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New Young Adult Books 8/21/2019
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The following books are new to shelves at Kendall Young Library. To reserve an item, click on the image or title to be taken to the library's catalog. (Detailed instructions at the end of the newsletter.)
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Girls with sharp sticks
by Suzanne Young
A new series set in a subversive near future follows a group of students at the Girls of Innovations Academy, where lessons about obedience and troublesome personal interests give way to dark secrets and the truth about their identities. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Fame, fate, and the first kiss
by Kasie West
Leaping at a chance to star in a movie alongside one of Hollywood's hottest actors, Lacey struggles with the realities of life in the spotlight before a malicious saboteur changes her perspective about her ambitions and her straitlaced tutor. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The waking forest
by Alyssa Wees
A girl living on the edge of a magical forest that only she can see, and a wish-granting witch who is asked by a stranger about her own dreams, find their lives thrown together by a mysterious force with ties to a truth beyond their imagining. Simultaneous eBook.
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Focused
by Alyson Gerber
Diagnosed with ADHD after years of struggling through school with a mind that has difficulty focusing, Clea uses her love of chess to develop better concentration skills and block out challenging symptoms and distractions. A first novel.
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The last 8
by Laura Pohl
Clover Martinez, a young survivor of an alien invasion that has killed everyone she knows, learns that other teen survivors are hiding at the former Area 51, where the discovery of a hidden spaceship makes her question who she can trust.
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Never-contented things
by Sarah Porter
When their vivid emotions and passion for life trigger their seduction and entrapment by Prince, the leader of the dark faeries, foster siblings Josh and Ksenia discover that their cruel faery hosts' otherworldly gifts come at a terrible price. By the author of When I Cast Your Shadow. Simultaneous eBook
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Drop dead gorgeous
by R. L Stine
An instantly popular newcomer to Shadyside High confounds her new friends and boyfriend with her mysterious past until events surrounding the school's homecoming festivities unearth a violent curse with ties to Fear Street. 50,000 first printing. Original. Simultaneous eBook.
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Again!!. No. 1
by Mitsurou Kubo
On the eve of graduation, lonely senior Kinichiro falls down a flight of stairs and finds himself a freshman again with a chance to live a different version of his dull high school career
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The wrong girl
by R. L Stine
Poppy swears she will seek revenge against Jack's cruel prank that humiliated her in front of all her friends, so when classmates start turning up dead, everyone believes it is Poppy's doing
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The midnight dance
by Nikki Katz
In 1879, seventeen-year-old Penny yearns to escape the confines of Italy's mysterious and elite Grande Teatro and explore the flashes of memory that suggest she once lived a very different life
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No one here is lonely
by Sarah Everett
When her crush dies in a car accident at the same time her best friend drifts away, a bereft Eden grows attached to a digital companion designed to resemble the boy who died before discovering that she is starting to have real feelings for her friend's twin. Simultaneous eBook.
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Enchantée
by Gita Trelease
An impoverished orphan must rely on magic to provide for her siblings by impersonating an aristocrat in Versailles, before her political awakening forces her to choose sides in the French Revolution. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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The center of the universe
by Ria Voros
When her celebrity news anchor mother bafflingly disappears, triggering wild media speculation, her daughter, an aspiring astrophysicist, uncovers surprising family secrets while bonding with her high school's golden boy, who is facing his own difficult loss. 20,000 first printing.
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Last things
by Jacqueline West
A guitar prodigy whose band is soaring toward fame suffers the inexplicable losses of his cat, girlfriend and musical talents before starting to wonder if his number-one fan and stalker is responsible, or trying to protect him. By the award-winning author of The Shadows. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook
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Aurora rising
by Amie Kaufman
Relegated by a misguided act of heroism to a squad comprised of his school's hopeless misfits, a graduating cadet in a 24th-century space academy rescues a centuries-hibernating girl from interdimensional space only to be swept up in an interstellar war millions of years in the making. By the best-selling authors of the Illuminae Files. Simultaneous eBook.
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All items can be reserved through the Kendall Young Library catalog: - When viewing an item in the catalog, click "place hold" button.
- Enter your library card number (14 digits on the back of your card) with no spaces.
- Enter your PIN. If you don't know your PIN, try:
- Your 4-digit birth month and day (i.e. August 4 would be 0804), or
- The last 4 digits of your library card number.
- If neither of these options work, call the library at 832-9100.
- You will get a call from the library when the item is available.
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