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All My Rage: A Novel

Sabaa Tahir - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Lahore, Pakistan. Then.Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Cloud's Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now.Salahudin and Noor...
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Gideon Green in Black and White

Katie Henry
Format: Hardcover

Truly Devious meets Turtles All the Way Down in critically acclaimed author Katie Henry's YA contemporary comedic mystery, a hilarious send-up of the hardboiled detective genre that spotlights family, friendship, and love. Gideon's short-lived run as a locally famous boy detective...
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I Must Betray You

Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren't free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauescu in a country governed by isolation...
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Man Made Monsters: Man Made Monsters

ANDREA ROGERS - Levine Querido
Format: Hardcover

Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls. Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance that has swept the last decade.Horror fans will...
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The Door of No Return

Kwame Alexander - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Dreams are today's answers fortomorrow's questions.11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets ... Kofi has heard the call on the banks...
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The Getaway

LAMAR GILES - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts. He's got his family, his crew, and an incredible after-school job at the property's main theme park. Life isn't so great for the rest of the world,...
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Axie Oh - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Deadly storms have ravaged Mina's homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him,...

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The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

ISAAC BLUM - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

The Chosen meets Darius the Great in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friendship, betrayal, and hatred.Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron,...
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The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

Jen Ferguson - ‎Heartdrum
Format: Hardcover

In this complex and emotionally resonant novel about a Métis girl living on the Canadian prairies, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful story about rage, secrets, and all the spectrums that make up a person - and the sweetness that can still live alongside the bitterest truth....
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The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, 1)

AIDEN THOMAS - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the highest of stakes, in this electric new Mexican-inspired fantasy from Aiden Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys."Only the most powerful and honorable semidioses...
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