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The Girl from Everywhere

Heidi Heilig · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 454
Format: Print book

Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father's pirate ship, but when he gambles with her very existence, it all may come to an end.
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Whisper to Me

Nick Lake · Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

A remarkable story of strange beauty and self-discovery from Printz Award winner Nick Lake.Cassie is writing a letter to the boy whose heart she broke. She's trying to explain why. Why she pushed him away. Why her father got so angry when he saw them together. Why she disappears some nights....
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Love, Lies and Spies

Cindy Anstey · Swoon Reads
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In Love, Lies and Spies, Cindy Anstey's hilarious homage to Jane Austen, a lady with a penchant for trouble finds a handsome spy much more than merely tolerable. Juliana Telford is not your average nineteenth-century young lady. She's much more interested in researching ladybugs...
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The Star-touched Queen

Roshani Chokshi · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 342
Format: Print book

Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you're only seventeen?Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father's kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly...
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The Accident Season

MoiÌ?ra Fowley-Doyle · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 291
Format: Print book

For fans of We Were Liars, How I Live Now, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane comes a haunting, sexy, magically realistic debut about a family caught between a violent history, a taboo romance, and the mysteries lurking in their own backyard.Every October Cara and her family become inexplicably...
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Thanks for the Trouble

Tommy Wallach · Simon & Schuster BYFR
Pages: 276
Format: Print book

Tommy Wallach, the New York Times bestselling author of the "stunning debut" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) We All Looked Up, delivers a brilliant new novel about a young man who overcomes a crippling loss and finds the courage to live after meeting an enigmatic girl."Was...
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The First Time She Drowned

Kerry Kletter · Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) , 2016.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The beautiful struggle of a girl desperate for the one relationship that has caused her the most painCassie O'Malley has spent the past two and a half years in a mental institution - dumped there by her mother, against her will. Now, at 18, Cassie emancipates herself, determined to start...
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The Wrong Side of Right

Jenn Marie Thorne · Dial Books
Pages: 390
Format: Print book

Fans of Sarah Dessen and Huntley Fitzpatrick will enjoy this smart debut young adult novel, equal parts My Life Next Door and The Princess Diaries - plus a dash of Aaron SorkinKate Quinn's mom died last year, leaving Kate parentless and reeling. So when the unexpected shows up in her living...
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Dumplin'

Julie Murphy · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 375
Format: Print book

For fans of John Green and Rainbow Rowell comes this powerful novel with the most fearless heroine - self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson - from Julie Murphy, the acclaimed author of Side Effects May Vary. With starry Texas nights, red candy suckers, Dolly Parton songs, and a wildly...
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Skyscraping

Cordelia Jensen · Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pages: 347
Format: Print book

A heartrending, bold novel in verse about family, identity, and forgiveness Mira is just beginning her senior year of high school when she discovers her father with his male lover. Her world-and everything she thought she knew about her family-is shattered instantly. Unable to comprehend...
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Are You Still There

Sarah Lynn Scheerger · Albert Whitman & Company
Pages: 266
Format: Print book

Gabriella Mallory, AP student and perfect-daughter-in-training, stands barefoot on a public toilet for three hours while her school is on lockdown. Someone has planted a bomb and she is hiding. The bomb is defused but the would-be-bomber is still at large. And everyone at Central High School...
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The Lie Tree

Frances Hardinge · Amulet Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Read this thought-provoking, critically acclaimed novel from Frances Hardinge, winner of the Costa Book of the Year and Costa Children's Book Awards. Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, she is reliable, dull, trustworthy - a proper young lady who knows her place as inferior...
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Elena Vanishing: A Memoir

Elena Dunkle · Chronicle Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

As heard on NPR's Diane Rehm Show!Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle...
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Stone Rider

David Hofmeyr · Delacorte Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Intense, original, compelling . . . bristles with attitude. So cool. Just read it."--Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author In the vein of the cult classic Mad Max series, crossed with Cormac McCarthy's The Road and S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, this inventive...
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In Real Life

Lawrence Tabak · Tuttle Publishing; Hardcover with Jacket edition
Format: Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old math prodigy Seth Gordon knows exactly what he wants to do with his life—play video games. Every spare minute is devoted to honing his skills at Starfare, the worlds most popular computer game. His goal South Korea, where the top pros are rich and famous. But the best...
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The Outliers

Kimberly McCreight · HarperCollins
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia comes a fast-paced teen series where one girl learns that in a world of intrigue, betrayal, and deeply buried secrets, it is vital to trust your instincts.It all starts with a text: Please, Wylie, I need your help. Wylie...
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Before We Go Extinct

Karen Rivers · Farrar
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Grief can sometimes feel like being caught in the jaws of a great white shark.J.C., who goes by the nickname Sharky, has been having a hard time ever since his best friend died in front of him in what might or might not have been an accident. Shell-shocked, Sharky spends countless hours...
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Material Girls

Elaine Dimopoulos · HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In Marla Klein and Ivy Wilde's world, teens are the gatekeepers of culture. A top fashion label employs sixteen-year-old Marla to dictate hot new clothing trends, while Ivy, a teen pop star, popularizes the garments that Marla approves. Both girls are pawns in a calculated but seductive...
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Infinite in Between

Carolyn Mackler · HarperTeen
Pages: 462
Format: Print book

Printz Honor author Carolyn Mackler returns with this striking new novel that chronicles the lives of five teenagers through the thrills, heartbreaks, and joys of their four years in high school.Zoe, Jake, Mia, Gregor, and Whitney meet at freshman orientation. At the end of that first day,...
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A Step Toward Falling

Cammie McGovern · HarperTeen
Pages: 364
Format: Print book

Cammie McGovern follows up her breakout young adult debut, Say What You Will, with this powerful and unforgettable novel about learning from your mistakes, and learning to forgive. Told in alternating points of view, A Step Toward Falling is a poignant, hopeful, and altogether stunning...
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Devil and the Bluebird

Jennifer Mason-Black · Amulet Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Blue Riley has wrestled with her own demons ever since the loss of her mother to cancer. But when she encounters a beautiful devil at her town crossroads, it's her runaway sister's soul she fights to save. The devil steals Blue's voice - inherited from her musically gifted mother - in exchange...
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Wild Swans

Jessica Spotswood · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 295
Format: Print book

The summer before Ivy's senior year is going to be golden-all bonfires, barbeques, and spending time with her best friends. For once, she will just get to be. No summer classes, none of Granddad's intense expectations to live up to the family name. For generations, the Milbourn women have...
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Boys Don't Knit

T. S. Easton · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 265
Format: Print book

After an incident regarding a crossing guard and a bottle of Martini & Rossi (and his friends) , 17-year-old worrier Ben Fletcher must develop his sense of social alignment, take up a hobby, and do some community service to avoid any further probation.He takes a knitting class (it was that...
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Some Fine Day

Kat Ross · Skyscape

A generation ago, continent-sized storms called hypercanes caused the Earth to flood. The survivors were forced to retreat deep underground and build a new society.This is the story that sixteen-year-old Jansin Nordqvist has heard all of her life.Jansin grew up in a civilization far below...
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The Memory Jar

Elissa Janine Hoole · Flux, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Since the accident, Taylor's memory has been fuzzy. But at least she's awake. Who knows what her boyfriend, Scott, will remember when he comes out of the coma. Will he remember that Taylor was driving the snowmobile when it crashed? Will he remember the engagement ring? Her pregnancy? Will...
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