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The Glass Spare

Lauren DeStefano · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 402
Format: Hardcover

The first in a new fantasy duology, The Glass Spare is a gorgeously told tale of love, loss, and deadly power from Lauren DeStefano, the bestselling author of the Chemical Garden series. Perfect for fans of Shannon Hale and Renee Ahdieh. Wilhelmina Heidle, the fourth child and only daughter...
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The Dragon's Price

Bethany Wiggins · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Fans of Julie Kagawa's Talon and Renee Ahdieh's The Wrath and the Dawn will devour this action-packed fantasy adventure about a girl who chooses to surrender herself to a deadly dragon rather than marry an enemy prince. When two warring kingdoms unified against a deadly menace...
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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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Murder Is Bad Manners

Robin Stevens · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover

Two friends form a detective agency - and must solve their first murder case - in this "sharp-witted debut" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) that is the first adventure in a brand-new middle grade mystery series set at a 1930s boarding school.Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are best...
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Along the Indigo

Elsie Chapman · Amulet Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The town of Glory is famous for two things: businesses that front for seedy, if not illegal, enterprises and the suicides that happen along the Indigo River. Marsden is desperate to escape the "bed-and-breakfast" where her mother works as a prostitute - and where her own fate...
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Afghanistan

Sharifah Enayat Ali · Cavendish Square Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Library Binding

Book by Ali, Sharifah Enayat, Elias, Josie
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Arctic Thaw: Climate Change and the Global Race for Energy Resources

Stephanie Sammartino McPherson · Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Pages: 64
Format: Library Binding

Ice in the Arctic is disappearing - and opportunity is calling. As climate change transforms the top of the world, warmer conditions are exposing a treasure trove of energy resources previously trapped in ice. The Arctic's oil, natural gas, minerals, and even wind and hydroelectric...
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Saving Montgomery Sole

Mariko Tamaki · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover

A beautiful and offbeat novel from Mariko Tamaki, co-creator of the bestselling Printz Honor and Caldecott Honor Book This One Summer.Montgomery Sole is a square peg in a small town, forced to go to a school full of jocks and girls who don't even know what irony is. It would all be impossible...
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Forest World

Margarita Engle · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning author Margarita Engle comes a lively middle grade novel in verse that tells the story of a Cuban-American boy who visits his family's village in Cuba for the first time - and meets a sister he didn't know he had.Edver isn't happy about being shipped off to Cuba to visit...
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Antigoddess

Kendare Blake · Tor Teen; Reprint edition
Format: Book

The Goddess War begins in Antigoddess, the first installment of the new series by acclaimed author of Anna Dressed in Blood, Kendare Blake.Old Gods never die…Or so Athena thought. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her skin, invading her lungs like a strange cancer,...
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Snow White: A Graphic Novel

Matt Phelan · Candlewick Press (MA)
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Award-winning graphic novelist Matt Phelan delivers a darkly stylized noir Snow White set against the backdrop of Depression-era Manhattan.The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt....
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Every Person Has a History

Rebecca Vickers · Heinemann
Format: Book

Historical figures, celebrities, mystery people in family photos, and the names of people on memorials, buildings, and products we are surrounded by people whose background and history we can research. Even the most unfamiliar person might have had a surprising life. Who was a school named...
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Gold Medal Winter

Donna Freitas · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 313
Format: Hardcover

After years of practice and competitions, of sit spins and perfect poses and thrillingly high jumps, Esperanza Flores will be skating for the United States. But with the excitement of an Olympic shot comes new attention -- and BIG distractions.Suddenly Espi can't go out with her friends,...
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There Will Come a Time

Carrie Arcos · Simon Pulse
Pages: 315
Format: Print book

Mark grapples with the loss of his twin sister in this heart-wrenching novel of grief and resilience from National Book Award finalist Carrie Arcos.Mark knows grief. Ever since the accident that killed his twin sister, Grace, the only time he feels at peace is when he visits the bridge...
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Girl out of Water

Laura Silverman · Sourcebooks
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen will fall in love this contemporary debut about finding yourself-and finding love-in unexpected places.Ocean breeze in her hair and sand between her toes, Anise can't wait to spend the summer before her senior year surfing and hanging out on the beach...
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