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Courtney Alameda - ‎Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat -- a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained since childhood to destroy monsters both corporeal and spiritual: the corporeal undead go down by the bullet,...

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Pastworld

Ian Beck - Bloomsbury USA Childrens; First Edition edition
Format: Book

What if all of London were really an amusement park—a whole city returned to Victorian times to entertain visitors from the twenty-first century? That's the wildly original premise of Ian Beck's Pastworld, a high-stakes mystery set in a simulated past.Eve is a lifelong resident...
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Trail of the Dead

Joseph Bruchac - Tu Books
Format: Print book

In the sequel to the award-winning Killer of Enemies, Apache teen Lozen and her family are looking for a place of refuge from the despotic Ones who once held them captive and forced Lozen to hunt genetically engineered monsters. Lozen and her allies travel in search of a valley where she and her family...
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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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Waistcoats & weaponry

Gail Carriger - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In her alternate England of 1851, while taking her friend Sidheag by train to her werewolf pack in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to dissolve all of London into chaos and must decide where her loyalties lie once and for all.
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The Inventor's Secret

Andrea Cremer - Philomel
Format: Hardcover

New from Andrea Cremer, the New York Times bestselling author of the Nightshade novels, comes an action-packed alternate-history steampunk adventure.In this world, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees have scraped out an existence on the edge of Britains industrial empire....
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The Girl in the Steel Corset

Kady Cross - Harlequin Teen; Original edition
Format: Paperback

In 1897 England, sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne has no one ... except the "thing" inside herWhen a young lord tries to take advantage of Finley, she fights back. And wins. But no normal Victorian girl has a darker side that makes her capable of knocking out a full-grown man with...
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On the Edge of Gone

Corinne Duyvis - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling, thought-provoking novel from one of young-adult literatures boldest new talents. January 29, 2035. Thats the day the comet is scheduled to hit - the big one. Denise and her mother and sister, Iris, have been assigned to a temporary shelter outside their hometown of Amsterdam...
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Lotus and Thorn

Sara W Etienne - Putnam Pub Group
Format: Print book

A thrilling fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Tamora Pierce and Sarah MaasRavaged by a plague known as Red Death, the planet Gabriel, a former colony of Earth, is a barren wasteland. Since being abandoned by Earth 500 years ago, resources are scarce and life is cheap. To stay alive,...
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Apocalypse now now

Charlie Human - Titan Books
Format: Print book

Baxter Zevcenko s life is pretty sweet. He s making a name for himself as the kingpin of his smut-peddling high-school syndicate, the other gangs are staying out of his business, and he s dating the girl of his dreams, Esme. But when Esme gets kidnapped, things start to get seriously weird,...
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Living Hell

Catherine Jinks - Harcourt Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

What happens when a single moment changes everything? For seventeen-year-old Cheney, life on earth exists only in history books. He and more than one thousand other people have known life only aboard the Plexus spacecraft: self-contained, systematic, and serene. But that was before the radiation...
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Flying

Carrie Jones - a Tor Teen Book
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones introduces sassy alien-hunting cheerleader Mana in Flying, the launch of a sparkling new YA Science Fiction series.People have always treated seventeen-year-old Mana as someone in need of protection. She's used to being coddled,...
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Uninvited

Sophie Jordan - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan, Uninvited is a chilling and suspenseful story about a girl whose DNA brands her a killer, perfect for fans of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer and Confessions of a Murder Suspect.Davy had everything - a terrific boyfriend, the homecoming...
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Gemina

Amie Kaufman - New York
Format: Print book

The highly anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller that critics are calling "out-of-this-world awesome." Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna's social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed....
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Mirror in the Sky

Aditi Khorana - Razorbill
Format: Print book

Another Earth meets Perks of Being a Wallflower in this thoughtful, mesemerizing debut and subject of a TedX talk about the discovery of a mirror planet to Earth and how it dramatically changes the course of one Indian-American girl's junior year."[O]ne of the most powerful...
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Catalyst

S. J. Kincaid - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

S. J. Kincaid has created a fascinating dystopian world for Insignia, her futuristic science-fiction adventure series perfect for fans of Ender's Game. Earth is in the middle of WWIII, battling to determine which governments and corporations will control the resources of the solar system.Teen...
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Mothership

Martin Leicht - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Teen pregnancy is never easyespecially not when extraterrestrials are involved. The first in a new trilogy. Elvie Nara was doing just fine in the year 2074. She had a great best friend, a dad she adored, and bright future working on the Ares Project on Mars. But then she had to get involved...
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The Goodness Gene

Manuel Puig - Dutton
Format: Print book

Will has been trained since birth to promote The Goodness, his father's program to maintain order in the Dominion. Now that he is sixteen,Will is sent to witness firsthand the synthetic production of food and humans, and the euthanasia program that the authorities call Compassionate...
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The Secret Sea

Barry Lyga
Format: Print book

Twelve-year-old Zak Killian is hearing a voice. Could it be a guardian angel? A ghost? No, that's crazy. But sometimes the voice is so real. . . . It warns him of danger.One day Zak is standing on the subway platform when the tunnel starts to fill with water. He sees it
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Surfacing

Mark Magro - Jolly Fish Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

In a postapocalyptic world, two students discover that the worst thing about searching for the truth is actually finding it After a nuclear war has ravaged the planet, children of the few survivors are sent to renowned scientist Dr. Parkman and his underground facility, Parkman Institute...
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The 100

Kass Morgan - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now. Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earths radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents -- considered expendable by society -- are being sent on a dangerous mission to recolonize...
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Sunrise

Mike Mullin - Tanglewood Press
Format: Book

The Yellowstone supervolcano nearly wiped out the human race. Now, almost a year after the eruption, the survivors seem determined to finish the job. Communities wage war on each other, gangs of cannibals roam the countryside, and what little government survived the eruption has collapsed...
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The Shadow Speaker

Nnedi Okorafor
Format: Book

In West Africa in 2070, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer, and upon finding her, she also discovers a greater purpose to her life and to the
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The True Meaning of Smekday

Adam Rex - Hyperion Books for Children
Format: Print book

It all starts with a school essay. When twelve-year-old Gratuity ("Tip") Tucci is assigned to write five pages on "The True Meaning of Smekday" for the National Time Capsule contest, she's not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages...
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Red Handed (Teen Alien Huntress)

Gena Showalter - MTV Books; Original edition
Format: Paperback

She's been chosen to fight the elusive enemy among us.... Phoenix Germaine has been trying to earn back her mother's trust after going into rehab and kicking Onadyn -- the drug of choice for New Chicago teens. But when a party in the woods turns into an all-out battle with the most...
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Grasshopper Jungle

Andrew Smith - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor BookWinner of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction"Grasshopper Jungle is a rollicking tale that is simultaneously creepy and hilarious. Its propulsive plot would be delightful enough on its own, but Smiths ability to blend teenage drama into...
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The Loners

Lex Thomas - Egmont USA
Format: Hardcover

"As original as The Hunger Games, set within the walls of a high school exactly like yours." - Kami Garcia, New York Times best-selling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures novelsIt was just another ordinary day at McKinley High--until a massive explosion devastated the school....
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