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"Bad Guy" & "When the Party is Over"
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Bitter End
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Jennifer Brown
Falling for an athletic newcomer whom she believes is the only person who has ever understood her, Alex becomes alarmed by Cole's gradual descent into emotional and physical abuse and is forced to consider a wrenching choice. YF BROWN
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Dreamland
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Sarah Dessen
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous. YF DESSEN
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Caraval
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Stephanie Garber
Believing that she will never be allowed to participate in the annual Caraval performance when her ruthless father arranges her marriage, Scarlett receives the invitation she has always dreamed of before her sister, Tella, is kidnapped by the show's mastermind organizer. YF GARBER
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Unforgiven: A Fallen Novel
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Lauren Kate
Bad-boy dark angel Cam forges a dubious pact with the devil that requires him to either convince the girl he loves, Lilith, to return his affections within 15 days against a backdrop of high school drama or he will be relegated to a torturous place in Hell. YF KATE
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Shatter Me
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Tahereh Mafi
Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her abilities in support of the dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future. YF MAFI
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We Used to be Friends
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Amy Spalding
At 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 Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love and having a future that feels wide open. YF SPALDING
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"You Should See Me in a Crown"
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The Name of the Star
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Maureen Johnson
Rory, a teenager from Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved in the highly unusual investigation. YF JOHNSON
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Scarlett Undercover
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Jennifer Latham
Sixteen-year-old Scarlett, a private detective in the fictional city of Las Almas, finds herself at the center of a mysterious case involving ancient curses, priceless artifacts and jinn, while also discovering that her own family secrets may have more to do with the situation than she thinks. YF LATHAM
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A Madness So Discreet
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Mindy McGinnis
Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace escape from the asylum where she was sent after becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio where they put her skills to use in trying to catch murderers. YF MCGINNIS
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Lock & Mori
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Heather Petty
In modern-day London, sixteen-year-old Miss James "Mori" Moriarty is looking for an escape from her recent past and spiraling home life when she takes classmate Sherlock Holmes up on his challenge to solve a murder mystery. YF PETTY
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Jackaby
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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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Trouble is a Friend of Mine
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Stephanie Tromly
Befriended by Digby, a charismatic young vigilante, who cons her into assisting with several illegal ventures including one that actually saves their hometown, Zoe evaluates her choices while discovering that she is falling in love with him. YF TROMLY
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We Are the Ants
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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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Darius the Great is Not Okay
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Adib Khorram
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life. YF KHORRAM
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When We Collided
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Emery Lord
Resigning himself to another summer of just getting by, a young man overwhelmed by family responsibilities meets a vibrant, beauty-loving girl whose zest for life turns dangerous when she pursues increasingly high-risk adventures. YF LORD
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This Song Will Save Your Life
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Leila Sales
Preparing to resign herself to life as a misfit after her latest attempt at popularity fails, a dangerously depressed Elise Dembowski is unexpectedly accepted into a group of musical friends who help her find her voice and a sense of purpose. YF SALES
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More Happy Than Not
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Adam Silvera
Struggling with memories of his impoverished youth, being abandoned by his friends and losing his father to suicide, Aaron attempts to forget his own identity through memory-altering therapy when his homosexuality affects a new friendship. YF SILVERA
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The Memory of Light
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Francisco X Stork
Waking up in the mental disorders ward after a suicide attempt, Vicky makes friends with other at-risk kids, who under the guidance of a compassionate doctor help her through the first steps towards self-acceptance and confronting the challenges that prompted her depression. YF STORK
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The You I've Never Known
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Ellen Hopkins
A novel in both verse and prose by the best-selling author of Triangles follows the struggles of a girl who longs for a permanent home after years spent moving with her nomadic father, a situation that is shaped by a special friend and daunting revelations about the mother who abandoned her. YF HOPKINS
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The Immortal Rules
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Julie Kagawa
After Allison is forced to flee the city, she joins a band of humans who are seeking a legend -- a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the creatures threatening humans and vampires alike. YF KAGAWA
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I Hunt Killers
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Barry Lyga
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad" but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist." YF LYGA
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The Female of the Species
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Mindy McGinnis
Three years after her sister's murderer walked free and Alex Craft skillfully achieves her vengeance without detection, she begins to form a friendship with a preacher's daughter and the popular Jack Fisher, but she isn't sure she can control her dark side. YF MCGINNIS
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#Murdertrending
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Gretchen McNeil
Falsely accused of murdering her stepsister, seventeen-year-old Dee fights to survive paid assassins on Alcatraz 2.0, the most popular prison on social media. YF MCNEIL
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Sadie
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Courtney Summers
Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance. YF SUMMERS
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"All the Good Girls Go to Hell"
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Ship Breaker
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Paolo Bacigalupi
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl. YF BACIGALUPI
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H2O
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Virginia Bergin
When a strange rain falls bearing a fatal, contagious disease, Ruby finds herself alone with the only drinkable water quickly running out. YF BERGIN
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Solstice
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P. J. Hoover
Enduring life under the oppressive rule of her mother and a global heating crisis that is destroying the Earth, Piper experiences freedom for the first time on her 18th birthday, when she discovers a mythical underworld where gods are battling for power amid revelations about Piper's true identity. YF HOOVER
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Not a Drop to Drink
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Mindy McGinnis
Struggling for survival in a drought-stricken world, teen Lynn fiercely protects her pond from strangers and finds her life endangered by mysterious adversaries who leave footprints nearby, send nighttime threats, and fire warning gunshots in her direction. YF MCGINNIS
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The Dead & The Gone
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Susan Beth Pfeffer
In this companion to Life As We Knew It, the events that take place after an asteroid hits the moon and sets off a chain of events from devastating climate changes are told through the experiences of seventeen-year-old Alex Morales as he deals with the horrors as they unfold in his New York City neighborhood. YF PFEFFER
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Dry
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Neal Shusterman
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive. YF SHUSTERMAN
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Books that Encompass the Essence of Billie
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The Wicked Deep
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Shea Ernshaw
Three sisters, drowned as witches in Sparrow, Oregon, in the 1800s, return each summer for revenge but Penny, seventeen, is determined to stop them to save the boy she loves. YF ERNSHAW
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Wilder Girls
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Rory Power
Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island. YF POWER
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(Don't You) Forget About Me
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Kate Karyus Quinn
Traces the emotionally complex journey of a teenage girl haunted by the death of her sister and the strange, secretive power that fuels a hometown where virtually nobody ever gets sick or dies. YF QUINN
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Bone Gap
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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. YF RUBY
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The Raven Boys
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Maggie Stiefvater
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix. YF STIEFVATER
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Girls with Sharp Sticks
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Suzanne Young
In the near future at a girls-only private high school isolated in the Colorado mountains, Mena and her classmates--under the watchful eyes of their Guardian, professors, and analyst--are trained to be beautiful and obedient for their sponsors and investors. YF YOUNG
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