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SLAY

Morris, Brittney · Simon Pulse
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"The YA debut we're most excited for this year." - Entertainment Weekly "A book that knocks you off your feet while dropping the kind of knowledge that'll keep you down for the count. Prepare to BE slain." - Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear...
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The Babysitters Coven

Williams, Kate M. · Delacorte Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Adventures in Babysitting meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this funny, action-packed novel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil. Seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl has a babysitters club. She knows...
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Dear Haiti, Love Alaine

Moulite, Maika · Inkyard Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

This exceptional debut novel captures a sparkling new voice and irrepressible heroine in a celebration of storytelling sure to thrill fans of Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi and Jenna Evans Welch!When a school presentation goes very wrong, Alaine Beauparlant finds herself suspended, shipped off to Haiti...
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The Underground Railroad

Philip Schwarz · Chelsea House Pub
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

The transatlantic slave trade and the fugitive slave laws in the late 18th century led to a significant increase in the number of people seeking freedom. Runaway slaves were often aided in their escape by a growing network of people who saw slavery as morally reprehensible. This work explores...
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Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World

Rachel Ignotofsky · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Illustrated profiles of 50 pioneering female artists--from the 11th century to today--from the author of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science.A charmingly illustrated and inspiring book, Women in Art highlights the achievements and stories of 50 notable women in the arts--from...
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Unpregnant

Hendriks, Jenni · HarperTeen
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Juno and Jennifer E. Smith comes this hysterically funny and heartfelt YA novel about fierce friendship, reproductive rights, and the wild road to adulthood.This breakout teen debut is from authors Jenni Hendriks (writer for How I Met Your Mother) and Ted Caplan...
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Pet

Emezi, Akwaeke · Make Me a World
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look?There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors...
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His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined

Adler, Dahlia · Flatiron Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Thirteen of YA's most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe's most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult...
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Butterfly Yellow

Thanhha Lai · HarperCollins
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Ibi Zoboi, and Erika L. Sanchez, this gorgeously written and deeply moving own voices novel is the YA debut from the award-winning author of Inside Out & Back Again. 4 starred reviews!In the final days of the Vi?t Nam War, H?ng takes her little...
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Alphaprints: Rocky Raccoon and other woodland friends

Priddy, Roger · Priddy Books
Pages: 14
Format: Board book

Children will love this entertaining Alphaprints board book, with kooky characters to meet, fun rhymes to read, and novelty googly eyes to jiggle. With funny illustrations on every page, these friendly woodland characters are sure to make toddlers giggle! The raised embossing on each illustration...
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