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Inventing Victoria

Tonya Bolden · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In a searing historical novel, Tonya Bolden illuminates post-Reconstruction America in an intimate portrait of a determined young woman who dares to seize the opportunity of a lifetime.

As a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, Essie's dreams are very much at odds with her reality....

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Life After Juliet

Shannon Alexander · Entangled Teen
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Becca Hanson is a reader-a voracious reader. And with all those fictional friends, she never had time for real ones. Plus real ones come with uncontrollable quirks, like constantly filling a room with song, drawing on any available surface, and worst of all, dying. Real friends...

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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,...
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When I Am Through with You

Stephanie Kuehn · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A gripping story of survival and the razor's-edge difference between perfect cruelty and perfect love.

"This isn't meant to be a confession. Not in any spiritual sense of the word. Yes, I'm in jail at the moment. I imagine I'll be here for a long time, considering....
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Creep

Eireann Corrigan · Scholastic Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The haunting tale of a family that moves into a new house and finds that someone -- or something -- does NOT want them there.Olivia is curious about the people moving into 16 Olcott Place. The last family there moved out in the dead of night, and the new family, the Donahues, has no idea...
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Bon voyage! Level 1B, Student Edition

Conrad J Schmitt · Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Pages: 124
Format: Hardcover

Bon voyage! Clearly the best choice!Bon voyage! (Schmitt and Brillié Lutz) is a comprehensive program that encourages meaningful, practical communication by immersing your students in the language and culture of the Francophone world. The text and its complementary resources help you meet...
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Library of Souls: The Third Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs · Quirk Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The movie adaptation of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is in theaters September 2016.

The New York Times #1 best selling series

A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom.

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The Science of Science Fiction

Mathew Brenden Wood · Nomad Pr
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Early science fiction imagined a world with space travel, video calls, and worldwide access to information, things we now know as NASA's human spaceflight program, Skype, and the Internet. What next? Could we really bring back the dinosaurs, travel to a distant star, or live on Mars?

In...
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The Invasion

Peadar O'Guilin · David Fickling Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

After so much danger, Nessa and Anto can finally dream of a happy life. But the terrible attack on their school has created a witch-hunt for traitors -- boys and girls who survived the Call only by making deals with the enemy. To the authorities, Nessa's guilt is obvious. Her punishment...
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Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge

Lisa Jensen · Candlewick
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Filled with magic and fierce emotion, Lisa Jensen's multilayered novel will make you question all you think you know about beauty, beastliness, and happily ever after.They say Chteau Beaumont is cursed. But servant-girl Lucie can't believe such foolishness about handsome Jean-Loup...
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Justin #1

L J Alonge · Grosset & Dunlap
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

A street smart, action-packed basketball series from debut author LJ Alonge.Justin has a list of goals stashed under his mattress. Number 1 is "figure out life plans." Number 5 is "earn Zen Master rating in WoW." Nowhere on that list is "play the crew from Ghosttown,"...
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Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi Leia, Princess of Alderaan

CLAUDIA GRAY · Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A young adult novel, written by New York Times Best-selling author Claudia Gray, about sixteen-year-old Princess Leia, set before A New Hope.
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This Time Will Be Different

Misa Sugiura · HarperTeen
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Jenny Han, Morgan Matson, and Sandhya Menon, critically acclaimed author Misa Sugiura delivers a richly crafted contemporary YA novel about family, community, and the importance of writing your own history.

The author of the Asian Pacific American Award-winning It's...

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Far from the Tree: Young Adult Edition--How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another . . . Our Differences Unite Us

Andrew Solomon · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 454
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Andrew Solomon comes a stunning, poignant, and affecting young adult edition of his award-winning masterpiece, Far From the Tree, which explores the impact of extreme differences between parents and children.

The old adage says...
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The Glittering Court

Richelle Mead · Razorbill, 2016.
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

A dazzling, romantic new fantasy series set in a mix of Elizabethan and frontier worlds from Richelle Mead, #1 internationally bestselling author of Vampire Academy.

Big and sweeping, spanning the refined palaces of Osfrid to the gold dust and untamed forests of Adoria, The...
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