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Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal'd

Mary Losure · Candlewick Press
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

A surprising true story of Isaac Newton's boyhood suggests an intellectual development owing as much to magic as science.Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's...
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Fun Science: A Guide To Life, The Universe And Why Science Is So Awesome

Charlie Mcdonnell · Quadrille Pub
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Welcome, fellow humans (and others) , to the the world of FUN SCIENCE! I'm Charlie, also known across the internet as charlieissocoollike.In my book, I'll be taking you on an awesome journey through the cosmos, beginning with the Big Bang through to the Solar System and the origins...
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Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz

Michael Bornstein · Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In 1945, in a now-famous piece of World War II archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers as he was carried out of Auschwitz in his grandmother's arms. Survivors Club tells the unforgettable story of how a father's courageous wit, a mother's fierce love,...
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Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

Deborah Heiligman · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

From the author of National Book Award finalist Charles and Emma comes an incredible story of brotherly love.The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. Confidant, champion, sympathizer, friend -- Theo supported Vincent as he struggled...
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The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life

Kwame Alexander · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar. What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what...
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Tell me three things

Julie Buxbaum · Delacorte Press
Pages: 329
Format: Print book

A New York Times BestsellerWhat if the person you need the most is someone you've never met? Funny and romantic, this tug-at-your-heartstrings contemporary YA debut is perfect for readers of Rainbow Rowell, Jennifer Niven, and E. Lockhart.Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that's...
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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."You go through life thinking there's so much you need. . . . Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother." Marin...
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The Adjustment

Suzanne Young · Simon Pulse
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

How do you go back to a life you can't remember? Find out in this follow up to the New York Times bestselling The Program and The Treatment.Tatum Masterson never went through The Program. She never had her memory stripped, never had to fight to remain herself. But when Weston, her longtime...
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Piecing Me Together

Rene Watson · Bloomsbury
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A timely and powerful story about a teen girl striving for success in a world that too often feels like it wants to break her. Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way....
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Learning to Swear in America

Katie Kennedy · Bloomsbury
Pages: 345
Format: Print book

A Summer/Fall 2016 Indies Introduce selectionAn asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. A big, bad one. Maybe not kill-all-the-dinosaurs bad, but at least kill-everyone-in-California-and-wipe-out-Japan-with-a-tsunami bad. Yuri, a physicist prodigy from Russia, has been recruited to aid NASA...
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The Radius of Us: A Novel

Marie Marquardt · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 295
Format: Print book

What happens when you fall in love with someone everyone seems determined to fear? Ninety seconds can change a life -- not just daily routine, but who you are as a person. Gretchen Asher knows this, because that's how long a stranger held her body to the ground. When a car sped toward...
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Railhead

Philip Reeve · Switch Press
Pages: 333
Format: Print book

The Great Network is an ancient web of routes and gates, where sentient trains can take you anywhere in the galaxy in the blink of an eye. Zen Starling is a nobody. A petty thief from the filthy streets of Thunder City who aimlessly rides the rails of the Network. So when the mysterious...
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Who killed christopher goodman

Allan Wolf · Candlewick Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Inspired by a tragic true event in his past, Allan Wolf examines the circumstances of one boy's inexplicable murder and the fateful summer leading up to it.Everybody likes Chris Goodman. Sure, he's a little odd. He wears those funny bell-bottoms and he really likes the word ennui and he shakes...
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Missing

Kelley Armstrong · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Fans of Jennifer Donnelly will flock to the new romantic thriller from #1 New York Timesbestselling author Kelley Armstrong. The only thing Winter Crane likes about Reeve's End is that soon she'll leave it. Like her best friend did. Like her sister did. Like most of the teens born in town...
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A List of Cages

Robin Roe · Hyperion
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he's got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn't easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can't complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends....
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Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

Disney Book Group. · Harpercollins
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

This deluxe hardcover novel tells an original story set in the world seen in the new Walt Disney Studios' film, Beauty and the Beast.
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Bang

BARRY LYGA · LITTLE
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A heartbreaking novel about living with your worst mistake, from New York Times bestselling author Barry Lyga. A chunk of old memory, adrift in a pool of blood. Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one--not even Sebastian himself--can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally...
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Fireworks

Katie Cotugno · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of 99 Days and How to Love comes a stunning new contemporary novel - all about boy bands, girl bands, best friends, and first love - perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Morgan Matson. It was always meant to be Olivia. She's the talented one, the one who's...
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Legion

Julie Kagawa · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

From the limitless imagination of Julie Kagawa comes the next thrilling novel of The Talon Saga. The legions will be unleashed, and no human, rogue dragon or former dragonslayer can stand against the coming horde. Dragon hatchling Ember Hill was never prepared to find love at all - dragons...
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The Whole Thing Together

Ann Brashares · Delacorte Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series was a worldwide phenomenon, and she's back with a beautifully written novel about love, class differences, and betrayal playing out over the course of a fractured American family's Long Island...
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Saint Death: A Novel

Marcus Sedgwick · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive, compelling, and unsparing novel set in the grimly violent world of the human and drug trade on the US-Mexican border.On the outskirts of Juarez, Arturo scrapes together a living working odd jobs and staying out of sight. But his friend Faustino is in trouble: he's stolen money...
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Spill Zone

Scott Westerfeld · First Second Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone.The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't...
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Textrovert

