November 2019 list by K. Pearson
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All-American Muslim girl
by Nadine Jolie Courtney
Allie, aged seven when she knew her family was different and feared, struggles to claim her Muslim and Arabic heritage while finding her place as an American teenager.
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The Boy With the Butterfly Mind
by Victoria Williamson
Jamie Lee just wants to be normal but his ADHD isn't making it easy. If only he could control his butterfly mind he'd have friends, be able to keep out of trouble and he could live with his mom, not be sent to stay with his dad.
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A Constellation of Roses
by Miranda Asebedo
Questioning her preference for a life on the move when she arrives at the home of long-lost relatives, an abandoned girl observes mysterious family talents behind the uncanny abilities she has used to survive.
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Deadly Little Scandals
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found during her debutante year only left her with more questions and one potentially life-ruining secret.
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Find Me Their Bones
by Sara Wolf
A sequel to Bring Me Their Hearts finds Zera awaiting her death in the tower after her forced betrayal of Prince Lucien, before she is tasked with recruiting the bloodthirsty valkerax in exchange for a second chance at life as a Heartless.
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Friend or fiction
by Abby Cooper
Struggling through her father’s cancer treatments in her small Colorado town, Jade imagines a perfect best friend and writes about their shared adventures in a notebook, before a magical experiment brings her imaginary friend to life.
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The Hand on the Wall
by Maureen Johnson
Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. All at the exact moment of Stevie’s greatest triumph . . .She knows who Truly Devious is. She’s solved it. The greatest case of the century.
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The How & the Why
by Cynthia Hand
A novel told from the viewpoints of an adoptee and the teen mother who gave her up 18 years earlier follows Cassandra’s search for clues about her true identity in the letters left behind by her birth mother.
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The reckoning of Noah Shaw
by Michelle Hodkin
Legacies are revealed, lies unraveled, and old alliances forged as Noah tries to escape the consequences of his choices and move forward without first confronting his past.
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Revenge of the Red Club
by Kim Harrington
A tween reporter discovers an important and beloved club at school is being shut down—and uses the power of the pen to try and activate some much-needed social change in this period-positive and empowering middle grade novel about the importance of standing up for what you believe in.
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Shadowscent
by P.M. Freestone
In the Aramtesh Empire scent is all important, and Rakel has a way with perfumes which she hopes to use to delay her father's inevitable death; Ash is a member of the imperial bodyguard, assigned to the crown prince Nisai's bodyguard; now they are all brought together on a caravan to an outer province, seeking a rare flower that can cure the poisoned emperor--but when Nisai himself is poisoned Rakel and Ash smell like the chief suspects, and they must search out the answers together before the imperial army hunts them down.
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Sick Kids in Love
by Hannah Moskowitz
She’s got issues. She’s got secrets. She’s got rheumatoid arthritis. But then she meets another sick kid. He’s got a chronic illness Isabel’s never heard of, something she can’t even pronounce. He understands what it means to be sick. He understands her more than her healthy friends. He understands her more than her own father who’s a doctor.
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The Sky Weaver
by Kristen Ciccarelli
A conclusion to the trilogy that began with The Last Namsara and The Caged Queen finds sworn enemies Safire and Eris journeying from the port city of Darmoor to the fabled Sky Isles in a precariously shared effort to track down the last Namsara.
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Song of the crimson flower
by Julie C. Dao
Bao, a poor physician's apprentice, and Lan, the wealthy nobleman's daughter he loves, work together to break a curse and save the kingdom of Feng Lu.
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Sisters of Shadow and Light
by Sara B. Larson
The night my sister was born, the stars died and were reborn in her eyes…For fifteen years Zuhra and Inara have lived, trapped in the citadel, with little contact from the outside world…until the day a stranger passes through the hedge, and everything changes.
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Under the broken sky
by Mariko Nagai
A novel in verse about a Japanese orphan’s experiences in occupied rural Manchuria during World War II finds 12-year-old Natsu struggling to protect her little sister by selling her to a Russian family in the wake of the 1945 Soviet occupation.
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When the stars lead to you
by Ronni Davis
After Ashton broke Devon's heart, she focused on preparing for her future as an astrophysicist but Ashton's appearance on the first day of her senior year forces her to revisit their magical summer together.
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