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Lily and Dunkin

Donna Gephart · Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover

"Gephart has written a story that will speak not just to one specific community, but to humanity as a whole." --VOYAFor readers who enjoyed Wonder and Counting by 7's, award-winning author Donna Gephart crafts a compelling dual narrative about two remarkable young people: Lily,...
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Windfall

Jennifer E. Smith · Random House Children's Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Filled with all of Jenny Han's "favorite things", a romantic new novel from the author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. This story of hope, chance, and change is one Morgan Matson calls "something wonderful" and Stephanie Perkins says "is rich...
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I, Claudia

Mary McCoy · Carolrhoda Lab
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover

Disaffected amateur historian Claudia McCarthy never expected to be in charge of Imperial Day Academy, but by accident, design, or scheme, she is pulled into the tumultuous and high-profile world of the Senate and Honor Council. Suddenly, Claudia is wielding power over her fellow students...
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Blood for Blood

Ryan Graudin · Little
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

"Wild and gorgeous, vivid and consuming. I loved it I can't wait for the sequel. "--Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, on Wolf by WolfThe action-packed, thrilling sequel to Ryan Graudin's Wolf by Wolf. There would be blood....
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Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World

Sarah Prager · HarperCollins
Pages: 259
Format: Hardcover

This first-ever LGBTQ history book of its kind for young adults will appeal to fans of fun, empowering pop-culture books like Rad American Women A-Z and Notorious RBG. Three starred reviews!World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals...
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Saint Death: A Novel

Marcus Sedgwick · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive, compelling, and unsparing novel set in the grimly violent world of the human and drug trade on the US-Mexican border.On the outskirts of Juarez, Arturo scrapes together a living working odd jobs and staying out of sight. But his friend Faustino is in trouble: he's stolen money...
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Firebug (Necromancer Series Book 3)

Lish McBride · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Kindle Edition

Ava is a firebug - she can start fires with her mind. Which would all be well and good if she weren't caught in a deadly contract with the Coterie, a magical mafia. She's one of their main hitmen . . . and she doesn't like it one bit. Not least because her boss, Venus, killed Ava's mother....
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Wild Beauty

ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE · Feiwel and Friends
Pages: 339
Format: Hardcover

For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, hiding a terrible legacy, until mysterious Fel arrives and Estrella helps him explore his dangerous past.For nearly a century the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds and lush estate gardens of La Pradera....
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The Trials of Apollo, Book One: The Hidden Oracle

Rick Riordan · Listening Library (Audio)
Format: Audiobook

How do you punish an immortal?By making him human.After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern...
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The Sun is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon · Listening Library (Audio)
Format: Audiobook

Be the first to read the dazzling new novel from Nicola Yoon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, EverythingNatasha: I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I'm definitely not the kind of girl...
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Enders

Lissa Price · Random House Childrens Books
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover

The riveting conclusion to the sci-fi thriller STARTERS!Someone is after Starters like Callie and Michael - teens with chips in their brains. They want to experiment on anyone left over from Prime Destinations - Starters who can be controlled and manipulated. With the body bank destroyed,...
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

Candace Fleming · Schwartz & Wade
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover

"[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters,...
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Catalyst

S. J. Kincaid · Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

S. J. Kincaid has created a fascinating dystopian world for Insignia, her futuristic science-fiction adventure series perfect for fans of Enders Game. Earth is in the middle of WWIII, battling to determine which governments and corporations will control the resources of the solar system.Teen...
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Stolen

Melissa de la Cruz · Putnam Pub Group
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover

Who is Eliza Wesson?Months after Nat and Wes said good-bye on the shores of the Blue, Nat is learning how to control and use her new power. She and her drakon are the last of their kind - and she's risked her life for their reunion. When she receives a mysterious distress call, she races...
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The Ghosts of Heaven

Marcus Sedgwick · Roaring Brook
Pages: 359
Format: Print book

Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of The Ghosts of Heaven, the mesmerizing new novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick. They are there in prehistory, when a girl picks up a charred stick and makes the first written signs; there tens of centuries...
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