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From Twinkle, with Love

SANDHYA MENON · Simon Pulse
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

An aspiring teen filmmaker finds her voice and falls in love in this delightful romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi.Aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra has stories she wants to tell and universes she wants to explore, if only the world...
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Starry Eyes

Jenn Bennett · Simon Pulse
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

In this romantic dramedy from the author of Alex, Approximately, a teen girl's way-too-ordinary life is driven off the beaten path when she's abandoned in the wilderness with her worst adversary - the boy who broke her heart.Ever since last year's homecoming dance, best friends-turned-best...
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After the Shot Drops

Randy Ribay · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen's mission to create a better life for his family in the tradition of Jason Reynolds, Matt de la Pena, and Walter Dean Myers. Bunny and Nasir have been best friends forever, but when Bunny accepts an athletic scholarship across...
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Orphan Monster Spy

MATT KILLEEN · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Her name is Sarah. She's blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish in 1939 Germany. And her act of resistance is about to change the world.After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox full...
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The Dangerous Art of Blending In

ANGELO SURMELIS · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A raw, powerful, but ultimately uplifting debut novel perfect for fans of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe from debut author Angelo Surmelis. Seventeen-year-old Evan Panos doesn't know where he fits in. His strict immigrant Greek mother refuses to see him as anything...
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Too Shattered for Mending

PETER BROWN HOFFMEISTER · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"The missing link between Looking for Alaska and Winter's Bone." - Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King. "A gritty gem of a book." - David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of Mosquitoland and Kids of Appetite "Little" McCardell is doing all he can just...
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A Face Like Glass

FRANCES HARDINGE · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 487
Format: Hardcover

In the underground city of Caverna, the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare - wines that remove memories, cheeses that make you hallucinate, and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as they slit your throat. On the surface,...
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People Like Us

Dana Mele · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A sharp psychological thriller that's just right for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and Pretty Little Liars--this story will seduce, mislead, and finally, betray you.Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself entirely. Now she's a star...
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The Big Lie

JULIE MAYHEW · Candlewick
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In a gripping novel set in present-day England under a Nazi regime, a sheltered teen questions what it means to be "good" - and how far she's willing to go to break the rules.Nazi England, 2014. Jessika Keller is a good girl - a champion ice skater, model student of the Bund...
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Twelve Steps to Normal

Farrah Penn · Jimmy Patterson
Format: Audio CD

James Patterson presents this emotionally resonant novel that shows that while some broken things can't be put back exactly the way they were, they can be repaired and made even stronger.Kira's Twelve Steps To A Normal Life1. Accept Grams is gone.2. Learn to forgive Dad.3. Steal back ex-boyfriend...
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The Hollow Girl

HILLARY MONAHAN · Delacorte Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Asylum, Anna Dressed in Blood, and The Haunting of Sunshine Girl comes a new feminist horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Mary: The Summoning. Five boys attacked her. Now they must repay her with their blood and flesh. Bethan is the apprentice to a green...
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Not Now, Not Ever

LILY ANDERSON · Wednesday Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Jennifer E. Smith meets The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy in Lily Anderson's Not Now, Not Ever, a deliciously nerdy companion to The Only Thing Worse than Me Is You (one of Paste's Best YA Books of 2016) Elliot Gabaroche is very clear on what she isn't going to do this summer. 1. She isn't...
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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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The Last Namsara

Kristen Ciccarelli · HarperTeen
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Kristen Ciccarelli's debut fantasy explores an intricately woven world of deception, inner darkness, and dragons that fantasy fans won't be able to resist. In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit, who carried love and laughter wherever he went. But where there...
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Tyler Johnson Was Here

Jay Coles · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The Hate U Give meets All American Boys in this striking and heartbreaking debut novel, commenting on current race relations in America.When Marvin Johnson's twin, Tyler, goes to a party, Marvin decides to tag along to keep an eye on his brother. But what starts as harmless fun turns into...
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Emergency Contact

Mary H. K. Choi · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book." - Rainbow Rowell From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory - perfect for fans of Eleanor...
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More Than We Can Tell

Brigid Kemmerer · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

With loving adoptive parents by his side, Rev Fletcher has managed to keep the demons of his past at bay. . . until he gets a letter from his abusive father and the trauma of his childhood comes hurtling back.Emma Blue's parents are constantly fighting, and her only escape is the computer...
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And She Was

Jessica Verdi · Scholastic Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Dara's lived a sheltered life with her single mom, Mellie. Now, at eighteen, she's dreaming of more. When Dara digs up her never-before-seen birth certificate, her world implodes. Why are two strangers listed as her parents? Dara confronts her mother, and is stunned by what she learns:...
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Release

Patrick Ness · HarperTeen
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by Judy Blume's Forever and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, this novel that Andrew Smith calls "beautiful, enchanting, [and] exquisitely written" is a new classic about teenage relationships, self-acceptance - and what happens when the walls we build start coming down....
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A Line in the Dark

Malinda Lo · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"A twisty, dark psychological thriller that will leave you guessing til the very end." - Teen VogueThe line between best friend and something more is a line always crossed in the dark. Jess Wong is Angie Redmond's best friend. And that's the most important thing, even if Angie...
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