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Kwame Alexander - Blink
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller!Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he'd give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure,...
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Internment

Samira Ahmed - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Rebellions are built on hope.Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend...
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Saints and Misfits

S K ALI - Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Saints and Misfits is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life ... starring a Muslim teen.There are three kinds of people in my world: 1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least,...
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Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday

Natalie C. Anderson - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Forced to become a child soldier, a sixteen-year-old Somali refugee must confront his painful past in this haunting, thrilling tale of loss and redemption for fans of A Long Way Gone and What is the What When Abdi's family is kidnapped, he's forced to do the unthinkable: become...
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SHOUT

Laurie Halse Anderson - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans...
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Kids of Appetite

David Arnold - Viking
Format: Print book

"A gorgeous, insightful, big-hearted joy of a book." - Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything The critically acclaimed author of Mosquitoland brings us another batch of unforgettable characters in this New York Times...
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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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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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Lovely War

Julie Berry - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Read the novel New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network Kate Quinn called "easily one of the best novels I have read all year!" A sweeping, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates--and the hearts--of...
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The Last Girl on Earth

Alexandra Blogier - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Fans of The 5th Wave will devour this heart-pounding sci-fi novel about a girl with a secret: on a near-future Earth taken over by aliens, she is the only human left alive."A celebration of what it means to be human." - Katharine McGee, New York Times bestselling...
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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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Deadly

Julie Chibbaro - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Join the search for Typhoid Mary in this early twentieth-century CSI. Now in paperback!Prudence Galewski doesn't belong in Mrs. Browning's esteemed School for Girls. She doesn't want an "appropriate" job that makes use of refinement and charm. Instead, she is fascinated...
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The Red Scrolls of Magic

Cassandra Clare - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestseller Cassandra Clare and award-winner Wesley Chu comes the first book in a new series that follows High Warlock Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood as they tour the world after the Mortal War. The Red Scrolls of Magic is a Shadowhunters novel.All Magnus...
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The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe

Ally Condie - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Who do you become when you have nothing left to lose? There is something Poe Blythe, the seventeen-year-old captain of the Outpost's last mining ship, wants far more than the gold they tear from the Serpentine River. Revenge. Poe has vowed to annihilate the river raiders...
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With Malice

Eileen Cook - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

For fans of We Were Liars and The Girl on the Train comes a chilling, addictive psychological thriller about a teenage girl who cannot remember the last six weeks of her life. Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron's senior trip to Italy was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime....
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I Wish You All the Best

Mason Deaver - Push
Format: Hardcover

When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection,...
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We Hunt the Flame

Hafsah Faizal - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A BuzzFeed Pick for "YA Books You Absolutely Must Read This Spring"A Bustle's Most Anticipated 2019 YA ReleasePaste Magazine's Top 10 Most Anticipated YA Novels of 2019"Lyrical and spellbinding" -- Marieke Njikamp, #1 New York Times Bestselling...
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The Edge of Everything

Jeff Giles

"Every human alive should read this book."--James Dashner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maze RunnerWhen their worlds collide, X and Zoe are pushed to the edge of everything in this tour de force from Entertainment Weekly
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Overturned

L R Giles - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book

Nikki Tate is infamous, even by Las Vegas standards. Her dad is sitting on death row, convicted of killing his best friend in a gambling dispute turned ugly. And for five years, he's maintained his innocence. But Nikki wants no part of that. She's been working on Operation Escape Vegas:...
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Somewhere Only We Know

Maurene Goo
Format: Hardcover


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Turtles All the Way Down

John Green - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Wrenching and revelatory." An instant #1 bestseller, the widely acclaimed Turtles All the Way Down is John Green's brilliant and shattering new novel.Featured on 60 Minutes, Fresh Air, Studio 360, Good Morning Amercia, The TODAY Show"A tender story about learning...
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Soldier Boy

Keely Hutton - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Soldier Boy begins with the story of Ricky Richard Anywar, abducted at age fourteen in 1989 to fight with Joseph Kony's rebel army in Uganda's decades-long civil war. Ricky is trained, armed, and forced to fight government soldiers alongside his brutal kidnappers, but never stops...
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The Librarian of Auschwitz

Antonio Iturbe

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, alo
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Truly Devious: A Mystery

Maureen Johnson - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart.Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists....
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That Inevitable Victorian Thing

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

Speculative fiction from the acclaimed bestselling author of Exit, Pursued by a Bear and Star Wars: Ahsoka. Victoria-Margaret is the crown princess of the empire, a direct descendent of Victoria I, the queen who changed the course of history. The imperial tradition of genetically...
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Dreamland Burning

Jennifer Latham - Little
Format: Print book

Some bodies won't stay buried.Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past... and the present.Nearly...
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We Were Liars

E Lockhart - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerOne of James Patterson's "Favorite Thrillers for the Beach" (New York Times) "Haunting, sophisticated . . . a novel so twisty and well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to adolescents." - Wall Street...
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March.

