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KRISTEN-PAIGE MADONIA · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

From the author of Fingerprints of You, whom Judy Blume calls "a remarkable young novelist," comes a "beautiful, atmospheric, and compelling" (Deb Caletti) novel that explores how one teen rebuilds her life after everything seems lost.My father disappeared on a Tuesday...
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March

Elspeth Leacock · Dial Books
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroesAs the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed eleven times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside...
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Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

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

Printz Honor Book * YALSA Nonfiction Award Winner * Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner * SCBWI Golden Kite Winner * Cybils Senior High Nonfiction Award WinnerFrom the author of National Book Award finalist Charles and Emma comes an incredible story of brotherly love.The deep and enduring...
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The Accidental Highwayman: Being the Tale of Kit Bristol, His Horse Midnight, a Mysterious Princess, and Sundry Magical Persons Besides

Ben Tripp · Tor Teen
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover

The Accidental Highwayman is the first swashbuckling adventure for young adults by talented author and illustrator, Ben Tripp. In eighteenth-century England, young Christopher "Kit" Bristol is the unwitting servant of notorious highwayman Whistling Jack. One dark night, Kit finds...
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The Forever Court

Dave Rudden · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Library Binding

A young knight must fulfill his destiny in this second book in a trilogy perfect for fans of Ranger's Apprentice. The door between our world and the world of the dark has been blasted open. Now the Knights must face the court of the Endless King. Denizen finally feels like a true...
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Little black dresses, little white lies

Laura Stampler · Simon Pulse
Format: Print book

Harper lands a dream summer internship at a trendy teen magazine in New York City, working as their resident dating blogger, but there is only one problem--she has absolutely zero dating experience.
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Salt to the Sea

Ruta Sepetys · Philomel Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal! "Masterfully crafted" - The Wall Street JournalFor readers of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See, Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's most devastating...
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The Sun Is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon · Delacorte Press
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling author of Everything, Everything (streaming now!) will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with each other!Natasha: I'm a girl who believes in science and facts....
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Cinder: Book One in the Lunar Chronicles

Marissa Meyer · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She s a second-class...
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Take the Key and Lock Her Up

Ally Carter · Scholastic (Us)
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Ally Carter returns with the third entry in this runaway series. For the past three years, Grace Blakely has been desperate to find out the truth about her mother's murder. She thought it would bring her peace. She thought it would lead her to answers....
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Gemina

Amie Kaufman · Listening Library

"When the space station Heimdall is invaded, Hannah and Nik must work together to defeat the enemy"--
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The Calculus of Change

Jessie Hilb · Clarion Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A poignant and empowering teen novel of grief, unrequited love, and finding comfort in one's own skin. Aden isn't looking for love in her senior year. She's much more focused on things like getting a solo gig at Ike's and keeping her brother from illegal herbal recreation. But when Tate...
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Captive

A J Grainger · Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pages: 261
Format: Print book

When sixteen-year-old Robyn is held hostage, her efforts to escape uncover a conspiracy that forces her to question everything she thought she knew about her family and herself in this psychological thriller with a twist of forbidden romance.They told her not to worry - because the man who shot...
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Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage

Amy Klobuchar · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Library Binding

A powerful collection of essays from actors, activists, athletes, politicians, musicians, writers, and teens, including Senator Amy Klobuchar, actress Alia Shawkat, actor Maulik Pancholy, poet Azure Antoinette, teen activist Gavin Grimm, and many, many more, each writing about a time in their...
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Like No Other

Una LaMarche · Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pages: 347
Format: Print book

Fitting seamlessly alongside current bestsellers like Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park, and John Green's Paper Towns, LIKE NO OTHER provides a thoroughly modern take on romance that will inspire laughter, tears, and the belief that love can happen when you least expect it. "Electrifying...
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