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I Lived on Butterfly Hill

Marjorie Agosin - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

An eleven-year-old's world is upended by political turmoil in this searing novel from an award-winning poet, based on true events in Chile.Celeste Marconi is a dreamer. She lives peacefully among friends and neighbors and family in the idyllic town of Valparaiso, Chile - until the time...
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All the Walls of Belfast

Sarah Carlson - Turner
Format: Hardcover

The Carnival at Bray meets West Side Story in Sarah Carlson's powerful YA debut; set in post-conflict Belfast (Northern Ireland) , alternating between two teenagers, both trying to understand their past and preserve their future. Seventeen-year-olds, Fiona and Danny must choose between...
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What Happened to Goodbye

Sarah Dessen - Speak
Format: Print book

A New York Times bestseller A new day. A new place. A new life. In the past few years, Mclean has pretended to be so many different people that she hardly remembers who she really is anymore. The adorable guy next door might be able to help her figure it out. But is she ready...
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Wayfarer (Passenger)

Alexandra Bracken - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Paperback

Ive been orphaned by my time.The timeline has changed.My future is gone.Etta Spencer didnt know she was a traveler until the day she emerged both miles and years from her home. Now, robbed of the powerful object that was her only hope of saving her mother, Etta finds herself stranded once...
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Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

Jennifer Donnelly - Disney Press
Format: Hardcover

An original addition to the beloved Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, Lost in a Book follows the lonely, bookish Belle as she finds an enchanted book in the Beast's library called Nevermore that carries her into a glittering new world. There, Belle is befriended by a mysterious...
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The Secret of the India Orchid

Nancy Campbell Allen - Shadow Mountain
Format: Paperback

Anthony Blake is in love with his best friend's sister, Sophia Elliot. But his plans to court her are put on hold when he is forced to resume his role as an undercover spy for the Crown. A secret document listing the names of the entire network of British spies-including his own-has been...
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This Ordinary Life

Jennifer Walkup - Luminis Books
Format: Print book

A teen with big dreams of making it in radio, struggles to hold her family together while dealing with her brother's epilepsy, her mother's alcoholism, and her own broken heart.
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If I Was Your Girl

Meredith Russo - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book

A big-hearted, groundbreaking novel about being seen for who you really are, and a love story you can't help but root for Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she's determined not to get too close...
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The Palace of Glass: The Forbidden Library: Volume 3

Django Wexler - Kathy Dawson Books
Format: Print book

An action-packed middle-grade fantasy with classic writing, a resourceful heroine, a host of magical creatures, and no shortage of narrow escapes - for fans of Story Thieves, Inkheart, Coraline, and Harry Potter.For Alice, danger threatens from inside the library as well...
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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

Mariko Tamaki - First Second
Format: Hardcover

Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend.Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her,...
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The Year After You

de Pass, Nina - DELACORTE PR

"I loved this sad, beautiful, hopeful book." --Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and How to Make Friends With the Dark For fans of Nina LaCour and Jennifer Niven, a richly layered novel that's both uplifting and heartbreaking, about piecing...
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Ember Queen

Laura Sebastian - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling conclusion to the series that began with the instant New York Times bestseller "made for fans of Victoria Aveyard and Sabaa Tahir" (Bustle) , Ember Queen is an epic fantasy about a throne cruelly stolen and a girl who must fight to take it back...
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The Twisted Ones

SCOTT CAWTHON - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes. It's been a year since the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlie is just trying to move on. Even with the excitement of a new school and a fresh start, she's still haunted...
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Unblemished

Sara Ella - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

"Sara Ella's debut novel is a stunning journey into a fascinating new world of reflections. Intricately plotted, the story is complex, but not difficult to follow. Eliyana is a strong heroine, yet also has a vulnerable side that readers will definitely identify with. The other characters...
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Contagion

ERIN BOWMAN - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult MysteryPerfect for fans of Madeleine Roux, Jonathan Maberry, and horror films like 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, this pulse-pounding, hair-raising, utterly terrifying novel is the first in a duology from the critically acclaimed author of the Taken...
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To All the Boys Ive Loved Before

Jenny Han - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

To All the Boys Ive Loved Before is now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix! What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them...all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They arent love letters that...
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Faith: Taking Flight

