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Fifteenth Summer

Michelle Dalton · Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

Love blossoms by the lake in this sweet summer romance, in the tradition of Seventeeth Summer and Sixteenth Summer. Chelsea isnt looking forward to her summer at the lake. Its the first time her family has been there since her grandmother died, and she cant break out of her funk. But her summer...
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Under the Dusty Moon

Suzanne Sutherland · Dundurn, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

She's with the band, whether she likes it or not. Victoria Mahler is the sixteen-year-old only daughter of rocker Micky Wayne, whose band, Dusty Moon, took the world by storm when Micky was just a teenager. The band broke up under mysterious circumstances, but, after years spent off the road...
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Pyromantic

Lish McBride · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Ava is having a rough time. Getting rid of Venus didn't set her free -- she's still Coterie. Her new boss seems like an improvement, but who knows if he'll stay that way? The Coterie life changes people. And since Ava's currently avoiding her friends after (disastrously) turning down...
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Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience

Michael S. Gazzaniga · Ecco; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker.In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, "the...
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Red Ink

Julie Mayhew · Candlewick Press, 2015.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A sharp-witted teenager discovers surprising truths after her mother's death in a wry and heartrending novel touching on denial, identity, and family lore.When her mother is knocked down and killed by a London bus, fifteen-year-old Melon Fouraki is left with no family worth mentioning....
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The death and life of Zebulon Finch. Volume one, At the edge of empire

Daniel Kraus · Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pages: 642
Format: Print book

"The story follows Zebulon Finch, a teenager murdered in 1896 Chicago who inexplicably returns from the dead and searches for redemption through the ages"--
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The Season

Jonah Lisa Dyer · Viking Children'S Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

She can score a goal, do sixty box jumps in a row, bench press a hundred and fifty pounds ... but can she learn to curtsey? Megan McKnight is a soccer star with Olympic dreams, a history major, an expert at the three Rs of Texas (readin', ridin', and ropin') , but she's not a girly girl....
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The Beginning of Everything

Robyn Schneider · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 335
Format: Hardcover

Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything is a witty and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of books by John Green and Ned Vizzini, novels such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and classics like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye.Varsity tennis captain Ezra...
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Noggin

John Corey Whaley · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 340
Format: Print book

2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTTravis Coates has a good head ... on someone else's shoulders. A touching, hilarious, and wholly original coming-of-age story from John Corey Whaley, author of the Printz and Morris Award-winning Where Things Come Back.Listen - Travis Coates was alive once...
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Bart Simpson to the Rescue!

Matt Groening · Harper Design
Format: Book

Need a lift or a laugh? Well . . . help is on the way! When Bart attempts his most elaborate practical joke ever, he becomes an Internet sensation with a little help from his friends . . . about 15 million of them. Then join Bart on an incredulous journey when a monster firecracker leaves...
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Tool of war

Paolo Bacigalupi · Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

In a future beset with rising seas, corporate government, and constant civil war, a bioengineered half-man/half-beast super-soldier who calls himself Tool breaks his conditioning to overcome his genetically enhanced sense of loyalty to the corporation that created him and seeks revenge...
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Someone to Love

Melissa de la Cruz · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Look for the haunting and powerful new novel from Melissa de la Cruz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Isle of the Lost and Something in Between Constantly in the spotlight thanks to her politician father's rising star, Olivia Blakely feels the pressure to be perfect. As the youngest...
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The Taking

Kimberly Derting · HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer meets The Fifth Wave in this chilling and explosive new series from author Kimberly Derting. The last thing Kyra Agnew remembers is a flash of bright light. She awakes to discover that five whole years have passed. Everyone in her life has moved on - her parents...
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Being Me with OCD: How I Learned to Obsess Less and Live My Life

Alison Dotson · Free Spirit Publishing
Format: Print book

Part memoir, part self-help for teens, Being Me with OCD tells the story of how obsessive-compulsive disorder OCD dragged the author to rock bottom—and how she found hope, got help, and eventually climbed back to a fuller, happier life. Using anecdotes, self-reflection, guest essays,...
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The Odds of Getting Even

Sheila Turnage · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 342
Format: Print book

Humor and action abound in this second follow-up to the Newbery honor winner and New York Times bestseller, Three Times LuckyThe trial of the century has come to Tupelo Landing, NC. Mo and Dale, aka Desperado Detectives, head to court as star witnesses against Dale's daddy--confessed kidnapper...
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