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This Was Our Pact
by Ryan Andrews
When their community celebrates the annual Autumn Equinox Festival by lighting paper lanterns and floating them in the river, Ben and the school misfit, Nathaniel, embark on a bicycle trip to discover what happens to the lanterns.
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Slayer
by Kiersten White
A debut entry in a new series set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer introduces the daughter of a Watcher's Academy Council member who is forced to protect her loved ones when she is chosen as the world's final slayer. By the best-selling author of The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein.
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Someone else's shoes
by Ellen Wittlinger
Twelve-year-old Izzy's life just seems to get more and more complicated: she is upset by her father's new marriage, and a new baby on the way; she is expected to look out for her ten-year-old cousin, Oliver, who has moved in with her family since his mother committed suicide, because his father is depressed and having trouble coping; and now Ben, the rebellious sixteen-year-old son of Izzy's mother's boyfriend, is also living with them--but when Oliver's father disappears, the three children put aside their differences and set out to find him
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Deadfall
by Stephen Wallenfels
Twin brothers Cory and Ty Bic, seventeen, search for an escape from criminals in the Pacific Northwest wilderness
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Come November
by Katrin van Dam
Senior year at high school is going to be hard enough for Rooney Harris, desperate to get into a good college and away from her small town, but things get tougher when she ends up as the sole support for herself and her younger brother because of their mother's obsession with the Next World Society, a cult that believes they will be whisked away to a new world paradise on November 17
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Impostors
by Scott Westerfeld
A new series set in the world of the mega-best-selling Uglies finds Frey disguised as her twin sister, Rafi, being sent as collateral in a precarious deal in order to protect Rafi from their father’s enemies, but Col, the son of a rival leader, begins to suspect that all is not what it seems, with dangerous consequences.
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All the stars denied
by Guadalupe García McCall
When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself with her mother and baby brother in Mexico
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Sheets
by Brenna Thummler
When Marjorie, a practical teen in charge of her family's laundry business, encounters Wendell, a ghost seeking purpose in the forbidden human world, the pair must find a solution to Wendell's hauntings that are causing chaos in Marjorie's life
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Just wreck it all
by N Griffin
"Crippled with guilt after causing a horrific accident two years earlier, sixteen-year-old Bett's life is a series of pluses and minuses. But when the pluses become too much to outweigh the minuses, Bett is forced to confront her self-harming behavior"
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