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Devil Darling Spy

Matt Killeen · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

In this utterly gripping thriller, Sarah, the fearless heroine of indie bestseller Orphan Monster Spy, hunts a rogue German doctor in Central Africa who might be a serial murderer.It's 1940, and Sarah Goldstein is hiding in plain sight as Ursula Haller, the Shirley Temple of Nazi high...
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City of Stone and Silence

Django Wexler · Tor Teen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Django Wexler's City of Stone and Silence is the second book in the cinematic fantasy Wells of Sorcery Trilogy featuring a fierce young woman skilled in the art of combat magic on an epic mission to steal a ghost ship.After surviving the Vile Rot, Isoka, Meroe, and the rest of Soliton's...
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This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II

Andrew Fukuda · Tor Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning YA author Andrew Fukuda comes This Light Between Us, a powerfully affecting story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals -- a Japanese American boy and a French Jewish girl -- as they fight to maintain hope in a time of war."I remember visiting Manzanar...
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The King's Questioner

Nikki Katz · Swoon Reads
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From Nikki Katz, the author of The Midnight Dance , comes The King's Questioner, an epic YA fantasy featuring royal drama, dark magic, and a secret that could topple a kingdom.Kalen is a mental picklock, able to access a person's memories and secrets by touch. His skills make him the perfect...
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Gone by Nightfall

Dee Garretson · Swoon Reads
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A young woman is torn between her home and her dreams in Dee Garretson's Gone by Nightfall, a thrilling YA novel set during the Russian Revolution.It's 1917, and Charlotte Mason is determined to make a life for herself in czarist Russia. When her mother dies, Charlotte is forced...
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Finding Mr. Better-Than-You

Shani Petroff · Swoon Reads
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A heartbroken teen, with the help of her best friends, goes on a quest to find the perfect boyfriend, and in the end learns that some things are more important than boys in Shani Petroff's fun YA contemporary novel Finding Mr. Better-Than-You.Camryn Roth has it all planned out: a perfect...
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Rogue Princess

B. R. Myers · Swoon Reads
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A princess fleeing an arranged marriage teams up with a snarky commoner to foil a rebel plot in B. R. Myers' Rogue Princess, a gender-swapped sci-fi YA retelling of Cinderella.Princess Delia knows her duty: She must choose a prince to marry in order to secure an alliance and save her failing...
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It's My Life

Ramey, Stacie · SOURCEBOOKS FIRE


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How to Build a Heart

Maria Padian · Algonquin Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

One young woman's journey to find her place in the world as the carefully separated strands of her life - family, money, school, and love - begin to overlap and tangle. All sixteen-year-old Izzy Crawford wants is to feel like she really belongs somewhere. Her father, a marine,...
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The Last Witness

Claire McFall · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

One year ago she survived...but being the last one standing has consequences. Heather agrees to go camping with Dougie and his friends because she's desperate to get closer to him, and a secluded beach sounds like the perfect place. But the trip takes a sinister turn that brings Heather's...
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