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The Sidekicks

Will Kostakis · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Ryan, Harley and Miles are very different people - the swimmer, the rebel and the nerd. All they've ever had in common is Isaac, their shared best friend. When Isaac dies unexpectedly, the three boys must come to terms with their grief and the impact Isaac had on each of their lives. In his absence,...
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The Devils You Know

M C Atwood · Soho Teen
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting debut, equal parts Cabin in the Woods and The Breakfast Club, five teens will discover what lies within a local, infamous house is darker, and more personal, than any urban legend.Plenty of legends surround the infamous Boulder House in Whispering Bluffs, Wisconsin, but nobody...
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The Sandcastle Empire

KAYLA OLSON · HarperTeen
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Before the war, Eden's life was easy. Then the revolution happened, and everything changed.Now a powerful group called the Wolfpack controls the earth and its resources. And even though Eden has lost everything to them, she refuses to die by their hands. She knows the coordinates to the only...
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Jane, Unlimited

Kristin Cashore · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated standalone from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of the Graceling Realm series - a kaleidoscopic novel about grief, adventure, storytelling, and finding yourself in a world of seemingly infinite choices.Jane has lived an ordinary life, raised by her aunt...
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You Bring the Distant Near

MITALI PERKINS · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature ★ Horn Book ★ School Library Journal ★ Publishers Weekly ★ BOOKLIST Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story. You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves,...
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In a Perfect World

TRISH DOLLER · Simon Pulse
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author Trish Doller comes a gorgeous, hopeful, and heartbreaking novel, set in Cairo, Egypt, about the barriers we tear down for the people and places we love most.Caroline Kelly is excited to be spending her summer vacation working at the local amusement park...
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Witchtown

Cory Putman Oakes · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Enter the gates of Witchtown to find a mischievous coming-of-age story for fans of Alice Hoffman's Practical Magic and the Danielle Paige's Dorothy Must Die series. When sixteen-year-old Macie O'Sullivan and her masterfully manipulative mother Aubra arrive at the gates of Witchtown - the most...
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Daughter of the Pirate King

Tricia Levenseller · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover

There will be plenty of time for me to beat him soundly once I've gotten what I came for. Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map -- the key to a legendary treasure trove -- seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving...
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The Monstrous Child

Francesca Simon · Faber & Faber
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

A stunning, operatic, epic drama, like no other. Meet Hel, an ordinary teenager - and goddess of the Underworld. Why is life so unfair? Hel tries to make the best of it, creating gleaming halls in her dark kingdom and welcoming the dead who she is forced to host for eternity. Until eternity...
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Almost Autumn

Marianne Kaurin · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 278
Format: Print book

It's October 1942, in Oslo, Norway. Fifteen-year-old Ilse Stern is waiting to meet boy-next-door Hermann Rod for their first date. She was beginning to think he'd never ask her; she's had a crush on him for as long as she can remember.But Hermann won't be able to make it tonight. What Ilse...
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Tash Hearts Tolstoy

Katie Ormsbee · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

After a shout-out from one of the Internet's superstar vloggers, Natasha "Tash" Zelenka suddenly finds herself and her obscure, amateur web series, Unhappy Families, thrust in the limelight: She's gone viral.Her show is a modern adaption of Anna Karenina--written by Tash's literary...
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Haunt Me

LIZ KESSLER · Candlewick

Haunting and intensely romantic, Liz Kessler's latest novel features a teen girl for whom falling in love could mean losing her heart - and maybe her life.When her family moves after a rough year, Erin feels instantly at home in her new bedroom - even after she realizes that she's not the only...
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The Possible

TARA ALTEBRANDO · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Another twisty psychological suspense from the author of The Leaving, where a teen searches for answers about her mother's dark history, telekinesis, and the power of will.What if . . . no one knows the truth about you? It's been thirteen years since Kaylee's biological mother, Crystal,...
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Definitions of Indefinable Things

Whitney Taylor · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Reggie isn't really a romantic: she's been hurt too often, and doesn't let people in as a rule. Plus, when you're dealing with the Three Stages of Depression, it's hard to feel warm and fuzzy. When Reggie meets Snake, though, he doesn't give her much of a choice. Snake has a neck tattoo,...
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Words on Bathroom Walls

Julia Walton · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Fans of More Happy Than Not, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and It's Kind of a Funny Story will cheer for Adam as he struggles with schizophrenia in this brilliantly honest and unexpectedly funny debut. Adam has just been diagnosed with schizophrenia. He sees and hears people who aren't...
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Gork, the Teenage Dragon: A novel

GABE HUDSON · Knopf
Pages: 380
Format: Hardcover

A TODAY Show Summer Pick An Amazon Summer Beach Reads Pick A Barnes & Noble Best New Fiction of the Month Pick "Hilarious. . . . Gork is less Game of Thrones and more The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with fire-breathing characters and a John Hughes-esque plot." - Rolling...
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Noteworthy

RILEY REDGATE · Amulet Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

It's the start of Jordan Sun's junior year at the Kensington-Blaine Boarding School for the Performing Arts. Unfortunately, she's an Alto 2, which - in the musical theatre world - is sort of like being a vulture in the wild: She has a spot in the ecosystem, but nobody's falling over themselves...
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Be True to Me

Adele Griffin · Algonquin Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From a two-time National Book Award finalist comes a riveting romantic drama about the gilded lives of the super-rich and the high price of fitting in. "This is a glittery gem of a book. I was utterly transported to Fire Island--to endless summer days, girls in sundresses, that rush...
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This Is How It Happened

Paula Stokes · HarperTeen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The author of Girl Against the Universe and Liars, Inc. plunges readers into a world where the internet is always watching - and judging - in this compelling story about mistakes, repercussions, and online vigilante justice. Perfect for fans of Sarah Darer Littman's Backlash or Robyn Schneider's...
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Grit

Gillian French · HarperTeen
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Raw and moving, this contemporary realistic debut novel will leave readers of E. Lockhart and Gayle Forman breathless as it unflinchingly unfolds the tragic secrets being kept in a small, deceptively idyllic Maine town. Seventeen-year-old Darcy Prentiss has long held the title of "town...
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