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When Dimple Met Rishi

Sandhya Menon · Simon Pulse
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A laugh-out-loud, heartfelt YA romantic comedy, told in alternating perspectives, about two Indian-American teens whose parents have arranged for them to be married.Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she's more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma's...
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Dividing Eden

JOELLE CHARBONNEAU · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the author of the New York Times bestselling Testing trilogy comes a sweeping new fantasy series, perfect for fans of Victoria Aveyard and Sarah J. Maas. Twins Carys and Andreus were never destined to rule Eden. With their older brother next in line to inherit the throne, the future...
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Pointe, Claw

Amber J. Keyser · Carolrhoda Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Jessie Vale dances in an elite ballet program. She has to be perfect to land a spot with the professional company. When Jessie is cast in an animalistic avant-garde production, her careful composure cracks wide open. Nothing has felt more dangerous.Meanwhile, her friend Dawn McCormick's...
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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

MACKENZI LEE · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets the 1700s in this hilarious and swashbuckling stand-alone teen historical fiction novel. A young bisexual British lord who embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush stars. An 18th-century romantic adventure...
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The Whole Thing Together

Ann Brashares · Delacorte Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series was a worldwide phenomenon, and she's back with a beautifully written novel about love, class differences, and betrayal playing out over the course of a fractured American family's Long Island...
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Beck

Mal Peet · Candlewick
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet comes a sweeping coming-of-age adventure, both harrowing and life-affirming.Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic Brothers...
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The Pearl Thief

Elizabeth Wein · Hyperion
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Before Verity . . . there was Julie. When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly what she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize...
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Flame in the Mist

RENEE AHDIEH · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn, comes a sweeping, action-packed YA adventure set against the backdrop of Feudal Japan where Mulan meets Throne of Glass. The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known her place - she may be an accomplished...
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This Impossible Light

LILY MYERS · Philomel Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the YouTube slam poetry star of "Shrinking Women" (more than 5 million views!) comes a novel in verse about body image, eating disorders, self-worth, mothers and daughters, and the psychological scars we inherit from our parents.Fifteen-year-old Ivy's world is in flux....
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Defy the Stars

Claudia Gray · Little
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

She's a soldier. Noemi Vidal is seventeen years old and sworn to protect her planet, Genesis. She's willing to risk anything--including her own life. To their enemies on Earth, she's a rebel. He's a machine. Abandoned in space for years, utterly alone, Abel has advanced programming that's...
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Royal Bastards

Andrew Shvarts · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Being a bastard blows. Tilla would know. Her father, Lord Kent of the Western Province, loved her as a child, but cast her aside as soon as he had trueborn children.
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Grendel's Guide to Love and War

A E Kaplan · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets Revenge of the Nerds in this tale of a teen misfit who seeks to take down the bro next door, but ends up falling for his enemy's sister and uncovering difficult truths about his family in the process. Tom Grendel lives a quiet life - writing in his notebooks,...
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The Names They Gave Us

Emery Lord · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Lucy Hansson was ready for a perfect summer with her boyfriend, working at her childhood Bible camp on the lake and spending quality time with her parents. But when her mom's cancer reappears, Lucy falters-in her faith and in her ability to cope. When her boyfriend "pauses" their...
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Crossing Ebenezer Creek

Tonya Bolden · Bloomsbury
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they join Sherman's march through Georgia. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of slavery are behind them, but even as hope glimmers, there are many hardships yet to come. When she meets a free black named...
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Saint Death: A Novel

Marcus Sedgwick · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive, compelling, and unsparing novel set in the grimly violent world of the human and drug trade on the US-Mexican border.On the outskirts of Juarez, Arturo scrapes together a living working odd jobs and staying out of sight. But his friend Faustino is in trouble: he's stolen money...
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The Hundredth Queen

EMILY R KING · Skyscape
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

As an orphan ward of the Sisterhood, eighteen-year-old Kalinda is destined for nothing more than a life of seclusion and prayer. Plagued by fevers, she's an unlikely candidate for even a servant's position, let alone a courtesan or wife. Her sole dream is to continue living in peace...
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One of Us Is Lying

Karen M McManus · Delacorte Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars, One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide. Pay close attention and you might solve this.On Monday afternoon,...
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Dreamfall

Amy Plum · Harper Teen
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"Remarkable, riveting, disorienting and dark." - Madeleine Roux, New York Times bestselling author of the Asylum seriesA Nightmare on Elm Street meets Inception in this gripping psychological thriller from international bestselling author Amy Plum. Seven teenagers who suffer...
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Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index

JULIE ISRAEL · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Funny, warm, and moving, Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index is a contemporary YA novel about loss, how deeply we can know others, and making our own happiness; perfect for fans of Sara Zarr and Jandy Nelson's The Sky Is Everywhere.Sixty-five days after the death of her older sister, sixteen-year-old...
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Given to the Sea

Mindy McGinnis · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Kings and Queens rise and fall, loyalties collide, and romance blooms in a world where the sea is rising - and cannot be escaped. Khosa is Given to the Sea, a girl born to be fed to the water, her flesh preventing a wave like the one that destroyed the Kingdom of Stille in days of old....
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