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Stuck in Neutral

Terry Trueman - HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book

Shawn McDaniel is an enigma and a miracle--except no one knows it, least of all his father. His life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. Not even those who love him best have any idea what he is truly like. In this extraordinary and powerful first novel, the reader learns...
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It's Kind of a Funny Story

Ned Vizzini - Miramax Books
Format: Paperback

Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life-which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job-Craig...
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Code Name Verity

Elizabeth Wein - Hyperion
Format: Print book

Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand...
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Afterworlds

Scott Westerfeld - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld comes a smart, thought-provoking novel-within-a-novel that you wont be able to put down.. Darcy Patel has put college on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds. With a contract in hand, she arrives in New York City with...
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Blink & Caution

Tim Wynne-Jones - Candlewick Press
Format: Hardcover

Two street kids get tangled in a plot over their heads - and risk an unexpected connection - in this heart-pounding thriller by Tim Wynne-JonesBoy did Blink get off on the wrong floor All he wanted was to steal some breakfast for his empty belly but instead he stumbled upon a fake kidnapping...
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The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey - Listening Library
Format: Paperback

The Passage meets Enders Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey. After the first wave, only darkness remains. After the second, only the lucky escape. And after the third, only the unlucky survive. After the fourth wave, only one rule applies: Trust no one. Now,...
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Everything, Everything

Nicola Yoon - Ember
Format: Paperback

Risk everything . . . for love with this #1 New York Times bestseller. What if you couldnt touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face . . . or kiss the boy next door? In Everything, Everything, Maddy is a girl whos literally allergic...
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Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher - Razorbill
Format: Paperback

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**THE BOOK THAT STARTED IT ALL, NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES** "Eerie, beautiful, and devastating." - Chicago Tribune "A stealthy hit with staying power. . . . thriller-like pacing." - The New York...
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Wintergirls

Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak
Format: eBook

The New York Times bestselling story of a friendship frozen between life and death Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss - her life - and Lia is left...
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The Diviners

Libba Bray - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-toot-ly thrilled. New York is the city of speakeasies, shopping, and movie palaces! Soon enough, Evie is running with glamorous Ziegfield girls and rakish...
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A Great and Terrible Beauty (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy)

Libba Bray - Expanded Books
Format: DVD

It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception...
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Abandon

Meg Cabot - Point; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, a dark, fantastical story about this world . . . and the underworld.Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she's...
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Deadly

Julie Chibbaro - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York. Could the city's future rest with its most unlikely scientist If Prudence Galewski is ever going to get out of Mrs. Browning's esteemed School for Girls, she must demonstrate her refinement and charm by securing...
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Unwind (Unwind Dystology)

Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

The first twisted and futuristic novel in the perennially popular New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology by Neal Shusterman.In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched...
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Lockdown: Escape from Furnace 1

Alexander Gordon Smith - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Furnace Penitentiary the worlds most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earths surface. Convicted of a murder he didnt commit, sentenced to life without parole, new fish Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars,...
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Tantalize

Cynthia Leitich Smith - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book

Are you predator or prey?CLASSIFIED ADS: RESTAURANTSSANGUINI'S: A VERY RARE RESTAURANT IS HIRING A CHEF DE CUISINE. DINNERS ONLY.APPLY IN PERSON BETWEEN 2:00 AND 4:00 PM.Quincie Morris has never felt more alone. Her parents are dead, and her hybrid-werewolf first love is threatening to embark...
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The Raven Boys

Maggie Stiefvater - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her. His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying...
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Marcelo in the Real World

Francisco X Stork - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover

The term "cognitive disorder" implies there is something wrong with the way I think or the way I perceive reality. I perceive reality just fine. Sometimes I perceive more of reality than others.Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear - part of an autism-like condition...
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An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir - Razorbill
Format: Print book

Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Click Here to Read the First Two Chapters! Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy...
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Inexcusable

Chris Lynch - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

I am a good guy. Keir Sarafian may not know much, but he knows himself. And the one thing he knows about himself is that he is a good guy. A guy who's a devoted son and brother, a loyal friend, and a reliable teammate. And maybe most important of all, a guy who understands that when...
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Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles

Marissa Meyer - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series!Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted...
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Monster

Walter Dean Myers - Harper Collins Publishers
Format: Hardcover

This New York Times bestselling novel and National Book Award nominee from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial. Presented as a screenplay of Steve's own imagination, and peppered with journal entries, the book...
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Delirium: The Special Edition

Lauren Oliver - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Lauren Oliver's powerful New York Times bestselling novel Delirium - the first in a dystopian trilogy - presents a world as terrifying as George Orwell's 1984 and a romance as true as Romeo & Juliet.In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government...
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Across the Universe

