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| City of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. AndersonBesides protecting her younger sister, 16-year-old Tina doesn't care about anything other than revenge for their mother's death. Having fled from Congo to urban Kenya, Tina lives by a strict set of self-imposed rules while working as a thief for a street gang and planning her takedown of Mr. Greyhill, her mother's former boss and likely killer. When her plan goes awry, Tina has to break one of her rules ("thieves don't have friends") in favor of a risky partnership that might help her finally discover the truth about her mother's death. Smart, suspenseful, and gritty, City of Saints & Thieves will keep you riveted from the first page. |
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The End of Oz
by Danielle Paige
Whisked away by the magical Road of Yellow Brick, Amy embarks on a dubious journey in search of help in the aftermath of a devastating betrayal and news that Dorothy may not have been defeated after all. Simultaneous eBook.
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Strange the dreamer
by Laini Taylor
In the aftermath of a war between gods and men, a hero, a librarian, and a girl must battle the fantastical elements of a mysterious city stripped of its name
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The White Road of the Moon
by Rachel Neumeier
A girl who is hated by her family and community because of her ability to see and communicate with ghosts runs away to escape being sold into an abusive apprenticeship before encountering a mysterious stranger and a ghost boy who are desperate for her help. By the author of The Keeper of the Mist. Simultaneous eBook.
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Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean
by Kirsty Murray
A collection of feminist stories, graphic novellas and a play about the connections we all share includes the tale of a Little Red Riding Hood who wears a space suit, boys and girls who turn the tables on catcallers and a version of Top Chef that involves time travel to secure fresh ingredients. Simultaneous eBook.
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| Caraval by Stephanie GarberFantasy. Fleeing an abusive father and an arranged marriage, Scarlett and her sister Tella arrive at Caraval expecting to be dazzled: for years, they've heard astonishing stories about the magical circus/live action game run by enigmatic mastermind Legend. Their expectations turn to terror, however, when Legend kidnaps Tella and makes her the subject of that year's Caraval. To win her back, Scarlett will have to play for five nights, facing down seductive enchantments and her own deeply hidden fears, all while dealing with her growing feelings for her sailor companion, Julian. The lush language and imaginative world-building in this series debut are sure to keep fantasy fans spellbound. |
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| The Edge of Everything by Jeff GilesParanormal Fiction. A bounty hunter from hell isn't the likeliest of rescuers, but considering that Zoe and her brother are trapped and under attack in the middle of a brutal Montana blizzard, they're not in a position to complain. Supernaturally powered X was sent from the hellish Lowlands to collect the soul of Zoe's attacker, but the immediate and powerful attraction between him and Zoe makes X reconsider his duty, just as Zoe reconsiders what she thought she knew about her father's recent death. Combining star-crossed romance, offbeat dialogue, and high-stakes action, The Edge of Everything will leave paranormal fiction fans eager for the next book in the series.
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| The You I've Never Known by Ellen HopkinsVerse Fiction. Alternating between free verse and diary-style prose, popular author Ellen Hopkins carefully unspools the stories of two teen girls trying to find themselves outside of their toxic families. The poems follow Ariel, who's worried about how her controlling, volatile father might react to her newly realized bisexuality. The diary is written by Maya, who believes that marrying and having a baby with an older man will help her escape from her Scientologist mother. The farther you get in this "sharp, gripping read" (School Library Journal), the more clues you get about how the two stories intertwine. For a different perspective on a similar situation, try Robin Benway's Emmy and Oliver. |
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A Crown of Wishes
by Roshani Chokshi
Taken prisoner in a neighboring hostile kingdom, Gauri, the princess of Bharata, agrees to help a cunning prince by teaming up with him in a mythical competition that will grant a magic wish to the victor. By the Pushcart Prize-nominated author of In the Fray. Simultaneous eBook.
