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Keep This to Yourself

Tom Ryan · Albert Whitman & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

It's been a year since the Catalog Killer terrorized the sleepy seaside town of Camera Cove, killing four people before disappearing without a trace. Like everyone else in town, eighteen-year-old Mac Bell is trying to put that horrible summer behind him - easier said than done since Mac's...
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Then Again, Maybe I Won't

Judy Blume · Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Get a guy’s perspective on adolescent hang-ups in this classic Judy Blume novel, now with a fresh new look.“That’s an interesting way to solve the problem, Tony.” Miss Tobin is talking about a math problem on the blackboard, but Tony is thinking about real problems....
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Death Prefers Blondes

Caleb Roehrig · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Teenage socialite Margo Manning leads a dangerous double life. By day, she dodges the paparazzi while soaking up California sunshine. By night, however, she dodges security cameras and armed guards, pulling off high-stakes cat burglaries with a team of flamboyant young men. In and out of disguise,...

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The Hanging Girl

EILEEN COOK · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Skye Thorn has given tarot card readings for years, and now her psychic visions are helping the police find the town's missing golden girl. It's no challenge - her readings have always been faked, but this time she has some insider knowledge. The kidnapping was supposed to be easy - no one would...
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Orphan Monster Spy

MATT KILLEEN · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Her name is Sarah. She's blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish in 1939 Germany. And her act of resistance is about to change the world.

After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox...
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No Fixed Address

Susin Nielsen-Fernlund · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Wendelin van Draanen and Cynthia Lord, a touching and funny middle-grade story about family, friendship, and growing up when you're one step away from homelessness.

Twelve-and-three-quarter-year-old Felix Knutsson has a knack for trivia. His favorite game show is Who...
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Seven Wonders of the Solar System

David A Aguilar · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

Travel the near and far reaches of the solar system in this lively, beautifully illustrated Smithsonian nonfiction book!Ready for a wondrous celestial journey? How about a trip to our close neighbor Mars, home to the largest volcano in the solar system? Or to Europa, a watery lunar world...
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After the Woods

Kim Savage · Farrar
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

"Statistically speaking, girls like me don't come back when guys like Donald Jessup take us."

Julia knows she beat the odds. She escaped the kidnapper who hunted her in the woods for two terrifying nights that she can't fully remember. Now it's one year later,...

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An Affair of Poisons

Addie Thorley · Page Street Kids
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"An indulgent and exhilarating adventure... The only cure is to finish it."

- Lyndsay Ely, author of Gunslinger Girl

After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, seventeen-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother's...

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Comics Confidential: Thirteen Graphic Novelists Talk Story, Craft, and Life Outside the Box

Leonard S Marcus · Candlewick Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

A must-have collection for comics fans and creators everywhere, packed with interviews and original comics by today's foremost graphic novelists.

Respected anthologist Leonard S. Marcus turns his literary microscope to the world of comics, which has lately morphed and matured at a furious...
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As Many Nows as I Can Get

Shana Youngdahl · Dial Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A timely, searing, and unconventional romance from an urgent new voice in young adult fiction

In one impulsive moment the summer before they leave for college, overachievers Scarlett and David plunge into an irresistible swirl of romance, particle physics, and questionable decisions....
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Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement

Ann Bausum · National Geographic Children's Books; First Edition edition
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet...
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Duel at Araluen

John Flanagan · Philomel Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

International bestselling author John Flanagan returns to world of Ranger's Apprentice in this new installment of the Royal Ranger series starring Maddie, Will Treaty's fearless young apprentice.

King Duncan and Princess Cassandra are trapped in the south tower of Castle Araluen...
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The Red Fox Clan

JOHN FLANAGAN · Philomel Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Flanagan returns to the world of Ranger's Apprentice, beginning a new story arc starring fan favorites, Will and Maddie (Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger) .

Picking up where Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger...
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