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The Midnight Star

Marie Lu · Putnam Pub Group
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The thrilling finale to the New York Times bestselling Young Elites series from "hit factory" Marie LuThere was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. She's turned her back on those who have betrayed her and achieved...
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Girls Like Me

Lola StVil · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Fifteen-year-old Shay Summers is trying to cope with the death of her father, being overweight, and threats from a girl bully in school. When she falls in love with Blake, a mysterious boy online, insecure Shay doesn't want to tell him who she is. But with the help of her two best friends,...
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Afterward: A Novel

Jennifer Mathieu · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A tragic kidnapping leads to an unlikely friendship in this novel about finding light in the midst of darkness from the author of The Truth About Alice.When eleven-year-old Dylan Anderson is kidnapped, his subsequent rescue leads to the discovery of fifteen-year-old Ethan Jorgensen, who had gone...
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Iron Cast

Destiny Soria · Amulet Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

It's Boston, 1919, and the Cast Iron club is packed. On stage, hemopaths - whose "afflicted" blood gives them the ability to create illusions through art - Corinne and Ada have been best friends ever since infamous gangster Johnny Dervish recruited them into his circle. By night...
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Signs of You

Emily France · Soho Teen
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Since sixteen-year-old Riley Strout lost her mother two years ago, her saving grace has been her quirky little family in the grief support group she joined as a freshman. Jay, Kate, and Noah understand her pain; each lost a loved one, and they've stuck together in spite of their differences,...
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The Fever Code

James Dashner · Delacorte Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Pre-order now! All will be revealed in the fifth book in James Dashner's #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series. This is the story that fans all over the world have been waiting for - the story of how Thomas and WICKED built the Maze. You will not want to miss it. Once...
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Spare and Found Parts

Sarah Maria Griffin · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Nell Crane has never held a boy's hand. In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts - an arm, a leg, an eye - Nell has always been an outsider. Her father is the famed scientist who created the biomechanical limbs that everyone now uses. But she's...
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Still Life with Tornado

A S King · Dutton
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A heartbreaking story of a talented teenage artist's surreal awakening to the horrifically unoriginal brokenness of her family from critically acclaimed award-winner A.S. King. Sarah can't draw. This is a problem, because as long as she can remember, she has "done the art." She thinks...
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Broken Crowns

Lauren DeStefano · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

War rages everywhere and Morgan is caught in the middle in the haunting conclusion of The Internment Chronicles, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Chemical Garden trilogy.The city is falling out of the sky ... Morgan always thought it was just a saying. A metaphor. The words...
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Watched

Marina Tamar Budhos · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 265
Format: Print book

Marina Budhos's extraordinary and timely novel examines what it's like to grow up under surveillance, something many Americans experience and most Muslim Americans know. Naeem is far from the "model teen." Moving fast in his immigrant neighborhood in Queens is the only way he can outrun...
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Everyone We've Been

Sarah Everett · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

"Everyone We've Been is a dazzling love story with mystery and dizzying twists. Sarah Everett's puzzle of a debut will easily hook readers as they piece together this consuming tale of hope and heartbreak." -Adam Silvera, New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not "Addictive,...
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When the moon was ours.

Anna-Marie Mclemore · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

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The Female of the Species

Mindy Mcginnis · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a dark and riveting contemporary YA novel that blends the unflinching honesty of Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak with the relentless pacing and alternating perspectives of Gone Girl. A stunning, unforgettable page-turner.Alex Craft knows...
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The Best Man

Richard Peck · Dial
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Newbery Medalist Richard Peck tells a story of small-town life, gay marriage, and everyday heroes in this novel for fans of Gary Schmidt and Jack GantosArcher Magill has spent a lively five years of grade school with one eye out in search of grown-up role models. Three of the best are his grandpa,...
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The Memory Book

Lara Avery · Little
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

"They tell me that my memory will never be the same, that I'll start forgetting things. At first just a little, and then a lot. So I'm writing to remember. """Sammie McCoy is a girl with a plan: graduate at the top of her class and get out of her small town as soon as possible....
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Spindle

