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Flame in the Mist

RENEE AHDIEH - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn, comes a sweeping, action-packed YA adventure set against the backdrop of Feudal Japan where Mulan meets Throne of Glass. The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known her place...
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Catalyst

Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak
Format: Paperback

Meet Kate Malone-straight A science and math geek, ministers daughter, ace long-distance runner, girlfriend, unwilling family caretaker, emotional avoidance champion. Kate manages her life by organizing it, as logically as the periodic table. She can handle it all-or so she thinks. Then,...
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The Impossible Knife of Memory

Laurie Halse Anderson - Penguin Group USA
Format: Book

For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend school. Perhaps,...
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Feed

M.T. Anderson - Candlewick
Format: Paperback

A Time Magazine 100 Best YA Books of All Time Selection. The tour de force that set the gold standard for dystopian YA fiction - in a compelling paperback edition.. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break....
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Red Queen

Victoria Aveyard - HarperTeen
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling series!Red Queen, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard, is a sweeping tale of power, intrigue, and betrayal, perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series. Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood - those with common,...
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Little White Lies

Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Freeform
Format: Book

"I'm not saying this is Sawyer's fault," the prim and proper one said delicately. "But."
Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a six-figure contract to participate...
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Girls Made of Snow and Glass

MELISSA BASHARDOUST - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber in this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale "Utterly superb." -- ALA BOOKLIST , starred review"Dark, fantastical, hauntingly evocative." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"An empowering...
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Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, Book 1) (Anna Dressed in Blood Series, 1)

Kendare Blake - Tor Teen
Format: Paperback

From Kendare Blake, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns, a beautiful and haunting ghost story . Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. . So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now,...
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Once Upon a Dream: A Twisted Tale

Liz Braswell - Disney Press
Format: Print book

What if the sleeping beauty never woke up? Once Upon a Dream marks the second book in a new YA line that reimagines classic Disney stories in surprising new ways.
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Lost and Found

Orson Scott Card - Blackstone Audio
Format: Hardcover

""Are you really a thief?""That's the question that has haunted fourteen-year-old Ezekiel Blast all his life. But he's not a thief, he just has a talent for finding things. Not a superpower--a micropower. Because what good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies,...
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The Demon King: A Seven Realms Novel

Cinda Williams Chima - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

Cinda Williams Chima won accolades for her New York Times best-selling Heir trilogy. The first of a new young-adult trilogy, The Demon King features a former thief, Han, whos trying to provide for his mother and sister. One day Han, who sports mysterious (and certainly magical) silver...
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Prom Dates from Hell

Rosemary Clement-Moore

Maggie Quinn, girl reporter. Honors student, newspaper staffer, yearbook photographer. Six weeks from graduation and all she wants to do is get out of Avalon High in one piece. A sensible nerd would have kept her head down, done her drive-by photo shoot of the prom, and con
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Splinter

Sasha Dawn - Carolrhoda Lab
Format: Print book

Sixteen-year-old Sami hasn't seen her mother in ten years and neither has anyone else. The police suspect Sami's father had something to do with her mom's disappearance, but Sami's never believed that. Her mother chose to abandon her and start a new life. It's that simple.But now, evidence...
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The Wicked Deep

Shea Ernshaw - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge - and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them.Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow ... Where, two centuries ago, three...
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Ranger's Apprentice

John Flanagan - Philomel; Later Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

The international bestselling series with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. alone!They have always scared him in the pastthe Rangers, with their dark cloaks and shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And now 15-year-old...
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Beastly (Kendra Chronicles, 1)

Alex Flinn - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

With a new Beauty and the Beast movie hitting theaters in Spring 2017, its time to catch up on all things Beastly. Find out what it was like for the beast in Alex Flinns contemporary retelling of the classic tale. This edition features cover art from the 2011 movie starring Vanessa Hudgens...
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Cloaked

Alex Flinn - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Im not your average hero. I actually wasnt your average anything. Just a poor guy working an after-school job at a South Beach shoe repair shop to help his mom make ends meet. But a little magic changed it all.It all started with a curse. And a frognapping. And one hot-looking princess,...
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City of a Thousand Dolls

Miriam Forster - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

The girl with no past, and no future, may be the only one who can save their lives. Nisha was abandoned at the gates of the City of a Thousand Dolls when she was just a little girl. Now 16, she lives on the grounds of the isolated estate, where orphan girls apprentice as musicians, healers,...
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When Life Gives You Demons

Jennifer Honeybourn - Swoon Reads
Format: Hardcover

Some people have school spirit.Shelby Black has real ones.Shelby Black has spent the past six months training to be an exorcist. Her great-uncle Roy -- a Catholic priest -- has put her through exorcist boot camp hell, hoping to develop her talent, but ohmygod, he still doesn't trust...
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Kara Thomas and Karen McManus, an addictive, twisty crime thriller with shades of Serial and Making a Murderer about a closed local murder case that doesn't add up, and a girl who's determined to find the real killer--but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.Everyone...
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A Thousand Nights

E K Johnston - Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Format: Print book

