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Lauren Gibaldi · HarperTeen
Pages: 345
Format: Print book

From the author of The Night We Said Yes comes a fun and heartfelt YA contemporary tale. When Maude decides to search for information about her birth mother, she finds out more than she expected. Perfect for fans of Stephanie Perkins and Susane Colasanti.Family. It's always been a loaded...
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If There's No Tomorrow

Jennifer L. Armentrout · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Lena Wise is always looking forward to tomorrow, especially at the start of her senior year. She's ready to pack in as much friend time as possible, to finish college applications and to maybe let her childhood best friend Sebastian know how she really feels about him. For Lena, the upcoming...
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From Norvelt to Nowhere

Jack Gantos · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 278
Format: Print book

This rocket-paced follow-up to the Newbery Medal-winning novel Dead End in Norvelt opens deep in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis. But instead of Russian warheads, other kinds of trouble are raining down on young Jack Gantos and his utopian town of Norvelt in western Pennsylvania....
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Skink--No Surrender

Carl Hiaasen · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

Carl Hiaasen serves up his unique brand of swamp justice in the New York Times bestseller Skink - No Surrender. A National Book Award Longlist Selection When your cousin goes missing under suspicious circumstances, who do you call? There's only one man for the job: a half-crazed,...
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Fantasy League

Mike Lupica · Philomel Books; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Million-Dollar Throw comes a story of every football kid's dream come true. 12-year-old Charlie is a fantasy football guru. He may be just a bench warmer for his school's football team, but when it comes to knowing and loving...
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Falling Over Sideways

Jordan Sonnenblick · Scholastic (Us)
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

It's not easy being Claire. (Really.) Claire's life is a joke . . . but she's not laughing. While her friends seem to be leaping forward, she's dancing in the same place. The mean girls at school are living up to their mean name, and there's a boy, Ryder, who's just as bad, if not worse....
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The Little Prince: Paperback Picturebook

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Pages: 316
Format: Book

Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard's translation of the beloved classic beautifully reflects Saint-Exupéry's unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators...
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The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan · Disney Hyperion Books
Pages: 377
Format: Paperback

Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse-Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out,...
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The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

Kate Hattemer · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Crackling, witty narration, free roaming between hyperintellectual allusion and shout-outs to Candyland and Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, will immediately grip fans of Frank Portman and John Green. —The Bulletin, starred review   Witty, sarcastic Ethan and his three best friends are students...
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Never Missing, Never Found

Amanda Panitch · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A juicy thriller about a girl who returned from the missing. . . . Hand to fans of We Were Liars, Bone Gap, and Vanishing Girls. Some choices change everything. Scarlett chose to run. And the consequences will be deadly. Stolen from her family as a young girl, Scarlett was lucky enough...
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky · MTV Books; Later Printing edition
Format: Paperback

Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being...
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Lady Midnight

Cassandra Clare · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 668
Format: Print book

The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare's newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel.It's been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that...
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A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness · Candlewick; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting--...
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The Tyrant's Daughter

J.C. Carleson · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

THERE: In an unnamed Middle Eastern country, fifteen-year-old Laila has always lived like royalty. Her father is a dictator of sorts, though she knows him as King—just as his father was, and just as her little brother Bastien will be one day. Then everything changes: Laila's father...
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Henry VIII: Royal Beheader

Sean Stewart Price · Franklin Watts
Pages: 128
Format: Library Binding

Describes the life of Henry VIII, from his childhood and ascension to the throne to his infamous multiple marriages and conflicts with the Catholic church.Title: Henry VIIIAuthor: Price, SeanPublisher: Scholastic Library PubPublication Date: 2008/09/01Number of Pages: 128Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary...
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