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The Cruelty
The Cruelty

Scott Bergstrom · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

When Gwendolyn Bloom's father vanishes, she sets off on a journey she never bargained for. Traveling under a new identity in a world of assassins, spies, and criminal masterminds, she uncovers a disturbing truth. To bring her father back alive, she must become every bit as cruel as the men holding...
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Frost
Frost

M P Kozlowsky · Scholastic
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

16-year-old Frost understands why she's spent her entire life in an abandoned apartment building. The ruined streets below are hunting grounds for rogue robots and Eaters. She understands why she's never met a human besides her father. She even understands why he forbids her to look for medicine...
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The Far Dawn: Book Three of the Atlanteans
The Far Dawn: Book Three of the Atlanteans

Kevin Emerson · Katherine Tegen Books; Original edition
Format: Paperback

The Far Dawn is the third and final novel in Kevin Emerson's Atlanteans series, bringing the story of Atlantean descendant Owen Parker to a high-stakes, dramatic conclusion. The Atlanteans series has been praised for its "emotional sucker punches" (Kirkus Reviews) , "solid...
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The Invisible
The Invisible

Amelia Kahaney · HarperTeen; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Cinder meets The Dark Knight in this riveting sequel to the darkly suspenseful, reimagined superhero story The Brokenhearted.Since Gavin’s death, Anthem has tried to forget the heartache and betrayal, to feel normal once more. She doesn’t want to be the crime-fighting vigilante...
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Rookie Yearbook Three
Rookie Yearbook Three

Tavi Gevinson · Razorbill
Pages: 343
Format: Book

Rookiemag.com is a website created by and for young women to make the best of the beauty, pain and awkwardness of being a teenager. When it becomes tough to appreciate such things, we have good plain fun and visual pleasure. When you're sick of having to be happy all the time, we have lots...
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Life in a Fishbowl
Life in a Fishbowl

Len Vlahos · Bloomsbury
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

Fifteen-year-old Jackie Stone's father is dying.When Jackie discovers that her father has been diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, her whole world starts to crumble. She can't imagine how she'll live without him . . . Then, in a desperate act to secure his family's future, Jackie's father...
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Winterspell
Winterspell

Claire Legrand · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 454
Format: Hardcover

Darkly romantic and entirely enchanting, this reimagining of The Nutcracker from Claire Legrand brims with magic, love, and intrigue. New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer (Cinder) says "this is not your grandmother's Nutcracker tale."After her mother is brutally...
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Diplomatic Immunity
Diplomatic Immunity

Brodi Ashton · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Anna and the French Kiss meets The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks in a romantic and hilarious new novel from Brodi Ashton, the author of the Everneath trilogy. Raucous parties, privileged attitudes, underage drinking, and diplomatic immunity . . . it's all part of student...
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Warm Up
Warm Up

Sara Leach · Orca Book Publishers
Format: Paperback

Jasmine used to love dance. Now she struggles to hold on to that love as her dance team trains for a big competition. Her teammates are bickering, and when their teacher suggests that Jasmine might not have what it takes to be on the team, Jasmine is ready to quit. At a particularly rough...
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Words and Their Meanings
Words and Their Meanings

Kate Bassett · Flux
Format: Book

Anna O'Mally is a born writer - gifted, perceptive, headed for the stars. Or she was, until the tragic death of her uncle Joe. He was barely older than Anna herself, and she worshipped the ground he walked on. Best of all, Anna got to live in the glow of knowing that she was the most...
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Ronit & Jamil
Ronit & Jamil

Pamela L Laskin · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Pamela L. Laskin's beautiful and lyrical novel in verse delivers a fresh and captivating retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that transports the star-crossed lovers to the modern-day Israel-Palestine conflict.Ronit, an Israeli girl, lives on one side of the fence. Jamil, a Palestinian...
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Born of the Sun
Born of the Sun

Gillian Cross · Holiday House
Format: Book

Paula's journey with her father to find a lost Incan city becomes shadowed with mystery and danger, and in the end truths learned on the journey, not at the destination, are what is important.
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Under the Lights
Under the Lights

Abbi Glines · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In the follow-up to Abbi Glines's #1 New York Times bestseller Until Friday Night - which bestselling author Kami Garcia called "tender, honest, and achingly real" - three teens from a small southern town are stuck in a dramatic love triangle.Willa can't erase the bad decisions...
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A Dog in the Cave: The Wolves Who Made Us Human
A Dog in the Cave: The Wolves Who Made Us Human

Kay Frydenborg · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

We know dogs are our best animal friends, but have you ever thought about what that might mean? Fossils show we've shared our work and homes with dogs for tens of thousands of years. Now there's growing evidence that we influenced dogs' evolution - and they, in turn, changed...
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