Julie Murphy - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

From Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin', comes the first in a two-book origin story of Faith, a groundbreaking, plus-sized superhero from the Valiant Entertainment comics.Faith Herbert is a pretty regular teen. When she's not hanging out with her two best...
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Everything You Need to Know About Immigrants and Refugees

Norma King - Rosen Young Adult
Format: Library Binding

Explains the role of refugees and other immigrant groups throughout history, the reasons why people immigrate or become refugees or stateless today, and the conditions they face, and gives advice about how to help them.
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When the Stars Lead to You

Ronni Davis - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Nicola Yoon meets Jenny Han in a heated first-love romance about two teens who are torn apart one summer by prejudice and mental illness, and find each other once again.Eighteen-year-old Devon longs for two things. The stars.And the boy she fell in love with last summer. When Ashton breaks...
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Yours Truly

Heather Vogel Frederick - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Another wild mystery needs to be solved and it's up to the Pumpkin Falls Private Eyes to solve it in this hilarious follow up to the heartwarming middle grade mystery, Absolutely Truly.Even Truly Lovejoy has to admit that teeny-tiny Pumpkin Falls, New Hampshire, has its charms - like...
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Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the "Female Robinson Crusoe"

Peggy Caravantes - Chicago Review Press, 2016.
Format: Print book

In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top-secret expedition: an attempt to claim uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia for Great Britain. With the men was a young Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had signed on as cook and seamstress to earn money to care for her sick...
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Reverie

Ryan La Sala - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

Inception meets The Magicians in this wildly imaginative story about about what happens when the secret world's that people hide within themselves come to light.All Kane Montgomery knows for certain is that the police found him half-dead in the river. He can't remember anything since the accident...
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A Velocity of Being: Letters to A Young Reader

Maria Popova - Enchanted Lion Books
Format: Hardcover

In these pages, some of today's most wonderful culture-makers -- writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers -- reflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the ways in which the written word has formed their own character. On the page...
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Pushing Perfect

Michelle Falkoff - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

A girl's quest for perfection results in dangerous consequences in this smart, suspenseful YA novel by the author of Playlist for the Dead. Fans of We Were Liars and The Secret History will devour this layered, ensemble-cast novel, which will keep readers thinking - and guessing - until...
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Avenged

Amy Tintera - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book

With the romance of The Selection and the epic stakes of Red Queen, Amy Tintera's New York Times-bestselling Ruined trilogy continues with the thrilling young adult fantasy Avenged.Emelina Flores has come home to Ruina. After rescuing her sister, Olivia, from imprisonment in rival kingdom...
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A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle - Balzer + Bray; ILL edition
Format: Hardcover

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel—and the origin story of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson—is reimagined in the first unabridged, fully illustrated version since its debut, by acclaimed and bestselling illustrator Gris Grimly.The year is 1881. The city, London. A man lies...
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Girls on the Line

Jennie Liu - Carolrhoda Lab
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Luli has just aged out of the orphanage where she grew up, and her childhood friend Yun helps her get a job at the factory where Yun works. Both girls enjoy the freedom of making their own decisions and earning their own money--until Yun gets pregnant by her boyfriend,...
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Trouble Makes a Comeback

Stephanie Tromly - Kathy Dawson Books
Format: Print book

An utterly satisfying sequel packed with razor-sharp dialogue, a love triangle you didn't see coming, and the most charismatic dynamic duo you ever met.Now that the infuriating and irresistible Philip Digby has left town for a lead on his sister who disappeared years ago, Zoe Webster is looking...
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A School for Unusual Girls: A Stranje House Novel

Kathleen Baldwin - Tor Teen
Format: Print book

A School for Unusual Girls is the first captivating installment in the Stranje House series for young adults by award-winning author Kathleen Baldwin. #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot calls this romantic Regency adventure "completely original and totally engrossing."...
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Rebelwing

Andrea Tang - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

"Mixing everything that's best about dragons, dystopia, and generational conflict, Tang delivers a high flying debut that pulls no punches." --E.K. Johnston, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Things just got weird for Prudence Wu. One minute, she's cashing in on a routine...
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High school geometry unlocked

