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Crossing Ebenezer Creek

Tonya Bolden · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

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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Killer Within

S.E. Green · Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

In the heart-pounding sequel to the "zippy, gripping psychological drama" (Kirkus Reviews) Killer Instinct, teen vigilante Lane must face the secrets and unexpected consequences that arise in the wake of her first kill.It's been three months since Lane made her first kill...
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The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline · DCB
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting...
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The Calculus of Change

Jessie Hilb · Clarion Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A poignant and empowering teen novel of grief, unrequited love, and finding comfort in one's own skin. Aden isn't looking for love in her senior year. She's much more focused on things like getting a solo gig at Ike's and keeping her brother from illegal herbal recreation. But when Tate...
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The Darkest Minds

Alexandra Bracken · Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something frightening enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived...
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Incognita

Kristen Lippert-Martin · Carolrhoda Lab
Pages: 265
Format: Print book

In the wake of an experimental procedure that almost wiped out her memory forever, Angel has a chance for a fresh start. She's recovered most of her memories, rebuilt her physical strength, and reunited with her boyfriend, Thomas. But her Velocius abilities capacities for superhuman...
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Stalking Jack the Ripper

Kerri Maniscalco · jimmy patterson
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A #1 New York Times Bestseller! Presented by James Patterson's new children's imprint, this deliciously creepy horror novel has a storyline inspired by the Ripper murders and an unexpected, blood-chilling conclusion...Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter,...
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Terminal

Kathy Reichs; Brendan Reichs; Cristin Milioti · Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

The gripping finale to Kathy and Brendan Reichs New York Times bestselling VIRALS seriesThe Virals are back—but theyre not the only pack in town anymore. Terminal finds Tory Brennan and the rest of the Morris Island gang tracking a pack of rogue Virals who call themselves the Trinity....
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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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Riverkeep

Martin J Stewart · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A stunning debut perfect for fans of Patrick Ness and Neil Gaiman!The Danék is a wild, treacherous river, and the Fobisher family has tended it for generations - clearing it of ice and weed, making sure boats can get through, and fishing corpses from its bleak depths. Wulliam's father,...
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Flying

Carrie Jones · a Tor Teen Book
Pages: 252
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones introduces sassy alien-hunting cheerleader Mana in Flying, the launch of a sparkling new YA Science Fiction series.People have always treated seventeen-year-old Mana as someone in need of protection. She's used to being coddled, being an only...
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The Light Fantastic

Sarah Combs · Candlewick
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Seven tightly interwoven narratives. Three harrowing hours. One fateful day that changes everything. Delaware, the morning of April 19. Senior Skip Day, and April Donovan's eighteenth birthday. Four days after the Boston Marathon bombing, the country is still reeling, and April's rare...
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Denton Little's Still Not Dead

Lance Rubin · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"Rubin is really funny, but like John Green, he manages to be poignant. . . . In other words, it's a keeper." - Bustle on Denton Little's Deathdate You only live once - unless you're Denton Little! Denton Little lives in a world exactly like our own except that everyone knows...
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American Street

Ibi Zoboi · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

American Street is an evocative and powerful coming-of-age story perfect for fans of Everything, Everything; Bone Gap; and All American Boys. In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart-nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical...
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