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S J Goslee · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

It's like the apocalypse came, only instead of nuclear bombs and zombies, Mike gets school participation, gay thoughts, and mother-effin' cheerleaders.Junior year is about to start. Here's what Mike Tate knows:His friends are awesome and their crappy garage band is a great excuse to drink...
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What the Dead Want

Norah Olson · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Haunting photographs and dark family secrets make this second spine-tingling novel from Norah Olson the perfect read for fans of creepy, suspenseful teen fiction.A love of photography, an old camera, and countless questions - these are all that sixteen-year-old Gretchen has left of her mother,...
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A Week of Mondays

Jessica Brody · Farrar
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

When I made the wish, I just wanted a do-over. Another chance to make things right. I never, in a million years, thought it might actually come true... Sixteen-year-old Ellison Sparks is having a serious case of the Mondays. She gets a ticket for running a red light, she manages to take...
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The Inside of Out

Jenn Marie Thorne · Dial Books
Pages: 425
Format: Print book

For fans of Stephanie Perkins, Meg Cabot, and Glee comes a hilarious, romantic, whip smart young adult novel about your best friend finding love before you do, and the lines you'll cross to stay part of her life. When her best friend Hannah comes out the day before junior year, Daisy is all set to let her ally...
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In the Shadow of the Dragon King

J Keller Ford · Month 9 Books
Pages: 346

Seventeen-year-old, Eric, is a kick-butt squire to the most revered knight in Fallhollow. Well he would be if Sir Trogsdill allowed him to do anything even remotely awesome. Determined to prove his worth, Eric sets out to find the mythical paladin summoned to protect the realm from the evil...
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True Letters from a Fictional Life

Kenneth Logan · Harpercollins
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

If you asked anyone in his small Vermont town, they'd tell you the facts: James Liddell, star athlete, decent student, and sort-of boyfriend to cute, peppy Theresa, is a happy, funny, carefree guy.But whenever James sits down at his desk to write, he tells a different story. As he fills...
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Before We Go Extinct

Karen Rivers · Farrar
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Grief can sometimes feel like being caught in the jaws of a great white shark.J.C., who goes by the nickname Sharky, has been having a hard time ever since his best friend died in front of him in what might or might not have been an accident. Shell-shocked, Sharky spends countless hours...
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Transferral

Kate Blair · Dancing Cat Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

London, England, present day. This is the world as we know it, but with one key difference: medical science has found a way to remove diseases from the sick. The catch? They can only transfer the diseases into other living humans. The government now uses the technology to cure the innocent...
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Rahul Kanakia · Hyperion
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"I'm your protagonist-Reshma Kapoor-and if you have the free time to read this book, then you're probably nothing like me. " Reshma is a college counselor's dream. She's the top-ranked senior at her ultra-competitive Silicon Valley high school, with a spotless academic record...
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The Choosing

Rachelle Dekker · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Like all citizens since the Ruining, Carrington Hale knows the importance of this day. But she never expected the moment she'd spent a lifetime preparing for -- her Choosing ceremony -- to end in disaster. Ripped from her family, she'll spend her days serving as a Lint, the lowest...
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Thieving Weasels

Billy Taylor · Dial
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Skip O'Rourke is dragged into one last con . . . but he doesn't know the con's on him in this funny, page-turning debut YA for fans of Winger and Ocean's Eleven. Cameron Smith attends an elite boarding school and has just been accepted to Princeton University alongside his beautiful girlfriend,...
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