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Jessie Ann Foley · HarperTeen
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From Printz Honor winner and Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley comes a comitragic YA novel that will appeal to fans of Jandy Nelson and Jeff Zentner. As the youngest of eight, painfully average Pup Flanagan is used to flying under the radar. He's barely passing his classes. His lets...
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The Darkest Star

JENNIFER L ARMENTROUT · Tor Teen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In the world of the Lux, secrets thrive, lies shatter, and love is undeniable.#1 New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout brings her trademark drama and intrigue to a new romantic YA science fiction series with The Darkest Star. A girl pulled...
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The Rest of the Story

Sarah Dessen · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a big-hearted, sweeping novel about a girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasn't seen since she was a little girl - and falls in love, all over the course of a magical summer. Emma Saylor doesn't remember a lot about...
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Have You Seen Luis Velez?

Catherine Ryan Hyde · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a moving novel about two strangers who find that kindness is a powerful antidote to fear.Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn't belong. Not with his mother's new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father's...
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When the Sky Fell on Splendor

Emily Henry · Razorbill
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The Serpent King meets Stranger Things in Emily Henry's gripping novel about a group of friends in a small town who find themselves dealing with unexpected powers after a cosmic event.Almost everyone in the small town of Splendor, Ohio, was affected when the local steel mill exploded. If you weren't...
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Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones

Micah Dean Hicks · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"[T]his novel is extraordinary . . . It is Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, mixed with H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau, set in the creepiest screwed-up town since 'Salem's Lot . . . [A] major achievement." - Adam-Troy Castro, Sci Fi magazine Swine Hill was full of the dead....
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People Kill People

ELLEN HOPKINS · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Someone will shoot. And someone will die. #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins tackles gun violence and white supremacy in this compelling and complex novel.People kill people. Guns just make it easier. A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse, bought by a teenager...
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The Field Guide to the North American Teenager

Ben Philippe · HarperCollins B and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Book

A hilarious contemporary realistic YA debut novel about a rather cynical Black French Canadian teen who moves to Austin, Texas, and experiences the clichés and joys of the American high school experience--including falling in love. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and When Dimple...
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Slayer

Kiersten White · Simon Pulse
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White comes a brand-new series set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that introduces a new Slayer as she grapples with the responsibility of managing her incredible powers that she's just beginning to understand.Into every generation...
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Awake in the World

Jason Gurley · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In Awake in the World, Jason Gurley delivers a gorgeous debut YA novel about dreams and finding the courage to reach them.When all was lost, they found each other.As the sun sets off the coast of the small California town of Orilla del Cielo, the silhouettes of oil rigs loom. Their shadows...
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The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali

Sabina Khan · Scholastic Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Unable to come out to her conservative Muslim parents, Rukhsana Ali keeps that part of her identity hidden. And that means keeping her girlfriend, Ariana, a secret from them too. Luckily, only a few more months stand between her carefully monitored life at home and a fresh start at Caltech...
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The Good Demon

Jimmy Cajoleas · Amulet Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Clare has been miserable since her exorcism. The preacher that rid her of evil didn't understand that her demon - simply known as Her - was like a sister to Clare. Now, Clare will do almost anything to get Her back. After a chance encounter with the son of the preacher who exorcised her,...
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That's Not What Happened

Kody Keplinger · Scholastic Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend, Sarah, was killed in a bathroom stall during the mass shooting. Everyone knows Sarah's story--that she died proclaiming her faith.But it's not true.I know because I was with her when she died....
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The Dead Queens Club

Hannah Capin · Inkyard Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

If your school's homecoming king had a little too much in common with Henry VIII, would you survive with your head still attached?You'd think being the new girl in a tiny town would equal one very boring senior year. But if you're me - Annie Marck, alias Cleves - and you accidentally...
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What If

Anna Russell · West 44 Books
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

Josh Baker isn't sure why his brain tells him to do things that other people don't need to do: checking his locker again and again, counting cracks in ceilings, and always needing to finish a song, for starters. He is a talented drummer, a math genius, and he knows everything about...
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Flight of a Starling

Lisa Heathfield · Carolrhoda Lab
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

Best friends and sisters Lo and Rita have spent their lives flying through the air on the trapeze under the lights in the big top. The nomadic circus community is a close-knit family, but those bonds are threatened as secrets and lies surface and Lo finds forbidden love with a boy from...
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The Universal Laws of Marco

Carmen Rodrigues · Simon Pulse
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Told through the lens of a guy in love with the cosmos (and maybe two girls) , The Universal Laws of Marco explores the complicated histories that bring us together and tear us apart.In the summer before eighth grade, Marco Suarez kissed his best friend Sally Blake. This was his first...
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Bridge of Clay

RANDOM HOUSE. · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable and sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be lifechanging." The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world...
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The Lying Woods

Ashley Elston · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Owen Foster has never wanted for anything. Then his mother shows up at his elite New Orleans boarding school cradling a bombshell: his privileged life has been funded by stolen money. After using the family business, the single largest employer in his small Louisiana town, to embezzle millions...
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Come November

Katrin van Dam · Scholastic Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

It's not the end of the world, but it's starting to feel that way. On November 17, the Next World Society is planning to leave Earth behind and reboot human civilization on a planet unaffected by climate change and pollution. It sounds crazy to Rooney Harris, but to her mother and younger...
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