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GEOFF HERBACH · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From Geoff Herbach, the critically acclaimed author of the Stupid Fast series, comes a compelling new YA novel about basketball, prejudice, privilege, and family, perfect for fans of Jordan Sonnenblick, Andrew Smith, and Matt de la Peña. For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's...
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The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza

Shaun David Hutchinson · Simon Pulse
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of We Are the Ants and At the Edge of the Universe comes a mind-bending, riveting novel about a teen who was born to a virgin mother and realizes she has the power to heal - but that power comes at a huge cost.Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product...
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The Secrets We Bury

STACIE RAMEY · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

In an effort to escape his family, Dylan sets out on the Appalachian trail -- but he can't escape his past -- or his secrets in this novel from the author of The Sister Pact.Dylan Taggart is on the run. His family is trying to put him in a school for psychologically challenged students,...
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The Beauty That Remains

Ashley Woodfolk · Delacorte Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Told from three diverse points of view, this story of life and love after loss is one Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give, calls a "stunning, heart-wrenching look at grief that will stay with you long after you put it down." We've lost everything...and found ourselves.Music...
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Olivia Twist

Lorie Langdon · Blink
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Olivia Twist is an innovative reimagining of Charles Dickens' classic tale Oliver Twist, in which Olivia was forced to live as a boy for her own safety until she was rescued from the streets. Now eighteen, Olivia finds herself at a crossroads: revealed secrets threaten to destroy the "proper"...
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Heart of Iron

ASHLEY POSTON · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

An action-packed tale full of romance, royalty, and adventure, inspired by the story of Anastasia. Perfect for fans of Six of Crows, Cinder, and the cult classic television show Firefly. Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting...
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What the Night Sings

Vesper Stamper · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For fans of The Book Thief and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas comes a lushly illustrated novel about a teen Holocaust survivor, who must come to terms with who she is and how to rebuild her life.After losing her family and everything she knew in the Nazi concentration camps, Gerta is finally...
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The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary

NoNieqa Ramos · Carolrhoda Lab TM
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover

Macy's school officially classifies her as "disturbed," but Macy isn't interested in how others define her. She's got more pressing problems: her mom can't move off the couch, her dad's in prison, her brother's been kidnapped by Child Protective Services, and now her best friend...
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The Radical Element: 12 Stories of Daredevils, Debutantes & Other Dauntless Girls

Jessica Spotswood · Candlewick
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In an anthology of revolution and resistance, a sisterhood of YA writers shines a light on a century and a half of heroines on the margins and in the intersections.To respect yourself, to love yourself, should not have to be a radical decision. And yet it remains as challenging for an American...
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The Glass Spare

Lauren DeStefano · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 402
Format: Hardcover

The first in a new fantasy duology, The Glass Spare is a gorgeously told tale of love, loss, and deadly power from Lauren DeStefano, the bestselling author of the Chemical Garden series. Perfect for fans of Shannon Hale and Renee Ahdieh. Wilhelmina Heidle, the fourth child and only daughter...
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This Tiny Perfect World

Lauren Gibaldi · HarperTeen
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The big-hearted story of a small-town girl who discovers how wide the world really is during one transformative summer. Perfect for fans of Susane Colasanti and Sarah Dessen.Penny loves her small-town Florida life, and she has her future mapped out. She's going to community college...
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Landscape with Invisible Hand

M T ANDERSON · Candlewick
Pages: 149
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization.When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth - but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really...
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Pacifica

KRISTEN SIMMONS · Tor Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Kristen Simmons, critically acclaimed author of Article 5 and Metaltown, brings her trademark action, romance, and frightening prescience to this tale of high seas adventure.For too long our people have suffered, plagued by overcrowding, disease, and lack of work. We have only just survived...
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The Astonishing Color of After

Emily X R Pan · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

"Emily X.R. Pan's brilliantly crafted, harrowing first novel portrays the vast spectrum of love and grief with heart-wrenching beauty and candor. This is a very special book."--John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down A stunning, heartbreaking...
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Satellite

Nick Lake · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 453
Format: Library Binding

A teenage boy born in space makes his first trip to Earth in this engrossing sci-fi adventure for fans of The Martian from award-winning author Nick Lake. He's going to a place he's never been before: home. Moon 2 is a space station that orbits approximately 250 miles above...
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Ink, Iron, and Glass

Gwendolyn Clare · Imprint
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Can she write a world gone wrong?A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation by her mother -- a noted scriptologist.But when her home is attacked...
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The Wicked Deep

Shea Ernshaw · Simon Pulse
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge - and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them.Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow ... Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced...
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Children of Blood and Bone: The OrÏsha Legacy

Tomi Adeyemi · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sabaa Tahir.They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us. Now we rise.Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha...
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A Million Junes

Emily Henry · Razorbill
Pages: 391
Format: Hardcover

"A beautiful, lyrical, and achingly brilliant story about love, grief, and family. Henry's writing will leave you breathless." - BuzzFeedRomeo and Juliet meets One Hundred Years of Solitude in Emily Henry's brilliant follow-up to The Love That Split the World, about the daughter...
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Glow

MEGAN E BRYANT · Albert Whitman & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

When thrift-store aficionado Julie discovers a series of antique paintings with hidden glowing images that are only visible in the dark, she wants to learn more about the artist. In her search, she uncovers a century-old romance and the haunting true story of the Radium Girls, young women...
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