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CFPL Summer 2019 Teen Choices
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Elsewhere
by Gabrielle Zevin
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
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The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
The daughter of devout immigrants discovers the power of slam poetry and begins participating in a school club as part of her effort to understand her mother's strict religious beliefs and her own developing relationship to the world.
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White Rabbit
by BCaleb Roehrig
A night of mystery, adventure and danger for two boys in love, assorted friends and enemies, and a small town gone wrong. Book Noir done right.
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Truly Devious
by Maureen Johnson
When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened
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Nemesis
by Brendan Reichs
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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Allegedly : a novel
by Tiffany D. Jackson
Relocated to a violent group home after enduring years in prison for allegedly killing a white baby, black teen Mary B. Addison falls in love with a fellow resident and becomes pregnant before finding the courage to set the record straight about what really happened.
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One of us is lying
by Karen M. McManus
When one of five students in detention is found dead, his high-profile classmates—including a brainy intellectual, a popular beauty, a drug dealer on probation and an all-star athlete—are investigated and revealed to be the subjects of the victim's latest gossip postings.
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Sorcery of Thorns
by Margaret Rogerson
A foundling apprentice raised in one of her kingdom's great libraries finds her fate in the hands of a sworn enemy when she is implicated in an act of sabotage behind the release of a dangerous grimoire.
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Stepsister
by Jennifer Donnelly
A dark feminist reimagining of the Cinderella story by the award-winning author of A Northern Light follows the experiences of a misfit stepsister who, after mutilating herself in her unsuccessful pursuit of a royal marriage, seizes an opportunity to alter her destiny
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I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
The 1934 journal of seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain reveals her perspective on six stormy months in the eccentric and poverty-stricken life of her family in a ruined Suffolk castle, ending with the revelation that Cassandra is deeply in love.
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All Selections Made by Emily Aldous, Hannah Griffin and Gemma Feinstein
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Concord Free Public Library & Fowler Branch Library 129 Main St. | 1322 Main St. Concord, Massachusetts 01742 978-318-3301www.concordlibrary.org |
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