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Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

Albert Marrin · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic--and the chances for another worldwide pandemic.In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza....
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Soldier Boy

Keely Hutton · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Soldier Boy begins with the story of Ricky Richard Anywar, abducted at age fourteen in 1989 to fight with Joseph Kony's rebel army in Uganda's decades-long civil war. Ricky is trained, armed, and forced to fight government soldiers alongside his brutal kidnappers, but never stops dreaming...
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Scythe

Neal Shusterman · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 448
Format: eBook

Two teens are forced to murder - maybe each other - in the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered...
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You Bring the Distant Near

MITALI PERKINS · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature ★ Horn Book ★ School Library Journal ★ Publishers Weekly ★ BOOKLIST Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story. You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves,...
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Dark Breaks the Dawn

Sara B Larson · Scholastic Press
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover

On her eighteenth birthday, Princess Evelayn of Eadrolan, the Light Kingdom, can finally access the full range of her magical powers. The light looks brighter, the air is sharper, and the energy she can draw when fighting feels almost limitless. But while her mother, the queen, remains...
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Brave new girl

Rachel Vincent · Delacorte Press

In a world where everyone is the same, Trigger 17 convinces Dahlia 16 that she is unique but this proves that both are flawed, which could lead to dire consequences for their entire genomes.
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Silver Stars

Michael Grant · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Girl in the Blue Coat, Salt to the Sea, and The Boy at the Top of the Mountain, the second book of New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant's epic alternate history is a coming-of-age story about three girls who are fiercely fighting their own personal battles in the midst...
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The Nowhere Girls

Amy Lynn Reed · Simon Pulse
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and in the process trigger a change in the misogynist culture at their high school transforming the lives of everyone around them in this searing and timely story.Who are the Nowhere Girls? They're everygirl. But they...
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A History of Medicine in 50 Discoveries

Marguerite Vigliani · Tilbury
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Vigliani and Eaton's high-interest exploration of medicine begins in prehistory. The 5,000-year-old Iceman discovered frozen in the Alps may have treated his gallstones, Lyme disease, and hardening of the arteries with the 61 tattoos that covered his body -- most of which matched acupuncture...
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The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos

Kami Garcia · Imprint
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

How did Fox Mulder become a believer?Read this dark thriller to find out why millions of people became obsessed with The X-Files. In the spring of 1979, seventeen-year-old Fox Mulder has bigger problems than applying for college. Five years ago, his younger sister disap­peared from their...
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And Then There Were Four

NANCY WERLIN · Dial Books
Pages: 415
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Nancy Werlin returns to YA suspense with this page-turner mystery for fans of Lauren Oliver, Neal Shusterman, and Lois Duncan Let's not die today. Not even to make things easier for our parents. When a building collapses around five teenagers - and they...
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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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The Forbidden Wish

Jessica Khoury · Razorbill, 2016.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"Lush, romantic, and exquisitely written...a rare, glittering jewel of a novel." --Sarah J. Maas, Author of the NEW YORK TIMES Bestselling THRONE OF GLASS series"This is Aladdin like you've never imagined." --Renée Ahdieh, author of THE WRATH AND THE DAWN She is the most...
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Anna and the Swallow Man

Gavriel Savit · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A New York Times Bestseller A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the YearA Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book Winner of the Indies Choice Book Award Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award "Exquisite." - The Wall Street...
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Murder, Magic, and What We Wore

KELLY JONES · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Patrice Kindl's Keeping the Castle or Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer's Sorcery and Cecelia will adore this funny Regency-era mystery about a determined young woman with a magical trick up her sleeve . . . The year is 1818, the city is London, and 16-year-old Annis Whitworth...
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