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Traitor to the Throne

Alwyn Hamilton · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 518
Format: Hardcover

The sizzling, un-put-downable sequel to the New York Times bestselling Rebel of the Sands, by the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Author of 2016!

Mere months ago, gunslinger Amani al'Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious...
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In a World Just Right

Jen Brooks · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Worlds collide in romantic, unexpected, and heartbreaking ways in this "picture-perfect" (VOYA, starred review) debut novel about a young man with a truly unique power.Sometimes high school senior Jonathan Aubrey wishes he could just disappear. And as luck - or fate - would...
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Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin

James L Swanson · Scholastic Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In his meteoric, thirteen-year rise to fame, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a mass movement for Civil Rights -- with his relentless peaceful, non-violent protests, public demonstrations, and eloquent speeches. But as violent threats cast a dark shadow over Dr. King's life, Swanson hones...
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Flannery

Lisa Moore · Groundwood Books
Pages: 268
Format: Print book

Sixteen-year-old Flannery Malone has it bad. She's been in love with Tyrone O'Rourke since the days she still believed in Santa Claus. But Tyrone has grown from a dorky kid into an outlaw graffiti artist, the rebel-with-a-cause of Flannery's dreams, literally too cool for school.

Which...
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Together at Midnight

Jennifer Castle · HarperTeen
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Combining the emotional deftness of Sarah Dessen with the magical spark of New York City in wintertime, this affecting novel will inspire readers to pay closer attention to the world around them.What does it really mean to be kind . . . and why does it sometimes feel like the hardest thing...
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I Was Here

Gayle Forman · Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) , 2015.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay comes "a heartbreaking novel about coping with loss" (People) . When her best friend, Meg, commits suicide by drinking a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated....
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The Girl I Used to Be

April Henry · Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

When Olivia's mother was killed, everyone suspected her father of murder. But his whereabouts remained a mystery. Fast forward fourteen years. New evidence now proves Olivia's father was actually murdered on the same fateful day her mother died. That means there's a killer still at large....
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Italy

Jean F. Blashfield · Scholastic
Format: Book

Take a trip around the world with the latest entries in the Enchantment of the World series. From the volcanoes of Iceland to the hilltop castles of Germany, readers are transported to distant lands with the fascinating text and attention-grabbing photos in these books. Each countrys culture,...
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Swipe Right for Murder

Derek Milman · jimmy patterson
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

An epic case of mistaken identity puts a teen looking for a hookup on the run from both the FBI and a murderous cult in this compulsively readable thriller.
Finding himself alone in a posh New York City hotel room for the night, Aidan does what any red-blooded seventeen-year-old would...
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Cool Plastic Bottle and Milk Jug Science

Tammy Enz · Capstone Press
Pages: 31
Format: Print book

Why throw used plastic bottles and milk jugs in the reycling when you can reuse them yourself? These fun and informative science experiments and projects will keep readers entertained as they learn about scientific principles.
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Madness

Zac Brewer · HarperTeen
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Zac Brewer delivers his most honest and gripping novel yet, about a girl who believes she's beyond saving - until she realizes the only person who can save her is herself.

Brooke Danvers is pretending to be fine. She's gotten so good at pretending...

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The Slanted Worlds

Catherine Fisher · Dial Books; 0002- edition
Format: Hardcover

Part Dr. Who, part Blade Runner, and part A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this genre-busting fantasy from the author of Incarceron asks: If you had the chance to change the past, would you do it? In book two of the critically acclaimed Obsidian Mirror series, New York Times bestselling...
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Paper Airplanes

Dawn O'Porter · Amulet Books
Pages: 254
Format: Print book

Renée and Flo are the most unlikely of friends. Introspective and studious Flo and outspoken, wild, and sexually curious Renée have barely spoken in their years of going to school together in Guernsey, a small British island off the coast of France. And yet, when tragedy strikes,...
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The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline · DCB
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting...
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And the Trees Crept In

Dawn Kurtagich · Little
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

When Silla and Nori arrive at their aunt's home, it's immediately clear that the "blood manor" is cursed. The creaking of the house and the stillness of the woods surrounding them would be enough of a sign, but there are secrets too--the questions that Silla can't ignore: Who is the beautiful...
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