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Girl Last Seen
by Heather Anastasiu
Forced to watch her best friend launch a solo career when an infection paralyzes her own vocal chords, Lauren is suspected of being responsible for her friend's subsequent disappearance and must unravel complicated truths to figure out what happened and clear her name. YF ANASTADSIU
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Some of the Parts
by Hannah Rodgers Barnaby
Putting on a brave show in the aftermath of her older brother's death, Tallie is shattered by the arrival of a letter from an organ donor thanking her family and embarks on a search for other organ recipients in the hope of reconnecting with the brother she wasn't ready to let go of. YF BARNABY
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The Fixer
by Jennifer Barnes
When her grandfather develops dementia, 16-year-old Tess, who has been maintaining his Montana ranch, is whisked away to Washington, D.C. by a sister she barely knows and thrown into a world of politics, power, wealth, love triangles and family secrets. YF BARNES
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The Lost and the Found
by Cat Clarke
More than a decade after witnessing her older sister's abduction, Faith is astonished by the appearance of a disoriented young woman who is revealed to be her long-lost sister and who triggers disturbing events that isolate Faith from her family and cause her to question her sister's motives. YF CLARKE
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Longbow Girl
by Linda Davies
Transported back to the time of Henry VIII, Welsh longbow girl Merry Owen, assisted by her best friend, James, enters an archery tournament to save her ancestors' land from being seized by greedy aristocrats. A first young adult novel by the author of Hostage. YF DAVIES
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Peas and Carrots
by Tanita S Davis
Placed with her baby brother's foster family when their mother is arrested again, Dess struggles with the family's optimism while trying to find common ground with her naïve foster sister, who helps her understand her own feelings about wanting to belong. YF DAVIS
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Other Broken Things
by C. Desir
Forced to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, where she bonds with a much older man, seventeen-year-old Natalie, a recovering alcoholic, confronts issues in her family and life as she tries to turn her life around. YF DESIR
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The Great American Whatever
by Tim Federle
A bittersweet testament to the power of old movies and new memories follows the experiences of irreverent Hollywood hopeful Quinn, who is shattered by the death of his sister and writing partner and who falls in love at a college party with a young man who inspires his healing. YF FEDERLE
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Zero Day
by Jan Gangsei
Mysteriously returned to her high-profile family eight years after being kidnapped, 16-year-old Addie, whose parents are now the president and first lady, is spied on by her one-time best friend, who evaluates her as a potential threat to national security. YF GANGSEI
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Wolf by Wolf
by Ryan Graudin
In a tale set in an alternate-history mid-20th century where the Axis powers have won World War II, Yael, a death camp escapee, aspires to win a high-profile motorcycle race so that she can assassinate Hitler. YF GRAUDIN
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The Girl at Midnight
by Melissa Grey
Hidden from humans beneath the streets of New York City are an ancient magical people, the Avicen, who are the only family that Echo, a runaway pickpocket, has ever known, and she will stop at nothing to find the mythical Firebird to end the centuries-old war that crests on the borders of her home, endangering those she loves most. YF GREY
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Pearl
by Deirdre Riordan Hall
When her uncle agrees to pay the tuition at a private boarding school, seventeen-year-old Pearl hopes to escape the homelessness and drama of life with her mother, a former rock star who has ruined her life with drugs. YF HALL
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The Smell of Other People's Houses
by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
Intertwined stories of love, tragedy, wild luck and salvation on Alaska's wild frontier in the 1970s follows the experiences of four very different teens whose lives become entangled and who try to save each other, sometimes succeeding when they least expect it. YF HITCHCOCK
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We Are the Ants
by Shaun David Hutchinson
Abducted by aliens periodically throughout his youth, Henry is informed by his erstwhile captors that they will end the world in 144 days unless he stops them by deciding that humanity is worth saving. YF HUTCHINSON
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear
by E. K Johnston
A head cheerleader in a tiny community where cheerleading is the school's primary sport dedicates herself to her team only to wake up after being drugged to discover that she has been raped and become pregnant as a result, a situation that is further complicated by local attitudes. YF JOHNSTON
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Whisper to Me
by Nick Lake
Writing a letter to a heartbroken boy to explain why she pushed him away, Cassie asks for his forgiveness while reflecting on her father's anger over their relationship, the reasons for her occasional disappearances and the traumatic long-ago night that she does not want to remember. YF LAKE
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Burn Baby Burn
by Meg Medina
Enduring the infamous New York summer of 1977 in the wake of arson fires, a massive blackout and the Son of Sam serial killings, 17-year-old Nora Lopez navigates the additional stresses of her family's limited finances, her father's absence and her brother's growing violence. YF MEDINA
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Red Ink
by Julie Mayhew
Left without any family when her mother is killed in a bus accident, 15-year-old Melon Fouraki survives by clinging to The Story, a family fairy tale to which she clings as she struggles with sudden grief and the unfolding process of finding out who she really is. YF MAYHEW
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Of Better Blood
by Susan Moger
In 1922, unwanted by her upperclass family, teenage polio survivor Rowan plays a born cripple in a state fair eugenics exhibit but soon learns how badly eugenics can go awry. YF MOGER
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Kill the Boy Band
by Goldy Moldavsky
When their adoration gets out of hand and results in a favorite boy-band member being kidnapped and held in their hotel room, four zealous, superfan girls manage their disappointment with their hostage while struggling to figure out how to resolve the problem they've created. YF MOLDAVSKY
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The Rest of Us Just Live Here
by Patrick Ness
The best friend of a kid with superhuman qualities endeavors to have a life of his own that is both normal and extraordinary in the face of constant world-shaking challenges, threats against his school and an elusive pretty girl. YF NESS
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The Keeper of the Mist
by Rachel Neumeier
Required by ancient magic to assume the dangerous position previously held by the father she barely knew, Keri relies on her three clever guides and struggles to outmaneuver her treacherous half-brothers while working to repair a failing boundary between her people and land-hungry neighbors. YF NEUMEIER
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Seven Ways We Lie
by Riley Redgate
Seven high-school students engage in personal battles against the seven deadly sins in the face of exposed secrets and school scandals that threaten everything they care about. YF REDGATE
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Jackaby
by William Ritter
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R.F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature. YF RITTER
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Riders
by Veronica Rossi
Recovering from an accident that actually killed him, Gideon Blake, who aspired to be a U.S. Army Ranger, discovers that he is manifesting strange new powers and has become one of the four legendary horsemen of the apocalypse who, along with his fellow riders, must save humanity from an ancient evil force. YF ROSSI
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Phoenix
by S. F Said
A boy with unprecedented powers turns to the formidable Alien enemies of humanity to discover his true nature and bring peace to a galaxy at war. YF SAID
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The Alex Crow
by Andrew Smith
The story of Ariel, a Middle Eastern refugee who lives with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber, the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late 19th century, and a depressed, bionic reincarnated crow. YF SMITH
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Beast
by Brie Spangler
Forced to attend therapy after injuring himself in the wake of a school ban against the hats he uses for camouflage, Dylan, a teen whose burly, hairy appearance causes him to be ostracized, is challenged by a groupmate who becomes more than a friend before revealing her transgender identity. YF SPANGLER
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