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Magical Realism High School
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A song for Ella Grey
by David Almond
When Claire, Ella, and their friends encounter the mysterious Orpheus on the beach, Claire feels as though her best friend is lost to her when Ella falls under Orpheus' spell.
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The odds of lightning
by Jocelyn Davies
"The night before their SATs, four former best friends get struck by a magical bolt of lightning that gives them special powers and sends them on an all-night adventure throughout New York City."
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Spellbook of the Lost and Found
by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
Noticing on a stormy Irish summer night that she and her friend are missing some of their personal possessions, Olive becomes alarmed when she realizes that her friend may have lost something much more important before mysterious diary pages begin to appear throughout the town at the same time three strangers arrive at a nearby estate.
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The careful undressing of love
by Corey Ann Haydu
A member of a latest generation of girls growing up on a street where they are cursed to cause the deaths of anyone who falls in love with them, Lorna clings to memories of her late father until the death of her best friend's boyfriend triggers local panic about a possible terrorist attack. By the author of OCD Love Story.
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Devil and the bluebird
by Jennifer Mason-Black
Wrestling with her personal demons in the aftermath of losing her mother to cancer, Blue must fight for her runaway sister's soul with a beautiful devil who would steal Blue's singing voice in exchange for a single chance to find her sister.
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When the moon was ours
by Anna-Marie McLemore
As their deep friendship turns to love, Latina teenager Miel, who grows roses from her wrist, and Italian-Pakistani Samir, a transgender boy, fear their secrets will be exposed by the beautiful Bonner girls, four sisters rumored to be witches.
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Bone Gap
by Laura Ruby
Knowing that his sister has been kidnapped by a dangerous assailant and that she did not abandon the family like their mother did years earlier, Finn confronts town secrets to organize a search. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of Lily's Ghost.
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Beautiful broken girls
by Kim Savage
When two sisters living next door to him drown themselves in the neighborhood quarry, Ben begins receiving cryptic postmortem notes from one of the girls directing him to clues about the terrible secrets that complicated the girls' lives.
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Wandering wild
by Jessica Taylor
A teenage girl from a family of Wanderers must choose between the hustling, rambling way of life she has always known and the townie boy for whom she falls.
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The memory trees
by Kali Wallace
Eight years after her sister Patience's tragic death on her family's remote apple orchard, Sorrow returns to the land, determined to find out what really happened the night Patience died and what other secrets may be waiting for her there.
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The strange & beautiful sorrows of Ava Lavender
by Leslye Walton
Born with wings into a family cursed to suffer foolish love affairs, 16-year-old Ava struggles to fit in with the outside world, being ill-prepared for and naive about the twisted motives of others, including a pious man who obsessively believes she is an angel.
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The cure for dreaming
by Cat Winters
In the Portland, Oregon, of 1900, 17-year-old suffragist Olivia Mead is hypnotized by the intriguing young Henri Reverie, who is paid by her father to make her more docile and womanly but who, instead, gives her the ability to see people's true natures while she secretly continues fighting for women's rights. Includes a timeline and historical photographs.
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Places no one knows
by Brenna Yovanoff
Running at night to escape the tedium of her daytime routine, dutiful student Waverly experiences profound dreams of an aimless young man who spends his nights drinking, getting stoned and pretending he does not care about anything. By the best-selling author of The Replacement.
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