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Something in Between

Melissa de la Cruz · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz (The Isle of the Lost, Return to the Isle of the Lost) comes the launch title of Seventeen Fiction from Harlequin Teen, Something in Between. Don't miss this timely and powerful novel that Seventeen Magazine editor-in-chief...
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Lost Stars

Lisa Selin Davis · Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Before her older sister, Ginny, died, Carrie was a science nerd, obsessively tracking her beloved Vira comet. But now that Ginny is gone, sixteen-year-old Carrie finds herself within the orbit of Ginny's friends, a close-knit group of seniors who skip school, obsess over bands (not science)...
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Three Dark Crowns

Kendare Blake · Harper Teen
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Fans of acclaimed author Kendare Blake's Anna Dressed in Blood will devour her latest novel, a dark and inventive fantasy about three sisters who must fight to the death to become queen. In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born: three queens, all equal heirs...
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Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee

Mary G Thompson · G.P. Putnam's
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A bittersweet homecoming holds dark secrets in this heart-wrenching story of loss, love, and survival for readers of Room When sixteen-year-old Amy returns home, she can't tell her family what's happened to her. She can't tell them where she's been since she and her best friend, her cousin...
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Not If I See You First

Eric Lindstrom · Little
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

In the tradition of novels of Gayle Forman and John Green comes this extraordinary YA debut about a blind teen girl navigating life and love in high school.
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The Forgetting

Sharon Cameron · Scholastic Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

What isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes. Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse,...
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Stealing Snow

Danielle Paige · Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

From Danielle Paige, the New York Times bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die, comes a re-imagining of "The Snow Queen" fairy tale.Seventeen-year-old Snow has spent the majority of her life within the walls of the Whittaker Institute, a high security mental hospital in upstate...
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The Boy Who Killed Grant Parker: A Novel

Kat Spears · Griffin
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Luke Grayson's life might as well be over when he's sent to live with his Baptist pastor father in rural Tennessee after getting kicked out of his DC private school. His soulless stepmother is none too pleased to have him, and Luke's bad boy status has done him no favors with his new principal...
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Vassa in the night

Sarah Porter · Tor Teen
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Vassa in the Night is an enchanting, modern retelling of the Russian folktale "Vassilissa the Beautiful" for young adults by the critically-acclaimed author, Sarah Porter. Leigh Bardugo, New York Times bestselling author of the Grisha Trilogy, calls it, "A dark, thoroughly...
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The Female of the Species

Mindy Mcginnis · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a dark and riveting contemporary YA novel that blends the unflinching honesty of Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak with the relentless pacing and alternating perspectives of Gone Girl. A stunning, unforgettable page-turner.Alex Craft knows...
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Less Than Charming: A Novel

Rebecca A. Demarest · Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A second novel, LESS THAN CHARMING tells the story of a world beyond a veil in which all of the characters writers have ever created are alive and living in their own society. As writers in the other - human world - constantly write new characters into existence, those characters emerge...
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As I Descended

Robin Talley · Harper Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves, Robin Talley, comes a Shakespeare-inspired story of revenge and redemption, where fair is foul, and foul is fair.Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school's ultimate power couple - but one thing stands between them and their perfect...
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Tales of the Peculiar

Ransom Riggs · Dutton
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

"Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. " Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A fork-tongued princess. These are but a few of the truly brilliant stories in "Tales of the Peculiar" the collection...
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Every Exquisite Thing

Matthew Quick · Little
Pages: 265
Format: Print book

Nanette O'Hare is an unassuming teen who has played the role of dutiful daughter, hardworking student, and star athlete for as long as she can remember. But when a beloved teacher gives her his worn copy of The Bubblegum Reaper--a mysterious, out-of-print cult classic--the rebel within...
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Never Never

Brianna Shrum · Spencer Hill Press, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

James Hook is a child who only wants to grow up. When he meets Peter Pan, a boy who loves to pretend and is intent on never becoming a man, James decides he could try being a child - at least briefly. James joins Peter Pan on a holiday to Neverland, a place of adventure created by children's...
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Damage Done

Amanda Panitch · Random House,
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

"In the vein of E. Lockhart's We Were Liars and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, Panitch's novel delivers a heart-pounding, emotionally charged story." --SLJ22 minutes separate Julia Vann's before and after. Before: Julia had a twin brother, a boyfriend, and a best...
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The Smaller Evil

Stephanie Kuehn · Dutton Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Sometimes the greater good requires the smaller evil. 17-year-old Arman Dukoff can't remember life without anxiety and chronic illness when he arrives at an expensive self-help retreat in the remote hills of Big Sur. He's taken a huge risk - and two-thousand dollars from his meth-head...
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Biggie

Derek E. Sullivan · Aw Teen
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Henry "Biggie" Abbott is the son of one of Finch, Iowa's most famous athletes. His father was a baseball legend and his step-dad is a close second. At an obese 300 pounds though, Biggie himself prefers classroom success to sports. As a perfectionist, he doesn't understand...
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Nightstruck

Jenna Black · Tor Teen
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The start of a spooky yet romantic dark paranormal horror series from Glimmerglass author Jenna Black.The night is the enemy, and the city of Philadelphia is its deadliest weapon.Becket is an ordinary teenage girl, wrestling with the upheaval of her parents' divorce. A studious high school...
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Goodbye Stranger

Rebecca Stead · Wendy Lamb Books,
Pages: 289
Format: Print book

As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What...
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The Loose Ends List

Carrie Firestone · Little
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A refreshing, funny, and moving debut novel about first loves, last wishes, and letting go. Seventeen-year-old Maddie O'Neill Levine lives a charmed life, and is primed to spend the perfect pre-college summer with her best friends and young-at-heart socialite grandmother (also Maddie's...
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The Assassin Game

Kirsty McKay · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Originally published in the United Kingdom by Chicken House in 2015 under title: Killer game.
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When the moon was ours.

Anna-Marie Mclemore · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Anna-Marie McLemore's debut novel The Weight of Feathers was greeted with rave reviews, a YALSA Morris Award nomination, and spots on multiple "Best YA Novels" lists. Now, McLemore delivers a second stunning and utterly romantic novel, again tinged with magic.To everyone who knows...
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Change Places with Me

Lois Metzger · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

From Lois Metzger, the acclaimed author of A Trick of the Light, comes a work of speculative fiction set in the near future about a teen girl who gains a new perspective on her life. Perfect for readers who enjoyed Adam Silvera's More Happy than Not.Rose has changed. She still lives in the same...
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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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