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The You I've Never Known
The You I've Never Known

Ellen Hopkins · Margaret Mcelderry Bks
Pages: 592
Format: Print book

How do you live your life if your past is based on a lie? A new novel in both verse and prose from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Ellen Hopkins.Arielle's life is a blur of new apartments, new schools, and new faces. Since her mother abandoned the family, Arielle has lived nomadically...
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Optimists Die First
Optimists Die First

Susin Nielsen-Fernlund · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Award-winning author Susin Nielsen has written a laugh-out-loud and heartrending novel for fans of Robyn Schneider's Extraordinary Means and Cammie McGovern's Say What You Will. Beware: Life ahead. Sixteen-year-old Petula de Wilde is anything but wild. A former crafting fiend with a happy...
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Ronit & Jamil
Ronit & Jamil

Pamela L Laskin · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Pamela L. Laskin's beautiful and lyrical novel in verse delivers a fresh and captivating retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that transports the star-crossed lovers to the modern-day Israel-Palestine conflict.Ronit, an Israeli girl, lives on one side of the fence. Jamil, a Palestinian...
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Our Own Private Universe
Our Own Private Universe

Robin Talley · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Fifteen-year-old Aki Simon has a theory. And it's mostly about sex. No, it isn't that kind of theory. Aki already knows she's bisexual - even if, until now, it's mostly been in the hypothetical sense. Aki has dated only guys so far, and her best friend, Lori, is the only person who knows...
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We Are Okay
We Are Okay

Nina Lacour · Dutton
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From the award-winning author of Hold Still comes an achingly beautiful novel about grief and the enduring power of friendship."You go through life thinking there's so much you need. . . . Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother." Marin...
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Frogkisser!
Frogkisser!

Garth Nix · Scholastic Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Poor Princess Anya. Forced to live with her evil stepmother's new husband, her evil stepstepfather. Plagued with an unfortunate ability to break curses with a magic-assisted kiss. And forced to go on the run when her stepstepfather decides to make the kingdom entirely his own.Aided by a loyal...
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The Hate U Give
The Hate U Give

A C THOMAS · BALZER + BRAY
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, Angie Thomas's searing debut about an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances addresses issues of racism and police violence with intelligence, heart, and unflinching honesty. Soon to be a major motion picture from Fox 2000/Temple Hill Productions.Sixteen-year-old...
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Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time
Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time

Tanya Lee Stone · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

A gorgeous, full-color oversized book about educating girls across the world inspired by the documentary that Entertainment Weekly says "every mother, sister, daughter, should see, as well as the men who love and support them." This is the right book for the present moment and perfect...
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At the Edge of the Universe
At the Edge of the Universe

Shaun David Hutchinson · Simon Pulse
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

From the author of We Are the Ants and The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes the heartbreaking story of a boy who believes the universe is slowly shrinking as things he remembers are being erased from others' memories.Tommy and Ozzie have been best friends since the second grade, and boyfriends...
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Ones and Zeroes
Ones and Zeroes

Dan Wells · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the second book in a dark, pulse-pounding sci-fi-noir series set in 2050 Los Angeles.Overworld. It's more than just the world's most popular e-sport - for thousands of VR teams...
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Empress of a Thousand Skies
Empress of a Thousand Skies

Rhoda Belleza · Razorbill
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

For fans of Pierce Brown and Firefly comes an epic sci-fi fantasy that Kiersten White, author of And I Darken, calls "dazzling--an adventure as sweeping in scope as the galaxies it spans!"Empress Rhee, also known as Crown Princess Rhiannon Ta'an, is the sole surviving heir to a powerful...
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Long May She Reign
Long May She Reign

Rhiannon Thomas · Harper Teen
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

The Girl of Fire and Thorns meets The Queen of the Tearling in this thrilling fantasy standalone about one girl's unexpected rise to power.Freya was never meant to be queen. Twenty-third in line to the throne, she never dreamed of a life in the palace, and would much rather research in her laboratory...
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Lifeblood
Lifeblood

Gena Showalter · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

"My Firstlife is over, but my Everlife is only now beginning." With her last living breath, Tenley "Ten" Lockwood made her choice and picked her realm in the Everlife. Now, as the war between Troika and Myriad rages, she must face the consequences. Because Ten possesses...
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Daughter of the Pirate King
Daughter of the Pirate King

Tricia Levenseller · Feiwel and Friends
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

There will be plenty of time for me to beat him soundly once I've gotten what I came for. Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map -- the key to a legendary treasure trove -- seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving...
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A Good Idea
A Good Idea

Cristina Moracho · Viking Children'S Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Can the right kind of boy get away with killing the wrong kind of girl?Fin and Betty's close friendship survived Fin's ninth-grade move from their coastal Maine town to Manhattan. Calls, letters, and summer visits continued to bind them together, and in the fall of their senior year, they...
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