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Art Boss

Kayla Cagan · Chronicle Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Artist Piper Perish has moved from her hometown of Houston, Texas, to New York City. Her days are spent exploring; her nights are filled with painting. It's her lifelong dream come true . . . . Except life in the city isn't as glamorous as it looks from afar. Piper's high-pressure...
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Things I'd Rather Do Than Die

Christine Hurley Deriso · Flux
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Jade Fulton and Ethan Garrett are opposites in every sense of the word. Ethan is an all-American poster boy a star athlete dating the most popular girl in school and a devout Christian. Jade keeps mostly to herself. She abhors joining things, hates everyone at their high school except her best...
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Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel

VAL EMMICH · Poppy
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Dear Evan Hansen, Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why ... When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's griefover the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick...
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The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler

John Hendrix · Amulet Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Interweaving handwritten text and art in his signature style, John Hendrix tells the fascinating story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the oppression of the German people during World War II. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was shocked to watch the German...
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Hey, Kiddo

JARRETT J KROSOCZKA · Graphix
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't...
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Crown of Thunder

Tochi Onyebuchi · Razorbill
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the sequel to the acclaimed Beasts Made of Night, Taj has escaped Kos, but Queen Karima will go to any means necessary--including using the most deadly magic--to track him down.Taj is headed west, but the consequences of leaving Kos behind confront him at every turn. Innocent civilians...
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The Rule of One

ASHLEY SAUNDERS · Skyscape
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover

In their world, telling the truth has become the most dangerous crime of all.In the near-future United States, a one-child policy is ruthlessly enforced. Everyone follows the Rule of One. But Ava Goodwin, daughter of the head of the Texas Family Planning Division, has a secret - one her mother...
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The Chaos of Now

Erin Jade Lange · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Butter comes an emotional coming-of-age novel about teen coder who gets roped into a dangerous hack, perfect for fans of John Corey Whaley and Adam Silvera.Eli is coasting through high school, spending most of his time writing code. Each day is as boring as the next--until...
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Easy Prey

Catherine Lo · Amulet Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Only three students had access to a teacher's racy photos before they went viral. There's Mouse, a brainy overachiever so desperate to escape his father and go to MIT that he would do almost anything, legal or not. Then there's Drew, the star athlete who can get any girl's...
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The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

MACKENZI LEE · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

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I, Claudia

Mary McCoy · Carolrhoda Lab
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover

Disaffected amateur historian Claudia McCarthy never expected to be in charge of Imperial Day Academy, but by accident, design, or scheme, she is pulled into the tumultuous and high-profile world of the Senate and Honor Council. Suddenly, Claudia is wielding power over her fellow students...
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Blanca & Roja

ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The biggest lie of all is the story you think you already know.The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they're also rivals, Blanca as obedient and graceful as Roja is vicious and manipulative. They know that, because of a generations-old spell, their family is bound to a bevy...
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Home and Away

CANDICE MONTGOMERY · Page Street Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Montgomery's thoughtful craft is driven by immediacy and tension and grounded in emotional authenticity. ... A love letter to the intricacies of family and multitudinous black girlhood." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred"Home and Away shines a multicolored light on the myriad...
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Light Years

Kass Morgan · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Ender's Game meets The 100 as hidden secrets and forbidden love collide at an interstellar military boarding school in a new sci-fi series from New York Times bestselling author Kass Morgan. Reeling from the latest attack by a mysterious enemy, the Quatra Fleet Academy is finally admitting...
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Hearts Unbroken

CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH · Candlewick
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith turns to realistic fiction with the thoughtful story of a Native teen navigating the complicated, confusing waters of high school - and first love.When Louise Wolfe's first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people...
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Odd One Out

Nic Stone · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin comes this illuminating exploration of old friendships, new crushes, and the path to self-discovery. Told in three voices, Nic Stone's new book is sure to please fans of Becky Albertalli, Nicola Yoon, and Jason Reynolds.Courtney...
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My Whole Truth

Mischa Thrace · Flux
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Seventeen-year-old Seelie Stanton never wanted to kill anyone. She never wanted to be invisible in her own family, she never wanted to crush on her best friend Alyssa, and she definitely never wanted to know how effectively a mallet could destroy a human head. But the universe doesn't...
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The Boneless Mercies

April Genevieve Tucholke · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Frey, Ovie, Juniper, and Runa are the Boneless Mercies -- girls hired to kill quickly, quietly, and mercifully. But Frey is weary of the death trade and, having been raised on the heroic sagas of her people, dreams of a bigger life. When she hears of an unstoppable monster ravaging a nearby...
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Last Pick

Jason Walz · First Second
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In this first volume of Jason Walz's dystopian graphic novel trilogy, the kids last picked are humanity's last hope. Three years ago, aliens invaded Earth and abducted everyone they deemed useful. The only ones spared were those too young, too old, or too "disabled" to be of value....
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Bridge of Clay

RANDOM HOUSE. · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable and sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be lifechanging." The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world...
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