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Sanyare: The Winter Warrior

Megan Haskell · Trabuco Ridge Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Her choice won the war, but may have cost her future ... Rie should be praised as a hero. She won the Battle of the Arches and stopped the next Great War. Instead, she's hiding out under the strict watch of her mentor, Lord Garamaen Sanyaro. But when Sanyaro's own past comes back...
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A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II

Wein, Elizabeth · Balzer Bray
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The gripping true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II - from Elizabeth Wein, award-winning author of Code Name VerityIn the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat....
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Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard

Alex Bertie · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A brave first-hand account of online personality Alex Bertie's life, struggles, and victories as a transgender teen, as well as a groundbreaking guide for transitioning teens.Long before he became known for his YouTube videos, Alex Bertie was an isolated, often-afraid transgender teenager...
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96 Words for Love

Roy, Rachel · jimmy patterson
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

James Patterson Presents a modern retelling of a classic Indian legend, 96 Words for Love is a touching coming-of-age story that reads like Eat, Pray, Love for teens.Ever since her acceptance to UCLA, 17-year-old Raya Liston has been quietly freaking out. She feels simultaneously lost and trapped...
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All the Stars Denied

McCall, Guadalupe Garcia · Lee & Low Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans. All around town, signs go up proclaiming No Dogs or Mexicans and No Mexicans Allowed....
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The Demon World

Sally Green · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The epic, magical saga of royalty, romance, and violence continues.A princess. A soldier. A servant. A demon hunter. A thief. When we last saw them, this unlikely group was heading into the Northern Territory of the kingdom of Pitoria, on the run from the sadistic and power-hungry King...
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Five Midnights

Ann Dávila Cardinal · Tor Teen
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Ann Dávila Cardinal's Five Midnights is a "wickedly thrilling" (William Alexander) and "flat-out unputdownable" (Paul Tremblay) novel based on the el Cuco myth set against the backdrop...
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The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature

Ober, Pierre-Jacques · Candlewick Studio
Pages: 104
Format: Hardcover

A young WWI soldier's unauthorized visit home has dire consequences in a haunting story reimagined in miniature tableaux.About one hundred years ago, the whole world went to war. The war was supposed to last months. It lasted years. It is Christmastime, 1914, and World War I rages....
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Please Send Help

Dunn, Gaby · Wednesday Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Ava and Gen are best friends. Ava knows what she wants and has plans to achieve her goals. Gen...not so much. But no matter how annoying, dramatic, or utterly bananas a 2 a.m. rant might get -- Ava has always been there for Gen and Gen for Ava. But then they graduated high school. Now,...
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Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement

Okamoto, Nadya · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

PERIOD founder and Harvard College student Nadya Okamoto offers a manifesto on menstruation and why we can no longer silence those who bleed - and how to engage in youth activism.Throughout history, periods have been hidden from the public. They're taboo. They're embarrassing. They're...
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