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YA Picks from CFPL July 2017
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The Duke of Bannerman Prep
by Katie A. Nelson
It's not just girls who have to play the game to succeed at elite schools where they're not sure they belong. Boys have to learn the rules, play along, and deal with the consequences. Tanner is good, but will he succeed at winning this high stakes competition without losing himself along the way?
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Octavia Butler's Kindred : A Graphic Novel Adaptation
by Octavia E. Butler and Damian Duffy
A 21st century African American woman is pulled back in time to the antebellum South where she must confront her family's past in her country's history, and deal with the consequences in the present day. One of the great intersectional novels imagined in graphic form.
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The Cruelty
by Scott Bergstrom
High school student Gwendolyn Bloom has to train as an assassin and assume a new identity as a spy in order to find her missing father, defeat gangsters throughout Europe's criminal underworld, and find out the truths of her past and her future.
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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
by Mackenzi Lee
"Two friends on a Grand Tour of 18th-century Europe stumble across a magical artifact that leads them from Paris to Venice in a dangerous manhunt shaped by pirates, highwaymen and their growing attraction to one another." Did we mention they're gentlemen? An absolutely delicious Regency romp of a romance!
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Born a Crime : Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
The host of The Daily Show With Trevor Noah limns his growing up at the end of the apartheid era in South Africa, his experiences in a supposedly post-racial country, and his arrival in America, where things are just as complicated as his birthplace. A healthy dose of humor and an interest in politics and social behavior help Noah become the comic and commentator he is today.
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Henchgirl
by Kristen Gudsnuk
Mary has a terrible job working with the bad guys with the worst supervillain ever for a boss. Can she find success when she's not a Henchgirl? Mary's troubles deciding just what path in life she should follow ring surprisingly true for all of us Henchgirls!
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Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys
Children and teenagers from various parts of Europe in the closing days of WWII converge on a ship that is supposed to take them to their new lives but tragedy still looms. One of the forgotten tragedies of the war becomes the inspiration for an unforgettable novel that just won the 2017 Carnegie Medal in England.
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Selections by Fiona Stevenson of the Kids & Young Adult Departments.
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