Princeton Review. - Random House
Format: Print book

UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF GEOMETRY with THE PRINCETON REVIEW. Geometry can be a daunting subject. That s why our new High School Unlocked series focuses on giving you a wide range of key techniques to help you tackle subjects like Geometry. If one method doesn't "click" for you,...
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Blood Water Paint

Joy McCullough - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"When I finished this novel, I knew I would be haunted and empowered by Artemisia Gentileschi's story for the rest of my life." - Amanda Lovelace, bestselling author of the princess saves herself in this oneHer mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Slaves of Socorro

John A. Flanagan - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the mega-selling Ranger's Apprentice! Hal and his fellow Herons have returned home to Skandia after defeating the pirate captain Zavac and reclaiming Skandia's most prized artifact, the Andomal. With their honor restored, the Herons turn to a new mission: tracking...
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Famous Last Words

Katie Alender - Point
Format: Hardcover

Hollywood history, mystery, murder, mayhem, and delicious romance collide in this unputdownable thriller from master storyteller Katie Alender.Willa is freaking out. It seems like shes seeing things. Like a dead body in her swimming pool. Frantic messages on her walls. A reflection that...
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The Black Flamingo

Dean Atta - Hodder Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

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Down and Across

Arvin Ahmadi - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Quirky and charming, wise and unpredictable. " --Khaled Hosseini, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner Scott Ferdowsi has a track record of quitting. Writing the Great American Novel? Three chapters. His summer internship? One week. His best friends know exactly...
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The Mystery of Life: How Nothing Became Everything

Jan Paul Schutten - Beyond Words Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"No generation has yet had to cope with the kind of rapid changes in science and technology that are facing today's teens. This is why "STEM education" is the latest buzz term and science literacy is enjoying a renewed focus. A foundation in basic science is key. With...
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Only Ashes Remain

Schaeffer, Rebecca
Format: electronic resource

Dexter meets Victoria Schwab in this dark and compelling fantasy about a girl who seeks revenge on the boy who betrayed her, a sequel to the critically acclaimed Not Even Bones.

After escaping her kidnappers and destroying...
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Few Red Drops, A: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Claire Hartfield - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that...
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The Loop

Ben Oliver - Chicken House
Format: Hardcover

Life inside The Loop-the futuristic death row for teens under eighteen-is one long repetitive purgatory. But when news of the encroaching chaos in the outside world reaches the inmates and disorder begins to strike, the prison becomes the least of their worries. Perfect for fans of The Fifth...
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Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir

Margarita Engle - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpr Author Award, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War.Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant...
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I Am Still Alive

KATE MARSHALL - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"This tense wire of a novel thrums with suspense. . . . [this book] just might be the highlight of your summer."-The New York TimesCheryl Strayed's Wild meets The Revenant in this heart-pounding story of survival and revenge in the unforgiving wilderness.After:...
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Optimists Die First

Susin Nielsen-Fernlund - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Print book

Award-winning author Susin Nielsen has written a laugh-out-loud and heartrending novel for fans of Robyn Schneider's Extraordinary Means and Cammie McGovern's Say What You Will. Beware: Life ahead. Sixteen-year-old Petula de Wilde is anything but wild. A former crafting...
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You Bring the Distant Near

MITALI PERKINS - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Horn Book School Library Journal Publishers Weekly BOOKLIST Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story. You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves, friendship,...
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If Birds Fly Back

Carlie Sorosiak - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

A sparkling debut about love, family, and the mysteries of the universe, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Nicola Yoon.Linny has kept a journal of famous disappearances ever since her sister Grace ran away in the middle of the night. Sebastian is an aspiring astrophysicist with a working...
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One Cut

EVE PORINCHAK - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

Real stories. Real teens. Real crimes. A backyard brawl turned media circus filled with gang accusations turns a small, quiet town upside down in this second book in the new Simon True series.On May 22, 1995 at 7 p.m. sixteen-year-old Jimmy Farris and seventeen-year-old Mike McLoren were...
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The Color of the Sun

David Almond - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning author David Almond pens the dreamlike tale of a boy rediscovering joy and beauty within and around him, even amid sorrow.One hot summer morning, only weeks after his father's death, Davie steps out his front door into the familiar streets of the Tyneside town that has always...
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Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany

