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Ready to Fall: A Novel

Marcella Fleischman Pixley · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A young adult novel about a teen who finds hope and a fresh start after a terrible loss, and learns that being strong means letting go.

When Max Friedman's mother dies of cancer, instead of facing his loss, Max imagines that her tumor has taken up residence in his brain....

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Bad Romance

Heather Demetrios · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt off the floors. Out of her California town, too small to contain her big city dreams. Out of her life, and into the role of Parisian artist, New York director...

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The Truth Commission

Susan Juby · Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover

A Book Riot Best Book of 2015 So Far

Four starred reviews!

"Susan Juby's The Truth Commission knocked my socks off. You should read it!" - Gayle Forman, best-selling author of If I Stay

"Susan Juby is a marvel. Wise, witty, and full...
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One of Us Is Lying

Karen M. McManus · Delacorte Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

"Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club" (EW.com) in this "flat-out addictive" (RT Book Reviews) story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive....
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Mary Shelley: The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein's Creator

Catherine Reef · Clarion Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, comes a riveting biography of its author, Mary Shelley, whose life reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history. The story of Frankenstein's creator...
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Saints and Misfits

S K ALI · Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Saints and Misfits is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life ... starring a Muslim teen.

There are three kinds of people in my world:

1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them....
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All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"A do not miss for fans of Eleanor and Park and The Fault in Our Stars, and basically anyone who can breathe."--Justine Magazine

A New York Times bestseller

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning!

A 2016...
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Heart of Thorns

BREE BARTON · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Inventive and heart-racing, this fierce feminist teen fantasy from debut author Bree Barton explores a dark kingdom in which only women can possess magic - and every woman is suspected of having it.Fans of Leigh Bardugo and Laini Taylor won't want to miss this gorgeously written, bold...
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Recipe for Hate

WARREN KINSELLA · Dundurn
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

How a group of Portland, Maine, punks defeated a murderous gang of neo-Nazis.

The X Gang is a group of punks led by the scarred, silent, and mostly unreadable Christopher X. His best friend, Kurt Blank, is a hulking and talented punk guitarist living in the closet. Sisters Patti...
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Al Capone throws me a curve

Gennifer Choldenko · Random House/Listening Library
Format: Audiobook on CD

Moose has his hands full during the summer of 1936 watching his autistic sister, Natalie, and the warden's daughter, Piper, and trying to get on a baseball team by proving he knows Al Capone.
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Domestic Surveillance

Noël Merino · Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Current Controversies

Each anthology is composed of a wide spectrum of primary sources written by many of the foremost authorities in their respective fields. This unique approach provides students with a concise view of divergent opinions on each topic. Extensive book and periodical...
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Meet Cute

Jennifer L. Armentrout · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Whether or not you believe in fate, or luck, or love at first sight, every romance has to start somewhere. MEET CUTE is an anthology of original short stories featuring tales of "how they first met" from some of today's most popular YA authors.

Readers will experience...
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Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time

Tanya Lee Stone · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

A gorgeous, full-color oversized book about educating girls across the world inspired by the documentary that Entertainment Weekly says "every mother, sister, daughter, should see, as well as the men who love and support them." This is the right book for the present moment...
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A Visual Guide to Energy and Movement

Alberto Herna?ndez Pamplona · Rosen Young Adult
Pages: 104
Format: Library Binding

"All students are familiar with the concept of energy, but never before will it have come alive for them the way it will with this illustration-packed title. Informative diagrams and colorful illustrations bring the concepts of energy and motion to life,engaging even science-adverse...
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