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YA Picks From CFPL April 2017
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Six of crows
by Leigh Bardugo
Criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker has been offered wealth beyond his wildest dreams. But to claim it, he'll have to pull off a seemingly impossible heist. Kaz needs a crew desperate enough to take on this suicide mission and dangerous enough to get the job done - and he knows exactly who: six of the deadliest outcasts the city has to offer. Together, they just might be unstoppable - if they don't kill each other first. (If you love Six of Crows, see what Kaz’s crew gets up to in the sequel, "Crooked Kingdom"!).Offered a chance to participate in a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams, criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker recruits a team of talented associates to organize a plot that is threatened by their mutual enmity. Simultaneous eBook.
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Out of the Easy
by Ruta Sepetys
It’s 1950 in the French Quarter of New Orleans, and seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan to get out and go to college, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled in the murder investigation. Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine underworld. New Orleans lures her in her quest for truth, dangling temptation at every turn, and escalating to the ultimate test.
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I hunt killers
by Barry Lyga
Jasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the criminal's point of view. His father is now in prison, but bodies are piling up in Lobo's Nod. Is a copycat killer on the loose? In an effort to clear his name, Jazz joins the police in a hunt for a new serial killer. But Jazz has a secret—could he be more like his father than anyone knows? (Can’t get enough of Lobo’s Nod? Be sure to check out the second and third book in this trilogy, "Game" and "Blood of My Blood.")
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Anna and the French kiss
by Stephanie Perkins
Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris--until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne has it all...including a serious girlfriend. But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French kiss?
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Say what you will
by Cammie McGovern
Born with cerebral palsy, Amy can't walk without a walker, talk without a voice box, or even fully control her facial expressions. Plagued by obsessive-compulsive disorder, Matthew is consumed with repeated thoughts, neurotic rituals, and crippling fear. Both in desperate need of someone to help them reach out to the world, Amy and Matthew are more alike than either ever realized. When Amy decides to hire student aides to help her in her senior year in high school, these two teens are thrust into each other's lives. As they begin to spend time with each other, what started as a friendship eventually grows into something neither expected..
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