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Alex and Eliza: A Love Story

Melissa de la Cruz - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Witches of East End and the Descendants series comes the love story of young Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler. 1777. Albany, New York. As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance,...
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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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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

MACKENZI LEE - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

A Kirkus Prize nominee and Stonewall Honor winner with 5 starred reviews! A New York Times bestseller! Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR and the New York Public Library!"The queer teen historical you didn't know was missing from your life." - Teen Vogue"A stunning...
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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. This 10th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller features pages of bonus content, including marked-up manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's...
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

John Boyne - David Fickling Books
Format: Paperback

"Powerful and unsettling. . . . As memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank." - USA Today Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received...
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Under a painted sky

Stacey Lee - G.P. Putnams Sons
Format: Hardcover

Missouri, 1849: Samantha dreams of moving back to New York to be aprofessional musician--not an easy thing if youre a girl, and harderstill if youre Chinese. But a tragic accident dashes any hopes offulfilling her dream, and instead, leaves...
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Avi - Turtleback
Format: Library Binding

Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle relies on her resourcefulness to survive an 1832 voyage aboard the ""Seahawk"" commanded by the murderous Jaggery, as she assumes sailor's garb and is accused of murder
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Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O'Dell - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen...
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Salt to the Sea

RUTA SEPETYS - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal! "A superlative novel . . . masterfully crafted."--The Wall Street JournalBased on "the forgotten tragedy that was six times deadlier than the Titanic."--TimeWinter 1945. WWII....
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A Great and Terrible Beauty

Katie Koskenmaki - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

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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