"A story threaded with shimmering vibrance and beauty, A Thousand Nights will weave its spell over readers' hearts and leave them captivated long after the final tale has been told." -Alexandra Bracken, New York Times best-selling author of The Darkest Minds series
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These Broken Stars: A Starbound Novel

Amie Kaufman - Hyperion Books for Children
Format: Hardcover

It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe....
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A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Brigid Kemmerer - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

In a lush, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer gives readers another compulsively readable romance perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer.Fall in love, break the curse.It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. Cursed by a powerful...
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Evil Librarian

Michelle Knudsen - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

"Forget paranormal romance; this horror-humor-romance pastiche is where those in search of hot nonhumans should set their sights." - Kirkus Reviews. When Cynthia Rothschilds best friend, Annie, falls head over heels for the new high-school librarian, Cyn can totally see why....
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Enchanted (The Woodcutter Sisters, 1)

Alethea Kontis - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

It isnt easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sundays only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true. . When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories,...
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A court of thorns and roses

Sarah J Maas - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPerfect for fans of Kristin Cashore and George R.R. Martin, this first book in a sexy and action-packed new series is impossible to put down!When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand...
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House of Earth and Blood

Sarah J. Maas - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas launches her brand-new CRESCENT CITY series with House of Earth and Blood: the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance. Half-Fae,...
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Throne of Glass: Throne of Glass, Book 1

Sarah J. Maas - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Audiobook

Bloomsbury presents Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, read by Elizabeth Evans.Lethal. Loyal. Legendary.Enter the world of Throne of Glass with the first book in the #1 bestselling series by Sarah J. Maas.In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She has no love for the vicious...
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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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Killing November

Adriana Mather - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Hang a Witch comes a thriller set at a secretive boarding school where students are trained to carry on family legacies that have built--and toppled--empires. November is trapped. At the mysterious Academy Absconditi,...
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The Outliers

Kimberly McCreight - HarperCollins
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia comes a fast-paced teen series where one girl learns that in a world of intrigue, betrayal, and deeply buried secrets, it is vital to trust your instincts.It all starts with a text: Please, Wylie, I need your help. Wylie...
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American Royals

Katharine McGee - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

What if America had a royal family? If you can't get enough of Harry and Meghan or Kate and William, meet American princesses Beatrice and Samantha.Two princesses vying for the ultimate crown. Two girls vying for the prince's heart. This is the story of the American royals.When America...
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One of Us Is Lying

Karen M. McManus - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation...
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Heartless

Marissa Meyer - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

The #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller that Gregory Maguire (Wicked and After Alice) calls "full of heart."Long before she was the terror of Wonderland, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite...
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Secrets, Lies, and Scandals

Amanda Morgan - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of I Know What You Did Last Summer and How to Get Away with Murder, five teens must overcome their paranoia in order to keep their teachers death a secret in this fast-paced suspense thriller.Nothing ruins summer vacation like a secret ... especially when it involves a dead...
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The Kiss of Deception

Mary Pearson - Henry Holt
Format: Book

In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia's life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight -- but she doesn't -- and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring...
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The Body of Christopher Creed

Carol Plum-Ucci

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Dead Investigation

Charlie Price - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover

In this standalone follow-up to an Edgar winners acclaimed debut novel, Murray Kiefer is a boy who lives in a cemetery and can talk with those buried beneath the tombstones. Hed rather no one knew, but word got out once he helped solve a fellow students murder. Now people think hes nuts,...
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Rose & Thorn

Sarah Prineas - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

This beauty isnt sleeping! Discover the true story of Sleeping Beauty in Sarah Prineass bold YA fairy-tale retelling filled with thrilling adventure and romance, perfect for fans of the Lunar Chronicles and the Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy.After the spell protecting her is destroyed,...
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Tokyo Heist

Diana Renn - Speak
Format: Paperback

The perfect mystery for fans of Ally Carters Heist Society When sixteen-year-old Violet agrees to spend the summer with her father, an up-and-coming artist in Seattle, she has no idea what shes walking into. Her fathers newest clients, the Yamada family, are the victims of a high-profile...
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Falling Kingdoms

Morgan Rhodes - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

War brought them together. Love will tear them apart. Princess Cleo of Mytica confronts violence for the first time in her life when a shocking murder sets her kingdom on a path to collapse. Once a privileged royal, Cleo must now summon the strength to survive in this new world and fight...
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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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Denton Little's Deathdate

Lance Rubin - Listening Library
Format: Book

**WINNER of the ILA Young Adult Book Award!**

Get ready to die laughing: this is an outrageously funny ride through the last hours of a teenager's life as he searches for love, meaning, answers, and (just maybe) a way to live on.

Denton Little's Deathdate...
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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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The Crown's Game

Evelyn Skye - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

"Gorgeous and richly imagined." - Sara Raasch, New York Times bestselling author of the Snow Like Ashes series"Teeming with hidden magic and fiery romance." - Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the AshesPerfect for fans of Shadow and Bone...
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All Your Twisted Secrets

Urban, Diana - HARPERCOLLINS


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