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Yukito Ayatsuji · Yen On
Format: Hardcover

In the spring of 1998, Koichi Sakakibara transfers to Yomiyama North Middle School. In class, he develops a sense of unease as he notices that the people around him act like theyre walking on eggshells, and students and teachers alike seem frightened. As a chain of horrific deaths begin...
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The Adjustment

Suzanne Young · Simon Pulse
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover

How do you go back to a life you can't remember? Find out in this follow up to the New York Times bestselling The Program and The Treatment.Tatum Masterson never went through The Program. She never had her memory stripped, never had to fight to remain herself. But when Weston, her longtime...
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Roar

Cora Carmack · Tor Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Cora Carmack's young adult debut: Roar. In a land ruled and shaped by violent magical storms, power lies with those who control them.Aurora Pavan comes from one of the oldest Stormling families in existence. Long ago, the ungifted pledged fealty and service...
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What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens

Beverly K Bachel · Free Spirit Publishing
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Setting and sticking to goals can ease stress and anxiety, boost concentration, and make life more satisfying. This updated and revised edition of a trusted step-by-step guide helps teens articulate their goals and put them in writing, set priorities and deadlines, overcome obstacles, build...
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Rani Patel In Full Effect

Sonia Patel · Cinco Puntos Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Almost seventeen, Rani Patel appears to be a kick-ass Indian girl breaking cultural norms as a hip-hop performer in full effect. But in truth, she's a nerdy flat-chested nobody who lives with her Gujarati immigrant parents on the remote Hawaiian island of Moloka'i, isolated from her high...
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The Skeleth

Matthew Jobin · Philomel Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Discover for yourself why reviewers are comparing The Nethergrim to Lord of the Rings, Narnia, and Ranger's Apprentice! The next great epic fantasy is here . . .For the lords of the north, land is power. The Nethergrim, now awoken and free to wreak its evil upon the world, offers the promise...
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Crazy House

JAMES PATTERSON · JIMMY PATTERSON
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

There were no charges. There was no trial. There will be no escape. Seventeen-year-old Becca Greenfield was snatched from her small hometown. She was thrown into a maximum-security prison and put on Death Row with other kids her age. Until her execution, Becca's told to fit in and shut...
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Family Projects for Smart Objects: Tabletop Projects That Respond to Your World

John Keefe · Maker Media, Inc
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

"The Internet of Things" is the new buzzphrase, but what is it? A toaster that texts? The fitness band on your wrist? The camera in an infant's room? Sure, it's all of those things. But it's also your phone: an ultra-sophisticated sensor and communications system in your...
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The Careful Undressing of Love

Corey Ann Haydu · Dutton
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The girls of Devonairre Street have always been told they're cursed. Any boy they love is certain to die too soon. But this is Brooklyn in 2008, and the curse is less a terror and more a lifestyle accessory - something funky and quaint that makes the girls from the shortest street in Brooklyn...
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Dial Em for Murder

Marni Bates · Merit Pr
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Sixteen-year-old Emmy Danvers was just trying to write a halfway decent romance novel when a senile old man mumbled a cryptic warning, tackled her to the ground in the middle of Starbucks, and...died right on top of her. Unfortunately for Emmy, the incident wasn't quite as random as she thought,...
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Beware That Girl

Teresa Toten · Delacorte Press
Pages: 319
Format: Print book

For fans of "We Were Liars, " "The Girl on the Train, " and "Gone Girl, " this powerful psychological thriller with multiple mysteries is set against the backdrop of the megawealthy elite of New York City. Toten delves into the mesmerizing yet dysfunctional...
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The Free

Lauren McLaughlin · Soho Teen
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A 21st century response to Walter Dean Myers's classic Lockdown, The Free takes a look inside a "juvie" jail, where Isaac West is fighting for a second chance.In the beginning, Isaac West stole to give his younger sister Janelle little things: a new sweater, a scarf, just so she looked...
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Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index

JULIE ISRAEL · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Funny, warm, and moving, Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index is a contemporary YA novel about loss, how deeply we can know others, and making our own happiness; perfect for fans of Sara Zarr and Jandy Nelson's The Sky Is Everywhere.Sixty-five days after the death of her older sister, sixteen-year-old...
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Stay with Me

Mila Gray · Simon Pulse
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From the author of Come Back to Me comes a heartwrenching novel about a forbidden romance, a wounded marine, and the girl who's determined to save him.Didi Monroe has waited her whole life for happily ever after. So when charming Zac Ridgemont sweeps her off her feet, Didi believes...
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