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Anatomy of a Misfit

Andrea Portes · HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

In this Mean Girls meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower tale, narrator Anika Dragomir is the third most popular girl at Pound High School. But inside, she knows shes a freak she cant stop thinking about former loner Logan McDonough, who showed up on the first day of tenth grade hotter,...
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The Nest

Kenneth Oppel · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 244
Format: Print book

Steve just wants to save his baby brother:but what will he lose in the bargain? This is a haunting gothic tale for fans of Coraline, from acclaimed author Kenneth Oppel (Silverwing, The Boundless) with illustrations from Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen. For some kids summer is a sun-soaked...
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Any Other Girl

Rebecca Phillips · Kensington
Format: Print book

"A deftly written story of friendship, romance, and second chances." --Natasha Sinel, author of The FixAfter a disastrous, reputation-destroying party at the end of junior year, Kat Henley has a new plan. When it comes to boys--especially other people's boys:Don't touch.Don't...
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The remedy

Suzanne Young; Rebekkah Ross · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

Quinlan McKee is a closer. Since the age of seven, Quinn has held the responsibility of providing closure to grieving families with a special skill. She can 'become' anyone. Quinn is hired by families to take on the short-term role of a deceased loved one between the ages of fifteen...
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The Tale of Rescue

Michael J Rosen · Candlewick Press, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 103
Format: Print book

When a blizzard traps a family outside in a whiteout, a cattle dog devises a stunning rescue in a moving, suspenseful, and gorgeously illustrated story.A family - a mother, a father, and their ten-year-old son - have come all the way from Florida to the Appalachian foothills to experience...
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Dark Breaks the Dawn

Sara B Larson · Scholastic Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

On her eighteenth birthday, Princess Evelayn of Eadrolan, the Light Kingdom, can finally access the full range of her magical powers. The light looks brighter, the air is sharper, and the energy she can draw when fighting feels almost limitless.But while her mother, the queen, remains busy...
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Zenn Diagram

Wendy Brant · KCP Loft
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

Eva Walker is a seventeen-year-old math genius. And if that doesn't do wonders for her popularity, there s another thing that makes it even worse: when she touches another person or anything that belongs to them from clothes to textbooks to cell phones she sees a vision of their emotions....
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The Lost

James Patterson · Little Brown Young Readers
Pages: 355
Format: Hardcover

James Patterson brings the fifth and final book in the bestselling Witch & Wizard saga to a head by exposing the nature of power-and what it means for the heroes that have it. Whit and Wisty Allgood have fought and defeated their world's most pernicious threats: the evil dictator, The One Who Is The One,...
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After the Red Rain

Barry Lyga · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A postapocalyptic novel with a cinematic twist from New York Times bestseller Barry Lyga, actor Peter Facinelli, and producer Robert DeFranco.
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How it went down

Kekla Magoon · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 326
Format: Print book

A 2015 Coretta Scott King Author Honor BookWhen sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white. In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts...
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The Noble Servant

Melanie Dickerson · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

She lost everything to the scheme of an evil servant. But she might just gain what she's always wanted . . . if she makes it in time. The impossible was happening. She, Magdalen of Mallin, was to marry the Duke of Wolfberg. Magdalen had dreamed about receiving a proposal ever since she met the duke...
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The Last Apprentice: Fury of the Seventh Son

Joseph Delaney · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The thirteenth - and final - book in the internationally bestselling fantasy adventure series that inspired the forthcoming major motion picture Seventh Son. Finally, Tom Ward, the spook's last apprentice, will confront the Fiend for the last time. A stunning conclusion to the acclaimed...
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Toni #4

LJ ALONGE · GROSSET & DUNLAP
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

A street-smart, action-packed basketball series with action on and off the court.Toni isn't Coach Wise's favorite player on Team Blacktop. Honestly, she's not even in his top five. And if she's being real, her own teammates keep siding with him during practice.But this isn't...
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Lucky Broken Girl

Ruth Behar · Nancy Paulsen Books
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover

"A book for anyone mending from childhood wounds." - Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street In this unforgettable multicultural coming-of-age narrative - based on the author's childhood in the 1960s - a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl is adjusting to her new life...
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The Penultimate Peril

Lemony Snicket · HarperCollins; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Lemony Snicket returns with the last book before the last book of his bestselling Series of Unfortunate Events. Scream and run away before the secrets of the series are revealed! Very little is known about Lemony Snicket and A Series of Unfortunate Events. What we do know is contained in the following...
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