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On The Come Up

ANGIE THOMAS · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

This is the highly anticipated second novel by Angie Thomas, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning The Hate U Give.Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend...
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The Girl King

Mimi Yu · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

"An absolutely fantastic tale of legends, magic and destiny." --Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns seriesTwo sisters become unwitting rivals in a war to claim the title of Emperor in this richly imagined, Asian-inspired fantasy for fans...
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Watch Us Rise

Renée Watson · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"This stunning book is the story I've been waiting for my whole life; where girls rise up to claim their space with joy and power." --Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Speak"An extraordinary story of two indomitable spirits."...
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The Vanishing Stair

MAUREEN JOHNSON · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson's second novel in the Truly Devious series, there are more twists and turns than Stevie Bell can imagine. No answer is given freely, and someone will pay for the truth with their life. The Truly Devious case - an unsolved kidnapping and triple...
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King of Scars

Dorothea Salo · Imprint
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Face your demons...or feed them. Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war -- and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka's...
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The Deceivers

Kristen Simmons · Tor Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Kristen Simmons, the author of the Article 5 series and Metaltown, brings her remarkable imagination to this intrigue-filled contemporary drama where good kids are needed to do some very bad things in The Deceivers. Welcome to Vale Hall, the school for aspiring con artists. When Brynn Hilder...
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Courting Darkness

Robin LaFevers · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

First in a duology, this darkly thrilling page-turner set in the world of the best-selling His Fair Assassin series is perfect for fans of THRONE OF GLASS, RED QUEEN, and GAME OF THRONES. Told in alternating perspectives, when Sybella discovers there is another trained assassin from St. Mortain's...
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Imprison the Sky

A.C. Gaughen · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"[A] fantasy romance in the vein of books by Sabaa Tahir, Renee Ahdieh." - School Library Journal on Reign the EarthThe sweeping Elementae series continues with a heroine so powerful she can command the sky . . .Stolen from her family as a child, Aspasia has clawed her way up the ranks...
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Light Filters In: Poems

NOT AVAILABLE. · HarperCollins
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience. In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman - known as @poeticpoison - does what she does best:...
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A Danger to Herself and Others

Alyssa Sheinmel · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Girl, Interrupted meets We Were Liars in this gripping new novel from New York Times bestselling author Alyssa Sheinmel.Four walls. One window. No way to escape.Hannah knows there's been a mistake, She doesn't need to be institutionalized. What happened to her roommate at that summer program...
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Crown of Feathers

Nicki Pau Preto · Simon Pulse
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

An Ember in the Ashes meets Three Dark Crowns in this lush debut fantasy novel about a girl who disguises herself as a boy to join a secret group of warriors that ride phoenixes into battle.I had a sister, once ... In a world ruled by fierce warrior queens, a grand empire was built upon...
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Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday

Natalie C. Anderson · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Forced to become a child soldier, a sixteen-year-old Somali refugee must confront his painful past in this haunting, thrilling tale of loss and redemption for fans of A Long Way Gone and What is the What When Abdi's family is kidnapped, he's forced to do the unthinkable: become a child...
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Enchantée

Gita Trelease · Flatiron Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Love. Magic. Revolution...Enchantée is Gita Trelease's imaginative debut fantasy about an impoverished magician desperate to provide for her beloved sister on the eve of the French Revolution."Deliciously addictive." -- Stephanie Garber, author of Caraval"A heady, sparkling...
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Our Year of Maybe

Rachel Lynn Solomon · Simon Pulse
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the author of You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone comes a stunning contemporary novel that examines the complicated aftermath of a kidney transplant between best friends.Aspiring choreographer Sophie Orenstein would do anything for Peter Rosenthal-Porter, who's been on the kidney transplant...
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We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults

Susan Kuklin · Candlewick
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

The Stonewall Honor-winning author of Beyond Magenta shares the intimate, eye-opening stories of nine undocumented young adults living in America."Maybe next time they hear someone railing about how terrible immigrants are, they'll think about me. I'm a real person." Meet nine...
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Undying

AMIE KAUFMAN · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Trapped aboard the Undying's ancient spaceship and reeling from what they've learned there, scavenger Mia and academic Jules are plunged into a desperate race to warn their home planet of the danger humanity's greed has unleashed. From the mountains of Spain to the streets of Prague, the sequel...
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Even If I Fall

Abigail Johnson · Inkyard Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Brooke and Heath should never have become friends, let alone fallen in love A year ago, Brooke Covington lost everything when her beloved older brother, Jason, confessed to the murder of his best friend, Calvin. Brooke and her family became social pariahs, broken and unable to console one another....
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Goodbye, Perfect

Sara Barnard · Simon Pulse
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Friendship bonds are tested and the very nature of loyalty is questioned in this lyrical novel about a teen whose best friend runs away with her teacher after suffering the effects of too much academic pressure. Perfect for fans of Morgan Matson and Jennifer Niven.Eden McKinley knows she can't...
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