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The Rule of One

ASHLEY SAUNDERS · Skyscape
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover

In their world, telling the truth has become the most dangerous crime of all.In the near-future United States, a one-child policy is ruthlessly enforced. Everyone follows the Rule of One. But Ava Goodwin, daughter of the head of the Texas Family Planning Division, has a secret - one her mother...
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Fear of Missing Out

McGovern, Kate · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Everyone has a fear of missing out on something -- a party, a basketball game, a hangout after school. But what if it's life that you'll be missing out on? When Astrid learns that her cancer has returned, she hears about a radical technology called cryopreservation that may allow...
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The Iliad

Hinds, Gareth · Candlewick
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In a companion volume to his award-winning adaptation of The Odyssey, the incomparable graphic novelist Gareth Hinds masterfully adapts Homer's classic wartime epic. More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known...
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Within These Lines

Stephanie Morrill · Blink
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From Stephanie Morrill, author of The Lost Girl of Astor Street, comes Within These Lines, the love story of a girl and boy torn apart by racism during World War II.Evalina Cassano's life in an Italian-American family living in San Francisco in 1941 is quiet and ordinary until she falls...
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Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

Dayton, Arwen Elys · Delacorte Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"An alternately charming and horrifying exploration of what it means to be human and how far we'll go in pursuit of personal and societal 'perfection.' Dayton's newest is imagination at its best and most terrifying. I devoured this book." --Kiersten White, New York...
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Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement

Nadya Okamoto · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

PERIOD founder and Harvard College student Nadya Okamoto offers a manifesto on menstruation and why we can no longer silence those who bleed - and how to engage in youth activism.Throughout history, periods have been hidden from the public. They're taboo. They're embarrassing. They're...
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The Brilliant Death

AMY ROSE CAPETTA · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

For Teodora DiSangro, a mafia don's daughter, family is fate. All her life, Teodora has hidden the fact that she secretly turns her family's enemies into music boxes, mirrors, and other decorative objects. After all, everyone in Vinalia knows that stregas - wielders of magic - are figures...
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Don't Date Rosa Santos

Nina Moreno · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

For fans of GILMORE GIRLS and TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE, this effervescent love story from debut author Nina Moreno will sweep you away.Rosa Santos is cursed by the sea-at least, that's what they say. Dating her is bad news, especially if you're a boy with a boat.But...
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That Night

Giles, Amy · HarperTeen
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An evocative story by acclaimed author Amy Giles about tragedy, love, and learning to heal. The year since a mass shooting shook their Queens neighborhood has played out differently for Jess and Lucas, both of whom were affected by that night in eerily similar and deeply personal ways....
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Want

Cindy Pon · Simon Pulse
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Fresh, compelling - and timely." - Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carve the Mark and the Divergent series "Vividly conjured ... positively chilling." - The New York Times "Spectacular." - Buzzfeed Set in a near-future Taipei plagued...
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