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| Kids of Appetite by David ArnoldFiction. While trying to decipher the coded letter telling him how to scatter his dead father’s ashes, outsider Vic Benucci collides with the Kids of Appetite. The KOA is an unlikely crew: a pair of Congolese refugee brothers, a faux-foulmouthed kid, and their ringleader, Madeline “Mad” Falco. Damaged and quietly fierce, Mad fascinates Vic, and their relationship deepens even as they’re drawn into the police investigation of Mad’s uncle’s murder. “Darkness and complexity swirl beneath the surface” (Kirkus Reviews) of this dual perspective story that will captivate readers who, like Vic, consider themselves “heart-thinkers.” |
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A Million Worlds With You
by Claudia Gray
Ever since she used the Firebird, her parent’s invention, to cross through alternate dimensions, Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud. Now she has learned that the evil Triad Corporation plans to destroy hundreds of universes, using their ultimate weapon: another dimension’s Marguerite who is wicked, psychologically twisted, and always one step ahead.
Even though her boyfriend Paul has always been at Marguerite’s side, the Triad’s last attack has left him a changed man, and he may never be the same again. Marguerite alone must stop Triad and prevent the destruction of the multiverse. It’s a battle of the Marguerites . . . and only one can win.
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The Nerdy and the Dirty
by B. T. Gottfred
His classmates may consider him a nerd, but Benedict Pendleton knows he's destined for great things. All he has to do is find a worthy girlfriend, and his social station will be secured. Sure, Benedict is different--but that's what he likes about himself.
Pen Lupo is sick and tired of hiding who she is. On the outside, Pen is popular, quiet, and deferential to her boyfriend. On the inside, however, Pen is honest, opinionated--and not sure that she's quite like other girls. Do they have urges like she does?
When fate intervenes, Pen and Benedict end up at the same vacation resort for winter break. Despite their differences, the two are drawn together. But is there such a thing as happily ever after for this unlikely pair?
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All in pieces
by Suzanne Young
A girl struggles to take care of her younger brother with special needs while confronting her own anger issues.
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Of Fire and Stars
by Audrey Coulthurst
An atmospheric and romantic debut fantasy perfect for fans of Ash and The Winner’s Curse.
Betrothed since childhood to the prince of Mynaria, Princess Dennaleia has always known what her future holds. Her marriage will seal the alliance between Mynaria and her homeland, protecting her people from other hostile kingdoms. But Denna has a secret. She possesses an Affinity for fire—a dangerous gift for the future queen of a land where magic is forbidden.
Now Denna has to learn the ways of her new kingdom while trying to hide her growing magic. To make matters worse, she must learn to ride Mynaria’s formidable warhorses before her coronation—and her teacher is the person who intimidates her most, the prickly and unconventional Princess Amaranthine, sister of her betrothed.
When a shocking assassination leaves the kingdom reeling, Mare and Denna reluctantly join forces to search for the culprit. As the two work together, they discover there is more to one another than they thought—and soon their friendship is threatening to blossom into something more.
But with dangerous conflict brewing that makes the alliance more important than ever, acting on their feelings could be deadly. Forced to choose between their duty and their hearts, Mare and Denna must find a way to save their kingdoms—and each other.
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The door that led to where
by Sally Gardner
AJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his major exams, and at almost seventeen years old, he sees a future that’s far from rosy. So when he’s offered a junior clerk position at a London law firm, he hopes his life is about to change—and it does, but he could never have imagined how much.
While on the job, AJ finds an old key labeled with his birth date, and he’s determined to find the door it will open. When he does just that, AJ and his group of scrappy friends begin a series of amazing journeys to the past—1830, to be exact. And they quickly realize that hardship, treachery, and love haven’t changed too much in almost two hundred years. When they discover a crime that only they can solve, the boys go from wayward youths to intrepid young men with a purpose in life. But with enemies all around, can they unravel the mysteries of the past before the past unravels them?
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The sun is also a star
by Nicola Yoon
A scientifically minded girl who avoids relationships to help keep her family from being deported and a dutiful student who endeavors to live up to his parents' high expectations unexpectedly fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together. By the best-selling author of Everything, Everything.
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Saving Hamlet
by Molly Booth
Excitedly embarking on her sophomore year and her assistant stage manager duties for the drama club's production of Hamlet, Emma endures social drama before being transported back to the year 1601, where she is mistaken for a boy and put to work by the bard himself.
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Jess, Chunk, and the road trip to infinity
by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
A transgender teen who was a boy when she last saw her estranged father embarks on a road trip halfway across the country with her best friend to attend her father's wedding, an adventure that reveals personal truths about the traveling pair and their feelings for one another. By the award-winning author of Freakboy.
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Seriously Shifted
by Tina Connolly
Teenage witch Cam isn’t crazy about the idea of learning magic. She’d rather be no witch than a bad one. But when a trio of her mother’s wicked witch friends decide to wreak havoc in her high school, Cam has no choice but to try to stop them. Now Cam’s learning invisibility spells, dodging exploding cars, and pondering the ethics of love potions. All while trying to keep her grades up and go on a first date with her crush. If the witches don’t get him first, that is. Can’t a good witch ever catch a break?
