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Zombie

J. R. Angelella · Soho Press
Format: Paperback

A zombie movie-obsessed teen is forced to face a dark family secret in this shocking debut literary novel from a talented new author.  Fourteen-year-old Jeremy Barker attends an all-boys Catholic high school where roving gangs of bullies make his days a living hell. His mother is an absentee...
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The V-Word: True Stories about First-Time Sex

Amber J. Keyser · Simon Pulse ; Hillsboro
Pages: 197
Format: Print book

An honest and poignant collection of essays by women about losing their virginity in their teens. The V-Word captures the complexity of this important life-decision and reflects diverse real-world experiences. Includes helpful resources for parents and teens.Losing it. Popping your cherry....
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Better Off Friends

Elizabeth Eulberg · Point
Pages: 276
Format: Print book

For Macallan and Levi, it was friends at first sight. Everyone says guys and girls can't be just friends, but these two are. They hang out after school, share tons of inside jokes, their families are super close, and Levi even starts dating one of Macallan's friends. They are platonic...
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Midnight at the Electric

Jodi Lynn Anderson · HarperTeen
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson's epic tale - told through three unforgettable points of view - is a masterful exploration of how love, determination, and hope can change a person's fate.Kansas, 2065: Adri has been handpicked to live on Mars. But weeks before launch,...
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Run Away with Me

MILA GRAY · Simon Pulse
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Two friends fall into a passionate romance, but first they must confront a painful past, or else lose out on the one thing they've been searching for in this heartrending novel from the author of Come Back to Me and Stay with Me.Emerson Lowe and popular ice-hockey player Jake McCallister...
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A psalm for lost girls

Katie Bayerl · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

I'll Give You the Sun meets True Detective in this brilliant YA debut about saints, sisters, and learning to let go.Tess da Costa is a saint - a hand-to-god, miracle-producing saint. At least that's what the people in her hometown of New Avon, Massachusetts, seem to believe. And when Tess...
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Six Feet Over It

Jennifer Longo · Ember
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

This unforgettable new voice in contemporary YA is perfect for fans of John Green, Libba Bray, and Jennifer Niven. "Like nothing you've read before." - Bustle.com No one is more surprised than Leigh when her father buys a graveyard. Less shocking is the fact that he's...
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Girl Genius Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones

Kaja Foglio · Studio Foglio
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Adventure Romance, Mad Science ! Agatha Hetrodyne is the last heir to the Maddest of Mad Scientist families, and now she's returned home to claim the family castle. Unfortunately , it turns out that she's not the only one with that idea, and the Castle is a hopeless death trap.
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Freefall

Joshua David Bellin · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

When the 1% and the 99% clash, the fate of the human race hangs on the actions of two teens from very different backgrounds in this thrilling sci-fi adventure.In the Upperworld, the privileged 1% are getting ready to abandon a devastated planet Earth. And Cam can't wait to leave. After...
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The Cat King of Havana

Tom Crosshill · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Lolcats. Salsa dancing. Unrequited love. Tom Crosshill's smart and witty debut teen novel treads a colorful coming-of-age journey from New York City to Havana that will appeal to fans of books by Matthew Quick and Junot Díaz.When Rick Gutiérrez - known as "That Cat Guy"...
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I Will Save You

Matt De La Peña · Ember
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Kidd is running from his past and his future. No mom, no dad, and there's nothing for him at the group home but therapy. He doesn't belong at the beach where he works either, unless he finds a reason to stay. Olivia is blond hair, blue eyes, rich dad. The prettiest girl in Cardiff....
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Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story

Caren Barzelay Stelson · Carolrhoda Books
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

A Minnesota Book Award FinalistA Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature "[A] book that is both personal and universal, both thoroughly researched and real."--The New York Times Book Review This striking...
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Fireworks

Katie Cotugno · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of 99 Days and How to Love comes a stunning new contemporary novel - all about boy bands, girl bands, best friends, and first love - perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Morgan Matson. It was always meant to be Olivia. She's the talented one, the one who's...
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Slayed

Amanda Marrone · Simon Pulse; Original edition
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

The Van Helsing family has been hunting vampires for over one hundred years, but sixteen-year-old Daphne wishes her parents would take up an occupation that doesn’t involve decapitating vamps for cash. All Daphne wants is to settle down in one place, attend an actual school, and finally...
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Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am

Harry Mazer · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

A teen soldier returns home from Iraq forever changed in this poignant and pivotal novel that Kirkus Reviews calls “as illuminating as a hand grenade, and just as powerful.”Ben lives a charmed life—effortlessly landing the lead in the high school musical, dating the prettiest...
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