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A Very, Very Bad Thing

Jeffery Self · Push
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Marley doesn't just want to be labeled The Gay Kid, but he doesn't have much else going on. He doesn't have any hobbies. Or interests. He's the only kid he knows without a passion . . . until Christopher comes to town. He's smart, cute, gay, and . . . the son of the country's...
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American Girls: A Novel

Alison Umminger · Flatiron Books
Pages: 293
Format: eBook

She was looking for a place to land.Anna is a fifteen-year-old girl slouching toward adulthood, and she's had it with her life at home. So Anna "borrows" her stepmom's credit card and runs away to Los Angeles, where her half-sister takes her in. But LA isn't quite...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History

Karen Blumenthal · Feiwel and Friends
Pages: 433
Format: Print book

As a young girl, Hillary Diane Rodham's parents told her she could be whatever she wanted--as long as she was willing to work for it. Hillary took those words and ran. In a life on the front row of modern American history, she has always stood out--whether she was a teen campaigning...
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Autoboyography

Christina Lauren · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Fangirl meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this funny and poignant coming-of-age novel from New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren about two boys who fall in love in a writing class - one from a progressive family and the other from a conservative religious community.Three...
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Long Way Down

JASON REYNOLDS · Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller Jason Reynolds's fiercely stunning novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds - the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he's going to murder the guy who killed his brother.A...
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The Glass Town Game

CATHERYNNE M VALENTE · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Charlotte and Emily must enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings in this adventurous and fiercely intelligent novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.Inside a small Yorkshire...
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The Place Between Breaths

Na An · Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From master storyteller and Printz Award-winning author An Na comes a dark, intensely moving story of a girl desperately determined to find a cure for the illness that swept her mother away, and could possibly destroy her own life as well.Sixteen-year-old Grace is in a race against time...
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Royals

Rachel Hawkins · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins serves up a deliciously royal romance, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Huntley Fitzpatrick. Meet Daisy Winters. She's an offbeat sixteen-year-old Floridian with mermaid-red hair; a part time job at a bootleg Walmart, and a perfect older...
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Same Love

Tony Correia · Lorimer
Pages: 183
Format: Hardcover

At seventeen, Adam has suspected for a while that he might be gay. His sketchbook has become full of images of good-looking men, and he isn't attracted to any of the girls he knows. When he reveals his feelings to his devout parents, they send him to a Christian camp, warning him that there...
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The Awakening of Sunshine Girl

Paige Mckenzie · Weinstein Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Sunshine Griffith has been awakened. Her powers are now fully alive and spirits follow her everywhere, desperate for help moving on to the afterlife. Hoping to get her luiseach abilities under control, she agrees to begin training with her mentor - her birth father, Aidan. Aidan takes...
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Violent Video Games and Society

Gloria G Adams · Greenhaven Pr
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

The video game industry is big business, and with the improvement of Virtual Reality technology, video games will only become more realistic and immersive. Fears abound that they drive their players to commit violent acts. While many people believe the games desensitize kids to violence,...
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Teens and OCD

Barbara Sheen · Referencepoint Press
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

OCD is characterized by obsessive thoughts and compulsive actions, which cause many problems for teens and young adults with the disorder. Teens and OCD examines the nature of this disorder, what causes it, what it is like to live with it, and how or whether it can be treated or cured.
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Rosemarked

Livia Blackburne · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A healer who cannot be healed . . .When Zivah falls prey to the deadly rose plague, she knows it's only a matter of time before she fully succumbs. Now she's destined to live her last days in isolation, cut off from her people and unable to practice her art-until a threat to her village...
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Eliza and Her Monsters

FRANCESCA ZAPPIA · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she's worked for begins to crumble.Scott Westerfeld's Afterworlds meets Nimona in this novel about art, fandom, and finding...
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Genuine Fraud

E LOCKHART · Delacorte Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!From the author of We Were Liars, which John Green called "utterly unforgettable," comes a masterful new psychological suspense novel - the story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times can someone...
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