Shonna Slayton · Entangled Publishing
Pages: 321
Format: Print book

In a world where fairies lurk and curses linger, love can bleed like the prick of a finger ... Briar Rose knows her life will never be a fairy tale. She's raising her siblings on her own, her wages at the spinning mill have been cut, and the boy she thought she had a future with has eyes...
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The Smaller Evil

Stephanie Kuehn · Dutton
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Sometimes the greater good requires the smaller evil. 17-year-old Arman Dukoff can't remember life without anxiety and chronic illness when he arrives at an expensive self-help retreat in the remote hills of Big Sur. He's taken a huge risk - and two-thousand dollars from his meth-head...
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American Girls: A Novel

Alison Umminger · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

She was looking for a place to land.Anna is a fifteen-year-old girl slouching toward adulthood, and she's had it with her life at home. So Anna "borrows" her stepmom's credit card and runs away to Los Angeles, where her half-sister takes her in. But LA isn't quite the glamorous...
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Something in Between

Melissa de la Cruz · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz (The Isle of the Lost, Return to the Isle of the Lost) comes the launch title of Seventeen Fiction from Harlequin Teen, Something in Between. Don't miss this timely and powerful novel that Seventeen Magazine editor-in-chief...
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Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

Alan Gratz · Scholastic (Us)
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage.World War II is raging. Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Ireland, now lives in Nazi Germany with his parents. Like the other boys in his school, Michael is a member of the Hitler Youth. But Michael has a secret. He and his parents are spies. Michael...
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Bad Blood

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · Harpercollins
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI's Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother's murder. But now, everything Cassie thought she knew about what happened that night has been called into question. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her captive are more...
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Pushing Perfect

Michelle Falkoff · Harpercollins
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A girl's quest for perfection results in dangerous consequences in this smart, suspenseful YA novel by the author of Playlist for the Dead. Fans of We Were Liars and The Secret History will devour this layered, ensemble-cast novel, which will keep readers thinking - and guessing - until...
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Blood for Blood

Ryan Graudin · Little
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

"Wild and gorgeous, vivid and consuming. I loved it I can't wait for the sequel. "--Laini Taylor, "New York Times "bestselling author of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, on "Wolf by Wolf"The action-packed, thrilling sequel to Ryan Graudin's "Wolf...
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The Amateurs Book 1 The Amateurs

Sara Shepard · Freeform Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

As soon as Seneca Frazier sees the post on the Case Not Closed website about Helena Kelly, she's hooked. Helena's high-profile disappearance five years earlier is the one that originally got Seneca addicted to true crime. It's the reason she's a member of the site in the first place. So when...
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The Diabolic

S J Kincaid · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Red Queen meets The Hunger Games in this epic novel about what happens when the galaxy's most deadly weapon masquerades as a senator's daughter and a hostage of the galactic court.A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person...
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Consider

Kristy Acevedo · Jolly Fish Pr
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

As if 17-year-old Alexandra Lucas' anxiety disorder isn't enough, mysterious holograms suddenly appear, heralding the end of the world. They bring an ultimatum: heed the warning and step through a portal-like vertex to safety, or stay and be destroyed by a comet that is on a collision...
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The Stranger Game

Cylin Busby · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The Stranger Game is a dark, suspenseful, and twisty novel that is Gone Girl for teens. Perfect for fans of Lauren Oliver and E. Lockhart.When Nico Morris's older sister mysteriously disappears, her parents, family, and friends are devastated. But Nico can never admit what she herself feels:...
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Back Off, I'm a Ninja

Natalie Whipple · Whipple House
Pages: 334
Format: Paperback

Sometimes it sucks being a ninja. Still reeling from their disastrous face-off with the demon Akuma, Tosh and Amy are desperate to get stronger. They gained a small victory last time, but the price was too high, and it keeps getting higher. Akuma isn't taking any chances. While he hunts...
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The Sun Is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon · Delacorte
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Be the first to read the dazzling new novel from Nicola Yoon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, EverythingNatasha: I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I'm definitely not the kind of girl who meets...
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The Romantics

