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Jeffery Self · Push
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A fantastic, fabulous, funny YA debut from Jeffery Self, one of the gay icons of the YouTube generation! Debut author Jeffery Self takes us on a road trip with an insecure high school senior who was one goal: to be the first in his family to leave Clearwater, Florida, and go to college....
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Every Last Word

Tamara Ireland Stone · Hyperion, 2015.
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

New York Times Bestseller
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We Are Okay

Nina Lacour · Dutton
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From the award-winning author of Hold Still comes an achingly beautiful novel about grief and the enduring power of friendship.★ "Exquisite." - Kirkus, starred review★ "LaCour paints a captivating depiction of loss, bewilderment, and emotional paralysis . . . raw and beautiful."...
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Girl Mans Up

M E Girard · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

All Pen wants is to be the kind of girl she's always been. So why does everyone have a problem with it? They think the way she looks and acts means she's trying to be a boy - that she should quit trying to be something she's not. If she dresses like a girl, and does what her folks want,...
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The Thickety #4: The Last Spell

J A White · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The spellbinding conclusion in the critically acclaimed Thickety series, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman. In The Thickety #4: The Last Spell, Kara and her brother Taff must find the hidden pieces of Princess Evangeline's grimoire to defeat Rygoth and her army of witches in one last good...
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The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline · DCB
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world....
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Silver Stars

Michael Grant · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Girl in the Blue Coat, Salt to the Sea, and The Boy at the Top of the Mountain, the second book of New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant's epic alternate history is a coming-of-age story about three girls who are fiercely fighting their own personal battles in the midst...
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The Mighty Odds: Book One

Amy Ignatow · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From the renowned author/illustrator of the Popularity Papers series, Amy Ignatow, comes the first installment in a new series about a diverse crew of middle school kids who develop very limited superhero powers after a strange accident and manage to become unlikely friends on the adventure...
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The Lie Tree

Frances Hardinge · Amulet Books
Pages: 377
Format: Print book

Read this thought-provoking, critically acclaimed novel (6 starred reviews ) from Frances Hardinge, winner of the Costa Book of the Year, Costa Children's Book Award, and Horn Book-Boston Globe Award. Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, she is reliable, dull, trustworthy...
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A Dog in the Cave: The Wolves Who Made Us Human

Kay Frydenborg · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

We know dogs are our best animal friends, but have you ever thought about what that might mean? Fossils show we've shared our work and homes with dogs for tens of thousands of years. Now there's growing evidence that we influenced dogs' evolution - and they, in turn, changed ours. Even...
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Here We Are: 44 Voices Write, Draw, and Speak about Feminism for the Real World

Kelly Jensen · Algonquin Young Readers
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Let's get the feminist party started! Here We Are is a scrapbook-style teen guide to understanding what it means to be a twenty-first-century feminist. It's packed with contributions from a diverse range of voices, including TV, film, and pop-culture celebrities and public figures such...
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The Cracks in the Kingdom: Book 2 of The Colors of Madeleine

Jaclyn Moriarty · Scholastic, Incorporated
Pages: 468
Format: Hardcover

The second in Jaclyn Moriarty's brilliant, acclaimed fantasy trilogy, THE COLORS OF MADELEINE!Princess Ko's been bluffing about the mysterious absence of her father, desperately trying to keep the government running on her own. But if she can't get him back in a matter of weeks,...
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Once and for All

SARAH DESSEN · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From Sarah Dessen, the beloved New York Times bestselling author of SAINT ANYTHING and JUST LISTEN, comes a new novel set in the world of wedding planning!Is it really better to have loved and lost? Louna's summer job is to help brides plan their perfect day, even though she stopped believing...
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The Grimm Conclusion

Adam Gidwitz · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Once upon a time, fairy tales were grim. Cinderellas stepsisters got their eyes pecked out by birds. Rumpelstiltskin ripped himself in half. And in a tale called The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage all talk to each other. Yes, the sausage talks. Okay,...
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The Sexual Trauma Workbook for Teen Girls: A Guide to Recovery from Sexual Assault and Abuse

Raychelle Cassada Lohmann · New Harbinger Pub
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

The Sexual Trauma Workbook for Teen Girls offers healing, real-life stories from survivors and powerful, evidence-based tools to help you reclaim your life after sexual abuse or trauma. If you've been sexually abused or experienced sexual trauma, you may feel confused, angry, ashamed,...
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