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The Passion of Dolssa

Julie Gardner Berry · Viking Children'S Books, 2016.
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

I must write this account, and when I have finished, I will burn it. Buried deep within the archives of a convent in medieval France is an untold story of love, loss, and wonder and the two girls at the heart of it all. Dolssa is an upper-crust city girl with a secret lover and an uncanny...
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Zeroes

Scott Westerfeld · Simon Pulse
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

Don't call them heroes, but these six Californian teens have powers that set them apart. Take Ethan, a.k.a. Scam. He's got a voice inside him that'll say whatever you want to hear, whether it's true or not. Which is handy, except when it isn't -- like when the voice...
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Chasing Forgiveness

Neal Shusterman · Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2015.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A teen attempts to forgive the unforgiveable in this "stunning novel" (VOYA) based on a tragic true story from the author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.Preston Scott was only twelve years old when his father killed his mother. He never saw it coming. Despite...
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The Square Root of Summer

Harriet Reuter Hapgood · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

This is what it means to love someone. This is what it means to grieve someone. It's a little bit like a black hole. It's a little bit like infinity.Gottie H. Oppenheimer is losing time. Literally. When the fabric of the universe around her seaside town begins to fray, she's...
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The Forgetting

Nicole Maggi · Sourcebooks Fire

Georgie's new heart saved her life...but now she's losing her mind. "An eerie mystery wrapped in a heart-wrenching romance -- will leave you breathless!" -- Gretchen McNeil, author of TEN and the Don't Get Mad seriesWhen Georgie Kendrick wakes up after a heart transplant...
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Willful Machines

Tim Floreen · Simon Pulse
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

In this action-packed, high-octane debut, the closeted son of an ultra-conservative president must keep a budding romance secret from his father while protecting himself from a sentient computer program that's terrorizing the United States - and has zeroed in on him as its next target.In...
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Ash & Bramble

Sarah Prineas · HarperTeen
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

The tale of Cinderella has been retold countless times. But what you know is not the true story. Sarah Prineas's bold fairy-tale retelling is a dark and captivating world where swords are more fitting than slippers, young shoemakers are just as striking as princes, and a heroine is more...
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That's Not Hay in My Hair

Juliette Turner · Zonderkidz
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

New York City life had crammed sidewalks, gasoline-filled puddles, and angry taxi drivers, but Juliette enjoyed the towering sky-scrapers, the half-block walk to school, and the restaurant smells wafting into her bedroom. She had never cared for a horse, let alone a long-horn, when her mother...
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A Drop of Night

Stefan Bachmann · Greenwillow Books, 2016.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

Modern-day teenagers meet a palace of terrors locked up since the French Revolution in this haunting, genre-bending thriller from Stefan Bachmann, the internationally bestselling author of The Peculiar and The Whatnot. A Drop of Night will thrill fans of Neal Shusterman and Jessica Khoury.Seventeen-year-old...
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Rules for 50/50 Chances

Kate McGovern · Farrar
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

Seventeen-year-old Rose Levenson has a decision to make: Does she want to know how she's going to die? Because when Rose turns eighteen, she can take the test that tells her if she carries the genetic mutation for Huntington's disease, the degenerative condition that is slowly killing her mother....
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The Last Boy and Girl in the World

Siobhan Vivian · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

From the critically acclaimed author of The List comes a stunning new novel about a girl who must say goodbye to everything she knows after a storm wreaks havoc on her hometown.What if your town was sliding underwater and everyone was ordered to pack up and leave? How would you and your...
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Unbecoming

Jenny Downham · David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Katie's life is falling apart: her best friend thinks she's a freak, her mother, Caroline, controls every aspect of her life, and her estranged grandmother, Mary, appears as if out of nowhere. Mary has dementia and needs lots of care, and when Katie starts putting together Mary's life story,...
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The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall