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The Romantics
by Leah Konen
When a boy's first big relationship crumbles on the heels of his parents' painful separation, a meddling Love intervenes in order to set things right but fails to anticipate the intrusion of her dreaded nemesis, Rebound.
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| Three Dark Crowns by Kendare BlakeFantasy. On the island of Fennbirn, each generation of triplet queens is born with magical powers, but not the right to rule. Instead, one girl must claim the crown by murdering her sisters in a brutal rite of passage. This time around, elemental Mirabella seems to have the advantage, but poisoner Katherine and naturalist Arsinoe can’t be counted out. Which sister is ruthless enough to become the “red-handed Queen”? You’ll want to race through the gut-punching twists of this series opener to find out. While you wait for book two, you can turn to the equally bloody and female-focused Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas.
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Scythe
by Neal Shusterman
""In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomesa scythe must kill the one who doesn't."
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| Something in Between by Melissa de la CruzFiction. After being being awarded a hard-won college scholarship, Filipino-American high school student Jasmine barely has time for excitement before her parents reveal that she can’t accept the award: their family is undocumented. Crushed, Jasmine is forced to re-evaluate not only her plans for the future, but also her growing feelings for Royce, the son of a congressman whose anti-immigrant policies might lead to her family’s deportation. Popular author Melissa de la Cruz brings authenticity and depth to this realistic story about love and belonging; fans of its star-crossed romance should be sure to check out the similarly conflicted couple in Marie Marquardt’s Dream Things True. |
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| Still Life with Tornado by A.S. KingFiction. While skipping school in favor of wandering around Philadelphia, 16-year-old artist Sarah runs into her 10-year-old self. Ever since the incident at the recent art show, teen Sarah has been avoiding both school and her troubled parents. Now, she's worried that what seemed like a small personal crisis might be turning into a full-on breakdown. As older versions of herself appear as well, Sarah begins to realize that there may be something buried in her poisonous family history that her past and future selves need her face. Using surreal events to highlight painfully real issues, Still Life with Tornado is strange, powerful, and "unforgettable" (School Library Journal). |
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Merrow
by Ananda Braxton-Smith
The people of Carrick Island have been whispering behind Neen’s back ever since her father drowned and her mother disappeared. The townspeople say her mother was a merrow and has returned to the ocean. Neen, caught in her hazy new in-between self—not a child, but not quite grown up—can’t help but wonder if the villagers are right. But if her mother was a merrow, then what does that make Neen?
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Fate of flames
by Sarah Raughley
Four girls with the power to control the elements and save the world from a terrible evil must come together in the first epic novel in a brand-new series.
When Phantoms—massive beasts made from nightmares and darkness—suddenly appeared and began terrorizing the world, four girls, the Effigies, each gained a unique power to control one of the classical elements: earth, air, fire, and water. Since then, four girls across the world have continually fought against the Phantoms, fulfilling their cosmic duty. And when one Effigy dies, another girl gains her power as a replacement.
But now, with technologies in place to protect the world’s major cities from Phantom attacks, the Effigies have stopped defending humanity and, instead, have become international celebrities, with their heroic feats ranked, televised, and talked about in online fandoms.
Until the day that New York City’s protection against the Phantoms fails, a man seems to be able to control them by sheer force of will, and Maia, a high school student, unexpectedly becomes the Fire Effigy.
Now Maia has been thrown into battle with three girls who want nothing to do with one another. But with the first human villain that the girls have ever faced, and an army of Phantoms preparing for attack, there isn’t much time for the Effigies to learn how to work together.
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The Best Possible Answer
by E. Katherine Kottaras
AP Exams – check SAT test – check College Application – check Date the wrong guy and ruin everything you’ve spent your whole life working for– check
Super-achiever Viviana Rabinovich-Lowe has never had room to be anything less than perfect. But her quest for perfection is derailed when her boyfriend leaks secret pictures of her to the entire school―pictures no one was ever meant to see. Making matters worse, her parents might be getting divorced and now her perfect family is falling apart. For the first time, Vivi feels like a complete and utter failure.
Then she gets a job working at the community pool, where she meets a new circle of friends who know nothing about her past. That includes Evan, a gorgeous and intriguing guy who makes her want to do something she never thought she’d do again―trust. For the first time in her life, Vivi realizes she can finally be whoever she wants. But who is that? While she tries to figure it out, she learns something they never covered in her AP courses: that it’s okay to be less than perfect, because it’s our imperfections that make us who we are.
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| Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer NivenFiction. Jack and Libby's romance begins with a punch in the face. It's hardly an auspicious start, but Libby -- who used to be known as "America's Fattest Teen" -- refuses to be a target for swaggering, popular guys like Jack. (She has no way of knowing that Jack's attitude hides the loneliness he feels due to a carefully concealed disability.) While stuck together in detention and group counseling, however, Jack and Libby slowly begin to form a bond that's as intense as it is unlikely. Alternating narration offers insights into both vividly drawn characters as they try to puzzle out who they are, both separately and together. |
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My sister Rosa
by Justine Larbalestier
When his father's business takes the family to New York City, a seventeen-year-old Australian boy must balance his desire to protect his ten-year-old sister, a diagnosable psychopath, from the world with the desperate need to protect the world from her.
