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After the Shot Drops
by Randy Ribay
Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.
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Blood Water Paint
by Joy McCullough
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape, the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
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Chaotic Good by Whitney GardnerCameron's cosplay creations are finally starting to earn her attention, which she hopes to use to get into the CalArts costume design department. But after she wins a major competition, she inadvertently sets off angry comments from male fans online.
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The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily
by Laura Creedle
Landing in detention after secretly stopping her ADHD medication, Lily bonds with Abelard, an engaging boy with his own developmental challenges, over a mutual affinity for classic love letters and wonders if their growing attraction will be strong enough to bridge their differences.
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The Traitor's Game
by Jennifer A Nielsen
Embroiled in a cruel immortal king's palace politics in spite of having spent three years in exile, the daughter of a high-ranking official is kidnapped by a group of rebels who require her to search for a lost weapon capable of destroying the throne.
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| The Dark Days Club by Alison GoodmanLady Helen Wexhall has supernatural abilities that complicate her social debut in 1812 London and provoke a personal dilemma: should she marry the Duke of Selburn and be a respectable lady, or join the rakish Earl of Carlston as a demon-fighter with the Dark Days Club?
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Ghost House
by Alexandra Adornetto
After the loss of her mother, Chloe Kennedy starts seeing ghosts and encounters the spirit of Alexander Reade, an alluring man who is 157 years dead and whose ghostly past love, Isobel, will stop at nothing to destroy anyone who threatens to take him away.
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Jellicoe Road
by Melina Marchetta
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
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Pink
by Lili Wilkinson
Sixteen-year-old Ava does not know who she is or where she belongs, but when she tries out a new personality--and sexual orientation--at a different school, her edgy girlfriend, potential boyfriend, and others are hurt by her lack of honesty.
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The Reformed Vampire Support Group
by Catherine Jinks
In an effort to fit into society, 15-year-old vampire Nina Harrison reluctantly joins the Reformed Vampire Support Group in order to change her ways, but when a silver bullet kills one of her friends, her misfit group seeks to find the killer and save themselves from the same deadly fate.
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