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Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All: by M. T. Anderson, Candace Fleming, Stephanie Hemphill, Lisa Ann Sandell, Jennifer Donnelly, Linda Sue Park, Deborah Hopkinson

M T Anderson · Schwartz & Wade
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The tragic lives of Henry VIII and his six wives are reimagined by seven acclaimed and bestselling authors in this riveting novel, perfect for fans of Wolf Hall and Netflix's The Crown. He was King Henry VIII, a charismatic and extravagant ruler obsessed with both his power as king...
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Munmun

Jesse Andrews · Amulet Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person's physical size is directly proportional to their wealth. The poorest of the poor are the size of rats, and billionaires are the size of skyscrapers. Warner and his sister Prayer are destitute - and tiny. Their size is not just...
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Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

PNLOPE BAGIEU · First Second
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Throughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable spirit. With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous,...
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The Frontman: A Novel

RON BAHAR · SparkPress
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Ron Bahar is an insecure, self-deprecating, seventeen-year-old Nebraskan striving to please his Israeli immigrant parents, Ophira and Ezekiel, while remaining true to his own dreams. During his senior year of high school, he begins to date longtime crush and non-Jewish girl Amy Andrews...
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Brightly Burning

Alexa Donne · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A romantic, cinematic, richly-imagined retelling of the classic Jane Eyre set in space, about seventeen-year-old Stella Ainsley, a mechanic who takes a governess job on board the private ship, the Rochester and falls in love with the ship's mysterious and troubled captain. For Marissa...
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Picture Us In The Light

Kelly Loy Gilbert · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Picture me madly in love with this moving, tender, unapologetically honest book."-Becky Albertalli, author of Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda "This urgent, achingly beautiful story shines a light on those living in the shadows. A beacon of hope and resistance."-Melissa...
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The Smoke Thieves

SALLY GREEN · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Unforgiveable betrayals, devious motives, and forbidden love collide in the first installment of internationally bestselling author Sally Green's epic new fantasy series, perfect for Game of Thrones fans. In a land tinged with magic and a bustling trade in an illicit supernatural...
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Tradition

Brendan Kiely · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Brendan Kiely, a stunning new novel that explores the insidious nature of tradition at a prestigious boarding school.Prestigious. Powerful. Privileged. This is Fullbrook Academy, an elite prep school where history looms in the leafy...
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All Summer Long

Hope Larson · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Thirteen-year-old Bina has a long summer ahead of her. She and her best friend, Austin, usually do everything together, but he's off to soccer camp for a month, and he's been acting kind of weird lately anyway. So it's up to Bina to see how much fun she can have on her own....
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Life on Earth 1: Losing the Girl

MARI NAOMI · Graphic Universe
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback

Claudia Jones is missing. Her classmates are thinking the worst . . . or at least the weirdest. It couldn't be an alien abduction, right? None of Claudia's classmates at Blithedale High know why she vanished--and they're dealing with their own issues. Emily's trying to handle...
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All Out of Pretty

INGRID PALMER · Creston Books
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover

How do you know who to trust? Can you even trust yourself, your own instincts, and choices? Andrea, or "Bones" as her mom calls her, thinks of herself as smart, but intelligence only gets you so far and she finds herself nowhere near as smart or as tough as she thought. "All...
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White Rabbit

Caleb Roehrig · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Caleb Roehrig, author of Last Seen Leaving, delivers another spellbinding YA murder mystery in White Rabbit.Rufus Holt is having the worst night of his life. It begins with the reappearance of his ex-boyfriend, Sebastian -- the guy who stomped his heart out like a spent cigarette. Just...
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The Flintstones Vol. 1

Mark Russell · DC Comics
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback

Hanna-Barbera has created some of the most recognizable animated characters of all time. As part of DC Comics' re-imagination of cartoons like SCOOBY-DOO, THE FLINTSONES, JOHNNY QUEST, SPACE GHOST, and WACKY RACERS, these new series will be infused with modern and contemporary concepts...
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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,...
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Don't Forget Me: A Novel

VICTORIA STEVENS · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Hazel Clarke is no stranger to heartbreaks, and being sent to live with a father she's never met is the latest in a string of them. Even the beauty of eastern Australia isn't enough to take her mind off of her mother, who suffers from early-onset Alzheimer's...
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Heavy Vinyl

CARLY USDIN · BOOM! Box
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

When Chris joins the staff at her local record store, she's surprised to find out that her co-workers share a secret: they're all members of a secret fight club that take on the patriarchy and fight crime!Starry-eyed Chris has just started the dream job every outcast kid in town...
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Stay Sweet

SIOBHAN VIVIAN · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Last Boy and Girl in the World and The List comes a bold and sweet summer read about first love, feminism, and ice cream.Summer in Sand Lake isn't complete without a trip to Meade Creamery - the local ice cream stand founded in 1944 by Molly Meade who started...
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Sky in the Deep

ADRIENNE YOUNG · Wednesday Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A 2018 Most Anticipated Young Adult book that is part Wonder Woman, part Vikings -- and all heart.OND ELDR. BREATHE FIRE.Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight...
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The Complication

Suzanne Young · Simon Pulse
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

How do you go back to a life you can't remember? Find out in this sixth novel in the New York Times bestselling Program series from Suzanne Young.Every cure has a cost. Tatum Masterson learned this after years of being monitored by The Program. She witnessed it when her boyfriend, Wes,...
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