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The dazzling heights
by Katharine McGee
Science Fiction. A second entry in the series set in a futuristic New York City continues the adventures of the teen residents of a high-tech luxury building where a complicated web of lies is threatening everything they care about.
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All the wind in the world
by Samantha Mabry
Romance. Working in the fields of the bone-dry Southwest, a secret couple with big dreams diligently saves their money and maintains a low profile until a horrible accident forces them to start over on a cursed ranch where they must pay a wrenching price for their love.
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Murder, magic, and what we wore
by Kelly Jones
Mystery. Deciding to become a spy when her father is killed and his money goes missing, an early 19th-century teen uses her talent for sewing to run a dressmaking shop, navigate around her naysaying contemporaries and create magical glamours to disguise herself.
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The dreadful tale of Prosper Redding
by Alexandra Bracken
Fantasy. A seemingly unremarkable youth races against time to break a curse when he discovers that his body is host to a vengeful demon that seeks to destroy the boy's magical family.
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The girl in between
by Sarah Carroll
Fiction. Living in an abandoned mill under the care of a mother who will not let her go outside for fear of being seen by the Authorities, a young girl glimpses the world through boarded-up windows until developers show up and change everything she ever believed. A first novel.
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The Leaving
by Tara Altebrando
Years after six kindergarteners go missing, five return as teens and struggle to reacclimate to life with their families in spite of trauma and an inability to remember much about their experiences or the fate of the sixth victim.
Why you might like it: The voices of multiple narrators, each written with distinctive formatting, combine to create an unsettling, thought provoking thriller about memory and identity.
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Infinite in between
by Carolyn Mackler
Making a pact to reunite at graduation after meeting during freshman orientation, five teens struggle with family dynamics, heartbreak and shifting senses of identity while changing in unanticipated ways.
Who it's for: Anyone looking for an insightful, character-driven slice of high school life as experienced by five very different students.
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How it went down
by Kekla Magoon
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
Why you should read it: This complex look at a painfully realistic tragedy is sure to get people talking.
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Salt to the sea : a novel
by Ruta Sepetys
Frantically racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive.
Featuring: Joana, a guilt-ridden Lithuanian nurse; Emilia, a pregnant Polish teen; Florian, a secretive Prussian artist; and Alfred, a young Nazi soldier.
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Middle school: the worst years of my life
Middle schooler Rafe Katchadorian and his friends come up with a plan to break every single school rule. Rated PG.
Saturday, January 6 @ 12:30-2:00 in the Teen Center
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Transformers: the last knight
When Autobots and Decepticons wage an open battle on Earth, several people work together to save the world after learning the history of Transformers on the planet. Rated PG-13.
Saturday, January 13 @ 12:30-3:00 in the Teen Center
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