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Parkland Speaks: Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Share Their Stories

Sarah Lerner · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Featuring art and writing from the students of the Parkland tragedy, this is a raw look at the events of February 14, and a poignant representation of grief, healing, and hope.The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School share their emotional journeys that began on February 14, 2018,...
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Return to Zero

Pittacus Lore · HarperCollins
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

All bets are off in this third and final book in the epic New York Times bestselling Lorien Legacies Reborn series! This fast-paced, action-packed adventure - which is set in the world of I Am Number Four - is perfect for fans of the Darkest Minds series and the X-Men franchise.After the battle...
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The Rest of the Story

Sarah Dessen · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a big-hearted, sweeping novel about a girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasn't seen since she was a little girl - and falls in love, all over the course of a magical summer. Emma Saylor doesn't remember a lot about...
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Soul of the Sword

Julie Kagawa · Inkyard Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

One thousand years ago, a wish was made to the Harbinger of Change and a sword of rage and lightning was forged. Kamigoroshi. The Godslayer. It had one task: to seal away the powerful demon Hakaimono.Now he has broken free.Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has one task: to take her piece of the ancient...
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Isle of the Lost #4: A Descendants Novel

Melissa de la Cruz · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos may have once been the baddest of the bad, but their wicked ways are (mostly) behind them-and now graduation is almost here! But before the seniors can don their custom-designed caps and gowns, courtesy of Evie, they've got an epic plan to put into action....
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We Are Displaced

Malala Yousafzai · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times} span.s1 {letter-spacing: 0.0px} With her powerful new book, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai will start with her own story of displacement as an Internally Displaced Person to show what it means to lose your home, your...
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Stepsister

Jennifer Donnelly · Scholastic Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Don't just fracture the fairy tale. Shatter it. Isabelle should be blissfully happy - she's about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn't the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince's heart. She's the ugly stepsister who's cut off her toes to fit into...
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Again, but Better

Christine Riccio · Wednesday Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Shane has been doing college all wrong. Pre-med, stellar grades, and happy parents ... sounds ideal -- but Shane's made zero friends, goes home every weekend, and romance ... what's that? Her life has been dorm, dining hall, class, repeat. Time's a ticking, and she needs a change -- there's...
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Something Like Gravity

Amber Smith · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Love, Simon and Eleanor & Park, a romantic and sweet novel about a transgender boy who falls in love for the first time - and how first love changes us all - from New York Times bestselling author Amber Smith.Chris and Maia aren't off to a great start. A near-fatal car accident...
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This Time Will Be Different

Misa Sugiura · HarperTeen
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Jenny Han, Morgan Matson, and Sandhya Menon, critically acclaimed author Misa Sugiura delivers a richly crafted contemporary YA novel about family, community, and the importance of writing your own history.The author of the Asian Pacific American Award-winning It's Not Like...
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Hera: The Goddess and her Glory

George O'Connor · First Second
Pages: 76
Format: Hardcover

The story of Hera, Queen of the Gods, and the heroes who won her favor. Volume 3 of Olympians, Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory, introduces readers to the Queen of the Gods and Goddesses in the Pantheon. This volume tells the tales of the many heroes who sought and won Hera's patronage,...
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Zeus: King of the Gods

George O'Connor · First Second
Pages: 76
Format: Hardcover

George O'Connor is a Greek mythology buff and a classic superhero comics fan, and he's out to remind us how much our pantheon of superheroes (Superman, Batman, the X-Men, etc) owes to mankind's ORIGINAL superheroes: the Greek pantheon. In OLYMPIANS, O'Connor draws from primary documents...
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The Official SAT Study Guide, 2020 Edition

The College Board · College Board
Pages: 1300
Format: Paperback

Review every skill and question type needed for SAT success - now with eight total practice tests.The 2018 edition of The Official SAT Study Guide doubles the number of official SAT(R) practice tests to eight - all of them created by the test maker. As part of the College Board's...
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Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

James W. Loewen · The New Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important - and successful - history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million...
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Lovely War

Julie Berry · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Read the novel New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network Kate Quinn called "easily one of the best novels I have read all year!" A sweeping, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates--and the hearts--of four mortals...
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Waiting for Fitz

Spencer Hyde · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Addie loves nothing more than curling up on the couch with her dog, Duck, and watching The Great British Baking Show with her mom. It's one of the few things that can help her relax when her OCD kicks into overdrive. She counts everything. All the time. She can't stop. Rituals and rhythms....
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Heroine

Mindy McGinnis · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

An Amazon Best Book of the Month! A captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis - the deadliest drug epidemic in American history - through the eyes of a college-bound softball star. Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a visceral and necessary novel about addiction,...
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Famous in a Small Town

Emma Mills · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

For Sophie, small-town life has never felt small. She has the Yum Yum Shoppe, with its famous fourteen flavors of ice cream; her beloved marching band, the pride and joy of Acadia High (even if the football team disagrees) ; and her four best friends, loving and infuriating, wonderfully...
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The Tesla Legacy

K.K. Perez · Tor Teen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

An action-packed, young adult coming-of-age adventure, K. K. Perez's The Tesla Legacy follows a precocious young scientist named Lucy Phelps whose fateful encounter in the Tesla Suite of the New Yorker Hotel unlocks her dormant electrical powers. As Lucy struggles to understand her new abilities...
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Field Notes on Love

Jennifer E. Smith · Delacorte Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Windfall and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight returns with a meet-cute romance about Hugo and Mae, two teens who are thrown together on a cross-country train trip that will teach them about love, each other, and the futures they can build for themselves.It's...
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Dungeon Master's Guide

Wizards RPG Team · Wizards of the Coast
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Everything a Dungeon Master needs to weave legendary stories for the world's greatest roleplaying game The Dungeon Master's Guide provides the inspiration and the guidance you need to spark your imagination and create worlds of adventure for your players to explore and enjoy. Inside...
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Love from A to Z

S. K. Ali · Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From William C. Morris Award Finalist S.K. Ali comes an unforgettable romance that is part The Sun Is Also a Star mixed with Anna and the French Kiss, following two Muslim teens who meet during a spring break trip.A marvel: something you find amazing. Even ordinary-amazing. Like potatoes...
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Amelia Westlake Was Never Here

Erin Gough · Poppy
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A fiercely funny, queer romantic comedy about two girls who can't stand each other, but join forces in a grand feminist plan to expose harassment and inequality at their elite private school.Harriet Price is the perfect student: smart, dutiful, over-achieving. Will Everhart is a troublemaker...
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Few Red Drops, A: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Claire Hartfield · Clarion Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that...
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Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard

Alex Bertie · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A brave first-hand account of online personality Alex Bertie's life, struggles, and victories as a transgender teen, as well as a groundbreaking guide for transitioning teen.I guess we should start at the beginning. I was born on November 2nd, 1995. The doctors in the hospital took...
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VIRAL: The Fight Against AIDS in America

Ann Bausum · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Groundbreaking narrative nonfiction for teens that tells the story of the AIDS crisis in America.Thirty-five years ago, it was a modern-day, mysterious plague. Its earliest victims were mostly gay men, some of the most marginalized people in the country; at its peak in America, it killed...
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