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His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined

Dahlia Adler - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Thirteen of YA's most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe's most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction....
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Come On In: 15 Stories about Immigration and Finding Home

Adi Alsaid - Inkyard Press
Format: Hardcover

This exceptional and powerful anthology explores the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration, with stories by critically acclaimed and bestselling YA authors who are shaped by the journeys they and their families have taken from home - and to find home.WELCOMEFrom some of the most...
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Meet Cute

Jennifer L. Armentrout - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Whether or not you believe in fate, or luck, or love at first sight, every romance has to start somewhere. MEET CUTE is an anthology of original short stories featuring tales of "how they first met" from some of today's most popular YA authors. Readers will experience Nina LaCour's...
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The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

Leigh Bardugo - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by myth, fairy tale, and folklore, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo has crafted a deliciously atmospheric collection of short stories filled with betrayals, revenge, sacrifice, and love.Enter the Grishaverse...Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns....
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A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope

Caldwell, Patrice - VIKING BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

Sixteen tales by bestselling and award-winning authors that explore the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and magic. Evoking Beyonc 's Lemonade for a teen audience, these authors who are truly Octavia Butler's heirs have woven worlds to create a stunning narrative...
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Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love

Elsie Chapman - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

From some of your favorite bestselling and critically acclaimed authors - including Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco - comes a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives of thirteen teens.A shy teenager...
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Blackout

Dhonielle Clayton - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark.A summer heatwave blankets New York City in darkness....
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Unnatural Creatures: Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Unnatural Creatures is a collection of short stories about the fantastical things that exist only in our mindscollected and introduced by beloved New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.The sixteen stories gathered by Gaiman, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, range from the whimsical...
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Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Hardcover

In this book, the impact of wildfire, a wayward priest, or a mysterious disappearance ricochet across communities, threading through stories. Here, ordinary actions such as ice skating or going to church reveal hidden truths. One choice threatens a lifelong friendship. Siblings save each...
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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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Its a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories

Katherine Locke - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Includes a special introduction by Mayim Bialik, star of The Big Bang Theory and author of the #1 bestseller Girling Up!Get ready to fall in love, experience heartbreak, and discover the true meaning of identity in this poignant collection of short stories about Jewish teens, including...
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Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance

Bethany Morrow
Format: Book

A young adult anthology featuring fictional stories of everyday resistance.
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Every Body Shines: Sixteen Stories About Living Fabulously Fat

Cassandra Newbould - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

Fat girls and boys and nonbinary teens are: friends who lift each other up, heroes who rescue themselves, big bodies in space, intellects taking up space, and bodies looking and feeling beautiful. They express themselves through fashion, sports and other physical pursuits, through food,...
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Tales of the Peculiar

Ransom Riggs - Dutton Children's Books
Format: Print book

A companion to the New York Times bestselling Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, now a major motion picture directed by Tim Burton. Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded...
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Three Sides of a Heart: Stories About Love Triangles

Natalie C Parker - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

You may think you know the love triangle, but you've never seen love triangles like these.These top YA authors tackle the much-debated trope of the love triangle, and the result is sixteen fresh, diverse, and romantic stories you don't want to miss.This collection, edited by Natalie...
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Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

Jason Reynolds - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover

A National Book Award Finalist! From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all the different directions a walk home can take.This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school...
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The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future

Veronica Roth - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling Divergent and Carve the Mark author Veronica Roth delivers a stunning collection of novella-length stories set in the future, illustrated with startling black-and-white artwork.No world is like the other. Within this masterful collection, each setting is more strange and wonderful...
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Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

Tess Sharpe - Harlequin Teen
Format: Hardcover

Scorn the witch. Fear the witch. Burn the witch.History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create,...
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Slasher Girls & Monster Boys

April Genevieve Tucholke - Speak
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, American Horror Story and The Walking Dead comes a powerhouse anthology featuring some of the best thriller and horror writers in YA. Stefan Bachmann, Leigh Bardugo, Kendare Blake, A. G. Howard, Jay Kristoff, Marie Lu, Jonathan Maberry, Danielle Paige,...
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