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First & Then

Emma Mills - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

Recommended in John Green's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays 2015Devon Tennyson wouldn't change a thing. She's happy silently crushing on best friend Cas, and blissfully ignoring the future after high school. But the universe has other plans. It delivers Devon's cousin Foster, an unrepentant...
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Where I Belong

Marcia Argueta Mickelson - Carolrhoda Lab
Format: Hardcover

An immigrant teen fights for her family, her future, and the place she calls home. In the spring of 2018, Guatemalan American high school senior Milagros "Millie" Vargas knows her life is about to change. She's lived in Corpus Christi, Texas, ever since her parents sought...
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Ski Weekend: A Novel

Rektok Ross - SparkPress
Format: Paperback

Six teens, one dog, a ski trip gone wrong . . .

Sam is dreading senior ski weekend and having to watch after her brother and his best friend, Gavin, to make sure they don't do anything stupid. Again. Gavin may be gorgeous, but he and Sam have never gotten along....

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Where the Road Leads Us

Robin Reul - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

"A beautiful, tender and thoughtful meditation on finding your way." - Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a StarSometimes the best path is the unexpected one.Jack is on the verge for leaving for college, but before he does,...
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The Big Book of Monsters: The Creepiest Creatures from Classic Literature

Hal Johnson - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

Meet the monsters in this who's who of the baddest of the bad! Like those supernatural beasts everyone knows and fears - the bloodsucking vampire, Count Dracula, and that eight-foot-tall mash-up of corpses, Frankenstein's Monster. Or that scariest of mummies, Cheops, who scientists revived...
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As White as Snow

Salla Simukka - Skyscape
Format: Print book

Book 2 in the Snow White trilogy.The heat of the summer sun bakes the streets of Prague, but Lumikki's heart is frozen solid.Looking to escape the notoriety caused by the part she played in taking down Polar Bear's crime ring, seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson escapes to Prague,...
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Bad Witch Burning

Jessica Lewis - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Katrell can talk to the dead. And she wishes it made more money. She's been able to support her unemployed mother - and Mom's deadbeat-boyfriend-of-the-week - so far, but it isn't enough. Money's still tight, and to complicate things, Katrell has started to draw attention....
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Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling

Lucy Frank - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Book

This novel-in-verse—at once literary and emotionally gripping—follows the unfolding friendship between two very different teenage girls who share a hospital room and an illness. Chess, the narrator, is sick, but with what exactly, she isn’t sure. And to make matters worse,...
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UFOs and Alien Encounters: Are They Real?

Hal Marcovitz
Format: Hardcover

For centuries, people have looked into the sky and observed objects they just can't explain. These unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, have sparked many investigations, some by scientists but many by amateur UFO hunters. After numerous probes into the possibility that UFOs regularly...
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The Secret Life of Kitty Granger

G. D. Falksen - Carolrhoda Lab
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Kitty Granger has always known that others consider her peculiar. She hates noise and crowds, tends to fixate on patterns, and often feels acutely aware of her surroundings even as she struggles to interpret the behavior of people around her. As a working-class girl in London's...
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