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Fox Forever: The Jenna Fox Chronicles

Mary Pearson · Holt & Company, Henry
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover

Locke Jenkins has some catching up to do. After spending 260 years as a disembodied mind in a little black box, he has a perfect new body. But before he can move on with his unexpected new life, he'll have to return the Favor he accepted from the shadowy resistance group known as the Network.Locke...
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Quarantine #2: The Saints

Lex Thomas · EgmontUSA
Format: Hardcover

A cross between the Gone series and Lord of the Flies, Quarantine #2: The Saints continues this frenetically paced and scary young adult series that illustrates just how deadly high school can be.Nothing was worse than being locked in--until they opened the door...McKinley High has been...
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Love, Life, and the List

KASIE WEST · HarperTeen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

What do you do when you've fallen for your best friend? Funny and romantic, this effervescent story about family, friendship, and finding yourself is perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han.Seventeen-year-old Abby Turner's summer isn't going the way she'd planned....
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Puerto Rico

Romel Hernandez · Mason Crest
Format: Print book

Presents the geography, history, economy, cities and communities, and people and culture of Puerto Rico. Includes recipes, related projects, and a calendar of festivals.
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The Becoming of Noah Shaw

Michelle Hodkin · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the first book of the Shaw Confessions, the companion series to the New York Times bestselling Mara Dyer novels, old skeletons are laid bare and new promises prove deadly. This is what happens after happily ever after.Everyone thinks seventeen-year-old Noah Shaw has the world on a string....
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When Friendship Followed Me Home

Paul Griffin · Dial Books for Young Readers
Pages: 247
Format: Print book

A breathtaking middle-grade novel about happiness, loss, and an unforgettable dog named Flip"This story convinced me all over again that love and imagination are life's biggest magic." - Rebecca Stead, author of Newbery Award winner When You Reach Me Ben Coffin has never been...
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A Guide to the Other Side

Robert Imfeld · Aladdin
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A boy and his ghostly twin sister work together to pass messages from the beyond in this funny paranormal debut.There are a few things you should know about Baylor Bosco: He's thirteen-years-old, he has a twin sister, and he really does NOT like ghosts ... which is problematic because...
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The Special Ones

Em Bailey · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Esther is one of the Special Ones: four young spiritual guides who live in a remote farmhouse under the protection of a mysterious cult leader. He watches them around the clock, ready to punish them if they forget who they are - and all the while, broadcasting their lives to eager followers...
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There Will Be Lies

Nick Lake · Bloomsbury Usa
Pages: 454
Format: Book

In four hours, Shelby Jane Cooper will be struck by a car.Shortly after, she and her mother will leave the hospital and set out on a winding journey toward the Grand Canyon.All Shelby knows is that they're running from dangers only her mother understands. And the further they travel, the more...
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Investigate Methamphetamine

Marylou Ambrose · Enslow Publishers
Format: Book

Meth . . . crank . . . ice . . . No matter what you call it, methamphetamine is an extremely addictive drug. It is expensive and gives users what appears to endless energy. In INVESTIGATE METHAMPHETAMINES, authors Marylou Ambrose and Veronica Deisler look at the epidemic spread of methamphetamines...
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The sister pact

Stacie Ramey · Sourcebooks Fire
Format: eBook

"Allie is devastated when her sister Leah commits suicide--and not just because she misses her. The two teens made a suicide pact so that they'd always be together, and Allie can't understand why she was left behind"--
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So Close

Emma McLaughlin · Sparkpress
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From international #1 best-selling authors Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus comes a story about a girl from the trailer parks of central Florida and the two powerful men who shape her life -- one of whom will raise her up to places she never imagined, the other of whom will threaten to destroy...
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Darkest Fear

Cate Tiernan · Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

Vivi's animal instincts are her legacy - and may be her downfall - in this start to a romantic fantasy series that will appeal to fans of The Nine Lives of Chloe King.Vivi has known the truth about her family - and herself - since she was thirteen. But that doesn't mean she's...
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Mammoth

Jill Baguchinsky · Turner
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

The summer before her junior year, paleontology geek Natalie Page lands a coveted internship at an Ice Age dig site near Austin, Texas. Natalie, who's also a plus-size fashion blogger, depends on the retro style and persona she developed to shield herself from her former bullies, but vintage...
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Anne & Henry

Dawn Ius · Simon Pulse
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this wonderfully creative retelling of the infamous - and torrid - love affair between Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII, history collides with the present when a sizzling romance ignites in a modern-day high school.Henry Tudor's life has been mapped out since the day he was born:...
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