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Queen of Someday

Sherry D Ficklin · Clean Teen Publishing, 2014.
Pages: 262
Format: Print book

Before she can become the greatest empress in history, fifteen-year-old Sophia will have to survive her social-climbing mother's quest to put her on the throne of Russia - at any cost. Imperial Court holds dangers like nothing Sophia has ever faced before. In the heart of St. Petersburg,...
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Love & Other Carnivorous Plants

Florence Gonsalves · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A darkly funny debut for fans of Becky Albertalli, Matthew Quick, and Ned Vizzini about a nineteen-year-old girl who's consumed by love, grief, and the many-tentacled beast of self-destructive behavior.Freshman year at Harvard was the most anticlimactic year of Danny's life. She's failing...
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I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister

Amelie Sarn · Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

For readers of The Tyrant's Daughter, Out of Nowhere, and I Am Malala, this poignant story about two Muslim sisters is about love, loss, religion, forgiveness, women's rights, and freedom. Two sisters. Two lives. One future. Sohane loves no one more than her beautiful, carefree...
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The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

Kiersten White · Delacorte Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The Frankenstein legend as you've never seen it before, as told by New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White! You will not be able to put down this stunning and dark reimagining of the Mary Shelley classic told from the point of view of Elizabeth, Victor Frankenstein's adopted sister,...
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Keep Her: A Novel

Leora Krygier · She Writes Pr
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

Destiny doesn't factor into seventeen-year-old adoptee Maddie's rational world, where numbers and scientific probability have always proven to be the only things she can count on as safe and reliable. Still, Maddie is also an artist who draws on instinct and intuition to create...
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Legalizing Marijuana: Promises and Pitfalls

Margaret J Goldstein · Twenty-First Century Books
Pages: 104
Format: Library Binding

With the increase in states legalizing marijuana, understanding the debate about marijuana is more important than ever. Learn about the movement to legalize, the arguments on each side, and what it means for patients, state economies, and legal systems. Examine issues including the history...
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Leslye Walton · Candlewick Press
Pages: 301
Format: Hardcover

A 2015 William C. Morris YA Debut Award FinalistMagical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga. Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava - in all other...
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Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood

Abby McDonald · Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Abby McDonald channels Jane Austen in this modern take on Sense and Sensibility. Hallie and Grace Weston couldn't be more different. Older sister Hallie thinks all the world's a stage --her stage, to be exact --while even-tempered Grace tries...
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The Crown's Game

Evelyn Skye · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 399
Format: Hardcover

"Gorgeous and richly imagined." - Sara Raasch, New York Times bestselling author of the Snow Like Ashes series"Teeming with hidden magic and fiery romance." - Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the AshesPerfect for fans of Shadow and Bone...
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Just Mercy

Bryan Stevenson · Delacorte Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In this young adult adaptation of the acclaimed bestselling Just Mercy, which the New York Times calls "as compelling as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so," Bryan Stevenson delves deep into the broken U.S. justice system, detailing from his personal experience his many...
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The Opposite of Here

Tara Altebrando · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Natalie's parents are taking her and three best friends on a week-long cruise for her birthday--a sail-a-bration! Sigh. It's also only been months since her boyfriend died in a tragic accident, and she wants to be anywhere but here. So she's surprised when she meets a guy on the first night...
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The Break-Up Artist

Philip Siegel · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Some sixteen-year-olds babysit for extra cash. Some work at the mall. Becca Williamson breaks up couples. Becca knows from experience the damage that love can do. After all, it was so-called love that turned Huxley from her childhood best friend into a social-world dictator, and love that...
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The Road to Winter

MARK SMITH · Text Publishing Company
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Since a deadly virus and the violence that followed wiped out his parents and most of his community, Finn has lived alone on the rugged coast with only his dog Rowdy for company.He has stayed alive for two winters - hunting and fishing and trading food, and keeping out of sight of the Wilders,...
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Final Draft

Riley Redgate · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The only sort of risk 18-year-old Laila Piedra enjoys is the peril she writes for the characters in her stories: epic sci-fi worlds full of quests, forbidden love, and robots. Her creative writing teacher has always told her she has a special talent. But three months before her graduation,...
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The Final Descent

Rick Yancey · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Will Henry and Dr. Warthrop have encountered many horrors together—but can Will endure a monstrumological terror without his mentor?Will Henry has been through more that seems possible for a boy of fourteen. He’s been on the brink of death on more than one occasion, he has gazed...
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