany C. Morrow - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover

A Song Below Water is the story for today's readers -- a captivating modern fantasy about black mermaids, friendship, and self-discovery set against the challenges of today's racism and sexism. In a society determined to keep her under lock and key, Tavia must hide her siren powers....
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All That It Ever Meant

Blessing Musariri - Norton Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Family, grief, ghosts, and a mystery: this clever and compelling young adult novel heralds a masterful new voice from Zimbabwe.Mati's family is reeling from the death of Mati's mother. Her Baba has drawn into himself, her sister Chichi is rebelling, and her young brother Tana is desperate...
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Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard

Echo Brown - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism -- all through the arc of a transcendent coming-of-age story for fans of Renee Watson's Piecing Me Together...
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Dig

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

Acclaimed master of the YA novel A.S. King's eleventh book is a surreal and searing dive into the tangled secrets of a wealthy white family in suburban Pennsylvania and the terrible cost the family's children pay to maintain the family name.The Shoveler, the Freak, CanIHelpYou?, Loretta...
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Echoes of Grace

Guadalupe Garcia McCall - Tu Books
Format: Hardcover

In this triumphant new novel, Pura Belpré Award-winning author Guadalupe García McCall explores sisterhood, family secrets, intergenerational trauma, life, and love in a modern Gothic setting with a magical realist twist.In Eagle Pass, Texas, Grace struggles to understand the echoes she inherited...
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Instant Karma

Marissa Meyer - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Chronic overachiever Prudence Barnett is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic justice are fulfilled when, after a night out with her friends, she wakes up with the sudden ability to cast instant karma on those...
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Instructions for Dancing

Nicola Yoon - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with...
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Lakelore

Anna-Marie McLemore - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pulled into a magical world under a lake - but can they keep their worlds above water intact Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape...
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Lion's Legacy

L. C. Rosen - ‎Union Square & Co.
Format: Book

Seventeen-year-old Tennessee Russo's life is imploding. His boyfriend has been cheating on him, and all his friends know about it. Worse, they expect him to just accept his ex's new relationship and make nice. So when his father, a famous archaeologist and reality show celebrity...

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Lovely War

Julie Berry - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Read the novel New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network Kate Quinn called "easily one of the best novels I have read all year!" A sweeping, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates--and the hearts--of...
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The Astonishing Color of After

Emily X R Pan - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Emily X.R. Pan's brilliantly crafted, harrowing first novel portrays the vast spectrum of love and grief with heart-wrenching beauty and candor. This is a very special book."--John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way DownAn...
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The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World

Amy Reed - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

The Astonishing Color of After meets Eleanor & Park in this breathtaking and beautifully surreal story about a friendship between two teens that just might shake the earth around them or at the very least make them face some painful truths about the nature of what drives...
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The Cost of Knowing

Brittney Morris
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus is trying his best. He tries to be the best employee he can be at the local ice cream shop; the best boyfriend he can be to his amazing girlfriend, Talia; the best protector he can be over his little brother, Isaiah. But as much as Alex tries, he often comes...
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The Heartbreak Bakery

A. R. Capetta - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

"What's done is done."Unless, of course, it was done by my brownies. Then it's getting undone.Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Being dumped is no different, except now Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer...
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The Raven Boys

Maggie Stiefvater - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Print book

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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The Secret of a Heart Note

Stacey Lee - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

From critically acclaimed author Stacey Lee, an evocative novel about a teen aroma-expert who uses her extrasensitive sense of smell to help others fall in love - while protecting her own heart at all costs - perfect for fans of Lauren Myracle and E. Lockhart.Sometimes love is right under...
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Bone Gap

Laura Ruby - Balzer Bray
Format: Print book

National Book Award Finalist"Ruby's 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, the people of Bone Gap weren't surprised. But Finn...
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The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

Junauda Petrus - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus's bold and lyrical debut is the story of two black girls from very different backgrounds finding love and happiness in a world that seems determined to deny them both.Trinidad. Sixteen-year-old Audre is despondent, having just...
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Wings of Ebony

J. Elle - Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Make a way out of no way" is just the way of life for Rue. But when her mother is shot dead on her doorstep, life for her and her younger sister changes forever. Rue's taken from her neighborhood by the father she never knew, forced to leave her little sister behind, and whisked...
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You've Reached Sam: A Novel

Dustin Thao - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

How do you move forward when everything you love in on the line?Seventeen-year-old Julie has her future all planned out -- move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city, spend a summer in Japan. But then Sam dies. And everything changes. Desperate to hear...
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Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite

Zoraida Cordova - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

In this delicious new collection, you'll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, eager vampires coming out -- and going out for their first kill -- and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful...
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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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A Magic Steeped in Poison

Judy I. Lin - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Book

I used to look at my hands with pride. Now all I can think is, "These are the hands that buried my mother."

For Ning, the only thing worse than losing her mother is knowing that it's her own fault. She was the one who unknowingly brewed the poison tea that...

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