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Teen (Digital) Reads May 2020
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Clap When You Land by Elizabeth AcevedoAn evocative novel in verse by the National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X follows the experiences of two grieving sisters who navigate the loss of their father and the impact of his death on their relationship.
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Rules for Being a Girl by Candace BushnellThe best-selling author of Sex and the City and the best-selling author of 99 Days present a feminist tale about a girl who fights to expose sexism at her school after a devastating encounter with a predatory teacher.
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The Betrothed by Kiera CassDeclared the unexpected love of a commitment-resistant young prince, a nobleman’s daughter is rapidly disillusioned by the outsized expectations of royal life before meeting a stranger with the mysterious power to see into her heart.
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Spindle and Dagger by J. Anderson CoatsSpinning a lie about her connection to a protective saint to survive the raider attack that ended her sisters’ lives, Elen cautiously submits to life beside her abuser until an attack by a rival clan threatens to expose her deception.
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They Went Left by Monica HesseNavigating injuries and trauma after being liberated from the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in 1945 Germany, 18-year-old Zofia joins other survivors to keep a promise to find her brother. By the award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat.
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Unscripted by Nicole KronzerWhen seventeen-year-old Zelda is chosen for an elite team at a prestigious improvisation camp, it is a big step toward achieving her dreams, but first she must survive her teammates' sexism and coach's cruelty.
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The Grace Year by Kim LiggettDreaming of a life outside the strict society that criminalizes teen girls and banishes them into the wild to be “purified,” 16-year-old Tierney discovers that many of the banished girls are being poached and sold on the black market.
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Tweet Cute by Emma LordA reimagining of You’ve Got Mail follows the unlikely romance between an overachiever from a successful family and the class clown, who exchange snarky tweets that escalate into a viral Twitter war. A first novel.
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Serpent & Dove by Shelby MahurinA first entry in a fantasy duology, set in a world where witches are burned at the stake, finds a young witch forced into marriage with a church huntsman, a situation that is further complicated by their growing feelings for each other. A first novel.
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Be Not Far from Me by Mindy McGinnisFeeling more at home in the woods than under a roof, Ashley finds the limits of her survival abilities tested when a betrayal and an accident strand her in untracked territory.
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Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya MenonA contemporary retelling of Beauty and the Beast is set at an elite boarding school, where a princess attempts to protect her younger sister from a rival clan by breaking the heart of a cursed classmate.
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The Loop by Benjamin OliverEnduring a tortuous existence on a futuristic death row for teens where inmates can delay their execution date in exchange for becoming laboratory subjects, Luka uncovers rumors about chaos spreading throughout the outside world before he becomes targeted by his crazed fellow prisoners.
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We Used to be Friends by Amy SpaldingAt the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they're no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Katwhile, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love and having a future that feels wide open.
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The Gravity of Us by Phil StamperWhen his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Jeremy, the son of another astronaut.
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All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana UrbanInvited to a school scholarship dinner, a queen bee, a star athlete, a valedictorian, a stoner, a misfit and a music geek find themselves trapped in a room where one of them must die to save the lives of the others. A first novel
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Moment of Truth by Kasie WestWhen her swim meets are repeatedly interrupted by a clownish stranger in an action-hero costume, a 16-year-old athlete discovers uncomfortable personal truths when she tries to uncover the masked boy’s identity.
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War and Speech by Don ZolidisNeglecting her schoolwork in the face of her father’s hardship-inducing imprisonment, Sydney bonds with fellow misfits at a new school before forging a competitive idea about how to take down a gang of speech-team bullies.
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