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19 Love Songs

David Levithan - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Every Day, Someday, and Two Boys Kissing is back with a short story collection about love--perfect for Valentine's Day or year-round reading!A resentful member of a high school Quiz Bowl team with an unrequited crush....
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Girl, Stolen

April Henry - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Cheyenne, a blind sixteen year-old, is kidnapped and held for ransom; she must outwit her captors to get out alive. Sixteen year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mom fills her prescription at the pharmacy. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, their car is being...
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Not So Pure and Simple

Lamar Giles - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

An Indie Next List Pick!In his first contemporary teen novel, critically acclaimed author and two-time Edgar Award finalist Lamar Giles spotlights the consequences of societal pressure, confronts toxic masculinity, and explores the complexity of what it means to be a "real man."Del...
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The Last Star: The Final Book of The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey - Random House
Format: Music CD

The highly-anticipated finale to the New York Times bestselling 5th Wave seriesThe enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They're down here, they're up there, they're nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these...
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Flowers in the Gutter: The True Story of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers Who Resisted the Nazis

K. R. Gaddy - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Photo-illustrated nonfiction, the story of the Edelweiss Pirates, a group of working-class teens who not only survived but resisted the Nazis by whatever means they could, even when they knew it could cost them their lives.Flowers in the Gutter is told from the points of view Gertrude,...
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How to Build a Heart

Maria Padian - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

One young woman's journey to find her place in the world as the carefully separated strands of her life - family, money, school, and love - begin to overlap and tangle. All sixteen-year-old Izzy Crawford wants is to feel like she really belongs somewhere. Her father, a marine, died...
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Whatever Normal Is

Jane St. Anthony - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover

In the fourth volume of a series set in Minneapolis in the 1960s, three friends navigate relationships and new questions about love and identityAfter three years of high school, Margaret still isn't any closer to what she wants: to sing and dance on Broadway, to be a model like Twiggy,...
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Girls Like Us

Randi Pink - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

In Girls Like Us, Randi Pink masterfully weaves four lives into a larger story-as timely as ever-about a woman's right to choose her future.Four teenage girls. Four different stories. What they all have in common is that they're dealing with unplanned pregnancies.In rural Georgia,...
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Catfishing on CatNet: A Novel

Naomi Kritzer - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover

How much does the internet know about YOU? A thought-provoking near future YA thriller that could not be more timely as it explores issues of online privacy, artificial intelligence, and the power and perils of social networks.Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn't lived anyplace...
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