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The Duke of Bannerman Prep

Katie Nelson · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Words are weapons. Facts can be manipulated. And nothing is absolute - especially right and wrong.Tanner McKay is at Bannerman Prep for one reason: to win. The elite school recruited him after he argued his public school's debate team to victory last year, and now Bannerman wants that...
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Starflight

Melissa Landers · Hyperion
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Solara Brooks needs a fresh start, someplace where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. The outer realm may be lawless, but
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Umberland (Everland, Book 2)

Wendy Spinale · Scholastic Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Gwen, Pete, and the others have escaped from Everland. But the safe haven they hoped to find at Alnwick Castle doesn't exist. With the Queen of England on her deathbed, Duchess Alyssa has stepped in to lead, but things have gotten worse as the cure Doc created for the Horologia virus has mutated,...
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Last Man Out

Mike Lupica · Philomel Books
Pages: 245
Format: Print book

From the #1 bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Fantasy League comes a story of heroes, family, the thrills of skateboarding, and football.When the Brighton Bears suit up on game day, 12-year-old Tommy Gallagher is the toughest kid on the football field. And the bravest. After all,...
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The Unlikelies

Carrie Firestone · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: eBook

Five teens embark on a summer of vigilante good samaritanism in a novel that's part The Breakfast Club, part The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, and utterly captivating.Rising high school senior Sadie is bracing herself for a long, lonely, and boring summer. But things...
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Tell me three things

Julie Buxbaum · Delacorte Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerWhat if the person you need the most is someone you've never met? Funny and romantic, this tug-at-your-heartstrings contemporary YA debut is perfect for readers of Rainbow Rowell, Jennifer Niven, and E. Lockhart.Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that's...
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Let's Be Real: Living life as an open and honest you

Natasha Bure · Zondervan
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

From singer, model and YouTube celebrity Natasha Bure, the daughter of Candace Cameron Bure, comes a real, honest conversational book that doesn't hold back. Everywhere she goes and every video she posts has one basic message: this is real, this is life, and we all go through it. Whether...
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The Unlikelies

CARRIE FIRESTONE · LITTLE
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Five teens embark on a summer of vigilante good samaritanism in a novel that's part The Breakfast Club, part The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, and utterly captivating.Rising high school senior Sadie is bracing herself for a long, lonely, and boring summer. But things take...
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Burn Baby Burn

Meg Medina · Candlewick Press
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Meg Medina's riveting coming-of-age novel.Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer...
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Counting Thyme

Melanie Conklin · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

Newbery-winning Rules meets Counting by 7s in this affecting story of a girl's devotion to her brother and what it means to be homeWhen eleven-year-old Thyme Owens' little brother, Val, is accepted into a new cancer drug trial, it's just the second chance that he needs. But it also means...
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The last star

Richard Yancey · Listening Library

aFollowing the major motion picture release starring Chloe? Grace Moretz, comes the heart-stopping finale to the New York Times bestselling 5th Wave seriesThe enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They're down here, they're up there, they're nowhere. They want the Earth, they want...
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Girling Up: How to Be Strong, Smart and Spectacular

Mayim Bialik · Philomel Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Mayim Bialik, star of The Big Bang Theory, puts her Ph.D. to work as she talks to teens about the science of growing up and getting ahead. A must-have book for all teenage girls.Growing up as a girl in today's world is no easy task. Juggling family, friends, romantic relationships, social...
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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. Or, at least, I do. They're...
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How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

Sandra Uwiringiyimana · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism.Sandra was just ten years...
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Sad Perfect

Stephanie Elliot · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Pea looks normal, but she has a secret: she has Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, which means she can t eat very much because nutritious foods frighten her. Having ARFID is like having a monster inside of her, one that dictates what she can eat, what she does and who she socializes...
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