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How to Hang a Witch

Adriana Mather
Format: Print book

For fans of Conversion and Mean Girls, comes a debut novel where the trials of high school start to feel like a modern day witch hunt for a teen with all the wrong connections to Salem's past.


Salem, Massachusetts is the site of the infamous witch trials a
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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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Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives, Vol. 1

Ellen Schreiber · Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

The absolute last thing goth-girl Raven and her vampire boyfriend, Alexander, need is another hitch in their nighttime-only romance - but dark trouble hovers on the horizon when Raven and Alexander discover four freshly dug graves filled with empty coffins. When a crew of sketchy vampires...

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The Tightrope Walkers

David Almond · Candlewick Press, 2015. ©2014
Pages: 326
Format: Print book

International award winner David Almond draws on memories of his early years in Tyneside, England, for a moving coming-of-age novel, masterfully told.

A gentle visionary coming of age in the shadow of the shipyards of northern England, Dominic Hall is torn between extremes. On the one hand,...
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The Great Hunt

Wendy Higgins · Harpercollins, 2016.
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Wendy Higgins, the author of the New York Times bestselling Sweet Evil series, reimagines a classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale with The Great Hunt, a dramatic, romance-filled fantasy with rugged hunters, romantic tension, and a princess willing to risk all to save her kingdom.

When...

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The Sun Is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon · Delacorte Press
Pages: 384
Format: Library Binding

Now a major motion picture starring Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton! The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling author of Everything, Everything will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with each...

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Your Own Worst Enemy

Gordon Jack · HarperTeen
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Andrew Smith and Frank Portman and the movies Election and Ferris Bueller's Day Off comes a hilarious and satirical novel about the highs and (very low) lows of the electoral process, proving that the popular vote is the one that matters most.

Stacey Wynn was the clear...

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To Stay Alive: Mary Ann Graves and the Tragic Journey of the Donner Party

Skila Brown · Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook on CD

Told in riveting, keenly observed poetry, a moving first-person narrative as experienced by a young survivor of the tragic Donner Party of 1846.The journey west by wagon train promises to be long and arduous for nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Graves and her parents and eight siblings. Yet she is hopeful...
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Tell me three things

Julie Buxbaum · Delacorte Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller


What if the person you need the most is someone you've never met?


Funny and romantic, this tug-at-your-heartstrings contemporary YA debut is perfect for readers of Rainbow Rowell, Jennifer Niven, and E. Lockhart.

Everything...
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Game Changer

Tom Greenwald · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An Amazon Best Book of the Month

Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma fighting for his life after an unspecified football injury at training camp. His family and friends flock to his bedside to support his recovery - and to discuss the events leading up to the tragic...
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The Outcast: Prequel to the Summoner Trilogy

Taran Matharu · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling prequel to the New York Times-bestselling Summoner series!

When stable boy Arcturus accidentally summons a demon and becomes Hominum's first common summoner, he becomes the key to a secret that the powerful overlords would do anything to keep hidden.

Whisked...

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Love, Life, and the List

Kasie West · HarperTeen
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

What do you do when you've fallen for your best friend? Funny and romantic, this effervescent story about family, friendship, and finding yourself is perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han.

Seventeen-year-old Abby Turner's summer isn't going the way she'd planned. She has a not-so-secret...

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The Queen's Rising

Rebecca Ross · HarperTeen
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Grave Mercy meets Red Queen in this epic debut fantasy, inspired by Renaissance France, about an outcast who finds herself bound to a disgraced lord and entangled in his plot to overthrow the current king.

Brienna desires only two things: to master her passion and to be chosen...

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Tash Hearts Tolstoy

Katie Ormsbee · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

After a shout-out from one of the Internet's superstar vloggers, Natasha "Tash" Zelenka suddenly finds herself and her obscure, amateur web series, Unhappy Families, thrust in the limelight: She's gone viral.

Her show is a modern adaption of Anna Karenina--written...
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Better Than the Best Plan

Lauren Morrill · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Lauren Morrill's Better Than the Best Plan is a fresh, funny, romantic YA novel about a teenage girl who finds an unexpected silver lining in her life when plans get turned upside down.

Plans are made to be broken.

It's the last day of junior year, and seventeen-year-old...

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