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The Ghosts of Heaven

Marcus Sedgwick · Roaring Brook
Pages: 359
Format: Print book

Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of The Ghosts of Heaven, the mesmerizing new novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick. They are there in prehistory, when a girl picks up a charred stick and makes the first written signs; there tens of centuries...

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Double Exposure

Bridget Birdsall · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Nominated for the Lambda Literary Award and the Foreword Reviews' INDIE Book of the Year

First place winner of the Wisconsin Council of Writers' Tofte/Wright Children's Literature Award

Fifteen-year-old Alyx Atlas was raised as a boy, yet she knows something others don't....
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The Way Back to You

Michelle Andreani · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Six months ago, Ashlyn Montiel died in a bike accident.

Her best friend CLOUDY is keeping it together, at least on the outside. Cloudy's insides are a different story: tangled, confused, heartbroken.

KYLE is falling apart, and everyone can tell. Ashlyn was his girlfriend,...
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What If It's Us

BECKY ALBERTALLI · Destination Insights
Pages: 466
Format: Paperback

Most coming of age novels suggest this 'coming of age' is the defining moment in your life. The Rites of Passage takes a different view:Jamie Goldberg faces the classical "who am I?" question. His search brings more questions than answers. Follow him on his bumpy journey of self-revelation...
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Starting From Scratch: What You Should Know about Food and Cooking

Sarah Elton · Owlkids Books Inc.,
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

Starting from Scratch is a food manifesto that helps young readers relate to what they eat, inspiring both budding chefs and budding food lovers in the process. Beginning with an exploration of taste and how it works, author and food activist Sarah Elton explains how ingredients have been...
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Palace of Lies

Margaret Peterson Haddix · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Desmia discovers the reality of royalty is far from a fairy tale in this third adventure set in the Cinderella-esque world of Just Ella and Palace of Mirrors, from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix.Desmia and her twelve sister-princesses are ruling Suala together...
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The Other Side of Lost

JESSI KIRBY · HarperTeen
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Girl Online meets Wild in this emotionally charged story of girl who takes to the wilderness to rediscover herself and escape the superficial persona she created on social media.

Mari Turner's life is perfect. That is, at least, to her thousands of followers who have helped her become...

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Still a Work in Progress

Jo Knowles · Candlewick Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life while coping with his sister's secret struggle.

Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring,...
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Polaris

Mindee Arnett · Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Jeth Seagrave and his crew of mercenaries are pulled into one last high-stakes mission in this breathtaking sequel to Mindee Arnett's Avalon, which SLJ called, in a starred review, "an exciting piece of science fiction that keeps up its energy from beginning to end."Jeth Seagrave...
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A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II

ELIZABETH WEIN · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The gripping true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II - from Elizabeth Wein, award-winning author of Code Name Verity

In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female...

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Mirrored

Alex Flinn · Harper Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Flinn's modern and mysterious retelling of Snow White, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and true love doesn't necessarily mean Prince Charming.Celine's life is the stuff fairy tales are made of. She's beautiful, talented,...
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The Universe Is Expanding and So Am I

Carolyn Mackler · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From Printz Honoree Carolyn Mackler comes a story of what happens when the "happy ending" turns out to be less than perfect.

It's been five months since sixteen-year-old Virginia Shreves thought her life was finally back on course: she has come to terms with who she is both...

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The Cruel Prince

Holly Black · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 370
Format: Hardcover

An instant bestseller!
By #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, the first book in a stunning new series about a mortal girl who finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue.
Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged...
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Soldier Sister, Fly Home

Bo Flood · Charlesbridge
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

A tender and gripping novel about family, identity, and loss. Thirteen-year-old Tess is having a hard enough time understanding what it means to be part white and part Navajo, but now she's coping with her sister Gaby's announcement that she's going to enlist and fight in the Iraq...
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Rey Mysterio: High-Flying Luchador

Lucia Raatma · Capstone Press
Pages: 48
Format: Library Binding

It's a bird! It's a plane! Noit's Rey Mysterio! This high-flying luchador takes pro wrestling to a whole new level. He may be small compared to other wrestlers, but Rey Mysterio has made a big impact in the world of pro wrestling.
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