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Just a Girl
by Carrie Mesrobian
By her senior year of high school, Rianne has exhausted all the fun there is to have in small-town Wereford, Minnesota. Volleyball season is winding down, the parties feel tired, and now that she’s in a serious relationship with reformed player Luke Pinsky, her wild streak has ended. Not that she ever did anything worse than most guys in her school...but she knows what everyone thinks of her. Including her parents. Divorced but now inexplicably living together again, Rianne wonders why they’re so quick to point out every bad choice she’s making when they can’t even act like adults—or have the decency to tell Rianne whether or not they’re getting back together. With an uncomfortable home life and her once-solid group of friends now dissolving, the reasons for sticking around after high school are few. So why is Rianne locking step when it comes to figuring out her future? That’s not the only question Rianne can’t answer. Lately she’s been wondering why, when she has a perfect-on-paper boyfriend, she wants anything but. Or how it is that Sergei, a broken-English-speaking Russian, understands her better than anyone who’s known her all her life? And—perhaps the most troubling question—why has Rianne gotten stuck with an “easy girl” reputation for doing the same exact things as guys without any judgment?
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Sophie Someone
by Hayley Long
Sophie Nieuwenleven is sort of English and sort of Belgian. She and her family came to live in Belgium when she was only four or five, but she's fourteen now and has never been sure why they left England in the first place. She loves her international school, adores her friend Comet, and is protective of her little brother, Hercule. But it’s hard to feel carefree when her mom never leaves the apartment — ordering groceries online and blasting music in her room — and her dad has a dead-end job as a car mechanic. Then one day Sophie makes a startling discovery, a discovery that unlocks the mystery of who she really is. This is a novel about identity and confusion and about feeling so utterly freaked out that you can't put it into words. But it's also about hope. And trust. And the belief that, somehow, everything will be OK. Sophie Someone is a tale of good intentions, bad choices, and betrayal — and ultimately, a compelling story of forgiveness.
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Piper Perish
by Kayla Cagan
Piper Perish and her two friends, Kit and Enzo, have long planned on getting out of Houston and going to art school in New York City together, but halfway through their senior year Enzo breaks up with her at a dance in the most public, spectacular, and embarrassing manner possible--and suddenly Piper is faced with a series of life and relationship changing events that threaten her dream
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| Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football team by Steve SheinkinBiography. In his prime, Jim Thorpe was known as "the best athlete on the planet," but as a young man in the early 1900s, he had only just started playing for the Carlisle Indian Industrial School's football team. Under the guidance of legendary coach Pop Warner, Thorpe made the Carlisle team nearly unbeatable. Their success story, however, is shot through with ugliness: Carlisle cruelly stripped Native American students of their cultures, and Thorpe (a multiracial member of the Sac and Fox Nation) battled racism at every turn in his career. Edge-of-your-seat sports action jostles with an unforgiving look at American history in this biography from award-winning author Steve Sheinkin. |
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The other F-word
by Natasha Friend
Two teens conceived via in vitro fertilization—one with extreme allergies and the other who recently lost her mother—team up to search for answers about their donor. By the award-winning author of Where You'll Find Me. Simultaneous eBook.
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Who Killed Christopher Goodman?
by Allan Wolf
Everybody likes Chris Goodman. Sure, he’s a little odd. He wears those funny bell-bottoms and he really likes the word ennui and he shakes your hand when he meets you, but he’s also the kind of guy who’s always up for a good time, always happy to lend a hand. Everybody likes Chris Goodman, which makes it especially shocking when he’s murdered. Here, in a stunning multi-voiced narrative — including the perspective of the fifteen-year-old killer — and based on a true and terrible crime that occurred when he was in high school, author Allan Wolf sets out to answer the first question that comes to mind in moments of unthinkable tragedy: how could a thing like this happen?
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Dream Forever
by Kit Alloway
Brokenhearted Josh struggles with Feodor's training, Peregrine's flight and Haley's imprisonment in Death at the same time mysterious rifts in the veil around Dream threaten everyone in the World, in a conclusion to the trilogy that includes Dreamfire and Dreamfever. Simultaneous eBook.
