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The Maddie Diaries: A Memoir

MADDIE ZIEGLER · GALLERY Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Teen dance prodigy, breakout Dance Moms star, and judge on So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation presents her uplifting coming-of-age memoir about following her dreams and working hard to achieve success in both the dance world and in life.Maddie Ziegler had hoped to become a star...
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Ghost

Jason Reynolds · Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Pages: 181
Format: Paperback

A National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature. Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel in a new series from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award-winning author Jason Reynolds.Ghost....
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The Beauty of Darkness

Mary E Pearson · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 688
Format: Print book

Lia and Rafe have escaped Venda and the path before them is winding and dangerous - what will happen now? This third and final book in The Remnant Chronicles is not to be missed.Bestselling author Mary E. Pearson's combination of intrigue, suspense, romance and action make this a riveting...
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The Almost King

Lucy Saxon · Bloomsbury
Pages: 409
Format: Print book

Aleks Vasin doesn't want any part of the boring village life mapped out for him­­he wants excitement and the chance to travel. So Aleks heads South to the great city of Rensav and enlists in the army, but after a brutal few days, he realizes that he's signed himself away to a life...
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Vassa in the night

Sarah Porter · Tor Teen
Pages: 303
Format: Print book

"A dark, thoroughly modern fairy tale crackling with wit and magical mayhem." -- Leigh Bardugo, New York Times bestselling author of Shadow and Bone "An enchantingly twisted modern fairy tale, perfect for those who prefer Grimm to Disney. Inventive, darkly magical, and beautifully...
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Road Signs That Say West

SYLVIA GUNNERY · Pajama Press
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

It's Hanna's wild idea, of course: take their mom's car, pack up the tent, and drive across the country. Just three sisters, one guitar, and a coast-to-coast highway. They can be home again before their parents are back from Europe. She doesn't say she wants to forget about...
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What Impact Does Mental Illness Have on Violent Crime?

Patricia D. Netzley · Referencepoint Press
Format: Book

A Gallup poll reported in September 2013 that 80 percent of Americans blamed mass shootings on a failure of the mental health system to identify individuals who are a danger to others. Through objective discussion, numerous direct quotes, and full-color illustrations this title examines...
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Scythe

Neal Shusterman · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Printz Honor-winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those...
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Serenade

HEATHER MCKENZIE · Clean Teen Publishing
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback

Kidnapped and held hostage in the Rockies, a teenage heiress falls for her abductor while her corrupt father and devoted bodyguard fight to get her back. The discovery of true love and dark family secrets turns deadly in this epic coming of age adventure. Kaya Lowen dreams of living like...
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Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

Pamela S Turner · Charlesbridge
Pages: 236
Format: Print book

Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival...
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Endangered

Eliot Schrefer · Scholastic Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

From National Book Award Finalist Eliot Schrefer comes the compelling tale of a girl who must save a group of bonobos -- and herself -- from a violent coup. Congo is a dangerous place, even for people who are trying to do good. When Sophie has to visit her mother at her sanctuary for bonobos,...
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When We Collided

Emery Lord · Bloomsbury
Pages: 344
Format: eBook

Seventeen year-old Jonah Daniels has lived in Verona Cove, California, his whole life, and only one thing has ever changed: his father used to be alive, and now he is not. With a mother lost in a deep bout of depression, Jonah and his five siblings struggle to keep up their home and the restaurant...
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A Face Like Glass

FRANCES HARDINGE · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 487
Format: Hardcover

In the underground city of Caverna, the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare - wines that remove memories, cheeses that make you hallucinate, and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as they slit your throat. On the surface,...
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Apex

Mercedes Lackey · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 295
Format: Hardcover

Being a member of the Elite Hunter Command imperils Joy in more ways than one. In their latest clash with Othersiders, the army of monsters nearly wiped them out. Apex City is safe for now. But within the city barriers, Joy must wage a different kind of war.The corrupt and powerful PsiCorps...
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