Andrew Maraniss - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

*"Rivaling the nonfiction works of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat....Even readers who don't appreciate sports will find this story a page-turner." --School Library Connection (starred review) "An insightful, gripping account of basketball...
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Listen to Your Heart

Kasie West - Point
Format: Hardcover

Talking to other people isn't Kate Bailey's favorite activity. She'd much rather be out on the lake, soaking up the solitude and sunshine. So when her best friend, Alana, convinces Kate to join their high school's podcast, Kate is not expecting to be chosen as the host. Now she'll have...
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Dead Zone

Robison Wells - Harper Teen
Format: Hardcover

Homeland meets Marie Lu's Legend in the explosive sequel to Blackout, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Ally Condie called "a thrilling combination of Wells's trademark twists and terror. Fantastic!"It began with a virus. Then a series of attacks erupted across...
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Opposite of Always

Justin A. Reynolds - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

"One of the best love stories I've ever read." - Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give"Read this one, reread it, and then hug it to your chest." - Becky Albertalli, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens...
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The Love That Split the World

Emily Henry - Razorbill, 2016.
Format: Print book

Emily Henry's stunning debut novel is Friday Night Lights meets The Time Traveler's Wife, and perfectly captures those bittersweet months after high school, when we dream not only of the future, but of all the roads and paths we've left untaken. Natalie's last summer in her small...
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The Forgetting

Sharon Cameron - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book

What isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes. Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse,...
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The Well's End

Seth Fishman - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

A deadly virus and an impossible discovery unite in one enthralling can't-miss read...
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Dare to Fall

Estelle Maskame - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

A brand new book from the internationally bestselling author of Did I Mention I Love YouThe higher the stakes, the greater the fall.MacKenzie Rivers knows the kind of impact death can have on those it leaves behind. She's felt that grief firsthand. So when Jaden, her crush and almost-boyfriend,...
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Our Wayward Fate

Gloria Chao - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

A teen outcast is simultaneously swept up in a whirlwind romance and down a rabbit hole of dark family secrets when another Taiwanese family moves to her small, predominantly white midwestern town in this remarkable new novel from the critically acclaimed author of American Panda,...
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Eleven Things I Promised

Catherine Clark - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

Catherine Clark has crafted a poignant story about the distances one girl is willing to go in the name of friendship that is at once funny, heartbreaking, and utterly romantic.Seventeen-year-old Frances wouldn't describe herself as adventurous. Until now . . .Frances has one week - while...
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The Black Mage

Daniel Barnes - Oni Press
Format: Paperback

Harry Potter meets Final Fantasy in this subversive original graphic novel where race, history and magic collide. When St. Ivory Academy, a historically white wizarding school, opens its doors to its first-ever black student, everyone believes that the wizarding community...
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Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger

Margarita Engle - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The people of Cuba are living in el perodo especial en tiempos de paz - the special period in times of peace. That's what the government insists that this era must be called, but the reality behind these words is starvation. Liana is struggling to find enough to eat. Yet hunger has also...
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We Used to Be Friends

Amy Spalding - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

Two best friends grow up - and grow apart - in this innovative contemporary YA novel Told in dual timelines - half of the chapters moving forward in time and half moving backward - We Used to Be Friends explores the most traumatic breakup of all: that of childhood besties. At the start...
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The Last True Poets of the Sea

Julia Drake - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

From a stunning new voice in YA literature comes an epic, utterly unforgettable contemporary novel about a lost shipwreck, a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life. "Profound and page-turning." --Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times best-selling...
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Waistcoats & Weaponry

Gail Carriger - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Class is back in session....Sophronia continues her second year at finishing school in style--with a steel-bladed fan secreted in the folds of her ball gown, of course. Such a fashionable choice of weapon comes in handy when Sophronia, her best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap, and the charming...
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Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card

Saedi, Sara
Format: electronic resource

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Sorry for My Familiar Vol. 2

TEKKA YAGURABA - Seven Seas
Format: Paperback

ROAD TRIP IN ANOTHER WORLDDevil girl Patty and her human familiar Norman have been traveling across the Devil World in search of Patty's trouble-making father. Their search becomes even more urgent when they learn that there's a warrant out for her dad's arrest! Will Patty and Normal...
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Flamecaster

