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Breakout

Kate Messner - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

Nora Tucker is looking forward to summer vacation in Wolf Creek--two months of swimming, popsicles, and brushing up on her journalism skills for the school paper. But when two inmates break out of the town's maximum security prison, everything changes. Doors are locked, helicopters fly over...
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Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation

Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Fast-paced, smart, and action-packed...a real page-burner." - Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times bestelling author of the Mr. Lemoncello's Library series From New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs comes the first novel in a thrilling new series about...
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A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Brigid Kemmerer - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

In a lush, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer gives readers another compulsively readable romance perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer.Fall in love, break the curse.It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. Cursed by a powerful...
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Game Changer

Tom Greenwald - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

An Amazon Best Book of the Month Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma fighting for his life after an unspecified football injury at training camp. His family and friends flock to his bedside to support his recovery - and to discuss the events leading up to the tragic accident....
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Live in Infamy

Caroline Tung Richmond - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

In the eighty years since the Axis powers won World War II with their genetically engineered super soldiers, America has changed drastically in the hands of the unforgiving victors. But there are still those who aspire to what the country used to stand for: freedom for all.In the Western...
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Other Words for Home

Jasmine Warga - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed.Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean...
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The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

Dan Gemeinhart - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

"Sometimes a story comes along that just plain makes you want to hug the world. The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise is Dan Gemeinhart's finest book yet -- and that's saying something. Your heart needs this joyful miracle of a book." -- Katherine Applegate, acclaimed...
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Sal and Gabi Break the Universe

Carlos Hernandez - Rick Riordan Presents
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a brilliant sci-fi romp with Cuban influence that poses this question: What would you do if you had the power to reach through time and space and retrieve anything you want, including your mother, who is no longer living (in this universe, anyway)...
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The Season of Styx Malone

Kekla Magoon - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Hardcover

This lively and diverse middle-grade story from the award-winning author of How It Went Down has the warmth of a modern-day The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963.Caleb Franklin and his big brother Bobby Gene have the whole summer for adventures in the woods behind their...
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Small Spaces

Katherine Arden - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story in the tradition of R. L. Stine destined to become a classic. When eleven-year-old Ollie lost her mother in a plane crash, she sought solace in her books. So when...
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Spin

Lamar Giles - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

When rising star Paris Secord (aka DJ ParSec) is found dead on her turntables, it sends the local music scene reeling. No one is feeling that grief more than her shunned pre-fame best friend, Kya, and ParSec's chief groupie, Fuse -- two sworn enemies who happened to be the ones who discovered...
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Stepsister

Jennifer Donnelly - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Don't just fracture the fairy tale. Shatter it. Isabelle should be blissfully happy - she's about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn't the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince's heart. She's the ugly stepsister who's cut off her toes to fit into...
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