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The Girl with the Wrong Name

Barnabas Miller · Soho Teen
Pages: 259
Format: Print book

Ever since The Night in Question left her with a hideous scar and no memory of what happened, Theo Lane has been hiding. An aspiring filmmaker, she uses a hidden button cam to keep the world at bay. She spends the entire summer in a Manhattan café, secretly documenting random "subjects."Once...
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Shadow of the Wolf

Tim Hall · David Fickling Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Forget everything you've ever heard about Robin Hood. Robin Loxley is seven years old when his parents disappear without a trace. Years later the great love of his life, Marian, is also taken from him. Driven by these mysteries, and this anguish, Robin follows a darkening path into...
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Delicate Monsters: A Novel

Stephanie Kuehn · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

When nearly killing a classmate gets seventeen-year-old Sadie Su kicked out of her third boarding school in four years, she returns to her family's California vineyard estate. Here, she's meant to stay out of trouble. Here, she's meant to do a lot of things. But it's hard....
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Worlds of Ink and Shadow: A Novel of the Brontës

Lena Coakley · Amulet Books
Pages: 351
Format: Print book

Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne. The Brontë siblings find escape from their constrained lives via their rich imaginations. The glittering world of Verdopolis and the romantic and melancholy world of Gondal literally come to life under their pens, offering the sort of romance and intrigue...
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Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl, The

Melissa Keil · Peachtree Publishers
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Alba loves her life just as it is. She loves living behind the bakery and waking up in a cloud of sugar and cinnamon. She loves drawing comics and watching bad TV with her friends. The only problem is she's overlooked a few teeny details. Like, the guy she thought long gone has unexpectedly...
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Reign of Shadows

Sophie Jordan · HarperCollins Children's Books, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Destiny and darkness collide in this romantic, sweeping new fantasy series from New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan.Seventeen years ago, an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their...
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Because You'll Never Meet Me

Leah Thomas · Bloomsbury
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

A William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalistA Carnegie Award nomineeOllie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie has a life-threatening allergy to electricity, and Moritz's weak heart requires a pacemaker. If they ever did meet, they could both die. Living as recluses...
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Make Your Home Among Strangers: A Novel

Jennine Capó Crucet · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceLonglisted for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeNamed a best book of the season by Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook, Bustle, NBC Latino and Men's JournalThe arresting debut novel from award-winning writer...
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Future Perfect

Jen Larsen · Harper Teen
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Jen Larsen, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Stranger Here and a subject of the Oprah Winfrey Network TV show In Deep Shift with Jonas Elrod, tells a liberating story of hard-won self-acceptance - a tale of one girl, who knows that weight is just a number, and that no one is completely...
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Twenty Questions for Gloria

Martyn Bedford · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

At 15, Gloria longs for adventure, something beyond her ordinary suburban life. When a mysterious new boy strolls into school, bent on breaking all the rules, Gloria is ready to fall under his spell. Uman is funny, confident, and smart. He does what he wants without a care for what anyone...
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The Love That Split the World

Emily Henry · Razorbill, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Emily Henry's stunning debut novel is Friday Night Lights meets The Time Traveler's Wife, and perfectly captures those bittersweet months after high school, when we dream not only of the future, but of all the roads and paths we've left untaken. Natalie's last summer in her small Kentucky...
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Solitaire

Alice Oseman · Harper Teen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In Solitaire, Alice Oseman has brought to life a vivid, clever, and heartfelt portrayal of what it's like to be a teenager today. This stunning debut novel - which the Times (London) called "The Catcher in the Rye for the digital age" - is perfect for fans of Melina Marchetta,...
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Drowning Is Inevitable

Shalanda Stanley · Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

"A literary knockout with the loudest of beating hearts." John Corey Whaley, Printz Award winner of Where Things Come BackOlivia has spent her whole life struggling to escape her dead mother's shadow. But when her father can't even look at her because Olivia reminds him of her mother,...
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One

Sarah Crossan · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Tippi and Grace share everything - clothes, friends . . . even their body. Writing in free verse, Sarah Crossan tells the sensitive and moving story of conjoined twin sisters, which will find fans in readers of Gayle Forman, Jodi Picoult, and Jandy Nelson.Tippi and Grace. Grace and Tippi....
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Breath to Breath

Craig Lew · Relish Media
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

William is seventeen when he's uprooted from his home and sent to live with his estranged father -- someone he hasn't seen since he was a little kid. When he's unexpectedly dragged into a situation where he has no choice but to help an abused four-year-old boy, William's...
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Violent Ends

Shaun David Hutchinson · Simon Pulse
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In a one-of-a-kind collaboration, seventeen of the most recognizable YA writers - including Shaun David Hutchinson, Neal and Brendan Shusterman, and Beth Revis - come together to share the viewpoints of a group of students affected by a school shooting.It took only twenty-two minutes for Kirby...
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How to Say I Love You Out Loud

Karole Cozzo · Swoon Reads, 2015.
Pages: 217
Format: Print book

When Jordyn Michaelson's autistic brother joins her at her elite school, she's determined not to let anyone know they're related. Even if that means closing herself off to all her closest friends, including charming football stud Alex Colby. But despite her best intentions, she just can't...
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A Sense of the Infinite

Hilary T. Smith · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

By the author of the critically acclaimed Wild Awake, a beautiful coming-of-age story about deep friendship, the weight of secrets, and the healing power of nature.It's senior year of high school, and Annabeth is ready - ready for everything she and her best friend, Noe, have been planning...
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Forget Tomorrow

Pintip Dunn · Entangled Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Imagine a world where your destiny has already been decided...by your future self.
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Wink Poppy Midnight

April Genevieve Tucholke · Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The intrigue of The Raven Boys and the "supernatural or not" question of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer coalesce in this young adult mystery, where nothing is quite as it seems, no one is quite who you think, and everything can change on a dime. Every story needs a hero. Every story...
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Infected

Sophie Littlefield · Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Nail-biting action with a scientifically and technologically involved plotline gives this novel an edge, and, moreover, the character development is surprisingly rich given the fast pace of the narrative the weight of the themes also keeps the story from reading like a movie script. Red herrings...
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Stone Field

Christy Lenzi · Roaring Brook Press, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A stunning debut novel that offers a new look at a classic love story about soul mates torn apart by the circumstances of their time.Catrina Dickinson is haunted by her past and feels caged in by life in small town Missouri. When she discovers a strange man in Stone Field where her family...
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A 52-Hertz Whale

Bill Sommer · Carolrhoda Books
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

Fourteen-year-old James is worried that the young humpback whale he tracks online has separated from its pod, so he emails Darren, the twentysomething would-be filmmaker who once volunteered in James's special education program. Of course, Darren is useless on the subject of whales,...
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Rebel of the Sands

Alwyn Hamilton · Viking, published by Penguin Group
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"You will cheer for Amani the whole way as she escapes the bonds of oppression and finds her own power, and you will mark your calendar for the sequel." - Rae Carson, bestselling author of the Fire & Thorns trilogy Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts...
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Extraordinary Means

Robyn Schneider · Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 324
Format: Print book

John Green's The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park in this darkly funny novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Beginning of Everything.Up until his diagnosis, Lane lived a fairly predictable life. But when he finds himself at a tuberculosis sanatorium...
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