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The Traitor's Game

Jennifer A Nielsen · Scholastic Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Nothing is as it seems in the kingdom of Antora. Kestra Dallisor has spent three years in exile in the Lava Fields, but that won't stop her from being drawn back into her father's palace politics. He's the right hand man of the cruel king, Lord Endrick, which makes Kestra a valuable bargaining...
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Sky in the Deep

ADRIENNE YOUNG · Wednesday Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A 2018 Most Anticipated Young Adult book that is part Wonder Woman, part Vikings -- and all heart.OND ELDR. BREATHE FIRE.Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight...
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Leah on the Offbeat

BECKY ALBERTALLI · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 352
Format: Book

The sequel to the acclaimed and award-winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is told from the point of one of Simon's BFFs, Leah Burke, during a senior year filled with unexpected angst and surprising romance.
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Mapping the Bones

Jane Yolen · Philomel Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling and award-winning author of The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen, comes her first Holocaust novel in nearly thirty years. Influenced by Dr. Mengele's sadistic experimentations, this story follows twins as they travel from the Lodz ghetto, to the partisans in the forest,...
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From the Earth to the Shadows: Valkyrie Book Two

AMANDA HOCKING · Wednesday Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

The epic conclusion to the thrilling Valkyrie duology by New York Times bestselling YA author Amanda Hocking, From the Earth to the Shadows.While dealing with dark revelations about her life and her world, Malin finds herself with new allies--and new enemies. Her quest for the truth leads...
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After the Shot Drops

Randy Ribay · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen's mission to create a better life for his family in the tradition of Jason Reynolds, Matt de la Pena, and Walter Dean Myers. Bunny and Nasir have been best friends forever, but when Bunny accepts an athletic scholarship across...
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Stormcaster

Cinda Williams Chima · HarperCollins
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

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Munmun

Jesse Andrews · Amulet Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person's physical size is directly proportional to their wealth. The poorest of the poor are the size of rats, and billionaires are the size of skyscrapers. Warner and his sister Prayer are destitute - and tiny. Their size is not just...
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Between the Lines

NIKKI GRIMES · Nancy Paulsen Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

This thought-provoking companion to Nikki Grimes' Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bronx Masquerade shows the capacity poetry has to express ideas and feelings, and connect us with ourselves and others. Darrian dreams of writing for the New York Times. To hone his skills and learn more...
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Dark Breaks the Dawn

Sara B Larson · Scholastic Press
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover

On her eighteenth birthday, Princess Evelayn of Eadrolan, the Light Kingdom, can finally access the full range of her magical powers. The light looks brighter, the air is sharper, and the energy she can draw when fighting feels almost limitless. But while her mother, the queen, remains...
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Brightly Burning

Alexa Donne · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A romantic, cinematic, richly-imagined retelling of the classic Jane Eyre set in space, about seventeen-year-old Stella Ainsley, a mechanic who takes a governess job on board the private ship, the Rochester and falls in love with the ship's mysterious and troubled captain. For Marissa Meyer...
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Isle of Blood and Stone

Makiia Lucier · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Isle of Blood and Stone, the first in a duology, is a sweeping historical fantasy full of intrigue and schemes, romance and friendship, and fearless explorers searching for the truth. Ulises asked, "How can I look at these maps, see this riddle, and do nothing? They are my brothers."Elias...
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Inferno

Julie Kagawa · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times, USA TODAY and international bestselling author of The Iron Fey and the Blood of Eden series comes the fiery, hugely anticipated finale of The Talon Saga ... INFERNOWhat if dragons walked among us in human form? Enter a modern fantasy of heroes, sacrifice, forbidden...
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Losers Bracket

Chris Crutcher · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

When it comes to family, Annie is in the losers bracket. While her foster parents are great (mostly) , her birth mom, Nancy, and her sister, Sheila, would not have been her first picks. And no matter how many times Annie tries to write them out of her life, she always gets sucked back...
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Queens of Fennbirn

Kendare Blake · HarperTeen
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake delivers two Three Dark Crowns prequel novellas fans won't want to miss! Together in print for the first time in this paperback bind-up, the dazzling prequels to the Three Dark Crowns series are finally available for fans to have and to (literally)...
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The Summer of Broken Things

Margaret Peterson Haddix · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes a haunting novel about friendship and what it really means to be a family in the face of lies and betrayal.Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted is athletic, rich, and pretty. Sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts is known as "butt-girl"...
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Someday, Somewhere

Lindsay Champion · Kids Can Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

Dominique is a high school junior from a gritty neighborhood in Trenton, where she and her mom are barely getting by. Ben is a musical prodigy from the Upper East Side, a violinist at a top conservatory with obsessive talent and a brilliant future. When Dom's class is taken to hear a concert...
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Fire with Fire

Jenny Han · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 517
Format: Hardcover

Secrets prove deadly in book two of the Burn for Burn trilogy from New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved Before (soon to be a major motion picture!) , Jenny Han, and New York Times bestselling author of The List, Siobhan Vivian.Lillia, Kat, and Mary had the perfect...
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Ash Princess

Laura Sebastian · Delacorte Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen and Sabaa Tahir's An Ember in the Ashes, Ash Princess is an epic new fantasy about a throne cruelly stolen and a girl who must fight to take it back for her people.Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Fire Queen, was murdered...
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Checked

Cynthia Kadohata · Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata comes a brilliantly realized sports novel about a hockey player who must discover who he is without the sport that defines him.Hockey is Conor's life. His whole life. He'll say it himself, he's a hockey beast. It's his dad's whole life too - and Conor...
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Autonomous

Andy Marino · Freeform
Pages: 368
Format: Book

William Mackler is about to go on the road trip of a lifetime. After winning a contest-and nearly dying in the process-he becomes the proud owner of Autonomous, a driverless car that knows where you want to go before you do. #Worthit! To sweeten the deal he gets to pick three friends to go with...
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The Place Between Breaths

Na An · Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From master storyteller and Printz Award-winning author An Na comes a dark, intensely moving story of a girl desperately determined to find a cure for the illness that swept her mother away, and could possibly destroy her own life as well.Sixteen-year-old Grace is in a race against time...
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Love & War: An Alex & Eliza Story

MELISSA DE LA CRUZ · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 366
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling romance of young Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler continues in the sizzling sequel to the New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza: A Love StoryAs the war for American Independence carries on, newlyweds Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler are settling into their...
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Carve the Mark: Book Two

VERONICA ROTH · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated sequel to Carve the Mark from Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divergent, concludes the story of Akos and Cyra and the fulfillment of their fates.
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