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Learning to Breathe

Janice Lynn Mather · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Indy struggles to conceal her pregnancy while searching for a place to belong in this stunning debut novel that's perfect for fans of Amber Smith and Sara Zarr.Indira Ferguson has done her best to live by her Grammy's rules - to study hard in school, be respectful, and to never...
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My Plain Jane

CYNTHIA HAND · HarperTeen
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Move over, Charlotte Bronte. The authors of the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane are back with an irreverent spin on Jane Eyre - a tale of mischief, romance, and supernatural mayhem perfect for fans of The Princess Bride or A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. You may think you know...
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How We Roll

Natasha Friend · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Quinn is a teen who loves her family, skateboarding, basketball, and her friends, but after she's diagnosed with a condition called alopecia which causes her to lose all of her hair, her friends abandon her. Jake was once a star football player, but because of a freak accident -- caused...
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Star Wars Most Wanted

RAE CARSON · Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Set before the events of Solo: A Star Wars Story! Han and Qi'ra don't have a lot in common other than not having a lot. They're street kids on the industrial planet Corellia, doing whatever it takes to get by, dreaming of something more. They each jump at a chance to prove themselves in the perilous...
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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

ELLEN OH · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings: these are the stuff of fairy tale, myth, and folklore that have drawn us in for centuries. Fifteen bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia...
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Dear Rachel Maddow

ADRIENNE KISNER · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In Adrienne Kisner's Dear Rachel Maddow, a high school girl deals with school politics and life after her brother's death by drafting emails to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow in this funny and heartfelt YA debut.
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A Reaper at the Gates

SABAA TAHIR · Razorbill
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated third book in Sabaa Tahir's New York Times bestselling EMBER QUARTET.Beyond the Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger.The Blood Shrike, Helene Aquilla, is assailed on all sides. Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable,...
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The Fragile Ordinary

Samantha Young · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

I am Comet Caldwell.And I sort of, kind of, absolutely hate my name.People expect extraordinary things from a girl named Comet. That she'll be effortlessly cool and light up a room the way a comet blazes across the sky.But from the shyness that makes her book-character friends more appealing...
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Brightly Burning

Alexa Donne · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A romantic, cinematic, richly-imagined retelling of the classic Jane Eyre set in space, about seventeen-year-old Stella Ainsley, a mechanic who takes a governess job on board the private ship, the Rochester and falls in love with the ship's mysterious and troubled captain. For Marissa Meyer...
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One Small Thing

Erin Watt · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author duo of The Royals and When It's Real comes a sensational new novel about a girl falling for the one boy she should never have met ... Beth's life hasn't been the same since her sister died. Her parents try to lock her down, believing they can keep...
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The Orphan's Wish

Melanie Dickerson · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Melanie Dickerson comes an inspired retelling of the beloved folk tale of Aladdin.Orphaned and alone, Aladdin travels from the streets of his Arab homeland to a strange, faraway place. Growing up in an orphanage, he meets young Lady Kirstyn, whose...
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Wild Blue Wonder

CARLIE SOROSIAK · HarperTeen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"It's the rarest author who can pull off laugh-out-loud hilarious, profound, and breathlessly romantic, all in the most sparkling prose. That shortlist includes Rainbow Rowell, Nicola Yoon, and now, Carlie Sorosiak." - Jeff Zentner, Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King...
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Legendary: A Caraval Novel

STEPHANIE GARBER · Flatiron Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Stephanie Garber's limitless imagination takes flight once more in the colorful, mesmerizing, and immersive sequel to the bestselling breakout debut Caraval, following Scarlett's younger sister, Tella, on a journey to the empire's capital to fulfill a mysterious bargain.Praise for Caraval:New...
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Whisper

Lynette Noni Strudwick · Kids Can Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

For two and a half years, Subject 684 "Jane Doe" has been locked underground in a secret government facility, enduring tests and torture. In that time, she hasn't uttered a single word. Not even her real name. Jane chooses to remain silent rather than risk losing control over...
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Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition

JULIA KAYE · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 160
Format: Print Length

Instead of a traditional written diary, Julia Kaye has always turned to art as a means of self-reflection. So when she began her gender transition in 2016, she decided to use her popular webcomic, Up and Out, to process her journey and help others with similar struggles realize they weren't...
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Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All: by M. T. Anderson, Candace Fleming, Stephanie Hemphill, Lisa Ann Sandell, Jennifer Donnelly, Linda Sue Park, Deborah Hopkinson

M T Anderson · Schwartz & Wade
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The tragic lives of Henry VIII and his six wives are reimagined by seven acclaimed and bestselling authors in this riveting novel, perfect for fans of Wolf Hall and Netflix's The Crown. He was King Henry VIII, a charismatic and extravagant ruler obsessed with both his power as king and with...
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The Bird and the Blade

MEGAN BANNEN · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping and tragic debut novel perfect for fans of The Wrath and the Dawn and Megan Whalen Turner.The Bird and the Blade is a lush, powerful story of life and death, battles and riddles, lies and secrets from author Megan Bannen. Enslaved in Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything:...
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Smoke and Iron

RACHEL CAINE · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

To save the Great Library, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, and Ash and Quill put themselves in danger in the next thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.The opening moves of a deadly game have begun. Jess Brightwell has put himself in direct...
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Invisible Ghosts

ROBYN SCHNEIDER · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Robyn Schneider, author of Extraordinary Means and The Beginning of Everything, delivers a sharply funny, romantic girl-meets-boy novel with a twist: boy-also-meets-girl's-ghost-brother.When one girl's best friend is her dead brother's ghost, romance can be tricky. Perfect for fans of John...
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The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan

Gia Cribbs · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

No one wants me to tell you about the disappearance of Sloane Sullivan.Not the lawyers or the cops. Not her friends or family. Not even the boy who loved her more than anyone. And most certainly not the United States Marshals Service. You know, the people who run the witness protection...
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