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But Then I Came Back

Estelle Laure · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Gayle Forman meets Francesca Lia Block in this dazzling story about two coma girls and the boy who connects their lives. From the author of This Raging Light, a debut that New York Times bestselling author Morgan Matson calls "remarkable."

"Something...
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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....
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Alex and Eliza: A Love Story

Melissa de la Cruz · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Witches of East End and The Descendants comes the love story of young Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler.

1777. Albany, New York.

As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance,...
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The Unexpected Everything

Morgan Matson · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

From Morgan Matson, the bestselling author of Since You've Been Gone comes a feel-good story of friendship, finding yourself, and all the joys in life that happen while you're busy making other plans.

Andie has a plan. And she always sticks to her plan.

Future?...
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Zenn Diagram

Wendy Brant · KCP Loft
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

Eva Walker is a seventeen-year-old math genius. And if that doesn't do wonders for her popularity, there s another thing that makes it even worse: when she touches another person or anything that belongs to them from clothes to textbooks to cell phones she sees a vision of their emotions....
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Alex, Approximately

Jenn Bennett · Simon Pulse
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

In this delightfully charming teen spin on You've Got Mail, the one guy Bailey Rydell can't stand is actually the boy of her dreams - she just doesn't know it yet.

Classic movie buff Bailey "Mink" Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows...
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Optimists Die First

Susin Nielsen-Fernlund · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Award-winning author Susin Nielsen has written a laugh-out-loud and heartrending novel for fans of Robyn Schneider's Extraordinary Means and Cammie McGovern's Say What You Will.

Beware: Life ahead.

Sixteen-year-old Petula de Wilde is anything...
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Radio Silence

Alice Oseman · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 403
Format: Print book

What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret - not even the person she is on the inside. But when Frances meets Aled, the shy genius behind...
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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...
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Stranger Things Have Happened

Jeff Strand · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

You can't always believe what you see in this hilarious coming of age novel from the author of The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever and I Have a Bad Feeling about This

Harry Houdini. Penn and Teller. David Copperfield. Marcus Millian the Third.

Okay, so Marcus isn't a famous magician....

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Nora & Kettle

Lauren Nicolle Taylor · Clean Teen Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

What if Peter Pan was a homeless kid just trying to survive, and Wendy flew away for a really good reason? Seventeen-year-old Kettle has had his share of adversity. As an orphaned Japanese American struggling to make a life in the aftermath of an event in history not often referred to -- the internment...
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On the Fence

Kasie West · HarperTeen
Format: Print book

She's a tomboy. He's the boy next door.With three older brothers, Charlotte Reynolds, aka Charlie, has always been more comfortable calling the shots on a basketball court than flirting with the opposite sex. So when her police officer dad demands she get a summer job to pay for the latest...
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The Way I Used to Be

Amber Smith · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 367
Format: Print book

A New York Times bestseller. In the tradition of Speak, this extraordinary debut novel "is a poignant book that realistically looks at the lasting effects of trauma on love, relationships, and life" (School Library Journal, starred review) .Eden was always good at being good....
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March: Book One

John Lewis · Top Shelf Productions
Pages: 121
Format: Paperback

"Congressman John Lewis has been a resounding moral voice in the quest for equality for more than 50 years, and I'm so pleased that he is sharing his memories of the Civil Rights Movement with America's young leaders. In March, he brings a whole new generation with him across the Edmund...
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March: Book Two

John Lewis · Top Shelf Productions
Pages: 121
Format: Print book

Don't miss the long-awaited sequel to the #1 bestseller March: Book One!

"With March, Congressman John Lewis takes us behind the scenes of some of the most pivotal moments of the Civil Rights Movement. In graphic novel form, his first-hand account makes these historic events...
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Exoplanets: Worlds Beyond Our Solar System

Karen Latchana Kenney · Twenty-First Century Books
Pages: 88
Format: Print book

As of March 2016, planetary scientists have discovered almost 2,000 exoplanetsplanets that orbit stars other than the Sun. Readers will learn about high-powered orbiting telescopes such as NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope; observatories such as the Geneva Observatory...
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Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism

Marc Aronson · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." -Robert CapaRobert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers in the 1930s, they set off to capture their generation's most important struggle -- the fight...
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Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America

Teri Kanefield · Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. He envisioned something else: a multi-racial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. He believed that such an America would be a land of opportunity for the poor and the newcomers....
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