John Lewis - Top Shelf Productions, 2013.
Format: Print book

This graphic novel is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader...
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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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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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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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One of Us Is Lying

Karen M McManus - Delacorte Press
Format: Library Binding

The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars, One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide. Pay close attention and you might solve this.On Monday afternoon,...
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When Dimple Met Rishi

Sandhya Menon - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller An NPR Best Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2017 A School Library Journal Best Young Adult Book of 2017 A Bustle Best YA Novel of 2017 A PopSugar Best Young Adult Novel...
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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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I'll Give You the Sun

Jandy Nelson - Speak
Format: Paperback

The New York Times Bestselling story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, Jenny Offill, Emma Straub, and Rainbow Rowell "We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story."...
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Holding Up the Universe

Jennifer Niven - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Places comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to see someone - and love someone - for who they truly are.Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed...
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Panic

Lauren Oliver - HarperCollins
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver comes an extraordinary novel of fear, friendship, courage, and hope that Kirkus Reviews says "will have readers up until the wee hours," School Library Journal raves is "fast-paced and captivating," and E. Lockhart,...
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You Bring the Distant Near

MITALI PERKINS - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Horn Book School Library Journal Publishers Weekly BOOKLIST Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story. You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves, friendship,...
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13 Minutes: A Novel

Sarah Pinborough - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

13 Minutes is a psychological thriller with a killer twist. From the #1 internationally bestselling author Sarah Pinborough. "Mean Girls for the Instagram age." -- The Times (London) The New York Times bestselling author known for her thrilling twists is backThey say you should...
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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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Carve the Mark

Veronica Roth - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

Fans of Star Wars and Divergent will revel in internationally bestselling author Veronica Roth's stunning new science-fiction fantasy series.On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favored by fate, everyone develops a currentgift, a unique power meant to shape...
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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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Four Dead Queens

Astrid Scholte - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington may seem harmless, but she's, in fact, one of Quadara's most skilled thieves and a liar. Varin, on the other hand, is an honest, upstanding citizen of Quadara's most enlightened region, Eonia. He runs afoul of Keralie when she steals a package from...
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As You Wish

Chelsea Sedoti - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

If you could make one wish that was guaranteed to come true -- what would you wish for? Rules for Wishing: Never let an outsider find out about wishing. (Zip your lips and throw away the key.) Wishes that would impact the world are off limits (i.e. no bringing back the dinosaurs) . Do no harm....
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The Fountains of Silence

Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, unforgettable portrait of love, silence, and secrets amidst a Spanish dictatorship.Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco,...
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Scythe

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

Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Printz Honor-winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered...
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Field Notes on Love

Jennifer E. Smith - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

"Utterly romantic." --Jenny Han, NYT bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved BeforeThe bestselling author of Windfall and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight returns with a meet-cute romance about Hugo and Mae, two teens who are thrown...
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Spontaneous

Aaron Starmer - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Aaron Starmer skillfully welds sharp humor, deep loss, and roaring escapades. Truly the smartest and funniest book about spontaneous combustion you will ever read." - John Green, #1 bestselling author of The Fault In Our StarsA TIME magazine Top 10 YA & Children's...
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All the Crooked Saints

Maggie Stiefvater - Scholastic Audio
Format: Hardcover

From best-selling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full...
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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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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

Mariko Tamaki - First Second
Format: Paperback

Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend.Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her,...
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Strange the Dreamer

Laini Taylor - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A new epic fantasy by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around--and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared...
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Stuck in Neutral

Terry Trueman - HarperTeen; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable...
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On The Come Up

ANGIE THOMAS - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

This is the highly anticipated second novel by Angie Thomas, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning The Hate U Give.Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend...
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Kiss Number 8

Colleen AF Venable - First Second
Format: Hardcover

Mads is pretty happy with her life. She goes to church with her family, and minor league baseball games with her dad. She goofs off with her best friend Cat, and has thus far managed to avoid getting kissed by Adam, the boy next door. It's everything she hoped high school would be ... until...
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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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If I'm Being Honest

Emily Wibberley - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Mean Girls meets The Taming of the Shrew in this romantic follow-up to Always Never YoursCameron Bright's reputation can be summed up in one word: b*tch. It's no surprise she's queen bee at her private L.A. high school--she's beautiful, talented, and notorious for her brutal...
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The Last Boy and Girl in the World

Siobhan Vivian - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

From the critically acclaimed author of The List comes a stunning new novel about a girl who must say goodbye to everything she knows after a storm wreaks havoc on her hometown.What if your town was sliding underwater and everyone was ordered to pack up and leave? How would you and your...
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Frankly in Love

David Yoon - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller and #1 Indie Bestseller!Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong?Frank Li has two names. There's Frank Li, his American name. Then there's Sung-Min Li, his Korean name. No one uses his Korean name, not even his parents....
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The Sun Is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton! The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling author of Everything, Everything will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with...
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