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Bull
by David Elliott
The best-selling author of the Evangeline Mudd series updates the classic story of Theseus and the Minotaur in a darkly comedic, versed adaptation specifically tailored to the interests of today's young adults. Simultaneous eBook.
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Pyromantic
by Lish McBride
A sequel to Firebug finds Ava estranged from her friends and would-be boyfriend, Lock, after discovering that she is still Coterie, a situation that is complicated by a mysterious illness that begins plaguing magical beings. Simultaneous eBook.
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Honestly Ben
by Bill Konigsberg
Ben Carver returns for the spring semester at the exclusive Natick School in Massachusetts determined to put his relationship with Rafe Goldberg behind him and concentrate on his grades and the award that will mean a full scholarship--but Rafe is still there, there is a girl named Hannah whom he meets in the library, and behind it all is his relationship with his distant, but demanding father.
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You're Welcome, Universe
by Whitney Gardner
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy himself could convince her to give that up. Out in the 'burbs, Julia paints anywhere she can, eager to claim some turf of her own. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off|and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a full-blown graffiti war.
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Focus on: Canadian Authors
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| Through the Woods by Emily CarrollHorror Comics. A dismembered bride. A sinister smile. A monster in human skin. A wolf outside your bedroom window. These themes, all familiar to fans of fairy tales and Gothic ghost stories, are given a visually arresting new spin in this collection of horror comics. Canadian artist Emily Carroll -- you might be familiar with her webcomics -- illustrates each chilling tale with bold colors (emphasis on the blood red), careful period details, and masterful pacing, creating suspense with each turn of the page. If you love the eerie atmosphere of Edward Gorey's art but prefer stories with an unsettling edge, don't miss this shiver-inducing journey Through the Woods.
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| The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim by E.K. JohnstonFantasy. Once, dragon slaying was a noble calling, with slayers guarding their neighbors from ferocious, carbon-hungry dragons. These days, however, most slayers work for big cities and corporations. That's why the citizens of Trondheim, a tiny town in rural Ontario, are so grateful for the protection of a renowned family of slayers like the Thorskards. It's also why Siobhan, a gifted musician, agrees to become bard (and algebra tutor) to trainee slayer Owen Thorskard and to join his family's campaign to return dragon slaying to its roots. Along with its sequel, Prairie Fire, this inventive spin on dragon lore will enchant readers with its strong characters, quirky humor, and intricate world-building. |
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| The Truth Commission by Susan JubyFiction. 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. The results are both enlightening and unsettling, and Normandy realizes that there are times when she'd rather not know the truth -- especially if it involves her sister Keira, who's suddenly back from college and just as hostile as ever. "Hilarious, deliciously provocative and slyly thought-provoking" (Kirkus Reviews), The Truth Commission will remind readers that honesty is rarely as simple as it seems. |
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| The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa TotenFiction. From the very first moment he sees her in Young Adult OCD Support Group, 14-year-old Adam knows that he has to save Robyn Plummer. True, the need to protect people -- like his struggling divorced mom and his anxious younger brother -- drives many of Adam's habits and rituals, but he's sure he can do better where Robyn is concerned. A connection as powerful as theirs has got to be stronger than either of their compulsions…doesn't it? Similar to Corey Ann Haydu's OCD Love Story, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13 B offers a complex, first-person look at falling in love while living with mental illness. |
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| Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-JonesMystery. Forced to leave home in order to escape his abusive stepfather, homeless teen Brent -- aka "Blink" due to a facial tic -- is scavenging for room-service leftovers in a hotel hallway when he witnesses the kidnapping of an oil company's CEO. Another street kid, Kitty (nicknamed "Caution, as in Toxic"), stays with her violent, drug-dealer boyfriend because she doesn't believe she deserves any better. After Blink leaves the scene of the kidnapping and Caution flees from her boyfriend, the two of them are drawn together -- and may end up being each other's salvation. Set in Toronto and narrated alternately by various characters, Blink & Caution is a gritty, fast-paced, and beautifully written novel with more than a tinge of noir. |
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