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Copycat
by Hannah Jayne
Addie is obsessed with a series of mystery novels, even writing fan fiction based on them, but when a similar murder happens in her own town, she is not prepared
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Everything must go
by Jenny Fran Davis
Unexpectedly falling in love with a young man who has accepted a teaching position at a hippie Quaker school in the Hudson Valley, Flora gives up her elite Upper East Side prep school for life on a farm, hoping to woo him, and must make the most of the ensuing culture clash when the object of her affection fails to show up. Simultaneous eBook.
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The radius of us
by Marie F. Marquardt
Told in alternating voices, follows the growing relationship of two teenaged victims of violence who are struggling to overcome trauma and help each other cope
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A court of thorns and roses
by Sarah J Maas
Dragged off to a treacherous magical land as retribution for killing a wolf, huntress Feyre learns that her captor, Tamlin, is one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world
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The wicked king
by Holly Black
A sequel to The Cruel Prince finds Jude navigating the Faerie's constantly shifting political alliances while the wicked but alluring king, Cardan, does everything in his power to undermine her, before the acts of a mysterious traitor threaten the lives of everyone Jude loves. 100,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook
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Max
by Sarah Cohen-Scali
Raised and taught to be a strict, perfect Aryan child under the ideologies of the Nazi Party, Max, a boy who was taken from his mother at birth, begins questioning these educational precepts in the wake of a loveless life and his friendship with a young Jewish boy, in a U.S. release of an award-winning novel from France. Simultaneous eBook.
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Brave enough
by Kati Gardner
The lives of Davis Channing, a cancer surviving recovering addict, and Cason Martin, a ballerina undergoing chemotherapy, intersect in a powerful way at a time when both are struggling to survive life-threatening diseases
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Reign of the fallen
by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Odessa, a master necromancer in Karthia, where nothing has changed in 200 years, uncovers a disturbing conspiracy and must fight alongside her fellow mages against terrifying, bloodthirsty Shades and their creator
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Hamilton and Peggy! : a revolutionary friendship
by Laura Elliott
The best-selling author of Between the States presents a richly detailed historical novel inspired by the relationship between Alexander Hamilton and Peggy Schuyler, describing how the latter was challenged by the realities of war to distinguish herself from her remarkable sisters and make her own mark on history. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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| Saints and Misfits by S.K. AliWhat it’s about: According to Janna Yusuf, there are three kinds of people: saints, like her brother's pious fiancée; monsters, like the seemingly saintly guy who assaulted Janna; and misfits, like Janna herself, a Flannery O'Connor-loving hijabi with divorced parents and a crush on a non-Muslim guy.
Read it for: Janna's authentically angsty struggle to find her place and her voice.
Award buzz: honored in 2018 by the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award. |
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| The Marrow Thieves by Cherie DimalineIn a world...where climate change has ravaged North America, Métis teen Frenchie and his fellow survivors are on the run from the Recruiters, who seek to harvest and sell Indigenous people’s bone marrow in order to restore white people’s lost ability to dream.
Read it for: gritty, vivid world-building that makes you feel like you’ve stepped into the post-apocalyptic future.
Award buzz: honored in 2018 by the American Indian Youth Literature Award (as well as several other awards). |
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| You're Welcome, Universe by Whitney GardnerWhat it’s about: After being expelled from the Kingston School for the Deaf, graffiti artist Julia Prasad is sent to a mainstream school where she finds a persistent new friend and an anonymous graffiti rival who won’t stop messing with her tags.
Art alert: When English just won’t do, Julia narrates her realistically complex story through art and drawn ASL signs.
Award buzz: winner of the 2018 Schneider Family Book Award. |
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| The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe; translated by Lilit ThwaitesWhat it is: a sophisticated, harrowing novel (based on real events) that tells the story of Dita, a 14-year-old girl who protects a collection of forbidden books in the “family camp” at Auschwitz.
Try this next: Vesper Stamper’s What the Night Sings or Elizabeth Wein’s Rose Under Fire -- both are similarly moving reads about lesser-known aspects of concentration camps.
Award buzz: winner of the 2018 Sydney Taylor Book Award. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up! |
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