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| See You in the Cosmos by Jack ChengFiction. Along with his dog, Carl Sagan, 11-year-old astronomer Alex Petroski is on his way to the Southwest High Altitude Rocket Festival. He's recording the journey on his iPod with the hope that it can be launched into space and heard by aliens. Through the transcripts of Alex's recordings, you can follow along as he makes eccentric new friends, travels to Las Vegas in search of his supposedly dead father, and realizes that family is more complicated than he suspected. |
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Worthy
by Donna D. Cooner
Fiction. Disregarding a wildly popular app that ranks couples according to votes and comments, Linden finds her happy relationship with Alex thrown into turmoil when the app's users deem her unworthy of his regard and subject her to cruel online bullying and social scrutiny.
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Dreamology
by Lucy Keating
Romance. Experiencing dreams about her soulmate all of her life, Alice meets the real boy, Max, when she moves to a new school and finds that their real relationship is more complicated than their dream one.
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A Single Stone
by Meg McKinlay
Fantasy. Every girl dreams of being part of the line—the chosen seven who tunnel deep into the mountain to find the harvest. No work is more important. Jena is the leader of the line—strong, respected, reliable. And—as all girls must be—she is small; years of training have seen to that. It is not always easy but it is the way of things. And so a girl must wrap her limbs, lie still, deny herself a second bowl of stew. Or a first. But what happens when one tiny discovery makes Jena question the world she knows? What happens when moving a single stone changes everything?
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Shadow Run
by Michael Miller
Science Fiction. Falling hard for the young captain of a close-knit crew of orphans, fugitives and con men who have become like a family, Nev, a prince in hiding, resolves to entice the captain to his home planet in the hope that she can bring much-needed change to a galactic civilization of political chicanery and resource-driven power games.
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The Shadows We Know by Heart
by Jennifer Park
Fantasy. Hiding her witness to the activities of a trio of sasquatches who have been living in the woods behind her home for years, Leah, a girl from a troubled family, discovers a teen boy living with the sasquatches who has no memory of his past.
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When Morning Comes
by Arushi Raina
Historical Fiction. Zanele is secretly plotting against the apartheid government, while her best friend Thabo has troubles of his own with a local gang, and Jack, from the wealthy white suburbs, falls in love with a girl from the black township of Soweto.
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Nemesis
by Brendan Reichs
Science Fiction. Murdered every two years by the same mysterious person before waking up unhurt with all evidence erased, Min resolves to end the violent cycle before uncovering a conspiracy involving her classmates, a boy who suffers from destructive nightmares and a giant asteroid on a collision course with the Earth.
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Hunted
by Meagan Spooner
Fantasy. A dark reimagining of Beauty and the Beast follows the experiences of an aristocrat's daughter who tracks a mysterious woodland creature her father has become obsessed with and that stands at the center of his failing sanity.
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Speed of Life
by Carol Weston
Fiction. Sofia wonders if 14 might be the worst possible age to lose your mom. Talking with her dad about puberty and s-e-x is super-awkward (even though he is a gynecologist). And when she wants to talk about her mom, her friends don't know what to say and her dad gets sad. When Sofia discovers Dear Kate, an advice columnist from Fifteen magazine, she’s grateful to have someone to confide in about everything from crushes to mourning—someone who is completely, wonderfully anonymous. It feels ideal—until Sofia’s dad introduces her to his new girlfriend, Katherine Baird, a.k.a., Dear Kate…
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