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This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

Kenneth Oppel · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover

Bravery, danger, and intense passion. How does obsession begin?

Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are nearly inseparable. Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary adventures...until the day their adventures turn all too real.

They stumble upon...

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Stray

Elissa Sussman · Greenwillow Books
Format: eBook

Epic, rewarding, and provocative, Elissa Sussman's original fairy tale tells the story of Aislynn, a princess who misbehaves and must give up her royal trappings and enter a life of service as a fairy godmother. BOOKLIST wrote, "Sussman delightfully mixed dystopian tension with...

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Zom-B: Baby

Darren Shan · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

B has spent the last few months bunking with the Angels, a group of teens dedicated to eradicating the evil dead from the face of the earth, beginning with the undead roaming the abandoned wreckage that was once London. But the Angels' mission is a bit more complicated than that, and B takes...
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Edgar Allan Poe

Aaron Frisch · Creative Education
Format: Hardcover

"An exploration of the life and work of 19th-century American writer Edgar Allan Poe, whose poetry is known for its lonely and macabre themes, songlike rhythms, and sense of longing"--
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The Fire Queen

Emily R. King · Skyscape
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback

In the second book in The Hundredth Queen Series, Emily R. King once again follows a young warrior queen's rise to meet her destiny in a richly imagined world of sorcery and forbidden powers.

Though the tyrant rajah she was forced to marry is dead, Kalinda's troubles are far from...

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Buried Heart: Library Edition

Kate Elliott · Blackstone Audiobooks
Format: Audio CD

The explosive finale to World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott's captivating, New York Times bestselling young adult series.In this third book in the epic Court of Fives series, Jessamy is the crux of a revolution forged by the Commoner class hoping to overthrow their longtime Patron...
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Summer On Earth

Peter Thompson · Persnickety Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

The night that eleven-year-old Grady Johnson looked out his window and wished upon a shooting star, his life changed forever.

Grady, his Ma, and younger sister Luanne are having a hard summer. Dad has died and the family isn't the same. Though Ma is trying her best, Grady knows they...
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Stars Above: A Lunar Chronicles Collection

Marissa Meyer · Feiwel and Friends, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The enchantment continues. . . .
The universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories - and secrets - that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic. How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How did the brooding soldier Wolf transform from young man to killer? When did Princess Winter...

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The Edge of the Shadows

Elizabeth George · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The first fire may have been an accident, but what about the second? And the third - the one that killed someone. Becca King and her friends wonder if one of the newcomers to the island is to blame. Perhaps it's Isis Martin's brother, Aidan, just home from a school for troubled...
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The Quiet You Carry

Nikki Barthelmess · Flux
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Victoria Parker knew her dad's behavior toward her was a little unusual, but she convinced herself everything was fine until she found herself locked out of the house at 3:00 a.m., surrounded by flashing police lights. Now, dumped into a crowded, chaotic foster home, Victoria has to tiptoe...
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The War Outside

Monica Hesse · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A stunning novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal from Monica Hesse, the Edgar Award-winning and bestselling author of Girl in the Blue Coat

It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado--until...
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Bluescreen

Dan Wells · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 335
Format: Hardcover

"Bluescreen is a stunning deluge of imagination, filled with suspense and twists and unforgettable characters. This book is just plain awesome." - James Dashner, bestselling author of The Maze Runner

From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence,...

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Return to paradise

Simone Elkeles; Nicholas Mondelli; Elizabeth Cottle · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

Caleb Becker left Paradise eight months ago, taking with him the secret he promised to take to his grave. If the truth got out, it would ruin everything. Maggie Armstrong tried to be strong after Caleb broke her heart and disappeared. Somehow, she managed to move on. She's determined...
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The Big Book of Monsters: The Creepiest Creatures from Classic Literature

Hal Johnson · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Meet the monsters in this who's who of the baddest of the bad!

Like those supernatural beasts everyone knows and fears - the bloodsucking vampire, Count Dracula, and that eight-foot-tall mash-up of corpses, Frankenstein's Monster. Or that scariest of mummies, Cheops, who scientists...
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Unbreakable

Sara Ella · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audio CD

Eliyana Ember is stranded in a foreign country in the Third Reflection with no passport, the inability to mirrorwalk, and zero clue where the nearest Thresholds back into the Fourth or Second might lie. Her mind is a haze; her memories, vague. She knows a wormhole from the Fourth sent her here....
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