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The Takedown

Corrie Wang · Freeform
Pages: 369
Format: Hardcover

Kyla Cheng doesn't expect you to like her. For the record, she doesn't need you to. On track to be valedictorian, she's president of her community club, a debate team champ, plus the yummy Mackenzie Rodriguez has firmly attached himself to her hip. She and her three high-powered best friends...
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Tangled Planet

Kate Blair · DCB
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

It's taken four hundred years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination, Beta Earth, an uninhabited, untouched planet. The first night seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa is on Beta Earth, she encounters a dead body. She's positive she saw a large creature...
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The Rains: A Novel

Gregg Hurwitz · Tor Teen
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In the tradition of Rick Yancey's "The 5th Wave, " the first YA page-turner from "New York Times "bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz. In one terrifying night, the peaceful community of Creek's Cause turns into a war zone. No one under the age of eighteen is safe. Chance...
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Four-Four-Two

Dean Hughes · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 268
Format: Print book

From the author of Soldier Boys and Search and Destroy comes a thought-provoking, action-packed page-turner based on the little-known history of the Japanese Americans who fought with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II.Yuki Nakahara is an American. But it's the start of World...
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Words in Deep Blue

Cath Crowley · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"One of the loveliest, most exquisitely beautiful books I've read in a very long time. . . . I didn't just read the pages, I lived in them." - Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places A beautiful love story for fans of Jandy Nelson and Nicola...
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Landscape with Invisible Hand

M T ANDERSON · Candlewick
Pages: 149
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization.When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth - but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really...
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When

Victoria Laurie · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 327
Format: Hardcover

Maddie Fynn is a shy high school junior, cursed with an eerie intuitive ability: she sees a series of unique digits hovering above the foreheads of each person she encounters. Her earliest memories are marked by these numbers, but it takes her father's premature death for Maddie and her family...
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The Price Guide to the Occult

LESLYE WALTON · Candlewick
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender comes a haunting maelstrom of magic and murder in the lush, moody Pacific Northwest.When Rona Blackburn landed on Anathema Island more than a century ago, her otherworldly skills might have benefited friendlier neighbors....
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Critical Survey of Young Adult Literature: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access

Salem Press · Salem Press
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

This comprehensive collection provides thoughtful examination of the Authors, Works, Genres, Themes and Film Adaptations that have contributed to the popularity and success of the young adult genre. Author Biographies-Complete coverage of 40 of the most notable young adult authors from...
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The Giant

Lex Thomas · Carolrhoda Lab
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

In this fourth book in the Quarantine series, Gonzalo, now released from the high school quarantine, travels across a ravaged America looking for his beloved girlfriend Sasha.
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The Siren

Kiera Cass · HarperTeen
Pages: 327
Format: Print book

From Kiera Cass, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Selection series, comes a captivating stand-alone fantasy romance.Kahlen is a Siren, bound to serve the Ocean by luring humans to watery graves with her voice, which is deadly to any human who hears it. Akinli is human - a kind,...
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Now I Rise

Kiersten White · Delacorte Press
Pages: 470
Format: Hardcover

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Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story

Caren Barzelay Stelson · Carolrhoda Books
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

A Minnesota Book Award FinalistA Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature "[A] book that is both personal and universal, both thoroughly researched and real."--The New York Times Book Review This striking...
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Eight Rivers of Shadow

Leo Hunt · Candlewick Press
Format: Print book

In a high-stakes sequel, reluctant necromancer Luke Manchett must call upon the most wicked and eerie ghosts of his dispelled Host to save two innocent souls.It's been a few months since Luke Manchett inherited a Host of eight hostile spirits from his dead father and made a deal with the devil...
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To the Moon!: The True Story of the American Heroes on the Apollo 8 Spaceship

Jeffrey Kluger · Philomel Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The exciting and inspiring true story of Apollo 8, the first crewed spaceship to break free of the Earth's orbit and reach the moon, by the best-selling author of Apollo 13.What's more exciting that spaceships and astronauts? How about a spaceship carrying the first astronauts ever...
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