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Dark Breaks the Dawn

Sara B Larson · Scholastic Press
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover

On her eighteenth birthday, Princess Evelayn of Eadrolan, the Light Kingdom, can finally access the full range of her magical powers. The light looks brighter, the air is sharper, and the energy she can draw when fighting feels almost limitless. But while her mother, the queen, remains...
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The Possible

TARA ALTEBRANDO · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Another twisty psychological suspense from the author of The Leaving, where a teen searches for answers about her mother's dark history, telekinesis, and the power of will.What if . . . no one knows the truth about you? It's been thirteen years since Kaylee's biological mother, Crystal,...
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Six Feet Over It

Jennifer Longo · Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding

Home is where the bodies are buried.   Darkly humorous and heart-wrenchingly beautiful, Jennifer Longo’s YA debut about a girl stuck living in a cemetery will change the way you look at life, death, and love.   Leigh sells graves for her family-owned cemetery because her father...
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Promise of Shadows

Justina Ireland · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 371
Format: Hardcover

A teen who is half-god, half-human must own her power whether she likes it or not in this snappy, snarky novel with a serving of smoldering romance.Zephyr Mourning has never been very good at being a Harpy. She'd rather watch reality TV than learn forty-seven ways to kill a man, and she pretty...
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Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Laini Taylor · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 613
Format: Print book

Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke and Bone)
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Diary of Carrie Berry: A Confederate Girl

Carrie Berry · Capstone Press
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Carrie Berry and her family lived in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Civil War. In 1864 the Union Army battled the Confederacy for Atlanta. Cannons boomed and fires burned around Carrie and her family. Through it all, 10 year old Carrie recorded her experiences in her diary. Follow her story...
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Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win

Rachel Ignotofsky · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 127
Format: Hardcover

Illustrated profiles of fifty pioneering female athletes, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science. Women for the win!A richly illustrated and inspiring book, Women in Sports highlights the achievements and stories of fifty notable women athletes from the 1800s...
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A Torch Against the Night

Sabaa Tahir · Razorbill
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

THE ASTONISHING SEQUEL TO THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, AN EMBER IN THE ASHES"Most Spectacular Sequel" -- Entertainment Weekly Summer 2016 Must List"Even higher stakes than its predecessor ... thrilling..." - Publishers Weekly, starred review"[An] action-packed,...
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The Gulf War on the Front Lines

Tim Cooke · Capstone Press
Format: Print book

U.S. and other coalition soldiers fighting in the Gulf War faced violence on the battlefield, extreme heat, and blinding sandstorms after they were sent to fight the Iraqis in 1991. Experience life on the front lines, in a time of shifting political power and advanced technology.
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Goodbye Days

Jeff Zentner · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

"Gorgeous, heartbreaking, and ultimately life-affirming," says Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also A Star, of this novel about finding strength and hope after tragedy. Perfect for fans of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl...
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Court of Shadows

Madeleine Roux · HarperTeen
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Asylum comes the second book in an all-new gothic horror series praised as "darkly delightful."*In this second book of Madeleine Roux's expansive gothic horror series, illustrations from artist Iris Compiet and chilling photographs...
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Tales of the Peculiar

Ransom Riggs · Dutton Children's Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

A companion to the New York Times bestselling Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, now a major motion picture directed by Tim Burton. Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars....
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Walter Jury · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 329
Format: Hardcover

Tate and his father don't exactly get along. As Tate sees it, his father has unreasonably high expectations for Tate to be the best - at everything. Tate finally learns what he's being prepared for when he steals one of his dad's odd tech inventions and mercenaries ambush his school,...
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When My Heart Joins the Thousand

A. J. Steiger · HarperTeen
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A heartbreaking debut YA romance featuring a neuroatypical girl with a tragic history and the chronically ill boy trying to break the vault encasing her heart.Alvie Fitz doesn't fit in, and she doesn't care. She's spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers....
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