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Swing

Kwame Alexander · Blink
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Things usually do not go as planned for seventeen-year-old Noah. He and his best friend Walt (aka Swing) have been cut from the high school baseball team for the third year in a row, and it looks like Noah's love interest since fifth grade, Sam, will never take it past the "best...
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WITCH BORN

NICHOLAS BOWLING · CHICKEN HOUSE
Format: Hardcover

Alyce's mother has just been burnt at the stake for practicing witchcraft. With only a thin set of instructions and a witch's mommet for guidance, Alyce must face the world that she's been sealed off from - a world of fear and superstition. With a witch hunter fast on her trail,...
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The Geography of Lost Things

JESSICA BRODY · Simon Pulse
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

In this romantic road trip story perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Morgan Matson, a teen girl discovers the value of ordinary objects while learning to forgive her absent father.A lot can happen on the road from lost to found ... Ali Collins doesn't have room in her life for clutter...
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500 Words or Less

Juleah Del Rosario · Simon Pulse
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A high school senior attempts to salvage her reputation among her Ivy League-obsessed classmates by writing their college admissions essays and in the process learns big truths about herself in this mesmerizing debut novel-in-verse, perfect for fans of Gayle Forman and Sonya Sones.Nic Chen...
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The War Outside

Monica Hesse · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A stunning novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal from Monica Hesse, the Edgar Award-winning and bestselling author of Girl in the Blue CoatIt's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado--until...
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Sawkill Girls

Claire Legrand · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

"Reader, hang on for dear life. Sawkill Girls is a wild, gorgeous, and rich coming-of-age story about complicity, female camaraderie, and power." - Sarah Gailey, author of River of Teeth"An eerie, atmospheric assertion of female strength." - Mindy McGinnis, author...
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Someday

DAVID LEVITHAN · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Every Day, soon to be a major motion picture starring Angourie Rice.Every day a new body. Every day a new life. Every day a new choice. For as long as A can remember, life has meant waking up in a different person's body every day, forced...
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Black Wings Beating

Alex London · Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover

"Epic thrills, heart-punching romance, and a marvel of a hero" --Adam Silvera, New York Times-bestselling author of They Both Die at the End The people of Uztar have long looked to the sky with hope and wonder. Nothing in their world is more revered than the birds of prey and no one more...
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A Blade So Black

L.L. McKinney · Imprint
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A Blade So Black delivers an irresistible urban fantasy retelling of Alice in Wonderland . . . but it's not the Wonderland you remember. The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland...
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Grand Theft Horse

G NERI · Lee & Low Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Gail Ruffu was a rookie trainer known for her unconventional methods and ability to handle dangerous horses. When she became part owner of an untamed thoroughbred named Urgent Envoy, everything changed. After Urgent Envoy showed real promise, her co-owners forced Gail to speed up training...
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The Agony House

Cherie Priest · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Denise Farber has just moved back to New Orleans with her mom and step-dad. They left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and have finally returned, wagering the last of their family's money on fixing up an old, rundown house and converting it to a bed and breakfast.Nothing seems to work...
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Give the Dark My Love

Beth Revis · Razorbill
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A young alchemist turns to dark magic when a deadly plague sweeps through her homeland in this epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis.Seventeen-year-old Nedra Brysstain leaves her home in the rural, northern territories of Lunar Island to attend the prestigious Yugen...
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A Map of Days

ANONYMOUS. · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The #1 bestselling series returns with a thrilling new story arc set in America!Vintage photographs reveal the never-before-seen world of peculiar America with a stunning addition - full-color images.Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman...
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Grim Lovelies

Megan Shepherd · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"A magical dash through the streets of Paris. Part caper, part fairy tale, part opulent witch society, you'll be swept away by all of it. GRIM LOVELIES absolutely dazzles." - Kendare Blake, #1 NYT bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series"A darkly enchanting...
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Dry

Neal Shusterman

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.The drought - or th
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Unstoppable Moses: A Novel

Tyler James Smith · Flatiron Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this coming-of-age debut, a seventeen-year-old boy has one week in the aftermath of a disastrous prank to prove to the authorities, and to himself, that he's not a worthless jerk who belongs in jail.Moses and his cousin Charlie were best friends, wisecracking pranksters, unstoppable...
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The Perfect Candidate

Peter Stone · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From debut author Peter Stone comes a heart-stopping, pulse-pounding political thriller that's perfect for fans of Ally Carter and House of Cards. When recent high school graduate Cameron Carter lands an internship with Congressman Billy Beck in Washington, DC, he thinks it is his ticket...
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Tales from the Inner City

Shaun Tan · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Tales from the Inner City is a collection of incredibly original stories, rich with feeling, strangely moving, almost numinous. And when the reader comes to the artwork, it's like walking into an amazing room, and then throwing open a curtain to see a brilliant scene that makes you understand...
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Muse of Nightmares

LAINI TAYLOR · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated, thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer, from National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old.She believed...
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The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig

Don Zolidis · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Janesville, Wisconsin (cold in the sense that there is no God) 1994The worst thing that's ever happened to Craig is also the best: Amy. Amy and Craig never should've gotten together. Craig is an awkward, Dungeons & Dragons playing geek, and Amy is the beautiful, fiercely intelligent...
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