Beth Revis - Razorbill
Format: Paperback

Book 1 in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Gallactica and Prometheus! WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SURVIVE ABOARD A SPACESHIP FUELED BY LIES?Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship Godspeed. She has left her boyfriend, friends--and...
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Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Best Seller!"Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book."-John Green, The New York Times Book ReviewBono met his wife in high...
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Out of The Easy

Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Print book

It's 1950 and the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie Moraine wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled...
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Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Rachel Cohn - Knopf Books for Young Readers; Fourth printing edition
Format: Hardcover

A whirlwind romance from the New York Times bestselling authors of Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist! "I've left some clues for you. If you want them, turn the page. If you don't, put the book back on the shelf, please." 16-year-old Lily has left a red notebook...
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One

Sarah Crossan - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Carnegie Medal * Winner of the YA Book Prize * Winner of the Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year AwardTippi and Grace share everything - clothes, friends . . . even their body. Writing in free verse, Sarah Crossan tells the sensitive and moving story of conjoined twin...
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Hush Hush: A Tess Monaghan Novel

Laura Lippman - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning New York Times best-selling author of After Im Gone, The Most Dangerous Thing, Id Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know brings back private detective Tess Monaghan, introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues, in an absorbing mystery that plunges the new parent into...
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What Happened to Goodbye

Sarah Dessen - Viking Juvenile; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Since her parents' bitter divorce, McLean and her dad, a restaurant consultant, have been on the move-four towns in two years. Estranged from her mother and her mother's new family, McLean has followed her dad in leaving the unhappy past behind. And each new place gives her a chance...
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If I Stay

Gayle Forman - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD

The critically acclaimed, bestselling novel from Gayle Forman, author of Where She Went, Just One Day, and Just One Year. Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Chloe Grace Moretz! In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only...
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Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

Chris Crutcher - Greenwillow Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

When Sarah Byrnes was three years old, her condition became synonymous with her surname. Her face and hands were badly burned in a mysterious accident, and her father refused to allow reconstructive surgery. She developed a suit of cold, stainless steel armor to defend herself against the taunts...
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Beautiful Creatures

Kami Garcia - Little, Brown
Format: Audio CD

There were no surprises in Gatlin County. We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.At least, that's what I thought.Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.There was a curse.There was a girl.And in the end, there was a grave.Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small...
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Bright Young Things

Anna Godbersen - HarperColl; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In the spring of 1929, eighteen-year-old Cordelia Grey and her stage-struck friend Letty Larkspur run away from their small Ohio town to seek their fortunes in New York City and soon find themselves drawn into situations and relationships, particularly with the dazzling Astrid Donal, that...
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Dragonfly

Julia Golding - Marshall Cavendish
Format: Print book

Princess Taoshira of the Blue Crescent Islands is appalled when she is ordered to marry Prince Ramil of Gerfal in order to unite their lands. And he's not too pleased, either. They hate each other on sight. So, when Tashi and Ramil are kidnapped, they fear there's no escape - from...
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson

John Green - Dutton
Format: Book

Two award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author join forces for a collaborative novel of awesome proportions.One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens - both named Will Grayson - are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will...
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Why We Broke Up

Daniel Handler - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Im telling you why we broke up, Ed. Im writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened.Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches,...
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Safekeeping

Karen Hesse - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Radley’s parents had warned her that all hell would break loose if the American People's Party took power. And now, with the president assassinated and the government cracking down on citizens, the news is filled with images of vigilante groups, frenzied looting, and police raids....
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The Enemy

Charlie Higson - Disney Pr
Format: Paperback

In the wake of a devastating disease, everyone sixteen and older is either dead or a decomposing, brainless creature with a ravenous appetite for flesh. Teens have barricaded themselves in buildings throughout London and venture outside only when they need to scavenge for food. The group...
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Every Day

David Levithan - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING LOVE STORY SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!"[A] wise, wildly unique" (Entertainment Weekly) love story from the New York Times bestselling co-author of Nick and Norah's Infinite...
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Not If I See You First

Eric Lindstrom - Little
Format: Print book

In the tradition of novels of Gayle Forman and John Green comes this extraordinary YA debut about a blind teen girl navigating life and love in high school.
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Raiders Night

Robert Lipsyte - HarperTempest
Format: Print book

The pressure is on. At Nearmont High School, football stars are treated like royalty, and Matt Rydek has just ascended to the throne. As co-captain of the Raiders, he's got it all, or so it seems: hot girls, all the right friends, plenty of juice to make him strong, and a winning...
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Fat Kid Rules the World

K L Going - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

Troy Billings at 6'1", 296 pounds, is standing at the edge of a subway platform seriously contemplating suicide when he meets Curt MacCrae -a sage-like, semi-homeless punk guitar genius who also happens to be a drop-out legend at Troy's school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan."I...
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Paper Towns

John Green - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

From the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery #1 New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Publishers Weekly BestsellerNow a major motion picture When...
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