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This Is What It Feels Like

Rebecca Barrow · HarperTeen
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

This tender story of friendship, music, and ferocious love asks: what will you fight for, if not yourself? You Don't Know Me But I Know You author Rebecca Barrow's next book is perfect for fans of Katie Cotugno and Emery Lord.Who cares that the prize for the Sun City Originals contest...
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The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction

AMY BRASHEAR · Soho Teen
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Arkansas, 1984: The town of Griffin Flat is known for almost nothing other than its nuclear missile silos. MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction - is a fear every local lives with and tries to ignore. Unfortunately that's impossible now that film moguls have picked Griffin Flat as the location...
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The Storyteller

Traci Chee · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling conclusion to the epic adventure that began with New York Times bestselling The Reader, "a series fantasy lovers will want to sink their teeth into." - BOOKLIST , starred reviewSefia is determined to keep Archer out of the Guard's clutches and their plans for war between...
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The Infinite Pieces of Us

Rebekah Crane · Skyscape
Pages: 241
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about coming apart, getting it together - and moving on. It's just a two-hour drive ... Pondering math problems is Esther Ainsworth's obsession. If only life's puzzles required logic....
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How She Died, How I Lived

Mary Crockett · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times} Girl in Pieces meets The Way I Used to Be in this poignant and thought-provoking novel about a girl who must overcome her survivor's guilt after a fellow classmate is brutally murdered. I was one of five. The five girls Kyle...
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The Lying Woods

Ashley Elston · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Owen Foster has never wanted for anything. Then his mother shows up at his elite New Orleans boarding school cradling a bombshell: his privileged life has been funded by stolen money. After using the family business, the single largest employer in his small Louisiana town, to embezzle millions...
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Any Second

Kevin Emerson · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Marieke Nijkamp's This is Where it Ends meets Kathleen Glasgow's Girl in Pieces in a gripping novel that explores the depths of trauma and the strength it takes to rise again. Perfect for readers of Ellen Hopkins.Five years after being kidnapped, Elian's captor sends him into...
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The Healer

DONNA FREITAS · HarperTeen
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A gorgeous and heartrending novel about love, family, and faith, perfect for fans of Laura Ruby, John Corey Whaley, and Jandy Nelson.Marlena Oliveira has - mysteriously, miraculously - been given the power to heal all kinds of ailments. People around the world believe she is a saint. But it all comes...
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The Resolutions

Mia Garcia · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A heart-expanding novel about four Latinx teens who make New Year's resolutions for one another - and the whirlwind of a year that follows. Fans of Erika L. Sánchez and Emery Lord will fall for this story of friendship, identity, and the struggle of finding yourself when all you want...
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The Dark Days Deceit

ALISON GOODMAN · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling, genre-bending conclusion to Lady Helen's demon-hunting adventures, set in the glittering Regency world.Lady Helen has retreated to a country estate outside Bath to prepare for her wedding to the Duke of Selburn, yet she knows she has unfinished business to complete. She and the dangerously...
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Five Feet Apart

Rachael Lippincott · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson in March 2019! In this moving story that's perfect for fans of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication - they can't get within a few feet of each...
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Girls on the Line

Jennie Liu · Carolrhoda Lab
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Luli has just aged out of the orphanage where she grew up, and her childhood friend Yun helps her get a job at the factory where Yun works. Both girls enjoy the freedom of making their own decisions and earning their own money--until Yun gets pregnant by her boyfriend,...
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Four Three Two One

Courtney Stevens · HarperTeen
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"This is not a book about a tragedy. This is a book about survivors, and hope, and belief. I wish this book wasn't necessary, but it is. Read it. And then pass it on." - Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces"A whip-smart and deeply felt...
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Secrets of the Casa Rosada

Alex Temblador · Pinata Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Martha and her mother move constantly, never staying anywhere for long. So she knows better than to ask if they've been evicted again when her mom says they re going on a "vacation" to meet the grandmother Martha didn't know existed. Laredo, Texas, is like...
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The Light Between Worlds

LAURA E WEYMOUTH · HarperTeen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

What happens when you return to the real world after being in a fantastical one like Narnia?Six years ago, sisters Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell were swept away to a strange and beautiful kingdom called the Woodlands, where they lived for years. But ever since they returned to their lives...
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