LINDSEY SUMMERS · Kids Can Press
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

It s bad enough when high-school senior Keeley grabs the wrong phone while leaving her small town s end-of-summer fair. It s even worse when she discovers that the phone she now has belongs to the obnoxious, self-centered Talon and that he s just left for football camp ... with her phone....
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The Scattering

KIMBERLY MCCREIGHT · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight raises the stakes in the second book of the heart-pounding Outliers trilogy, a uniquely speculative story about secrets, betrayal, and a world where one small group of people are blessed - or cursed - with an incredible power.Wylie may have...
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Windfall

Jennifer E. Smith · Random House Children's Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Filled with all of Jenny Han's "favorite things", a romantic new novel from the author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. This story of hope, chance, and change is one Morgan Matson calls "something wonderful" and Stephanie Perkins says "is rich...
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The Pearl Thief

Elizabeth Wein · Hyperion
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Before Verity . . . there was Julie. When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly what she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize...
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Star Wars Rogue One Young Adult Novel

Beth Revis · Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis brings to life the early adventures and heartbreaks of the heroine of the smash hit movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. When Jyn Erso was five years old, her mother was murdered and her father taken from her to serve the Empire. But despite...
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Avenged

Amy Tintera · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

With the romance of The Selection and the epic stakes of Red Queen, Amy Tintera's New York Times-bestselling Ruined trilogy continues with the thrilling young adult fantasy Avenged.Emelina Flores has come home to Ruina. After rescuing her sister, Olivia, from imprisonment in rival kingdom...
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The One Memory of Flora Banks

Emily Barr · Philomel Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

It's not a lie if you can't remember the truth. "Mesmerizing, electric, and achingly lovely, The One Memory of Flora Banks is unforgettable. One of the best YA novels I've read in a very long time." --Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places...
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Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Jenny Han · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 325
Format: Hardcover

Lara Jean's letter-writing days aren't over in this surprise follow-up to the New York Times bestselling To All the Boys I've Loved Before and P.S. I Still Love You.Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter;...
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Triple Threat

Gwenda Bond · Switch Pr
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

She's cracked down on a mind-melding gang of bullies and saved the ex-mayor of Metropolis from the double who framed him. But now, Lois Lane embarks on a case even she isn't sure she can solve . . .
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Renegade Red: Book Two of The Light Trilogy

Lauren Bird Horowitz · Papaloa Press
Pages: 403
Format: Paperback

There are three variant covers of Renegade Red. Covers will be distributed randomly upon purchase.
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Shadow Run

Michael Miller · Delacorte Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Firefly meets Dune in this action-packed sci-fi adventure about a close-knit, found family of a crew navigating a galaxy of political intrigue and resource-driven power games. Nev has just joined the crew of the starship Kaitan Heritage as the cargo loader. His captain, Qole, is the youngest-ever...
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Maud: A Novel Inspired by the Life of L.M. Montgomery

Melanie Fishbane · Razorbill Canada
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

For the first time ever, a young novel about the teen years of L.M. Montgomery, the author who brought us ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. Fourteen-year-old Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Maud to her friends -- has a dream: to go to college and become a writer, just like her idol, Louisa May Alcott....
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Literally

Lucy Keating · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

From the author of Dreamology comes a young adult love story that blurs the line between reality and fiction ... Annabelle's life has always been Perfect with a capital P. Then bestselling young adult author Lucy Keating announces that she's writing a new novel - and Annabelle is the heroine....
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Count All Her Bones

April Henry · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Cheyenne sets out to save her former captor in this much-anticipated sequel to Girl, Stolen. Six months ago, Griffin Sawyer meant to steal a car, but he never meant to steal the girl asleep in the backseat. Panicked, he took her home. His father, Roy, decided to hold Cheyenne -- who is blind...
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Spindle Fire

Lexa Hillyer · Harper Teen
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Leigh Bardugo, Spindle Fire is an enthralling, wholly original reimagining of a classic faerie story.Half sisters Isabelle and Aurora are polar opposites: Isabelle is the king's headstrong illegitimate daughter, whose sight was tithed by faeries; Aurora,...
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Goodbye Days

Jeff Zentner · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

"Gorgeous, heartbreaking, and ultimately life-affirming," says Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also A Star, of this novel about finding strength and hope after tragedy. Perfect for fans of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl...
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Camp So-And-So

Mary McCoy · Carolrhoda Lab
Pages: 424
Format: Print book

The letters went out in mid-February. Each letter invited its recipient to spend a week at Camp So-and-So, a lakeside retreat for girls nestled high in the Starveling Mountains. Each letter came with a glossy brochure with photographs of young women climbing rocks, performing Shakespeare...
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Speed of Life

Carol Weston · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Sofia lost her mother eight months ago, and her friends were 100% there for her. Now it's a new year and they're ready for Sofia to move on.Problem is, Sofia can't bounce back, can't recharge like a cellphone. She decides to write Dear Kate, an advice columnist for Fifteen Magazine, and is surprised...
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The Heartbreakers

Ali Novak · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 331
Format: Print book

"Swoon worthy! I fell in love with Oliver Perry so fast! This book is feels inducing...I loved every single page!" -- Anna Todd, New York Times bestelling author of the After series"When I met Oliver Perry, I had no clue he was the lead singer for The Heartbreakers. And he had no idea...
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