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Staff Picks: Our Favorite Teen Reads
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Sorcery of thorns
by Margaret Rogerson
A foundling apprentice raised in one of her kingdom's great libraries finds her fate in the hands of a sworn enemy when she is implicated in an act of sabotage behind the release of a dangerous grimoire.
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Long way down
by Jason Reynolds
Driven by the secrets and vengeance that mark his street culture, 15-year-old Will contemplates over the course of 60 psychologically suspenseful seconds whether or not he is going to murder the person who killed his brother. By the National Book Award finalist author of When I Was the Greatest.
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Not even bones
by Rebecca Schaeffer
Reluctantly helping with her mother's brutal black-market operation selling the body parts of supernatural beings, Nita, a girl with rare powers of her own, protests when her mother brings home a living subject, only to be sold in his place. A first novel. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The girl from everywhere
by Heidi Heilig
Growing up beside her father on a time-traveling ship that ventures to real and imaginary places, 16-year-old Nix struggles to preserve her life when her father obsessively pursues a map in a past time period in ways that threaten her existence.
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Sadie
by Courtney Summers
Resolving to bring her sister's killer to justice, an orphaned teen goes missing while investigating meager clues, before a radio personality learns her story and becomes obsessed with finding her before it is too late. By the author of What Goes Around.
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The outsiders : 50th Anniversary Edition
by S. E Hinton
Celebrating the iconic novel's 50th anniversary in print, a commemorative edition combines the full text with such additional materials as photographs, cast insights from the stars of the film and archival material, including letters from the author and a gallery of book covers.
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I'll be the one
by Lyla Lee
A nuanced celebration of body positivity by the author of the Mindy Kim series follows the experiences of a plus-sized teen girl who shatters expectations on a televised competition to become the next big K-pop star. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The book of lost things
by John Connolly
Taking refuge in fairy tales after the loss of his mother, twelve-year-old David finds himself violently propelled into an imaginary land in which the boundaries of fantasy and reality are disturbingly melded
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My Lady Jane
by Cynthia Hand
.On the eve of her marriage to a stranger, sixteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey is swept in a conspiracy to usurp the throne from her cousin.
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The Girl King
by Mimi Yu
An exile destined to become the Diyi Huo empire's first female ruler seeks to reclaim her birthright through an alliance with a lone surviving shapeshifter, while her shy sister manifests forbidden powers that pit the siblings against one another.
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Dr. Stone. 1, Stone world
by Riichiro Inagaki
When all of humanity is suddenly turned to stone, high schooler Taiju awakens to find himself lost in a world of statues along with his friend Senku, who has a grand plan to kick-start civilization with the power of science
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Ao haru ride
by Io Sakisaka
"Futaba Yoshioka has encountered her first love again in high school, but he seems different from the boy she once knew. Futaba wonders what happened between Kou and Yuri, but she's still determined to find out more about Kou's past and why he won't allow others to get close to him."--Provided by publisher
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March
by John Lewis
A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement. 2016 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature. 2017 Printz Award Winner. 2017 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner. 2017 Sibert Medal Winner. 2017 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner. 2017 Walter Award Winner.
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Yona of the dawn. 1
by Mizuho Kusanagi
Princess Yona lives an ideal life, doted on by her father, the king, and protected by her faithful guard Hak, but everything changes on her sixteenth birthday when she witnesses her father's murder, and she must flee the palace to evade her enemies
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Kimi ni todoke = : from me to you. Vol. 1
by Karuho Shiina
As a shy, misunderstood teen, Sadako is thrown when the most popular boy in school befriends her and she becomes the object of many other girls' frustration
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Displacement
by Kiku Hughes
On a visit to San Francisco, Kiku finds herself transported in time back to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II
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The girl from the other side. 1, Siúil, a rún
by Nagabe
In a land split into two realms, the Outside, where beasts roam that can curse with a touch, and the Inside, where humans live in safety, a girl and a beast, who should never have met, share a bond that transcends their disparate appearances
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Fullmetal alchemist
by Hiromu Arakawa
When an alchemical ritual goes awry, causing Edward Elric to lose limbs and his brother to become trapped in a suit of armor, Edward begins a quest to recover the one thing that can restore them, the legendary Philosopher's Stone
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Nimona
by Noelle Stevenson
A graphic novel debut based on the author's critically acclaimed Web comic follows a nefarious plot by an impulsive young shapeshifter and a vengeful villain who want to defame their kingdom's Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics. Simultaneous. 15,000 first printing.
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