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Picture Us In The Light

Kelly Loy Gilbert · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Picture me madly in love with this moving, tender, unapologetically honest book."-Becky Albertalli, author of Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda "This urgent, achingly beautiful story shines a light on those living in the shadows. A beacon of hope and resistance."-Melissa...
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Piecing Me Together

Rene Watson · Bloomsbury
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A timely and powerful story about a teen girl striving for success in a world that too often feels like it wants to break her. Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way....
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

Susan Campbell Bartoletti · Harcourt Brace and Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's...
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Flight Risk: A Novel

Jennifer Fenn · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Jennifer Fenn's debut novel inspired by true events, about a teenage boy who has stolen -- and crashed -- not one, but three airplanes. And each time he's walked away unscathed.Who is Robert Jackson Kelly? Is he a juvenile delinquent? A criminal mastermind? A folk hero? One thing is clear:...
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Hatchet

Gary Paulsen · Aladdin Paperbacks
Pages: 189
Format: Paperback

Alone Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother has given...
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Devils Within

S F Henson · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 395
Format: Hardcover

Killing isn't supposed to be easy. But it is. It's the after that's hard to deal with.Nate was eight the first time he stabbed someone; he was eleven when he earned his red laces--a prize for spilling blood for "the cause." And he was fourteen when he murdered his father (and...
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Quarantine #1: The Loners

Lex Thomas · EgmontUSA
Format: Paperback

"As original as The Hunger Games, set within the walls of a high school exactly like yours." - Kami Garcia, New York Times best-selling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures novelsIt was just another ordinary day at McKinley High--until a massive explosion...
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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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Untitled Marissa Meyer

MARISSA MEYER · Macmillan Young Listeners
Format: Audio CD

From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer, comes a high-stakes world of adventure, passion, danger, and betrayal. This new audiobook will pull listeners in and never let them go...Secret Identities.Extraordinary Powers.She wants vengeance. He wants justice.The Renegades are a syndicate...
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When Light Left Us

Leah Thomas · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

When the Vasquez siblings' father left, it seemed nothing could remedy the absence in their lives . . . until a shimmering figure named Luz appeared in the canyon behind their house. Luz filled the void. He shot hoops with seventeen-year-old Hank's hands. He showed fourteen-year-old Ana cinematic...
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The Universe Is Expanding and So Am I

Carolyn Mackler · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From Printz Honoree Carolyn Mackler comes a story of what happens when the "happy ending" turns out to be less than perfect.It's been five months since sixteen-year-old Virginia Shreves thought her life was finally back on course: she has come to terms with who she is both inside...
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The Day the Angels Fell

Shawn Smucker · Revell
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

It was the summer of storms and strays and strangers. The summer that lightning struck the big oak tree in the front yard. The summer his mother died in a tragic accident. As he recalls the tumultuous events that launched a surprising journey, Samuel can still hardly believe it all happened.After...
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City of Saints & Thieves

Natalie Anderson · Putnam Pub Group
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Gone Girl in this enthralling murder mystery set in Kenya. In the shadows of Sangui City, there lives a girl who doesn't exist. After fleeing the Congo as refugees, Tina and her mother arrived in Kenya looking for the chance to build a new life and home....
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A Lite Too Bright

SAMUEL MILLER · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

For fans of literary classics such as The Catcher in the Rye and The Perks of Being a Wallflower comes a stirring new thought-provoking novel from debut author Sam Miller about a loss shrouded in mystery with twists and turns down every railway.Arthur Louis Pullman the Third is on the verge...
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This Mortal Coil

Emily Suvada · Simon Pulse
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

In this gripping debut novel, seventeen-year-old Cat must use her gene-hacking skills to decode her late father's message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague.Catarina Agatta is a hacker. She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that's not what makes her special....
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