Cinda Williams Chima - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

Set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Seven Realms series, a generation later, this is a breathtaking story of dark magic, chilling threats, and two unforgettable characters walking a knife-sharp line between life and death. This dazzling beginning to a new series is indispensable...
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Dreamwalker: Book One of Dreamwalker

C.S. Friedman - Daw Books
Format: Hardcover

All her life Jessica Drake has dreamed of other worlds, some of them similar to her own, others disturbingly alien. She never shares the details with anyone, save her younger brother Tommy, a compulsive gamer who incorporates some aspects of Jessica's dreams into his games. But now someone...
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The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily

Rachel Cohn - Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding

New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Cohn and David Levithan are back with a life-affirming Christmas romance starring Dash and Lily. Dash and Lily have had a tough year since readers first watched the couple fall in love. Lily's beloved grandfather suffered a heart attack, and his difficult...
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Dry

Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

"The authors do not hold back." - BOOKLIST (starred review) "The palpable desperation that pervades the plot ... feels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The Shustermans challenge readers."...
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Untitled Chaol Novel

SARAH J MAAS - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

In the next installment of the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series, follow Chaol on his sweeping journey to a distant empire.Chaol Westfall has always defined himself by his unwavering loyalty, his strength, and his position as the Captain of the Guard. But all of that...
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The Museum of Us

Redd, Tara Wilson
Format: electronic resource

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Kingdom Keepers: The Return Book Three

Ridley Pearson - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

The stakes are high--both for the past and the future. The finale of The Return series leaves the Kingdom Keepers with unimaginable choices to make.
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Lord of Shadows

Cassandra Clare - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

Sunny Los Angeles can be a dark place indeed in Cassandra Clare's Lord of Shadows, the sequel to the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Lady Midnight. Lord of Shadows is a Shadowhunters novel.Emma Carstairs has finally avenged her parents. She thought...
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Hard Wired

Vlahos, Len
Format: electronic resource

\"YA science fiction at its best.\" - Jay Kristoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Aurora Cycle and Illuminae

\"A unique and engrossing yarn.\" - Pierce Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Rising Saga

From...
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Trailblazers: 33 Women in Science Who Changed the World

Rachel Swaby - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

Virginia Apgar. Sally Ride. Rachel Carson. These names are etched in history and included here as part of this awe-inspiring collection of profiles of some of the world's most influential women in science. Author Rachel Swaby delves into the minds of thirty-three such women, whose vision,...
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Lucky in Love (Point Paperbacks)

Kasie West - Point
Format: Paperback

Part of Point Paperbacks launch season! Kasie West tells the story of a girl who wins the lottery and learns that money can cause more problems than it solves, especially in love.Maddies not impulsive. Shes all about hard work and planning ahead. But one night, on a whim, she buys a lottery...
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Yellow Brick War

Danielle Paige - Harpercollins, 2016.
Format: Print book

In this third book in the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series, new girl from Kansas Amy Gumm is caught between her home - and Oz.My name is Amy Gumm. Tornadoes must have a thing about girls from Kansas, because - just like Dorothy - I got swept away on one too. I landed in Oz, where...
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Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad

Martin W. Sandler - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Experience the race of rails to link the country - and meet the men behind this incredible feat - in a riveting story about the building of the transcontinental railroad, brought to life with archival photos.In the 1850s, gold fever swept the West, but people had to walk, sail, or ride...
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The Story of Seeds: From Mendel's Garden to Your Plate, and How There's More of Less to Eat Around the World

Nancy Castaldo - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Something as small as a seed can have a worldwide impact. Did you know there are top-secret seed vaults hidden throughout the world? And once a seed disappears, that's it - it's gone forever? With the growth of genetically modified foods, the use of many seeds is dwindling - of 80,000...
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The shadow behind the stars

Rebecca Hahn - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

A girl's dark destiny could cause the unraveling of the world in this "shattering and transcendent" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) novel from the author of A Creature of Moonlight.Heed this warning, mortal: stay far away from the three sister Fates. For if they...
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Fire & Flood

