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Aftermath

Kelley Armstrong · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Secrets don't remain hidden for long in this thrilling read from a #1 New York Times bestselling author that's perfect for fans of Kara Thomas's The Darkest Corners and Lynn Weingarten's Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls.Three years after losing her brother Luka in a school...
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The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

David Arnold · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"An epic wonder"* from the bestselling author of Mosquitoland This is Noah Oakman ? sixteen, Bowie believer, concise historian, disillusioned swimmer, son, brother, friend. Then Noah ? gets hypnotized. Now Noah ? sees changes: his mother has a scar on her face that...
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Out of the Blue: A Novel

SOPHIE CAMERON · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

When otherworldly beings start falling from the sky, it seems like the end of days are near -- but for one girl, it's just the beginning of an adventure that will change her life.Jaya's life has completely fallen apart. Her mother is dead, her dad is on an obsessive wild goose chase,...
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Moonrise

Sarah Crossan · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From Carnegie Award-winning author Sarah Crossan comes a poignant and thought-provoking novel that explores life, death, love and forgiveness.Seventeen-year-old Joe hasn't seen his brother in ten years. Ed didn't walk out on the family, not exactly. It's something more brutal.Ed's...
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Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now

Dana L. Davis · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"I've got seven days to come clean to my new dad. Seven days to tell the truth ... "For sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly, life hasn't been safe or normal for a while. Losing her mom to cancer has her a little bit traumatized and now she has to leave her hometown of Chicago...
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Driving by Starlight

Anat Deracine · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In this debut YA friendship story set in Saudi Arabia, two girls navigate typical teen issues -- crushes, college, family expectations, future hopes, and dreams.Sixteen-year-olds Leena and Mishie are best friends. They delight in small rebellions against the Saudi cultural police -- secret...
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The Lies They Tell

Gillian French · HarperTeen
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

With shades of E. Lockhart's We Were Liars, this dark and twisted mystery by the highly acclaimed author of Grit will be the page-turner of the year.Everyone in Tenney's Harbor knows about the Garrison tragedy. How an unexplained fire ravaged their house, killing four of the five...
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Give Me Some Truth

ERIC GANSWORTH · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Carson Mastick is entering his senior year of high school and desperate to make his mark, on the reservation and off. A rock band -- and winning the local Battle of the Bands, with its first prize of a trip to New York City -- is his best shot. But things keep getting in the way. Small...
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Love & Other Carnivorous Plants

Florence Gonsalves · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A darkly funny debut for fans of Becky Albertalli, Matthew Quick, and Ned Vizzini about a nineteen-year-old girl who's consumed by love, grief, and the many-tentacled beast of self-destructive behavior.Freshman year at Harvard was the most anticlimactic year of Danny's life. She's...
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When the Beat Drops

Anna Hecker · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Mira has always danced to her own beat. A music prodigy in a family of athletes, she'd rather play trumpet than play ball--and with her audition to a prestigious jazz conservatory just around the corner (and her two best friends at music camp without her) , she plans...
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Monday's Not Coming

TIFFANY D JACKSON · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly, Tiffany D. Jackson, comes a gripping new novel perfect for fans of E. Lockhart and Gillian Flynn about the mystery of one teenage girl's disappearance and the traumatic effects of the truth.Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia...
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LIFEL1K3

Jay Kristoff · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Illuminae Files comes the first book in a new series that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Terminator, and all adrenaline.On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Seventeen-year-old...
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Bright Burns the Night

Sara B Larson · Scholastic Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Ten years ago, King Lorcan of the Dark Kingdom Dorjhalon defeated Queen Evelayn and cut her conduit stone from her. Since then, he has kept her trapped in her swan form. With the loss of balance between Dark and Light, winter has descended and the Draíolon of Éadrolan lose more power...
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Cross Fire: An Exo Novel

Fonda Lee · Scholastic Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Earth's century of peace as a colony of an alien race has been shattered. As the government navigates peace talks with the human terrorist group Sapience, Donovan tries to put his life back together and return to his duty as a member of the security forces. But a new order comes from...
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Furyborn

Claire Legrand · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it.When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied...
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What I Leave Behind

Alison McGhee · Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

After his dad commits suicide, Will tries to overcome his own misery by secretly helping the people around him in this exquisitely crafted story made up of one hundred chapters of one hundred words each, by award-winning and bestselling author Alison McGhee.Sixteen-year-old Will spends...
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Jane

ALINE MCKENNA · Archaia
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A reimagining of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre set in present day, written by acclaimed screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna and Eisner Award-winning illustrator Ramón K. Pérez.Growing up in a broken home in a small fishing town, Jane dreamed of escaping to art school and following...
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The Universe Is Expanding and So Am I

Carolyn Mackler · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From Printz Honoree Carolyn Mackler comes a story of what happens when the "happy ending" turns out to be less than perfect.It's been five months since sixteen-year-old Virginia Shreves thought her life was finally back on course: she has come to terms with who she is both...
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From Twinkle, with Love

SANDHYA MENON · Simon Pulse
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

An aspiring teen filmmaker finds her voice and falls in love in this delightful romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi.Aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra has stories she wants to tell and universes she wants to explore, if only the world...
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Every Shiny Thing

Laurie Morrison · Amulet Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In this beautifully constructed middle-grade novel, told half in prose and half in verse, Lauren prides herself on being a good sister, and Sierra is used to taking care of her mom. When Lauren's parents send her brother to a therapeutic boarding school for teens on the autism spectrum...
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Anger Is a Gift: A Novel

Mark Oshiro · Tor Teen
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Moss Jeffries is many things -- considerate student, devoted son, loyal friend and affectionate boyfriend, enthusiastic nerd. But sometimes Moss still wishes he could be someone else -- someone without panic attacks, someone whose father was still alive, someone who hadn't become a rallying...
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The Dead Enders

Erin Saldin · Simon Pulse
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

For fans of One of Us Is Lying, this novel set during the summer in the small tourist town of Gold Fork features four teens at very different crossroads in their lives, all sharing one goal--escape Gold Fork by any means necessary. In a place like Gold Fork, sometimes a secret is the only...
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Always Never Yours

Austin Siegemund-Broka · Penguin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"An utterly charming story of love, family, heartbreak, and drama. I absolutely loved it!" - Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of Since You've Been GoneMegan Harper is the girl before. All her exes find their one true love right after dating her. It's not a curse...
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