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Starborn: A Dragonborn Novel

Toby Forward · Bloomsbury, 2016.
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

When diabolical wizard Ash escapes from her prison, the fate of the world falls to wizard apprentices Sam and Tamrin. But old magic is fading fast, and even with their faithful dragon Starback by their side, they may not be able to stop Ash before she razes their home.Sam and Tamrin find...
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Twisted

Hannah Jayne · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Bex is ready to start a new life in foster care. There, she won't be known as a serial killer's daughter. Though her father was never tried for the murders attributed to "The Wife Collector," he disappeared after questioning. And Bex struggles with the guilt that she provided...
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Midnight Hour

C C Hunter · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 403
Format: Print book

"Shadow Falls has everything I could wish for in a series ... a thrilling tale of self-discovery, friendship and love." -- Bewitched BookwormAfter captivating millions across the globe, the Shadow Falls saga reaches its final -- and most unforgettable -- chapter yet! Prepare...
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Snitch

Olivia Samms · Amazon Childrens Pub
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback

"SKETCHY and SNITCH are right up there with the very best of YA fiction" - James Patterson, international bestselling author Secrets. Lies. They smother. But the truth - sometimes the truth is worse. It kills. Leaves blood on your hands. As the days count down to her eighteenth...
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Truthers

Geoffrey Girard · Carolrhoda Lab TM
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

Katie Wallace has never given much thought to 9/11. She was only a year old when terrorists struck American soil. But now her dad has landed in a mental institution after claiming to know what really happened. He insists the attacks were part of a government conspiracy. And he claims that...
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Shadow of the Fox

Julie Kagawa · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Once Every Thousand Years...Every millennium, one age ends and another age dawns...and whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers holds the power to call the great Kami Dragon from the sea and ask for any one wish. The time is near...and the missing pieces of the scroll will be sought...
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Tool of War

Paolo Bacigalupi · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

This third book in a major series by a bestselling science fiction author, Printz Award winner, and National Book Award finalist is the gripping story of the most provocative character from his acclaimed novels Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities.Tool, a half-man/half-beast designed for combat,...
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The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War

Various · Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

In a powerful collection, eleven internationally acclaimed writers draw on personal objects to bring the First World War to life for readers young and old.A toy soldier. A butter dish. A compass. Mundane objects, perhaps, but to the remarkable authors in this collection, artifacts such...
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The Agony House

Cherie Priest · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Denise Farber has just moved back to New Orleans with her mom and step-dad. They left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and have finally returned, wagering the last of their family's money on fixing up an old, rundown house and converting it to a bed and breakfast.Nothing seems to work around...
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Legacy

Jessica Blank · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A powerful coming-of-age novel about a seventeen-year-old girl who joins a radical environmental movement in the Pacific Northwest.Ever since her older brother Andy died, Alison's life has been just as dark as her home in Tacoma, Washington. Her mom is in perpetual mourning, her father...
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Raising the Stakes

Trudee Romanek · Orca Book Publishers
Format: Print book

It's the start of a new season for Harrington High's improv team - and Chloe is determined that this will be the year they make it all the way to the top. Her teammates (who also happen to be her closest friends) are a talented bunch, and she knows they can do it. They have to. Because...
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Forest World

Margarita Engle · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning author Margarita Engle comes a lively middle grade novel in verse that tells the story of a Cuban-American boy who visits his family's village in Cuba for the first time - and meets a sister he didn't know he had.Edver isn't happy about being shipped off to Cuba to visit...
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Like Never and Always

ANN AGUIRRE · Tor Teen
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Like Never and Always is Ann Aquirre's dark, romantic YA Suspense edged in SF and with plenty of angst, layering the secrets we keep and how well we truly know the ones we love best.On a hot summer night, a screech of brakes and shattering glass changes two lives forever.Liv wakes in the hospital,...
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Little Wrecks

MEREDITH MILLER · HarperCollins
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In this haunting and explosive debut, Meredith Miller explores the truth behind three girls on the cusp of adulthood, and all the shocking realizations that come under the guise of growing up. Perfect for fans of I'll Give You the Sun and Girl in Pieces. Ruth, Magda, and Isabel are different...
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