Victoria Scott - Scholastic Press, 2014.
Format: Print book

What would you do to save someone you love?Time is slipping away. . . .Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can't determine what's wrong, her parents decide to move to the middle of nowhere for the fresh air. She's lost her friends, her parents...
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The Pros of Cons

Alison Cherry - Point
Format: Hardcover

Drummer Phoebe Byrd prides herself on being one of the guys, and she's ready to prove it by kicking all their butts in the snare solo competition at the Indoor Percussion Association Convention. Writer Vanessa Montoya-O'Callaghan has been looking forward to the WTFcon for months. Not just...
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Frozen in Time: Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea About Frozen Food

Mark Kurlansky - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Nonfiction for kids interested in science, biography, and early entrepreneurs, this work explores the life story of Clarence Birdseye, the man who revolutionized the frozen food industry and changed the way people eat all over the world. Adapted from Mark Kurlanskys adult work Birdseye...
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A Week of Mondays

Jessica Brody - Farrar
Format: eBook

When I made the wish, I just wanted a do-over. Another chance to make things right. I never, in a million years, thought it might actually come true... Sixteen-year-old Ellison Sparks is having a serious case of the Mondays. She gets a ticket for running a red light, she manages...
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Anne of Avonlea

L M Montgomery - Dreamscape Media
Format: Audio CD

Five years after Anne Shirley came to the town of Avonlea, she feels (a little) more grown up, but she's still the same skinny, red-headed orphan Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert took in. After putting her dream of attending Redmond College on hold so she can help Marilla with the farm,...
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Kissing Games: A Novel

Tara Eglington - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

After a perfect first kiss, Aurora's second kiss lands her boyfriend in the hospital, and her matchmaking strategies start to backfire in this sequel to Tara Eglington's How to Keep a Boy from Kissing You.For a girl who shares her name with a princess (aka Sleeping Beauty) , Aurora...
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Fire Color One

Jenny Valentine - Philomel Books
Format: Print book

Nominated for the prestigious Carnegie Medal, this novel is a stunning tribute to fathers and daughters, and to the unique power of art to connect and change us.Sixteen-year-old Iris itches constantly for the strike of a match. But when she's caught setting one too many fires, she's dragged...
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Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

Michaela DePrince - Ember
Format: Paperback

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! The extraordinary memoir of an orphan who danced her way from war-torn Sierra Leone to ballet stardom, most recently appearing in Beyonces Lemonade and as a principal in a major American dance company. "Michaela is nothing short of a miracle, born...
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Grown

Tiffany D Jackson - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

"Grown exposes the underbelly of a tough conversation, providing a searing examination of misogynoir, rape culture, and the vulnerability of young black girls. Groundbreaking, heart-wrenching, and essential reading for all in the #MeToo era." - Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times...
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There's Someone Inside Your House

STEPHANIE PERKINS - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller!"The best new horror of the season." -Mashable"There's Someone Inside Your House is equal parts heart-stopping horror and steamy romance. It's tons of bloody fun." -HelloGiggles"Turn on - all - the lights before reading...
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Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time

Tanya Lee Stone - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Print book

A gorgeous, full-color oversized book about educating girls across the world inspired by the documentary that Entertainment Weekly says "every mother, sister, daughter, should see, as well as the men who love and support them." This is the right book for the present moment...
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Cicada

Shaun Tan - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover

Cicada tells the story of a hardworking little cicada who is completely unappreciated for what he does. But in the end, just when you think he's given up, he makes a transformation into something ineffably beautiful. A metaphor for growing up? A bit of inspiration for the unappreciated...
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The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science

Marc Aronson - National Geographic Society
Format: Hardcover

Could Griffins have been real? When Adrienne Mayor carefully read the ancient Greek and Roman descriptions, this mythic hybrid of a lion and an eagle sounded like something people had actually seen. What could explain that evidence? After a decade of hunting through myths, poring over old maps,...
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Red Girl, Blue Boy: An If Only novel

Lauren Baratz-Logsted - Bloomsbury, 2015.
Format: Print book

Enjoy Red Girl, Blue Boy and the other standalone titles in Bloomsbury's contemporary If Only romance line centered around an impossible problem: you always want what you can't have!Sixteen-year-old Katie and Drew really shouldn't get along. After all, her father is the Republican...
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American Royals II: Majesty

Katharine McGee - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Is America ready for its first queen? If you can't get enough of Harry and Meghan and Will and Kate, you'll love this sequel to the New York Times besteller that imagines America's own royal family--and all the drama and heartbreak that entails. Crazy Rich Asians meets The Crown....
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If You're Out There

Katy Loutzenhiser - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

"Funny, engrossing, and one-of-a-kind. If You're Out There completely swept me away." - Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Leah on the OffbeatPart whip-smart suspense tale, part touching story of friendship, this is an extraordinary debut about a determined...
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S.T.A.G.S.

