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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 Life
1. Accept Grams is gone.2. Learn...
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In the Neighborhood of True

Susan Kaplan Carlton · Algonquin Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A powerful story of love, identity, and the price of fitting in or speaking out.

"The story may be set in the past, but it couldn't be a more timely reminder that true courage comes not from fitting in, but from purposefully standing out . . . and that to find out who you really...
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We All Fall Down

NATALIE RICHARDS · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Theo's always been impulsive. But telling Paige how he feels? He's obsessed over that decision. And it's time. Tonight. At the party on the riverbank, under the old walking bridge, site of so many tales of love and death.

Paige has had a crush on Theo since they first met, but she knows...

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King of Fools

Amanda Foody · Inkyard Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Indulge your vices in the City of Sin, where a sinister street war is brewing and fame is the deadliest killer of them all...

On the quest to find her missing mother, prim and proper Enne Salta became reluctant allies with Levi Glaisyer, the city's most famous con man. Saving his life...
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Edgeland

JAKE HALPERN · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover

An upper-middle grade thriller by the New York Times bestselling Nightfall authors-perfect for fans of James Dashner's Maze Runner books.

Thousands of miles south of the island of Bliss, day and night last for 72 hours. Here is one of the natural wonders of this world:...
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The Agony of Bun O'Keefe

Heather Smith · Penguin Teen
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Little Miss Sunshine meets Room in this quirky, heartwarming story of friendship, loyalty and discovery.

It's Newfoundland, 1986. Fourteen-year-old Bun O'Keefe has lived a solitary life in an unsafe, unsanitary house. Her mother is a compulsive hoarder, and Bun has had little...
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Not Your Villain

C.B. Lee · Duet, an imprint of Interlude Press
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback

Bells Broussard thought he had it made when his superpowers manifested early. Being a shapeshifter is awesome. He can change his hair whenever he wants, and if putting on a binder for the day is too much, he's got it covered. But that was before he became the country's most-wanted...
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The Smoke Thieves

SALLY GREEN · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Unforgiveable betrayals, devious motives, and forbidden love collide in the first installment of internationally bestselling author Sally Green's epic new fantasy series, perfect for Game of Thrones fans.

In a land tinged with magic and a bustling trade in an illicit supernatural...
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My Name Is Victoria

LUCY WORSLEY · Candlewick
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

By turns thrilling, dramatic, and touching, this is the story of Queen Victoria's childhood as you've never heard it before.Miss V. Conroy is good at keeping secrets. She likes to sit as quiet as a mouse, neat and discreet. But when her father sends her to Kensington Palace to become...
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Grit

Gillian French · Harper Teen
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover

Raw and moving, this contemporary realistic debut novel will leave readers of E. Lockhart and Gayle Forman breathless as it unflinchingly unfolds the tragic secrets being kept in a small, deceptively idyllic Maine town. Seventeen-year-old Darcy Prentiss has long held the title of "town...
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When you never said good-bye : an adoptee's search for her birth mother : a novel in poems and journals

Meg Kearney · Persea Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A student at NYU in Greenwich Village, Liz McLane is pursuing her dream of becoming a poet and, at the same time, determined to find her birth mother, no matter what the results may be. Through her journals, Liz records her struggle to navigate adoption bureaucracy and laws. In spare and poignant...
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The Tesla Legacy

K.K. Perez · Tor Teen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

An action-packed, young adult coming-of-age adventure, K. K. Perez's The Tesla Legacy follows a precocious young scientist named Lucy Phelps whose fateful encounter in the Tesla Suite of the New Yorker Hotel unlocks her dormant electrical powers. As Lucy struggles to understand her new abilities...
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An Uninterrupted View of the Sky

MELANIE CROWDER · Philomel Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Modern history unearthed as a boy becomes an innocent victim of corruption in Bolivia's crime world, where the power of family is both a prison and a means of survival.

It's 1999 in Bolivia and Francisco's life consists of school, soccer, and trying to find space for himself in his family's...
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Crystal Fighters

Jen Bartel · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

Stella is a bored teen who's part of the first generation to grow up immersed in a world of virtual reality games. Her parents only allow her to play, bland all-ages titles, one of which is called "Crystal Fighters"--a very bubbly and positive world where you assume the role...
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The Graces

LAURE EVE · Amulet Paperbacks
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Everyone loves the Graces. Fenrin, Thalia, and Summer Grace are attractive, rich, and glamorous, and they've cast a spell over their high school - and their entire town. They're also rumored to have powerful connections all over the world. If you're not in love with one of them,...
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