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Art Boss

Kayla Cagan · Chronicle Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Artist Piper Perish has moved from her hometown of Houston, Texas, to New York City. Her days are spent exploring; her nights are filled with painting. It's her lifelong dream come true . . . . Except life in the city isn't as glamorous as it looks from afar. Piper's high-pressure...
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Unfed

Kirsty McKay · Chicken House
Format: Hardcover

Fresh meat! From a hospital of horrors to a runaway zombie train, it's an all-new onslaught of the slavering undead in the sequel to Kirsty McKay's killer debut!Just when you think you're out...it's the morning after the night of the return of the living dead. Or something...
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Emblaze

Jessica Shirvington · Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

NO GOOD CHOICES When youre hanging off the edge of a volcano, how do you make the most important decision of your life? For Violet Eden the decisions between right and wrong are getting harder and harder. Because apparently being a half-angel Grigori doesnt always make you right. Where...
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If Only

JENNIFER GILMORE · HarperTeen
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed author Jennifer Gilmore's intimate and achingly beautiful novel deftly explores the role that chance and choice play in shaping the lives of two teenagers who are separated by sixteen years, but whose lives are intertwined."This emotional, visceral novel haunted me in the best...
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Guilty?: Crime, Punishment, and the Changing Face of Justice

Teri Kanefield · HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"An extraordinary book . . . that could well be mind-blowing to the thoughtful young reader who is ready to move beyond the black-and-white notion that a particular act is wrong simply because it is illegal." --Richie PartingtonWhen does strategy become cheating? Can good luck...
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Woven

Michael Jensen · Scholastic Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Two unlikely allies must journey across a kingdom in the hopes of thwarting death itself.All his life, Nels has wanted to be a knight of the kingdom of Avërand. Tall and strong, and with a knack for helping those in need, the people of his sleepy little village have even taken to calling...
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A Season of Daring Greatly

Ellen Emerson White · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Eighteen-year-old Jill Cafferty just made history. Her high school's star pitcher, she is now the first woman drafted by a major league baseball team. Only days after her high school graduation, she'll join the Pittsburgh Pirates' Class A Short Season team . . . but not everyone is happy...
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The Disasters

M. K. England · HarperTeen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The Breakfast Club meets Guardians of the Galaxy in this YA sci-fi adventure by debut author M. K. England.Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it's not exactly a surprise when he's kicked out of the elite Ellis Station Academy in less than twenty-four hours....
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Of Monsters and Madness

Jessica Verday · EgmontUSA
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A romantic, historical retelling of classic Gothic horror featuring Edgar Allan Poe and his character Annabel Lee, from a New York Times best-selling author.Annabel Lee is summoned from Siam to live with her father in 1820's Philadelphia shortly after her mother's death, but an unconventional...
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And We Stay

Jenny Hubbard · Ember; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

A Michael L. Printz Honor Award Winner A gentle, lyrical story of incomprehensible sorrow faced with quiet courage.—ELIZABETH WEIN, New York Times bestselling author Hubbard treats tragedy and new beginnings with a skilled, delicate hand.—JOHN COREY WHALEY, author of Where Things...
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Flashfall

Jenny Moyer · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Orion is a Subpar, expected to mine the tunnels of Outpost Five, near the deadly flash curtain. For generations, her people have chased cirium -- the only element that can shield humanity from the curtain's radioactive particles. She and her caving partner Dram work the most treacherous...
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Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia

Jenny Torres Sanchez · Running Press Kids
Format: Paperback

TAYSHAS 2014 Reading listKirkus Reviews Best Teen Books of 2013It is the summer after Frenchie Garcia's senior year, and she can't come to grips with the death of Andy Cooper. Her friends don't know that she had a secret crush on her classmate, and they especially don't...
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Ask the Dark

Henry Turner · Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

"Ask the Dark will keep you up all night, and its flawed, real hero will haunt your day. I wish I'd written it." - Michael Grant, New York Times best-selling author of Gone and BZRK Billy Zeets has a story to tell. About being a vandal and petty thief. About missing boys...
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The Star Wars

JW Rinzler · Dark Horse Books
Format: Hardcover

Before Star Wars, there was The Star Wars! This is the hardcover collection of the official adaptation of George Lucas's rough-draft screenplay for what would become Star Wars, the film that changed motion pictures and the world. You'll see familiar characters and places--but...
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Duels & Deception

Cindy Anstey · Swoon Reads
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Named one of the 35 Most Anticipated YA Novels of 2017 by Entertainment Weekly!In which a lady and a law clerk find themselves entangled in the scandal of the season...Miss Lydia Whitfield, heiress to the family fortune, has her future entirely planned out. She will run the family estate...
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