M. A. Bennett - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Donna Tartt's The Secret History meets Pretty Little Liars in this propulsive, edge-of-your-seat novel that explores just how far the elite at an English boarding school will go to maintain the social order.One deadly weekend.At St. Aidan the Great School, or STAGS,...
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Night Sky

Suzanne Brockmann - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

A gripping page-turner from first to last...The start of something that can only be described as greater-than. -Kirkus Starred ReviewThey could be hunting you.Hunted. Kidnapped. Bled. Someone is snatching girls and draining them for a secret thats in their blood. A hormone that makes them...
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Tin Star

Cecil Castellucci - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Book

On their way to start a new life, Tula and her family travel on the "Prairie Rose, " a colony ship headed to a planet in the outer reaches of the galaxy. All is going well until the ship makes a stop at a remote space station, the Yertina Feray, and the colonist's leader, Brother...
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Sorry for Your Loss

Jessie Ann Foley - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

From Printz Honor winner and Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley comes a comitragic YA novel that will appeal to fans of Jandy Nelson and Jeff Zentner. As the youngest of eight, painfully average Pup Flanagan is used to flying under the radar. He's barely passing his classes. His lets...
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Suitors and Sabotage

Cindy Anstey - Swoon Reads
Format: eBook

Two young people must hide their true feelings for each other while figuring out who means them harm in this cheeky Regency romance from the author of Love, Lies and Spies and Duels & Deception. Shy aspiring artist Imogene Chively has just had a successful Season in London, complete...
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Seventeen Ultimate Guide to College: Everything You Need to Know to Walk Onto Campus and Own It!

Ann Shoket - Running Press
Format: Print book

VOYA Perfect Tens 2014YALSA 2015 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers: Non-FictionAfter the excitement of prom and high-school graduation festivities, young women begin to focus on the next big milestone; starting college. Filled with tips and stories from real students, Seventeen...
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20 Makey Makey Projects for the Evil Genius

AARON GRAVES - McGraw-Hill Education TAB
Format: Paperback

20 fun and inventive Makey Makey projects for Makers from beginner to expertThis hands-on guide is filled with DIY projects that show readers, step-by-step, how to start creating and making cool inventions with the Makey Makey invention kit. Each project features easy-to-follow, fully-illustrated...
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Bridge of Clay

RANDOM HOUSE. - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable and sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be lifechanging." The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring...
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We Are the Wildcats

Siobhan Vivian - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A toxic coach finds himself outplayed by the high school girls on his team in this deeply suspenseful novel, which unspools over twenty-four hours through six diverse perspectives.Tomorrow, the Wildcat varsity field hockey squad will play the first game of their new season. But at tonight's...
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Mortal Heart

Robin LaFevers - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

In the powerful conclusion to Robin LaFever's "New York Times" bestselling His Fair Assassins trilogy, Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death....
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J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World: Movie Magic Volume Two: Curious Creatures

RAMIN ZAHED - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Meet the magnificent creatures and fantastic beasts of J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World. Thunderbirds and Nifflers, house-elves and Hippogriffs - J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World abounds with magical creatures of all kinds. But how does a Bowtruckle come to life on the big screen? Is an Occamy...
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The Storyteller

Traci Chee - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling conclusion to the epic adventure that began with New York Times bestselling The Reader, "a series fantasy lovers will want to sink their teeth into." - BOOKLIST , starred reviewSefia is determined to keep Archer out of the Guard's clutches and their...
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Shouting at the Rain

Lynda Mullaly Hunt - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Fish in a Tree comes a compelling story about perspective and learning to love the family you have.Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted...
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition

