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Dead Voices
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Katherine Arden
"Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent "Smiling Man" in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco and Brian spend winter break together along with their parents at Mount Hemlock, a down-on-its-heels ski resort run by the Beard family. With its sale to a big, shiny new resort just over the mountain imminent, this is the last season Mount Hemlock will be in operation. Ollie, Coco and Brian make the best of the situation spending their days learning to ski, but at night, Ollie is plagued by what sound like footsteps outside her door. When she gets up to look, there's no one there. Then Ollie and Brian start seeing a strange figure around the resort. After asking about him, they start to suspect the figure is actually a ghost--Gerald, Mr. Beard's former partner, who died the year before after getting lost on the mountain in a snowstorm. The friends realize after the events of Small Spaces, they've been left with the ability to see ghosts and this ghost wants something. They begin to investigate, but know not all ghosts can or should be trusted. Still they follow the clues that Gerald lays out and shortly come to understand Gerald is leading them to his killer. The closer they get, the more they risk joining Gerald in the shadow world"
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The Never Tilting World
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Rin Chupeco
"After an ancient prophecy is betrayed, a world ruled by a long line of goddesses is split in two--one half in perpetual day, and the other in an endless night--and two young twin goddesses set out on separate and equally dangerous journeys to the Breachthat divides them, hoping to save their broken world"
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Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard
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Echo Brown
A largely autobiographical story infused with magical realism follows the transcendent coming-of-age of a teen from the East Side who transitions from the world of her home to that of a privileged West Side school while navigating an ominous veil of depression.
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Every Stolen Breath
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Kimberly Gabriel
Inspired by the real-life “flash-mob” violence that has plagued Chicago since 2011, a fast-paced and immersive debut finds a teen testing the limits of her sanity to uncover the reasons behind her father’s assassination.
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Not So Pure and Simple
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Lamar Giles
A first contemporary young adult novel by the two-time Edgar Award finalist and author of Fake ID finds a young man’s efforts to win the heart of a longtime crush complicated by their church’s Purity Pledge.
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Almost American Girl
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Robin Ha
What it’s about: Chuna is 14 when her single mom decides to marry a Korean American man, moving their little family from Seoul to Alabama. Feeling adrift in a new country, a new language, and an unwelcoming new school and stepfamily, Chuna finds an anchor in drawing comics.
Why you might like it: This illustrated memoir offers an honest, unsentimental look at a mother-daughter relationship, and at how one immigrant teen finds herself through art.
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Just Breathe
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Cammie McGovern
Starring: popular, outgoing David, who tries to downplay his cystic fibrosis while waiting for a lung transplant; and quiet, depressed outsider Jamie, who strikes up an intense friendship with David while volunteering at the hospital.
For fans of: Rachael Lippincott’s Five Feet Apart and other books that use alternating perspectives to explore romance and freedom in the face of illness.
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Sick Kids in Love
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Hannah Moskowitz
When Isabel, who has rheumatoid arthritis, meets Sasha, a boy with a chronic illness, she considers breaking her no dating rule for him
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Loveboat, Taipei
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Abigail Hing Wen
Sent from her Ohio home to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer, a Chinese American girl struggles through strict educational practices and unfamiliar dating norms before discovering the painful secrets held by an assortment of new friends.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up!
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New Castle Public Library 207 E. North St. New Castle, Pennsylvania 16101 724-658-6659www.ncdlc.org |
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