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Asking for It
by Louise O'Neill
After beautiful eighteen-year-old Emma O'Donovan is found on her doorstep disheveled, bleeding, and disoriented, with no memory of the party she attended the night before, viral photographs from the party set off a criminal investigation that divides her quiet Irish town.
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Caraval
by Stephanie Garber
Fleeing an abusive father and an arranged marriage, Scarlett and her sister Tella arrive at Caraval expecting to be dazzled, but their expectations turn to terror when Legend, Caraval's mastermind, kidnaps Tella and forces Scarlett to win her back.
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Frogkisser!
by Garth Nix
Cursed with a spell-breaking magic kiss, Princess Anya is forced to flee her stepfamily's plot to take over the kingdom and embarks on a wild adventure involving a talking dog, a boy trapped in the body of a newt, and some extraordinarily mischievous wizards.
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After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
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The You I've Never Known
by Ellen Hopkins
Alternating between two voices, the story's poems follow Ariel, who's worried about how her father might react to her bisexuality, and Maya, whose diary entries reveal her belief that marrying and having a baby with an older man will help her escape from her Scientologist mother.
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Focus on: Canadian Authors
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Born to Rock
by Gordon Korman
When Leo Caraway, president of the Young Republicans Club, gets his scholarship to Harvard taken away, he becomes a roadie in his biological father's punk rock band, in hopes that his dad will pay for his tuition.
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The Emperor of Any Place
by Tim Wynne-Jones
When Evan looks into the hand-bound book that his father was reading when he passed away, the diary of a Japanese soldier in World War II, questions about the book and how it relates to Evan begin to multiply.
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No Safe Place
by Deborah Ellis
After leaving his war-torn home in Baghdad, Abdul makes his way to a squalid migrant community in Calais, France, and prepares to make a trip to England aboard a smuggler's ship with other illegal migrant youths from diverse countries.
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A Thousand Nights
by E. K. Johnston
This retelling of The Arabian Nights follows the efforts of a magical young woman to placate the king, her new husband, by telling him a long sequence of stories to prevent him from making her his latest victim.
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The Truth Commission
by Susan Juby
To complete a "creative nonfiction" project for their Vancouver Island art school, Normandy Pale and her friends form the Truth Commission. Each week, they ask students or faculty members to reveal the facts behind a piece of gossip, with surprising results.
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