Anton Treuer
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it called...
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Snake Bite

Andy Lane - Square Fish, 2015.
Format: Print book

Kidnapped and taken to China, teenage Sherlock finds himself plunged into the heart of a deadly mystery. How can three men be bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai? Who wants them dead, and why? The answers seem to lie in a message hidden in a diagram that looks...
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Star Wars: Ahsoka

E. K. Johnston - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

Fans have long wondered what happened to Ahsoka after she left the Jedi Order near the end of the Clone Wars and before she reappeared as the mysterious Rebel operative Fulcrum in Rebels. Finally her story will begin to be told. Following her experiences with the Jedi and the devastation...
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark

Dave Rudden - Random House
Format: Print book

This imaginative new fantasy will charm fans of the Ranger's Apprentice and Rick Riordan. Denizen Hardwick is an orphan, and his life is, well, normal. Sure, in storybooks orphans are rescued from drudgery when they discover they are a wizard or a warrior or a prophesized king. But this...
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Batman: Nightwalker

Marie Lu - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

This dark and twisty BATMAN in the blockbuster DC Icons series is an action-packed thrill ride from #1 New York Times bestselling author MARIE LU.AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBefore he was Batman, he was Bruce Wayne. A reckless boy willing to break the rules for a girl...
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Wild Blue Wonder

CARLIE SOROSIAK - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

"It's the rarest author who can pull off laugh-out-loud hilarious, profound, and breathlessly romantic, all in the most sparkling prose. That shortlist includes Rainbow Rowell, Nicola Yoon, and now, Carlie Sorosiak." - Jeff Zentner, Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King...
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The Impossibility of Us

Katy Upperman - Swoon Reads
Format: Hardcover

The last thing Elise wants is to start over in a new town. But after her brother's death in Afghanistan, she and her mother move to a sleepy coastal village to be closer to Elise's sister-in-law and niece.When Elise meets Mati during a beachside walk, they quickly discover how much they...
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Five Days of Famous

Alyson Noël - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noel comes a fun, adventure-filled, contemporary novel that poses the question what would you do if your dream life became reality? A dream is a wish your heart makes . . . when your life is in desperate need of a makeover. Nick Dashaway...
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The Siege

Mark Alpert - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Print book

Mission: Sabotage.Adam gave up everything for a new chance at life. Now with a cutting-edge digital mind, he is smarter, faster, better than a normal teen. Except Adam is anything but invincible. He's indebted to the government program that gave him this ability-and freedom comes at a price....
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The Fever Code

James Dashner - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Book five in the blockbuster Maze Runner series that spawned a movie franchise and ushered in a worldwide phenomenon! Don't miss the highly-anticipated series conclusion that finally reveals the story of how Thomas and WICKED built the Maze. Also look for James Dashner's newest bestselling...
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The Librarian of Auschwitz

Antonio Iturbe - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother...
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The Keeper

David Baldacci - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Audio CD

Vega Jane was always told no one could leave the town of Wormwood. She was told there was nothing outside but the Quag, a wilderness filled with danger and death. And she believed it - until the night she stumbled across a secret that proved that everything she knew was a lie. Now just...
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Lucky Strikes

Louis Bayard - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister -- and of the family gas station. Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his fuel monopoly. To keep him at bay and keep...
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When You Were Everything

Ashley Woodfolk - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Odd One OutYou can't rewrite the past, but you can always choose to start again.It's been twenty-seven days since Cleo and Layla's friendship imploded.Nearly a month since Cleo realized they'll never be besties again.Now Cleo wants to erase every memory, good or bad, that...
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Who killed christopher goodman

Allan Wolf - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by a tragic true event in his past, Allan Wolf examines the circumstances of one boy's inexplicable murder and the fateful summer leading up to it.Everybody likes Chris Goodman. Sure, he's a little odd. He wears those funny bell-bottoms and he really likes the word ennui and...
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Thank You for Coming to My TED Talk: A Teen Guide to Great Public Speaking

Chris Anderson - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A teen edition of the New York Times best-selling TED TALKS: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking, chock-full of tips and techniques to help teens become confident, capable speakers For today's teen, being able to communicate clearly in front of an audience is essential. From class...
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