Leah Konen · Amulet Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Perfect for fans of Lauren Myracle and Rainbow Rowell, The Romantics will charm readers of all ages. Gael Brennan is about to have his heart broken when his first big relationship crumbles on the heels of his parents' painful separation. Love intervenes with the intention of setting things...
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Gemina

Amie Kaufman · New York
Pages: 672
Format: Print book

The highly anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller that critics are calling "out-of-this-world awesome." Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna's social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed....
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Phantom limbs

Paula Garner · Candlewick Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

How do you move on from an irreplaceable loss? In a poignant debut, a sixteen-year-old boy must learn to swim against an undercurrent of grief - or be swept away by it.Otis and Meg were inseparable until her family abruptly moved away after the terrible accident that left Otis's little...
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What Light

Jay Asher · Razorbill
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From Jay Asher, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Thirteen Reasons Why, comes a holiday romance that will break your heart, but soon have you believing in love again. . . . "A beautiful story of love and forgiveness." - Stephen Chbosky, New York Times bestselling author...
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Saving Red

Sonya Sones · Harpercollins
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Sonya Sones, award-winning author of What My Mother Doesn't Know, delivers a gripping, funny, and inspiring novel in verse about what happens when the person you set out to save ends up saving you.Right before winter break, fourteen-year-old Molly Rosenberg reluctantly volunteers to participate...
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Fear the Drowning Deep

Sarah Glenn Marsh · Sky Pony Pr
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

Some secrets are better left at the bottom of the ocean.Sixteen-year-old Bridey Corkill longs to leave her small island and see the world; the farther from the sea, the better. When Bridey was young, she witnessed something lure her granddad off a cliff and into a watery grave with a smile...
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I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Gretchen Mcneil · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From acclaimed author Gretchen McNeil comes her first realistic contemporary romance - perfect for fans of Kody Keplinger's The Duff and Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone.Beatrice Maria Estrella Giovannini has life all figured out. She's starting senior year at the top of her class,...
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The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily

Rachel Cohn · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Cohn and David Levithan are back with a life-affirming Christmas romance starring Dash and Lily. Dash and Lily have had a tough year since readers first watched the couple fall in love. Lily's beloved grandfather suffered a heart attack, and his difficult...
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Be Good Be Real Be Crazy

Chelsey Philpot · HarperTeen
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Three teenagers. One road trip. Countless detours. From the author of Even in Paradise comes a story about love, friendship, and finding yourself that is perfect for fans of Paper Towns and Mosquitoland.When Mia first waltzed into Homer's small corner of Florida, she changed Homer's entire...
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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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Vassa in the night

Sarah Porter · Tor Teen
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Vassa in the Night is an enchanting, modern retelling of the Russian folktale "Vassilissa the Beautiful" for young adults by the critically-acclaimed author, Sarah Porter. Leigh Bardugo, New York Times bestselling author of the Grisha Trilogy, calls it, "A dark, thoroughly...
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Boy Robot

Simon Curtis · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Seventeen-year-old Isaak discovers the truth about his origin and the underground forces that must come together to fight against a secret government organization formed to eradicate those like him in this high-octane science fiction debut.There once was a boy who was made, not created....
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Moon Chosen: Tales of a New World

P C Cast · Griffin
Pages: 608
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author, P.C. Cast, brings us a new epic fantasy set in a world where humans, their animal allies, and the earth itself has been drastically changed. A world filled with beauty and danger and cruelty ... Mari is an Earth Walker, heir to the unique healing powers...
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Rose & Thorn

Sarah Prineas · Harper Teen
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

This beauty isn't sleeping! Discover the true story of Sleeping Beauty in Sarah Prineas's bold YA fairy-tale retelling filled with thrilling adventure and romance, perfect for fans of the Lunar Chronicles and the Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy.After the spell protecting her is destroyed,...
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