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The Wood

Chelsea Bobulski · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Do not travel from the paths.Do not linger after dark. Do not ignore the calling.Winter didn't ask to be the guardian of the wood, but when her dad inexplicably vanishes, she's the one who must protect travelers who accidentally slip through the wood's portals. The wood is poisoned, changing...
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Miles Morales

Jason Reynolds · Marvel Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Everyone gets mad at hustlers, especially if you're on the victim side of the hustle. And Miles knew hustling was in his veins." Miles Morales is just your average teenager. Dinner every Sunday with his parents, chilling out playing old-school video games with his best friend,...
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Unraveling

Sara Ella · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"A sequel that outshines its already brilliant predecessor." - Nadine Brandes, award-winning author of the Out of Time trilogyWhat happens when happily ever after starts to unravel?Eliyana Ember doesn't believe in true love. Not anymore. After defeating her grandfather and saving...
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Court of Fives

Kate Elliott · Little
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

In this imaginative escape into enthralling new lands, World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott's first young adult novel weaves an epic story of a girl struggling to do what she loves in a society suffocated by rules of class and privilege. Jessamy's life is a balance between...
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Maybe in Paris

Rebecca Christiansen · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Keira Braidwood lands in Paris with her autistic brother, Levi, and high hopes. Levi has just survived a suicide attempt and months in the psych ward - he's ready for a dose of the wider world. Unlike their helicopter mom and the doctors who hover over Levi, Keira doesn't think...
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Flight Risk: A Novel

Jennifer Fenn · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Jennifer Fenn's debut novel inspired by true events, about a teenage boy who has stolen -- and crashed -- not one, but three airplanes. And each time he's walked away unscathed.Who is Robert Jackson Kelly? Is he a juvenile delinquent? A criminal mastermind? A folk hero? One thing is clear:...
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The Leaf Reader

Emily Arsenault · Soho Teen
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Like a contemporary take on Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle, Marnie Wells comes face-to-face with the occult, discovering she can tell the future by reading tea leaves.Marnie Wells knows that she creeps people out. It's not her fault: her parents are out of the picture, her brother is always in trouble,...
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Everything All at Once

KATRINA LENO · HarperTeen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A soaring novel by the critically acclaimed author of The Half Life of Molly Pierce and The Lost & Found, perfect for fans of Jennifer Niven and Rainbow Rowell.Lottie Reaves is not a risk taker. But she's about to take a leap into the unknown ... When Lottie's beloved Aunt Helen...
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Venturess

Betsy Cornwell · Clarion Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The young inventor Nicolette Lampton is living her own fairy-tale happy ending. She's free of her horrible stepfamily, running a successful business, and is uninterested in marrying the handsome prince, Fin. Instead, she, Fin, and their friend Caro venture to the lush land of Faerie,...
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In 27 Days

Alison Gervais · Blink
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Hadley Jamison is shocked when she hears that her classmate, Archer Morales, has committed suicide. She didn't know the quiet, reserved guy very well, but that doesn't stop her from feeling there was something she could have done to help him. Hoping to find some sense of closure, Hadley...
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Paper Hearts

Ali Novak · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

"I'm sorry," he said, slowly untying the ribbon that held his mask in place. "It's just-I didn't want you to think of me any differently." Somehow I kept my mouth from falling open. I knew his face, but my mind couldn't accept that he was the person looking down at me. "My...
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The Hundredth Queen

EMILY R KING · Skyscape
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

As an orphan ward of the Sisterhood, eighteen-year-old Kalinda is destined for nothing more than a life of seclusion and prayer. Plagued by fevers, she's an unlikely candidate for even a servant's position, let alone a courtesan or wife. Her sole dream is to continue living in peace in the Sisterhood's...
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The Last Magician

Lisa Maxwell · Simon Pulse
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

From Unhooked author Lisa Maxwell comes a captivating new world filled with magic and deception, about a girl who must travel back in time to find a mysterious book that could save her future.Stop the Magician. Steal the book. Save the future. In modern day New York, magic is all but extinct....
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Bad Romance

Heather Demetrios · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt off the floors. Out of her California town, too small to contain her big city dreams. Out of her life, and into the role of Parisian artist, New York director...
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Dramatically Ever After

Isabel Bandeira · Spencer Hill Press
Pages: 378
Format: Paperback

Senior year is not shaping up to be the picture perfect movie Em Katsaros had imagined. Her super hot leading man is five thousand miles away. Her dad just got laid off. And Em can kiss her first-pick university goodbye if she doesn't snag a scholarship. To turn this Shakespearean...
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The machine

J Manoa · Epic Press
Pages: 200
Format:  Print book : Fiction : Secondary (senior high) school : EnglishView all editions and formats

Odin is held in an underground facility where he must undergo experiments that test his powers to further a secret project known as Solar Flare.
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Talk to me

J Manoa · Epic Press
Pages: 200
Format:  Print book : Secondary (senior high) school : EnglishView all editions and formats

"Resentful that he is being limited, Odin begins to rebel against the authorities in his life. At school, he acts up in class, refuses to do homework, and predicts answers before hearing the question. At home, Odin becomes suspicious that his parents aren't the loving...
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Waste of Space

Gina Damico · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Cram ten hormonal teens into a spaceship and blast off: that's the premise for the ill-conceived reality show Waste of Space. The kids who are cast know everything about drama - and nothing about the fact that the production is fake. Hidden in a desert warehouse, their spaceship replica...
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The Disappearances

Emily Bain Murphy · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

What if the ordinary things in life suddenly ... disappeared? Aila Quinn's mother, Juliet, has always been a mystery: vibrant yet guarded, she keeps her secrets beyond Aila's reach. When Juliet dies, Aila and her younger brother Miles are sent to live in Sterling, a rural town far from...
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All the Ways the World Can End