Katie Alender · Point
Pages: 329
Format: Print book

In this asylum, your mind plays tricks on you all the time ... Delia's new house isn't just a house. Long ago, it was the Piven Institute for the Care and Correction of Troubled Females -- an insane asylum nicknamed "Hysteria Hall." However, many of the inmates were not insane,...
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Save Me, Kurt Cobain

Jenny Manzer · Delacorte Press, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

What if you discovered that Kurt Cobain was not only alive, but might be your real father? This nuanced and bittersweet YA debut will keep you guessing until the end. Nico Cavan has been adrift since her mother vanished when she was four - maternal abandonment isn't exactly something...
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Immaculate

Katelyn Detweiler · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Mina is seventeen. A virgin. And pregnant.Mina is top of her class, girlfriend to the most ambitious guy in school, able to reason and study her way through anything. But when she suddenly finds herself pregnant - despite having never had sex - her orderly world collapses. Almost nobody...
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Walk on Earth a Stranger

Rae Carson · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 436
Format: Print book

The first book in a new trilogy from acclaimed New York Times-bestselling author Rae Carson. A young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold must flee her home, taking her on a sweeping and dangerous journey across Gold Rush era America. Walk on Earth a Stranger begins...
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The Darkest Corners

Kara Thomas · Delacorte Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

"Gripping from start to finish, The Darkest Corners took me into an underbelly I didn't know existed, with twists that left me shocked and racing forward to get to the end."-Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red QueenFor fans of Gillian Flynn's...
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Places No One Knows

Brenna Yovanoff · Delacorte Press
Pages: 373
Format: Print book

A good girl dreams herself into a bad boy's room in this lyrically romantic novel by a bestselling author from which Maggie Stiefvater, author of"The Raven King, "says she "woke up satisfied. " Waverly Camdenmar spends her nights running until she can t even think. Then...
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Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

David Levithan · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

"Tiny Cooper stole our hearts." - Entertainment Weekly Especially for those of us who ordinarily feel ignored, a spotlight is a circle of magic, with the strength to draw us from the darkness of our everyday lives. Watch out, ex-boyfriends, and get out of the way, homophobic...
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Still Waters

Ash Parsons · Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguins Group (USA)
Pages: 311
Format: Print book

A gritty, powerful debut that evokes The Outsiders. You won't be able to look away. High school senior Jason knows how to take a punch. Living with an abusive father will teach a kid that. But he's also learned how to hit back, earning a reputation at school that ensures no one will mess...
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The Anatomical Shape of a Heart

Jenn Bennett · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Artist Beatrix Adams knows exactly how she's spending the summer before her senior year. Determined to follow in Da Vinci's footsteps, she's ready to tackle the one thing that will give her an advantage in a museum-sponsored scholarship contest: drawing actual cadavers. But when...
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Wonders of the Invisible World

Christopher Barzak · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 339
Format: Print book

The captivating Stonewall Honor-winning novel of love, family, and ghosts of the pastAidan Lockwood lives in a sleepy farming town, day after unremarkable day. But when Jarrod, his former best friend, suddenly moves back home, Aidan begins to see clearly for the first time - not only to feelings...
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Edgewater

Courtney Sheinmel · Amulet Books, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 317
Format: Print book

Lorrie Hollander used to be a rich girl, but now she's lost everything because of the secrets and lies of the people around her. It's been 12 years since Lorrie's mother skipped town and left Lorrie in the care of her unstable aunt Gigi. Together they live in a neglected, decrepit...
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Tell the Wind and Fire

Sarah Rees Brennan · Clarion Books
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

"Sarah Rees Brennan writes with fine control and wit, and I suspect that word of this magical thriller will pass through the populace with the energy of wind, of fire." - Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Egg and Spoon In a city divided between opulent luxury in the Light...
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Boo

Neil Smith · Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

Boo is the highly anticipated debut novel from one of the most incomparable voices in Canadian literature: Bang Crunch author Neil Smith. Oliver Dalrymple, nicknamed "Boo" because of his pale complexion and staticky hair, is an outcast at his Illinois middle school--more...
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