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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

ERIKA L SNCHEZ · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award Finalist!The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican-American...
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The Science of Basketball: The Top Ten Ways Science Affects the Game

Matt Chandler · Capstone Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Introduces young readers to the exciting ways science affects basketball! Simple text, full-color photos, and a running top-ten countdown help readers grasp the science within their favorite sports.
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Zayn

Random House. · Delacorte
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The first and only official book from ZAYN. Global superstar ZAYN shares a photographic journey of his life since leaving One Direction. ZAYN opens up with this collection of thoughts, inspiration, and never-before-seen personal photographs. After five years of massive success with One Direction,...
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The Heartbreak Messenger

Alexander Vance · Square Fish; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Breaking up is hard to do—so why not pay someone to do it for you?Twelve-year-old Quentin never asked to be the Heartbreak Messenger. It just kind of happened, and he can’t let a golden opportunity pass him by. The valuable communication service he offers is simple: He delivers...
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Alone

Scott Sigler · Del Rey
Pages: 560
Format: Print book

In the final installment of an exhilarating sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising, Scott Sigler's unforgettable heroine, Em Savage, must come to grips once and for all with the perilous mysteries of her own existence."We thought this...
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Secrets Underground: North America's Buried Past

Elizabeth MacLeod · Annick Press
Format: Hardcover

Uncover the spine-tingling mysteries and eerie surprises that lurk right under your feet In Secrets Underground history buff Elizabeth MacLeod takes readers deep down down down below the earths surface and introduces them to a completely different world -- sometimes terrifying often...
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The Principles Behind Flotation: A Novel

Alexandra Teague · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

Echoing novels like Karen Russell's Swamplandia! and Carol Rifka Brunt's Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Alexandra Teague's lighthearted coming-of-age debut is perfect for anyone who's navigated the strange seas of adolescence, and lived to tell the tale.A.Z. McKinney is on the shores of greatness....
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These shallow graves

Jennifer Donnelly · Delacorte Press
Pages: 487
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of A Northern Light and Revolution. This thrilling mystery is perfect for fans of The Cellar and Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls. It's a story of dark secrets, dirty truths, and the lengths to which people will go for love and revenge....
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Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me.

NOT AVAILABLE. · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

In this groundbreaking debut essay collection, featuring never-before-seen photos, actress Lily Collins - star of Mortal Instruments and Rules Don't Apply - is opening a poignant, honest conversation about the things young women struggle with: body image, self-confidence, relationships,...
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Every Vote Matters: The Power of Your Voice, from Student Elections to the Supreme Court

Thomas A Jacobs · Free Spirit Pub. Inc.
Pages: 215
Format: Print book

Encourage teens to recognize the importance of voting and making their voices heard in the democratic process with this timely book focused on Supreme Court decisions that came down to a single vote. Chapters examine key Supreme Court rulings and explore how these cases have affected the lives...
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Camp So-And-So

Mary McCoy · Carolrhoda Lab TM
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover

The letters went out in mid-February. Each letter invited its recipient to spend a week at Camp So-and-So, a lakeside retreat for girls nestled high in the Starveling Mountains. Each letter came with a glossy brochure with photographs of young women climbing rocks, performing Shakespearean...
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Defending Taylor

Miranda Kenneally · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

There are no mistakes in love.Captain of the soccer team, president of the Debate Club, contender for valedictorian: Taylor's always pushed herself to be perfect. After all, that's what is expected of a senator's daughter. But one impulsive decision-one lie to cover for her boyfriend-and...
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How We Roll

Natasha Friend · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Quinn is a teen who loves her family, skateboarding, basketball, and her friends, but after she's diagnosed with a condition called alopecia which causes her to lose all of her hair, her friends abandon her. Jake was once a star football player, but because of a freak accident -- caused...
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School Integration: Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka

Rebecca T Klein · Rosen Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Discusses the circumstances surrounding the 1954 Supreme Court case that struck down the "separate but equal" doctrine, the impact of the Court's landmark decision, and its significance in the present day.
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Ever the Hunted: A Clash of Kingdoms Novel

Erin Summerill · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

Seventeen year-old Britta Flannery is at ease only in the woods with her dagger and bow. She spends her days tracking criminals alongside her father, a legendary bounty hunter -- that is, until her father is murdered. The alleged killer is none other than Cohen McKay, her father's former...
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