Abby Sher · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

All the Ways the World can End by Abby Sher is at times heart wrenching while at others hilarious. Lenny (short for Eleanor) feels like the world is about to end. Her best friend is moving to San Francisco and her dad is dying. To cope with her stress Lenny is making a list of all the ways...
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Words on Bathroom Walls

Julia Walton · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Fans of More Happy Than Not, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and It's Kind of a Funny Story will cheer for Adam as he struggles with schizophrenia in this brilliantly honest and unexpectedly funny debut. Adam has just been diagnosed with schizophrenia. He sees and hears people who aren't...
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Ash and Quill

Rachel Caine · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone and Paper and Fire unite to save the Great Library of Alexandria from itself in this electrifying adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. Hoarding all the knowledge of the world, the Great Library jealousy guards its secrets....
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Witchtown

Cory Putman Oakes · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Enter the gates of Witchtown to find a mischievous coming-of-age story for fans of Alice Hoffman's Practical Magic and the Danielle Paige's Dorothy Must Die series. When sixteen-year-old Macie O'Sullivan and her masterfully manipulative mother Aubra arrive at the gates of Witchtown...
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Buried Heart

Kate Elliott · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The explosive finale to World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott's captivating, New York Times bestselling young adult series
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The Waking Land

Callie Bates · Del Rey
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In the lush and magical tradition of Naomi Novik's award-winning Uprooted comes this riveting debut from brilliant young writer Callie Bates - whose boundless imagination places her among the finest authors of fantasy fiction, including Sarah J. Maas and Sabaa Tahir. Lady Elanna is fiercely...
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Into the Hurricane

NEIL CONNELLY · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

TWO PEOPLE WITH LOSSESEli and Max both have good reasons to go to the lighthouse on Shackles Island. For Max, it's an old vacation spot, the rare location where she has only good memories -- so it's the right place to scatter her dad's ashes. For Eli, it's the highest point near his Louisiana...
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Refugee

ALAN GRATZ · Scholastic Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft,...
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Lucky in Love

Kasie West · Point
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Maddie doesn't believe in luck. She's all about hard work and planning ahead. But one night, on a whim, she buys a lottery ticket. And then, to her astonishment --She wins!In a flash, Maddie's life is unrecognizable. No more stressing about college scholarships. Suddenly, she's talking...
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Now I Rise

Kiersten White · Delacorte Press
Pages: 470
Format: Hardcover

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Little Monsters

Kara Thomas · Delacorte Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

For fans of Pretty Little Liars, Little Monsters is a new psychological thriller, from the author of The Darkest Corners, about appearances versus reality and the power of manipulation amongst teenage girls.Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she stepped...
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Amid Stars and Darkness

Chani Lynn Feener · Swoon Reads
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A high-stakes space opera that combines science fiction and romance, this debut novel features plenty of action and a heroine whose unique brand of humor and tenacity make her easy to root for.Delaney's entire world is thrown into chaos after she is mistaken for Lissa Olena, an alien princess...
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What to Say Next

Julie Buxbaum · Delacorte Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things comes a charming and poignant story about two struggling teenagers who find an unexpected connection just when they need it most. For fans of Sophie Kinsella, Jennifer Niven, and Rainbow Rowell. Sometimes a new perspective...
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Vanguard

Ann Aguirre · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The companion fourth book in the New York Times -- bestselling Razorland YA series sees beloved characters reunited and features an unexpected new romance.
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Haunt Me

LIZ KESSLER · Candlewick

Haunting and intensely romantic, Liz Kessler's latest novel features a teen girl for whom falling in love could mean losing her heart - and maybe her life.When her family moves after a rough year, Erin feels instantly at home in her new bedroom - even after she realizes that she's not the only...
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Love and Other Alien Experiences

Kerry Winfrey · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

I'm never going outside again. Mallory hasn't left the house in sixty-seven days--since the day her dad left. She attends her classes via webcam, rarely leaves her room (much to her brother's chagrin) , and spends most of her time watching The X-Files or chatting with the always obnoxious...
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The Wrong Train

JEREMY DE QUIDT · David Fickling Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Light the candles and shut the door, The Wrong Train is a deliciously creepy and scarily good collection of scary stories, complete with terrifying illustrations from Dave Shelton. Perfect for fans of Patrick Ness, R.L. Stine, and Emily Carroll.Imagine you've just managed to catch your...
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I See London, I See France

Sarah Mlynowski · Harper Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Anna and the French Kiss meets 13 Little Blue Envelopes in New York Times bestselling author Sarah Mlynowski's latest teen novel.I see London, I see France...I see Sydney's underpants.Nineteen-year-old Sydney has the perfect summer mapped out. She's spending the next four and a half weeks...
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No Good Deed

Kara Connolly · Delacorte Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Marissa Meyer's Heartless and Danielle Paige's Dorothy Must Die will love this reimagining of the legend of Robin Hood. Girl power rules supreme when a modern girl finds herself in the middle of a medieval mess with only her smart mouth and her Olympic-archer aim to get her home....
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Daughter of the Burning City

Amanda Foody · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A darkly irresistible new fantasy set in the infamous Gomorrah Festival, a traveling carnival of debauchery that caters to the strangest of dreams and desires. Sixteen-year-old Sorina has spent most of her life within the smoldering borders of the Gomorrah Festival. Yet even among the many...
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Genius: The Con

Leopoldo Gout · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Three teen geniuses from diverse backgrounds must work together to stop a vicious warlord, protect their families, and save the world in this fast-paced sequel to Genius: The Game.ON THE RUN!Tunde: This fourteen-year-old self-taught engineering genius from Nigeria is in a race against time...
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