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Unearthed

AMIE KAUFMAN · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

When Earth intercepts a message from a long-extinct alien race, it seems like the solution humanity has been waiting for. The Undying's advanced technology has the potential to undo environmental damage and turn lives around, and their message leads to the planet Gaia, a treasure trove...
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Fire Color One

Jenny Valentine · Philomel Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Nominated for the prestigious Carnegie Medal, this novel is a stunning tribute to fathers and daughters, and to the unique power of art to connect and change us.Sixteen-year-old Iris itches constantly for the strike of a match. But when she's caught setting one too many fires, she's dragged...
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Pasadena

Sherri L Smith · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

"Beautiful clothes, bad habits, ugly secrets: Sherri L. Smith probes the vulnerable underbellies of a lot of toothy sharks in this page-turning California noir. Pasadena is stylish and still sad, chilling and still hopeful, open-hearted and still mysterious. Smith is an author with...
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The Porcupine of Truth

Bill Konigsberg · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 325
Format: Print book

The author of OPENLY STRAIGHT returns with an epic road trip involving family history, gay history, the girlfriend our hero can't have, the grandfather he never knew, and the Porcupine of Truth.Carson Smith is resigned to spending his summer in Billings, Montana, helping his mom take care...
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Show Your Spirit: Cheerleading Basics You Need to Know

Rebecca Rissman · Capstone Press
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

What exactly does a cheerleader do? How did cheerleading begin? What are the most important things a cheerleader needs to know? From tumbling and chanting to motions and stunts, learn all about the basics of cheerleading. Also find out about safety, eating right, uniforms, everything else...
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The Smaller Evil

Stephanie Kuehn · Dutton Books
Pages: 244
Format: Print book

Sometimes the greater good requires the smaller evil. 17-year-old Arman Dukoff can't remember life without anxiety and chronic illness when he arrives at an expensive self-help retreat in the remote hills of Big Sur. He's taken a huge risk - and two-thousand dollars from his meth-head...
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Almost Adulting: All You Need to Know to Get It Together

NOT AVAILABLE. · HarperCollins
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Grace Helbig and Alexa Chung comes a fresh, hilarious guide to growing up your way from social media influencer and lifestyle vlogger Arden Rose.In Almost Adulting - perfect for budding adults, failing adults, and eaters of microwave mug brownies - Arden tells you how to survive...
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Rebel with a Cupcake

Anna Mainwaring · Kids Can Press
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

Jesobel Jones is bold and brash, the daughter of a hand model and a washed-up rock star. Jess sees no need to apologize for her rambling house, her imperfect family, her single status ... or her weight. Jess is who she is. She makes her own cupcakes and she eats them, too. No regrets. That...
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The Rule of Three

Eric Walters · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 405
Format: Hardcover

One shocking afternoon, computers around the globe shut down in a viral catastrophe. At sixteen-year-old Adam Daley's high school, the problem first seems to be a typical electrical outage, until students discover that cell phones are down, municipal utilities are failing, and a few computer-free...
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A Step Toward Falling

Cammie McGovern · HarperTeen
Pages: 364
Format: Print book

Cammie McGovern follows up her breakout young adult debut, Say What You Will, with this powerful and unforgettable novel about learning from your mistakes, and learning to forgive. Told in alternating points of view, A Step Toward Falling is a poignant, hopeful, and altogether stunning...
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The Cottage in the Woods

Katherine Coville · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Shannon Hale, Adam Gidwitz, and Michael Buckley comes a luminous new twist on a tale readers only thought they knew. . .   Once upon a time, there was a girl with golden locks. But thats just the beginning of this tale. The real story begins with a bear.  Ursula is a young...
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Like It Never Happened

Emily Adrian · Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Stereotypes, sexuality, and destructive rumors collide in this smart YA novel for fans of Sara Zarr's Story of a Girl, Siobhan Vivian's The List, and E. Lockhart's The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks.When Rebecca Rivers lands the lead in her school's production...
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The Passion of Dolssa

Julie Gardner Berry · Viking
Pages: 478
Format: Print book

"I must write this account, and when I have finished, I will burn it. "Buried deep within the archives of a convent in medieval France is an untold story of love, loss, and wonder and the two girls at the heart of it all. Dolssa is an upper-crust city girl with a secret lover...
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The Lost Girl of Astor Street

Stephanie Morrill · Blink
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

When her best friend vanishes without so much as a good-bye, eighteen-year-old Piper Sail takes on the role of amateur sleuth in an attempt to solve the mystery of Lydia's disappearance. Given that Piper's tendency has always been to butt heads with high-society's expectations of her, it's...
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The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees

Don Brown · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Don Brown's critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust Bowl and Sibert Honor winning Drowned City, The Unwanted is an important, timely, and eye-opening exploration of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the harsh realities...
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