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The Gone Away Place

Christopher Barzak - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From Stonewall Honor author Christopher Barzak comes a haunting novel of love and loss, in which a series of tornadoes rips through a small midwest town, forever altering the lives of those who live there.Ellie heads up her high school yearbook, and until the tornadoes come, her biggest...
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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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Jane, Unlimited

Kristin Cashore - Kathy Dawson Books
Format: Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller - from the award-winning author of the Graceling Realm series - about adventure, grief, storytelling, and finding yourself in a world of seemingly infinite choices."A wild gift for readers who like books that take them to unexpected places."...
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Marked

P. C. Cast - St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

The House of Night series is set in a world very much like our own, except in 16-year-old Zoey Redbird's world, vampyres have always existed. In this first book in the series, Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become...
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The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident...
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Gone

Michael Grant - HarperTeen
Format: Paperback

The first in New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant's breathtaking dystopian sci-fi saga, Gone is a page-turning thriller that invokes the classic The Lord of the Flies along with the horror of Stephen King.In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young....
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172 Hours on the Moon

Johan Harstad - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Audiobook

A terrifying thriller for young adult fans of The Martian and paranormal space adventure that will be devoured in one heart-pounding sitting. Its been decades since anyone set foot on the moon. Now three ordinary teenagers, the winners of NASAs unprecedented, worldwide lottery, are about...
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Dread Nation

Justina Ireland - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller * Six starred reviewsAt once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar - a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.Jane...
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The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called...
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction...
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The Name of the Star

Maureen Johnson - Speak
Format: Print book

New York Times bestseller Maureen Johnson takes on Jack the Ripper in this captivating paranormal thriller! The day that Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London to start a new life at boarding school is also the day a series of brutal murders breaks out over the city, killings...
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Carrie

Stephen King - Anchor Books
Format: Paperback

NEWLY ADAPTED FOR THE BIG SCREEN, STARRING CHLOE GRACE MORETZ AND JULIANNE MOORE. COMING TO MOVIE THEATERS EVERYWHERE OCTOBER 2013.Stephen King's legendary debut novel about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular,...
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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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Stalking Jack the Ripper

Kerri Maniscalco - jimmy patterson
Format: Hardcover

A #1 New York Times Bestseller! Presented by James Patterson's new children's imprint, this deliciously creepy horror novel has a storyline inspired by the Ripper murders and an unexpected, blood-chilling conclusion...Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter,...
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This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

Kenneth Oppel - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are nearly inseparable. Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary adventures... until the day their adventures turn all too real. They stumble upon The Dark Library, and secret books of alchemy and ancient remedies are discovered....
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Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that makes for a thrilling listening experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy...
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Jackaby

William Ritter - Algonquin
Format: Book

"Miss Rook, I am not an occultist," Jackaby said. "I have a gift that allows me to see truth where others see the illusion--and there are many illusions. All the world's a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain."A...
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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Scientist Victor Frankenstein learns how to create life, but his discovery goes quickly awry when he creates a monster larger and stronger than an ordinary man. As the monster uses its power to destroy everything Victor loves, the young scientist is forced to embark on a treachero
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Everlost

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

Nick and Allie don’t survive the car accident, but their souls don’t exactly get where they’re supposed to go either. Instead, they’re caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things...
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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 - Square Fish; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Furnace Penitentiary: the world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface. Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, "new fish" Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign...
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Thornhill

PAM SMY - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

Parallel stories set in different times, one told in prose and one in pictures, converge as a girl unravels the mystery of the abandoned Thornhill Institute next door. 1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it's shutting its doors....
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson - Sterling Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

A kind and well-respected doctor is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation. Includes discussion questions.
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The Sacrifice Box

MARTIN STEWART - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A horror story about friendship, growing up, and finding a place in the world: Gremlins meets The Breakfast Club by way of Stephen King and Stranger Things.In the summer of 1982, five friends discover an ancient stone box hidden deep in the woods. They seal inside of it treasured...
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Dracula

Bram Stoker - Puffin; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Jonathan Harker is sent by his law firm to Count Dracula's castle to discuss business, but he soon finds himself plunged into a nightmarish race against time to free his love and other lost souls from the Count's horrifying spells...
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Spill Zone

Scott Westerfeld - First Second
Format: Hardcover

Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone.The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't spoken...
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The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

Kiersten White - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

The Frankenstein legend as you've never seen it before, as told by New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White! You will not be able to put down this stunning and dark reimagining of the Mary Shelley classic told from the point of view of Elizabeth, Victor Frankenstein's adopted...
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