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| The Darkest Minds by Alexandra BrackenDystopian SF. In this bleak, action-packed book, 98 percent of the children in America have been killed by a virus -- and the other two percent have developed frightening powers that they can't control, prompting the government to lock them up in "rehabilitation camps." Sixteen-year-old Ruby has escaped from one of these camps, along with a small group of others who, like her, are looking for the one secure haven they've heard about...but they'll have to make it there without being captured or killed first. This often violent novel's twists and turns will keep you guessing, and there's also plenty to pull fans of well-developed characters into its harsh, dark world. |
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Dark shimmer
by Donna Jo Napoli
A fairy-tale retelling set in medieval Venice follows the experiences of a giant-sized teen girl who hides on a lagoon island where she makes mirrors with quicksilver before a tragedy compels her move to a land where she is regarded as beautiful. By the author of Zel. Simultaneous eBook.
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| Bright Lights, Dark Nights by Stephen EmondFiction. Walter has always been the kind of guy who doesn't attract much attention. When he meets Naomi, who shares his awkwardness as well as his sense of humor and love of music, he's surprised to find that she likes him just as much as he likes her. However, after Walter's cop father is accused of racial profiling, Walter (who's white) and Naomi (who's black) are thrown into the media spotlight. Can their fledgling relationship stand up to the opinions and prejudices of their community? Expressive illustrations flesh out the urban setting of this thought-provoking story. For another complex teen couple navigating the intersection of race and romance, try Anna Banks' Joyride. |
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Darkest mercy
by Melissa Marr
The Summer King is missing; the Dark Court is bleeding; and a deadly stranger walks the streets of Huntsdale. . . .
Aislinn tends to the Summer Court, searching for her absent king and yearning for Seth. Torn between his new queen and his old love, Keenan braces for the coming war. Donia longs for fiery passion and readies the Winter Court for battle. And Seth, heir to the High Queen, is about to make a mistake that could cost his life.
Love, despair, and betrayal ignite the Faerie Courts, and in the thrilling conclusion of the bestselling Wicked Lovely series, some will win . . . and some will lose everything.
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The darkest corners
by Kara Thomas
Consumed by questions about a fateful, ghostly night that resulted in a cousin's demise, a death-row conviction and her move to a distant town, Tessa reunites with childhood friend Callie to confront the demons of their shared past and uncover a haunting truth. Simultaneous eBook.
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| In Darkness by Nick LakeFiction. In this book that Kirkus Reviews calls "engrossing, disturbing, illuminating" and "a journey well worth taking," readers meet Shorty, a young Haitian man who is trapped in the ruins of a hospital after the devastating 2010 earthquake, waiting for someone -- anyone -- to come to his rescue. As he thinks about the events that led him there, we learn Shorty's story, which alternates with that of 19th-century slave Toussaint L'Ouverture, the leader of the revolution that ousted the French and established Haiti as a black republic. Brutal yet mesmerizing, this novel weaves Haiti's past and present together brilliantly and is certain to provoke both thought and discussion. |
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Dark triumph
by Robin LaFevers
Love and romance, history and magic, vengeance and salvation all converge in this sequel to Grave Mercy that finds Sybella having to face her duty as Death's assassin in 15th-century France, a reality that forces her return home to the personal hell that she had finally escaped.
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| Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope PérezHistorical Fiction. The tragic real-life explosion of a Texas school in 1937 anchors this multilayered, award-winning book, which imagines the events leading up to the incident. Though multiple perspectives are shown, two characters stand out: Naomi, a Mexican American girl who's just moved to town to live with her white father and twin stepbrothers, and Wash, the African American boy she loves. New London, Texas, is sharply segregated along racial lines, and as their romance blossoms, Naomi and Wash become more and more aware of the volatile atmosphere surrounding them. With graceful, inventive storytelling, Out of Darkness will fascinate readers who crave sophisticated historical fiction. |
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| For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana PeterfreundScience Fiction. From Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries on YouTube, Jane Austen adaptations are popular, and For Darkness Shows the Stars offers a unique, dystopian spin on Austen's Persuasion. Years ago, Elliot refused to run away with her sweetheart, Kai, because she was the daughter of a Luddite lord and he was the son of a Reduced lower-class laborer. Now Kai is back and they've both changed -- but have they changed enough for a second chance? Set in a post-apocalyptic world of genetic engineering gone wrong, this futuristic tale will please fans of Lauren DeStefano's Chemical Garden trilogy. |
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Dark inside
by Jeyn Roberts
Apocalyptic disasters and the unleashing of an ancient evil that is transforming humans into crazed killers prompt teens Mason, Aries, Clementine and Michael to flee respective horrors and team up for survival. A first novel.
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