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Ruined
Ruined

Amy Tintera · HarperTeen
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Amy Tintera's new YA fantasy trilogy blends the romance of Kiera Cass's Selection series and the epic stakes of Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen in a story of revenge, adventure, and unexpected love.Emelina Flores has nothing. Her home in Ruina has been ravaged by war; her parents were killed...
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Why We Took the Car
Why We Took the Car

Wolfgang Herrndorf · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 245
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully written, darkly funny coming-of-age story from an award-winning, bestselling German author making his American debut.Mike Klingenberg doesn't get why people think he's boring. Sure, he doesn't have many friends. (Okay, zero friends.) And everyone laughs at him when he reads...
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The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos
The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos

Kami Garcia · Imprint
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

How did Fox Mulder become a believer?Read this dark thriller to find out why millions of people became obsessed with The X-Files. In the spring of 1979, seventeen-year-old Fox Mulder has bigger problems than applying for college. Five years ago, his younger sister disap­peared from their...
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Tattoos, Body Piercings, and Teens
Tattoos, Body Piercings, and Teens

L K Currie-McGhee · ReferencePoint Press,
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

From School Library Journal Gr 8 Up-These books are well written, well researched, and engaging. Reluctant readers will be drawn in by the snappy, funny sidebars and clear photos, which are gorgeous and, at times, gory. Some students will be intrigued...
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Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery

Abby Sher · Barron's Educational Series
Format: Print book

Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery, by award-winning author Abby Sher, explores the global issue of human sex trafficking from a survivor's point of view. It recounts the harrowing stories of three courageous women--Somaly Mam, Minh Dang, and Maria Suarez--who...
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Jessie Elliot Is a Big Chicken
Jessie Elliot Is a Big Chicken

Elise Gravel · Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

Its Jessie Elliots last summer as a child In the fall shell be going to Hochelaga High--where the cool kids smoke have piercings and make out in abandoned parking lots Jessie wants to be cool but its way more fun being uncool Thats why this summer shes going to get a high score in Tetris...
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Choosing Courage: Inspiring Stories of What It Means to Be a Hero
Choosing Courage: Inspiring Stories of What It Means to Be a Hero

Peter Collier · Artisan, 2015.
Pages: 226
Format: Print book

What turns an ordinary person into a hero? What happens in the blink of an eye on a battlefield (or in any dangerous situation) to bring out true courage? The men and women who have been recognized by the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation know the answers to these questions deep...
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The Quiet Book padded board book
The Quiet Book padded board book

Deborah Underwood · HMH Books for Young Readers; Brdbk edition
Format: Board book

The New York Times bestseller is now available in a cozy padded board book edition! In this irresistibly charming picture book, many different quiet moments are captured, from the anticipation-heavy “Top of the roller coaster quiet” to the shocked-into-silence “First look...
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In the Time of Dragon Moon
In the Time of Dragon Moon

Janet Lee Carey · Kathy Dawson Books
Format: Hardcover

A rich medieval fantasy novel from an author whose work has been called "TRULY ORIGINAL . . . FANTASY AT ITS BEST."A perfectly crafted combination of medieval history, mythology, and fantasy, set on Wilde Island, featuring Uma Quarteney--a half Euit and half English girl, who has never...
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Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes
Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes

Scott Cawthon · Scholastic (Us)
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie, whose father owned the restaurant, and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place which had been locked up and abandoned...
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Bad Blood
Bad Blood

Demitria Lunetta · Delacorte Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

"Dark and complex and wickedly romantic." - GRETCHEN MCNEIL, author of Ten and I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl "A story that will both warm your heart, and chill you to the bone." - KENDARE BLAKE, author of Three Dark CrownsA girl discovers a family secret and a past...
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Piper Perish
Piper Perish

Kayla Cagan · Chronicle Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Piper Perish inhales air and exhales art. The sooner she and her best friends can get out of Houston and get to New York City, the better. Art school has been Piper's dream her whole life, and now that senior year is halfway over, she's never felt more ready. But in the final months...
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Clans
Clans

Darren Shan · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

B's first mission with the Angels --sentient, do-gooder zombies-- went horribly wrong when vicious members of the Ku Klux Klan attacked New Kirkham, a stronghold of precious human survivors. B is not about to let the racist thugs persecute innocent people, but while saving the town,...
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Shadowlands
Shadowlands

Kate Brian · Hyperion Book CH
Format: Hardcover

Rory Miller had one chance to fight back and she took it. Rory survived ... and the serial killer who attacked her escaped. Now that the infamous Steven Nell is on the loose, Rory must enter the witness protection with her father and sister, Darcy, leaving their friends and family without...
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Two Lies and a Spy
Two Lies and a Spy

Kat Carlton · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Kari plunges into the world of espionage on a mission to save her parents while trying to impress the guy she's been in love with forever.When sixteen-year-old Kari's dad sends her an unexpected text, she and her brother immediately go into hiding. Because when your parents are superspies...
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