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The Great American Whatever

Tim Federle - Simon & Schuster BFYR
Format: Print book

"Teenaged Quinn, an aspiring screenwriter, copes with his sister's death while his best friend forces him back out into the world to face his reality"--
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The Steep and Thorny Way

Cat Winters - Amulet Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

A thrilling reimagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet, The Steep and Thorny Way tells the story of a murder most foul and the mighty power of love and acceptance in a state gone terribly rotten.
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My Best Friend's Exorcism: A Novel

Grady Hendrix - Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: Audiobook

Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fifth grade, when they bonded over a shared love of ET, roller-skating parties, and scratch-and-sniff stickers. But when they arrive at high school, things change. Gretchen begins to act . . . different. And as the strange coincidences and bizarre...
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All American Boys

Jason Reynolds - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover

A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature. In this Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winning novel, two teens - one black, one white - grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their...
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Ink and Ashes

Valynne E. Maetani - Tu Books
Format: Print book

Claire Takata has never known much about her father, who passed away ten years ago. But on the anniversary of his death, she finds a letter from her deceased father to her stepfather. Before now, Claire never had a reason to believe they even knew each other. Struggling to understand why her parents...
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear

E K Johnston - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author E.K. Johnston comes a brave and unforgettable story that will inspire readers to rethink how we treat survivors. Hermione Winters is captain of her cheerleading team, and in tiny Palermo Heights, this doesn't mean what you think it means. At PHHS,...
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Burn Baby Burn

Meg Medina - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Meg Medina's riveting coming-of-age novel.Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer...
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Winger

Andrew Smith - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

A teen at boarding school grapples with life, love, and rugby in a heartbreakingly funny novel.Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids. He's living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team....
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True Letters from a Fictional Life

Kenneth Logan - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

"Just the right touch of humor, mystery, drama, and romance should earn this a place on every teen bookshelf." - Kirkus (starred review) This heartfelt debut novel from Kenneth Logan, reminiscent of Love Letters to the Dead and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, explores a muddy...
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Scythe

Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books
Format: Print book

Two teens are forced to murder - maybe each other - in the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ("gleaned")...
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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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The Lie Tree

Frances Hardinge - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction. An ALA/ALSC Notable Childrens Book and an ALA/YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten selection A teenage girl unravels lies and magic to solve her fathers murder in this...
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The Female of the Species

Mindy Mcginnis - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a dark and riveting contemporary YA novel that blends the unflinching honesty of Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak with the relentless pacing and alternating perspectives of Gone Girl. A stunning, unforgettable page-turner.Alex Craft knows...
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