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Infinite Sky

C. J. Flood · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

True love is never lost—but how much loss can it endure? Iris confronts the complexities of family and prejudice in this exquisite and searing debut novel.Just two months after her mother abandons her family, leaving her gruff, introverted father to raise two children alone, Iris...
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Firebug

Lish McBride · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Ava is a firebug--she can start fires with her mind. Which would all be well and good if she weren't caught in a deadly contract with the Coterie, a magical mafia. She's one of their main hitmen . . . and she doesn't like it one bit. Not least because her boss, Venus, killed...
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Crank

Ellen Hopkins · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 537
Format: Paperback

Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina -- she's fearless. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster:...
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Heroes of the Dustbin

Tyler Whitesides · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Although their enemies are powerful, their allies few, Spencer and his team of Rebels are not giving up! But what chance do a handful of kids and one rescued janitor have against the combined evil of the Founding Witches and the Sweepers? Can the Rebels close the source of all Glop and stop...
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The Lonely Ones

Kelsey Sutton · Philomel Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

When your only friend is your own endless imagination, how do you escape your mind and connect to the world around you? With parents too busy to pay her attention, an older brother and sister who would rather spend their time with friends, and peers who oscillate between picking on her and simply...
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The Gospel of Winter

Brendan Kiely · McElderry Books, Margaret K.
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

A fearless debut novel about the restorative power of truth and love after the trauma of abuse.As sixteen-year-old Aidan Donovan's fractured family disintegrates around him, he searches for solace in a few bumps of Adderall, his father's wet bar, and the attentions of his local priest,...
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Every Last Promise

Kristin Halbrook · Harper Teen
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Perfect for fans of Laurie Halse Anderson and Gayle Forman, Every Last Promise is a provocative and emotional novel about a girl who must decide between keeping quiet and speaking up after witnessing a classmate's sexual assault.Kayla saw something at the party that she wasn't supposed...
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The Killer in Me

Margot Harrison · Hyperion
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

"Hasn't he lived long enough? Why not? I could take him like a thief in the night. """This is how the Thief thinks. He serves death, the vacuum, the unknown. He's always waiting. Always there. Seventeen-year-old Nina Barrows knows all about the Thief. She's intimately...
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Waterfire Saga, Book One: Deep Blue

Jennifer Donnelly · Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe. When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should...
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Cracking the AP Environmental Science Exam, 2017 Edition

Princeton Review (Firm) · Penguin Random House
Pages: 381
Format: Print book

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5. Equip yourself to ace the AP Environmental Science Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide - including thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, access to our AP Connect portal online,...
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