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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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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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Four Weeks, Five People

Jennifer Yu · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

They're more than their problems Obsessive-compulsive teen Clarissa wants to get better, if only so her mother will stop asking her if she's okay. Andrew wants to overcome his eating disorder so he can get back to his band and their dreams of becoming famous. Film aficionado Ben would rather...
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Grendel's Guide to Love and War

A E Kaplan · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets Revenge of the Nerds in this tale of a teen misfit who seeks to take down the bro next door, but ends up falling for his enemy's sister and uncovering difficult truths about his family in the process. Tom Grendel lives a quiet life - writing in his notebooks,...
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Deacon Locke Went to Prom

BRIAN KATCHER · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The love life of an awkward teen takes an unforgettable turn after he brings his grandmother to prom in this funny, offbeat, and smile-inducing contemporary romance that is pitch perfect for fans of Jesse Andrews and Robyn Schneider.Promposals are taking over Deacon Locke's high school...
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As I Descended

Robin Talley · HarperTeen
Pages: 370
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves, Robin Talley, comes a Shakespeare-inspired story of revenge and redemption, where fair is foul, and foul is fair.Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school's ultimate power couple - but one thing stands between them and their perfect...
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The First Time She Drowned

Kerry Kletter · Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) , 2016.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The beautiful struggle of a girl desperate for the one relationship that has caused her the most painCassie O'Malley has spent the past two and a half years in a mental institution - dumped there by her mother, against her will. Now, at 18, Cassie emancipates herself, determined to start...
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The Thickety: The Whispering Trees

J. A. White · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, book two in the acclaimed Thickety series is the story of a good witch, a bad witch, and a forest demon, trapped together in a world that is both enchanting and dangerous.After Kara Westfall's village turns on her for practicing witchcraft, she and her brother,...
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Maud: A Novel Inspired by the Life of L.M. Montgomery

Melanie Fishbane · Razorbill Canada
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

For the first time ever, a young novel about the teen years of L.M. Montgomery, the author who brought us ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. Fourteen-year-old Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Maud to her friends -- has a dream: to go to college and become a writer, just like her idol, Louisa May Alcott....
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Beautiful Darkness

Kami Garcia · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets...
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The Secret Sea

Barry Lyga · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Twelve-year-old Zak Killian is hearing a voice. Could it be a guardian angel? A ghost? No, that's crazy. But sometimes the voice is so real. . . . It warns him of danger.One day Zak is standing on the subway platform when the tunnel starts to fill with water. He sees it before anyone...
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Strange Girl

Christopher Pike · Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike comes a brand-new fascinating and seductive new novel about a girl with a mysterious ability - but one that carries an unimaginable cost.From the moment Fred meets Aja, he knows she's different. She's pretty, soft-spoken,...
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The Red Sun

Alane Adams · SparkPress, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 346
Format: Print book

Sam Baron is about to get the shock of his life. First his substitute English teacher claims to have turned his old teacher into a lizard; then a strange dwarf named Rego arrives and claims Sam is from a magical realm called Orkney. When his friends are taken prisoner, it's up to Sam to save...
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