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A psalm for lost girls

Katie Bayerl · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

I'll Give You the Sun meets True Detective in this brilliant YA debut about saints, sisters, and learning to let go.

Tess da Costa is a saint - a hand-to-god, miracle-producing saint. At least that's what the people in her hometown of New Avon, Massachusetts, seem to believe....
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The Chance You Won't Return

Annie Cardi · Candlewick Press, 2014.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

When your mom thinks she's Amelia Earhart, navigating high school, first love, and family secrets is like flying solo without a map. Driver's ed and a first crush should be what Alex Winchester is stressed out about in high school - and she is. But what's really on her mind...
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Summer of Supernovas

Darcy Woods · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 340
Format: Print book

Fans of Jennifer E. Smith and Jenny Han will fall in love with this heartfelt and humor-laced debut following one girl's race to find the guy of her cosmic dreams.

When zodiac-obsessed teen Wilamena Carlisle discovers a planetary alignment that won't repeat for a decade, she's...
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Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

Tess Sharpe · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Scorn the witch. Fear the witch. Burn the witch.

History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create,...
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Pride

IBI ZOBOI · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Pride and Prejudice gets remixed in this smart, funny, gorgeous retelling of the classic, starring all characters of color, from Ibi Zoboi, National Book Award finalist and author of American Street.

Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino...

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Black Light Express

Philip Reeve · Switch Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

With superb world building, gripping action, and ruthless political intrigue, Black Light Express delivers a breathtaking adventure into the darkest depths of space and is sure to please sci-fi fans and foes alike. At the edge of the Great Network, a small-time thief and an android girl...
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From Twinkle, with Love

SANDHYA MENON · Simon Pulse
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

An aspiring teen filmmaker finds her voice and falls in love in this delightful romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi.

Aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra has stories she wants to tell and universes she wants...
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Fishbone's Song

Gary Paulsen · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

An orphan reflects on the lessons he was taught by the wise old man who raised him in this lyrical novel that reads like poetry from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen.Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage...
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With Malice

Eileen Cook · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

For fans of We Were Liars and The Girl on the Train comes a chilling, addictive psychological thriller about a teenage girl who cannot remember the last six weeks of her life.

Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron's senior trip to Italy was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime....
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Grasshopper Jungle

Andrew Smith · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 388
Format: Print book

A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor Book
Winner of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction

"Grasshopper Jungle is a rollicking tale that is simultaneously creepy and hilarious. It's propulsive plot would be delightful enough on its own, but Smith's ability to blend...

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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

John Boyne · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 262
Format: Print book

From the author of "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas "comes another extraordinary story of World War II and innocence in the face of evil. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy Austrian household....
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The Nest

Kenneth Oppel · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 244
Format: Print book

Steve just wants to save his baby brother:but what will he lose in the bargain? This is a haunting gothic tale for fans of Coraline, from acclaimed author Kenneth Oppel (Silverwing, The Boundless) with illustrations from Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen. For some kids summer is a sun-soaked...
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Lost Stars

Lisa Selin Davis · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover

Eleanor & Park meets Perks of Being a Wallflower in this bittersweet 1980's story about love, loss, and a comet that only comes around every ninety-seven years.

When Carrie looks through her telescope, the world makes sense. It's life here on Earth that's hard...
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Girl out of Water

Laura Silverman · Sourcebooks
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen will fall in love this contemporary debut about finding yourself-and finding love-in unexpected places.

Ocean breeze in her hair and sand between her toes, Anise can't wait to spend the summer before her senior year surfing and hanging out on the beach...

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Devils Unto Dust

EMMA BERQUIST · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Keep together. Keep your eyes open. Keep your wits about you.

The desert is unkind in the best of times. And the decade since the Civil War has been anything but the best of times for Daisy Wilcox - call her Willie - and her family. This tense, heart-pounding alternate history...

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