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David Liss · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

A science fiction superfan finds himself on his very own space adventure when he's randomly selected to join an alien confederacy in this hilarious middle grade debut novel.Zeke Reynolds comes from a long line of proud science fiction geeks. He knows his games, comics, movies, and TV shows...
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Light Filters In: Poems

NOT AVAILABLE. · HarperCollins
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience. In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman - known as @poeticpoison - does what she does best:...
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Doing It

Hannah Witton · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Originally published in 2017 in Great Britain by Wren & Rook."
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The Feral Child

Che Golden · Quercus; Reprint edition
Format: Book

"Gripping, mystical and adventurous, young readers will be as hooked as Maddy was the minute she set foot inside that creepy as hell old castle," Irish World said of The Feral Child. Maddy, an orphan, is sick of her Irish town, and sick of her cousin Danny, one of the nastiest...
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Game Changer

Tom Greenwald · Amulet Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma fighting for his life after an unspecified football injury at training camp. His family and friends flock to his bedside to support his recovery - and to discuss the events leading up to the tragic accident. Was this an inevitable result of playing...
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23 Minutes

Vivian Vande Velde · Boyds Mills Press
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

By both society's measure and her own, fifteen-year-old Zoe Mahar is pretty much a loser. Then one day she ducks into Spencerport Savings and Loan simply to get out of the rain - and witnesses a bank robbery gone horrifyingly wrong. The good news is that Zoe has a unique ability: she can play...
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The Eternity Elixir

Frank Cole · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For hundreds of years, all of our medical findings, our technological advancements, and even our weapons are a direct result of magical potions. Few people know about the truth because few people are aware of the hidden potion community known as B.R.E.W.--the Board of Ruling Elixirists...
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Three Truths and a Lie

Brent Hartinger · Simon Pulse
Pages: 261
Format: Print book

When friends Rob, Liam, Mia, and Galen gather for a weekend of fun deep in the forest, one is hiding a lie and not everyone will live to find out which one it is.
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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

Hermione Lee · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW' S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle TimesWinner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyThe acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us an intimate portrait of one of the most...
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The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

Kate Hattemer · Random House Children's Books
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover

Whip-smart dialogue and an inside look at the seedy underbelly of reality TV come together in this critically-acclaimed debut perfect for fans of Unreal, John Green, and Frank Portman. Witty, sarcastic Ethan and his three best friends are students at Selwyn Arts Academy, which has been...
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Edison's Alley

Neal Shusterman · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Fourteen-year-old Nick has learned that the strange antiques in his attic bedroom were left there by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla. They are pieces of Tesla's Far Range Energy Emitter, capable of transmitting "free energy" to the globe. Some components of the contraption...
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Fireworks

Katie Cotugno · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audio CD

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17) ][Read by Erin Spencer]It was always meant to be Olivia. She was the talented one, the one who had been training to be a star her whole life. Her best friend, Dana, was the level-headed one, always on the sidelines, cheering her best friend along.But...
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Ash Princess

Laura Sebastian · Delacorte Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen and Sabaa Tahir's An Ember in the Ashes, Ash Princess is an epic new fantasy about a throne cruelly stolen and a girl who must fight to take it back for her people.Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Fire Queen, was murdered...
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Even When You Lie to Me

Jessica Alcott · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Fans of John Green's Looking for Alaska as well as Lauren Oliver and Sarah Dessen will embrace this provocative debut novel, an exploration of taboo love set against the backdrop of a suburban high school. Charlie, a senior, isn't looking forward to her last year of high school....
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Damselfly

Chandra Prasad · Scholastic Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Their survival is in their own hands...Samantha Mishra opens her eyes and discovers she's alone and injured in the thick of a jungle. She has no idea where she is, or what happened to the plane taking her and the rest of the Drake Rosemont fencing team across the Pacific for a tournament....
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