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By Night Vol. 1

John Allison · BOOM! Box
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

After discovering a mysterious device, Jane and Heather decide try their hand at documentary filmmaking... in another dimension! There's something strange going on in Spectrum, South Dakota. Home to high school best friends Jane Langstaff and Heather Meadows, Spectrum is a boomtown...
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We Rule the Night

Claire Eliza Bartlett · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Two girls use forbidden magic to fly and fight--for their country and for themselves--in this riveting debut that's part Shadow and Bone, part Code Name Verity.Seventeen-year-old Revna is a factory worker, manufacturing war machines for the Union of the North. When she's caught using illegal...
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The Beauty of the Moment

Tanaz Bhathena · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Susan is the new girl -- she's sharp and driven, and strives to meet her parents' expectations of excellence. Malcolm is the bad boy -- he started raising hell at age fifteen, after his mom died of cancer, and has had a reputation ever since. Susan's parents are on the verge...
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In the Neighborhood of True

Susan Kaplan Carlton · Algonquin Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A powerful story of love, identity, and the price of fitting in or speaking out."The story may be set in the past, but it couldn't be a more timely reminder that true courage comes not from fitting in, but from purposefully standing out . . . and that to find out who you really...
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How to Make Friends with the Dark

Kathleen Glasgow · Delacorte Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a novel about love and loss and learning how to continue when it feels like you're surrounded by darkness that Karen M. McManus, the New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying, calls "rare and powerful."Here...
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Awake in the World

Jason Gurley · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In Awake in the World, Jason Gurley delivers a gorgeous debut YA novel about dreams and finding the courage to reach them.When all was lost, they found each other.As the sun sets off the coast of the small California town of Orilla del Cielo, the silhouettes of oil rigs loom. Their shadows...
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You'd Be Mine: A Novel

Erin Hahn · Wednesday Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"If you're still obsessing over A Star Is Born (because, same) you'll love this new romance novel by Erin Hahn." - CosmopolitanAnnie Mathers is America's sweetheart and heir to a country music legacy full of all the things her Gran warned her about. Superstar Clay...
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Haphaven

Norm Harper · Lion Forge
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Ever-superstitious Alex Mills will do anything to avoid a jinx. Picking up pennies, knocking on wood, collecting rabbit's feet . . . you name it. That is until she steps on a crack and it actually does break her mother's back. To save her mom, Alex must follow Hubbub Caskside, a trusty...
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We Were Beautiful

Heather Hepler · Blink
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

It's been a year since fifteen-year-old Mia Hopkins was in the car crash that killed her older sister and left her terribly scarred. The doctors tell her she was lucky to survive. Her therapist says it will take time to heal. The police reports claim there were trace amounts of alcohol...
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Dig

A.S. King · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed master of the YA novel A.S. King's eleventh book is a surreal and searing dive into the tangled secrets of a wealthy white family in suburban Pennsylvania and the terrible cost the family's children pay to maintain the family name.The Shoveler, the Freak, CanIHelpYou?, Loretta...
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Dreaming Darkly

Caitlin Kittredge · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

This teen gothic mystery novel, perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux and Lisa Maxwell, takes readers to the cold, creepy island of Darkhaven, where a girl with unexplained blackouts grapples with secrets from her dead mother's past and a legacy of murders that have been committed by her family....
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Just for Clicks

Kara McDowell · Amberjack Publishing
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

Mommy blogs are great . . . unless the blog happens to belong to your mom.Twin sisters Claire & Poppy are accidental social media stars thanks to Mom going viral when they were babies. Now, as teens, they're expected to contribute by building their own brand. Attending a NY fashion...
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Forward Me Back to You

Mitali Perkins · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Katina King is the reigning teen jiu-jitsu champion of Northern California, but she's having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past. Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in Kolkata, India and is reluctant to take on his future. Since he knows nothing about his past, how is he supposed...
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Girls on the Verge

Sharon Biggs Waller · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Camille couldn't be having a better summer -- she kills it as Ophelia in her community theater's production of Hamlet, catches the eye of the cutest boy in the play, and nabs a spot in a prestigious theater program. But on the very night she learns she got into the program, she also...
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White Rose

Kip Wilson · Versify
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"In a searing indictment of silent complicity, White Rose shines a light on one remarkable young woman's insistence on the power of truth, no matter the cost. A timely call to resistance." - Joy McCullough, author of Blood Water Paint "White Rose is a resonant testament to courage....
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