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ALICE BROADWAY - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

There are no secrets in Saintstone.From the second you're born, every achievement, every failing, every significant moment are all immortalized on your skin. There are honorable marks that let people know you're trustworthy. And shameful tattoos that announce you as a traitor.After her father...
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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

Benjamin Alire Sáenz - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

A "mesmerizing, poetic exploration of family, friendship, love and loss" from the acclaimed author of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. (New York Times Book Review) Sal used to know his place with his adoptive gay father, their loving Mexican American...
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Wild Bird

WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In her most incisive and insightful book yet, Wendelin Van Draanen, award-winning author of The Running Dream and Flipped, offers a remarkable portrait of a girl who has hit rock bottom, but begins a climb back to herself at a wilderness survival camp in the desert. 3:47 a.m....
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The Quiet You Carry

Nikki Barthelmess - Flux
Format: Paperback

Victoria Parker knew her dad's behavior toward her was a little unusual, but she convinced herself everything was fine until she found herself locked out of the house at 3:00 a.m., surrounded by flashing police lights. Now, dumped into a crowded, chaotic foster home, Victoria has to tiptoe...
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How We Fall Apart

Katie Zhao - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

Nancy Luo is shocked when her former best friend, Jamie Ruan, top-ranked junior at Sinclair Prep, goes missing, and then is found dead. Nancy is even more shocked when word starts to spread that she and her friends--Krystal, Akil, and Alexander--are the prime suspects, thanks to "the...
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A Flaw in the Design: A Novel

Nathan Oates - ?Random House
Format: Hardcover

A professor's life is turned upside down when he takes in his charming, wildly dangerous nephew, whose wealthy parents have just died under mysterious circumstances, in this propulsive, edge-of-your-seat debut psychological thriller.Gil is living a quiet life as a creative writing professor...
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The Keep of Ages

Caragh M O'Brien - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

In the fast-paced, high-stakes conclusion to Caragh M. O'Brien's Vault of Dreamers trilogy, Rosie travels to a derelict theme park to shut down dream mining once and for all.Driven by fear when Dean Berg kidnaps her family, Rosie Sinclair strikes out across the country to rescue them. When...
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It Doesn't Have to Be Awkward: Dealing with Relationships, Consent, and Other Hard-to-Talk-About Stuff

Drew Pinsky - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

When it comes to sex, relationships, and consent, establishing boundaries and figuring out who you are and what you want is never simple - especially as a teenager. What's the line between a friendship and a romantic partner? How can you learn to trust your body's signals? And what...
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Good Girl Complex: An Avalon Bay Novel

Elle Kennedy - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

Mackenzie "Mac" Cabot is a people pleaser. Her demanding parents. Her prep school friends. Her long-time boyfriend. It's exhausting, really, always following the rules. All she wants to do is focus on growing her internet business, but first she must get a college degree at her parents'...
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