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Little Black Dresses, Little White Lies

Laura Stampler · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The Devil Wears Prada meets Sex and the City in a wickedly funny debut novel about a girl who lands a dream internship at a magazine in New York City. If only she hadn't lied about being a dating expert on her resume ... Harper Anderson has always thought she should have been born somewhere...
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The Way Back from Broken

Amber J. Keyser · Carolrhoda LAB
Pages: 210
Format: Print book

Rakmen Cannon's life is turning out to be one sucker punch after another. His baby sister died in his arms, his parents are on the verge of divorce, and he's flunking out of high school. The only place he fits in is with the other art therapy kids stuck in the basement of Promise House,...
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The Girl at Midnight

Melissa Grey · Delacorte Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

[STAR] "Sparks fly. . . . Will please fans of Cassandra Clare and Game of Thrones watchers with its remarkable world building; richly developed characters; and themes of family, power, loyalty, and romance. . . . [Book 2] cannot come soon enough!" - BOOKLIST , StarredFor fans...
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The Taming of the Drew

Stephanie Kate Strohm · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Cass McKay has been called stubborn, temperamental, difficult, and that word that rhymes with "witch" more times than she cares to count. But that's all about to pay off. She has finally landed the role she was born to play - Kate, in The Taming of the Shrew - in the summer...
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Believarexic

JJ Johnson · Peachtree Publishers
Pages: 459
Format: Print book

Jennifer has to force her family to realize that she needs treatment for her eating disorder. But her experience in an eating disorder treatment unit isn't quite what she expected. In 1988, when she was fifteen, JJ Johnson was hospitalized for treatment of bulimarexia, a combination of bulimia...
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Never Missing, Never Found

Amanda Panitch · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A juicy thriller about a girl who returned from the missing. . . . Hand to fans of We Were Liars, Bone Gap, and Vanishing Girls. Some choices change everything. Scarlett chose to run. And the consequences will be deadly. Stolen from her family as a young girl, Scarlett was lucky enough...
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First & Then

Emma Mills · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 267
Format: Print book

Recommended in John Green's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays 2015Devon Tennyson wouldn't change a thing. She's happy silently crushing on best friend Cas, and blissfully ignoring the future after high school. But the universe has other plans. It delivers Devon's cousin Foster, an unrepentant...
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Some of the Parts

Hannah Rodgers Barnaby · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 293
Format: Print book

For fans of Love Letters to the Dead and I'll Give You the Sun comes a heartrending story of a teen who sets out on an unusual quest. For months, Tallie McGovern has been coping with the death of her older brother the only way she knows how: by smiling bravely and pretending that she's...
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How to Win at High School

Owen Matthews · HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Adam Higgs is a loser, and he's not okay with it.But starting as a junior in a new high school seems like exactly the right time to change things. He brainstorms with his best friend, Brian: What will it take for him to take over Nixon Collegiate? Adam searches for the A-listers'...
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Conviction

Kelly Loy Gilbert · Hyperion
Pages: 342
Format: Print book

Winner of the Children's Choice Book Awards' Teen Choice Debut Author AwardTen years ago, Braden was given a sign, a promise that his family wouldn't fall apart the way he feared. But Braden got it wrong: his older brother, Trey, has been estranged from the family for almost as long, and his father,...
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On the Edge of Gone

Corinne Duyvis · Amulet Books
Pages: 456
Format: Print book

A thrilling, thought-provoking novel from one of young-adult literature s boldest new talents. January 29, 2035. That s the day the comet is scheduled to hit the big one. Denise and her mother and sister, Iris, have been assigned to a temporary shelter outside their hometown of Amsterdam...
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A Fierce and Subtle Poison

Samantha Mabry · Algonquin
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In this stunning debut, legends collide with reality when a boy is swept into the magical, dangerous world of a girl filled with poison. Everyone knows the legends about the cursed girl--Isabel, the one the senoras whisper about. They say she has green skin and grass for hair, and she feeds...
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Thief of Lies

Brenda Drake · Entangled Teen, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Gia Kearns would rather fight with boys than kiss them. That is, until Arik, a leather clad hottie in the Boston Athenaeum, suddenly disappears. While examining the book of world libraries he abandoned, Gia unwittingly speaks the key that sucks her and her friends into a photograph and transports...
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The Art of Not Breathing

Sarah Alexander · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Since her twin brother, Eddie, drowned five years ago, sixteen-year-old Elsie Main has tried to remember what really happened that fateful day on the beach. One minute Eddie was there, and the next he was gone. Seventeen-year-old Tay McKenzie is a cute and mysterious boy that Elsie meets...
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Lucky Strikes

Louis Bayard · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister -- and of the family gas station. Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his fuel monopoly. To keep him at bay and keep...
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Endangered

Lamar Giles · HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Endangered is a thrilling page-turner perfect for fans of Barry Lyga's I Hunt Killers.The one secret she cares about keeping - her identity - is about to be exposed. Unless Lauren "Panda" Daniels - an anonymous photoblogger who specializes in busting classmates and teachers...
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Until We Meet Again

Renee Collins · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 322
Format: Print book

Country clubs and garden parties. The last thing Cassandra wants is to spend the summer before her senior year marooned in a snooty Massachusetts shore town. Cass craves drama and adventure, which is hard when she just feels stuck.But when a dreamy stranger shows up on her family's private...
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Queen of Hearts

Colleen Oakes · Harpercollins
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The first novel in Colleen Oakes's epic, imaginative series tells the origin of one of the most infamous villains - the Queen of Hearts.This is not the story of the Wonderland we know. Alice has not fallen down a rabbit hole. This is a Wonderland where beneath each smile lies a secret,...
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Shutter

Courtney Alameda · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 372
Format: Print book

Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat -- a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained since childhood to destroy monsters both corporeal and spiritual: the corporeal undead go down by the bullet,...
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Backlash

Sarah Littman · Scholastic Press
Pages: 321
Format: Print book

Lara just got told off on Facebook. She thought that Christian liked her, that he was finally going to ask her to his school's homecoming dance. It's been a long time since Lara's felt this bad, this depressed. She's worked really hard since starting high school to be happy and make new friends.Bree...
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Learning to Swear in America

Katie Kennedy · Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. A big, bad one. Maybe not kill-all-the-dinosaurs bad, but at least kill-everyone-in-California-and-wipe-out-Japan-with-a-tsunami bad. Yuri, a physicist prodigy from Russia, has been recruited to aid NASA as they calculate a plan to avoid disaster.The...
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5 to 1

Holly Bodger · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 246
Format: Print book

Part Homeless Bird and part Matched, this is a dark look at the near future told through the alternating perspectives of two teens who dare to challenge the system. In the year 2054, after decades of gender selection, India now has a ratio of five boys for every girl, making women an incredibly...
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Read Me Like a Book

Liz Kessler · Candlewick Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In her first novel for young adults, New York Times best-selling author Liz Kessler tells a story about finding a kindred spirit and becoming your true self.Ashleigh Walker is a mediocre student with an assortment of friends, a sort-of boyfriend, and no plans for the future. Then a straight-from-college...
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Great Falls

Steve Watkins · Candlewick Press (MA)
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

One brother home from war. The other desperate to save him. A gripping journey together to the river's end.Shane has always worshiped his big brother, Jeremy. But three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken their toll, and the easy-go-lucky brother Shane knew has been replaced by a surly...
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This Is Where It Ends

Marieke Nijkamp · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 285
Format: Print book

10:00 a.m.The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.10:02 a.m.The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class. 10:03The auditorium doors won't open.10:05Someone...
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