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YA Picks from CFPL November 2017
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Calling my name
by Liara Tamani
An African-American teen in Houston navigates her family's strict rules about school, church and dating while dreaming of a college education and finding her own spiritual life.
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Julia defiant
by Catherine Egan
A sequel to the very popular Julia Vanishes finds Julia and her band of friends fleeing a band of assassins while struggling to protect magic-bound Theo from power-hungry Casimir and Julia's increasingly monstrous powers.
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A map for wrecked girls
by Jessica Taylor
Shipwrecked and stranded on an island with nobody but a troubled, secretive boy to help them survive, two sisters must solve the mystery of their relationship in order to find their way back home.
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Descender : Tin Stars Book one, Tin stars
by Jeff Lemire
TIM-21, a young android, awakens to find that robots are outlawed in his universe, but after discovering that his machine DNA may hold the secrets to a ten year war, he quickly becomes the most wanted robot in the universe. Beautiful, spooky and the first in a series.
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Revenge of the Star Survivors
by Michael Merschel
Is Festus Middle School a strange new frontier or just another place where social misfit Clark Sherman is baffled by bullies, teachers and pop culture, until, bully dominance and bullies until new friendships encourage him to take risks in galaxy-altering ways.
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That inevitable Victorian thing
by E. K Johnston
Princess Victoria-Margaret, a descendent of Victoria I, embarks on a final summer of freedom before she enters an arranged marriage and prepares to rule in this alternate world. She finds her happiness by forming relationships with a geneticist's daughter and a shipping heir.
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The gentleman's guide to vice and virtue
by Mackenzi Lee
If you want to learn about what exactly a Grand Tour meant, take one with these band of merry aristocrats in Europe. Not hard realism but great fun!
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Selections by Fiona Stevenson of the Kids & Young Adult Departments.
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