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I am not Jessica Chen
by Ann Liang
"Jenna Chen has spent her life in the shadow of her flawless cousin. Jessica Chen is so smart she gets the top score on every test. Jessica Chen is so beautiful people stop in the hallway to stare at her. Jessica Chen is so perfect she got into Harvard. And Jenna Chen will only ever be a disappointment. So when Jenna makes a desperate wish to become her cousin, the last thing she expects is for it to come true-- literally. All of a sudden she gets to live the life she's always dreamed of . . . but beingthe model student at cutthroat Havenwood Private Academy isn't quite what she'd imagined. Worse, people seem to be forgetting that someone named Jenna Chen ever existed. But isn't it worth trading it all away -- her artistic talent, her childhood home, even the hope of golden boy Aaron Cai loving her back, to be Jessica Chen?"
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The girl, the ring, & the baseball bat
by Camille Gomera-Tavarez
Armed with talismans, including an enchanted jacket that gets people to do anything, a baseball bat that fixes anything it breaks and a manifestation stone that makes anyone fall in love, Rosie, her older sister Caro and Zeke find their lives intertwined in magical and hilarious ways.
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The memory eater
by Rebecca Mahoney
When a monster called the Memory Eater escapes under her watch and she must retrieve it, 17-year-old Alana Harlow must delve into her family's magic and the history of her town, discovering a shocking secret and learning that tampering with memories always comes at a price.
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All that it ever meant : a novel
by Blessing Musariri
Reeling from the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Mati's family leaves England to visit their native Zimbabwe, where Mati finds comfort in Meticais, a gender-neutral spirit or ghost who only she can see, and who helps her navigate her mercurial interpersonal relationships and feelings of grief.
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Deep in Providence
by Riss M. Neilson
When their best friend is killed by a drunk driver, Millani, Inez and Natalie, who are haunted by grief—and Jasmine's lingering spirit—decide to bring Jasmine back, testing the limits of their magic and everything they know about life, death and each other. 40,000 first printing.
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See you yesterday
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Stuck in a time loop with her nemesis, college student Barrett Bloom agrees to work with Miles to find a way out, and when they start falling for each other, they wonder what will happen to their relationship if they make it to tomorrow.
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We are not from here
by Jenny Torres Sanchez
Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequeäna has her pride. And these three teens have one another. But, none of them have illusions about the town they've grown up in and the dangers that surround them. Even with the love of family, threats lurk around every corner. And when those threats become all too real, the trio knows they have no choice but to run: from their country, from their families, from their beloved home. Crossing from Guatemala through Mexico, they follow the route of La Bestia, the perilous train system that might deliver them to a better life -- if they are lucky enough to survive the journey. With nothing but the bags on their backs and desperation drumming through their hearts, Pulga, Chico, and Pequeäna know there is no turning back, despite the unknown that awaits them. And the darkness that seems to follow wherever they go
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How Moon Fuentez fell in love with the universe
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
When she takes a job as a “merch girl” on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers, Moon Fuentez, the twin sister of a social media star, questions her destiny as the unnoticed, unloved wallflower she always thought she was.
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The valley and the flood
by Rebecca Mahoney
When Rose Colter hears a voicemail from her own phone playing on her car radio, she follows the broadcast to the small town of Lotus Valley, where she discovers that she's the prophesied bringer of a catastrophic flood.
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Strange creatures
by Phoebe North
Tells the story about a girl whose brother mysteriously disappears, the family and friends he leaves behind, and the stories, real and imagined, that they tell themselves to fill the empty spaces.
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Never look back
by Lilliam Rivera
A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus.
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Violet ghosts
by Leah Thomas
Loner Dani and his best friend Sarah, the ghost of a teen murdered decades earlier, team up to help other murdered women who are still tethered to this life.
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Resurrection Girls
by Ava Morgyn
Drawn out of her grief by new neighbors, the Hallas women, sixteen-year-old Olivia Foster perceives a darkness surrounding them that goes beyond Kara Hallas's habit of writing to men on death row.
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River of dreams
by Jan Nash
Preparing to leave for college while her brother lies in a coma, Finn experiences nightmares about her brother's pleas for her help before discovering her identity as a Dreamwalker and resolving to save her brother's life. A first novel.
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You must not miss
by Katrina Leno
When her family's destructiveness leads to her older sister's abrupt departure and her own ostracism at school, a teen retreats into her journal and conjurs a fantasy world of magic, monsters and revenge. By the author of Summer of Salt.
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We speak in storms
by Natalie Lund
When a tornado touches down in the same place where a generation of kids were killed by a tornado 50 years earlier, three teens find their paths intersecting repeatedly in the wake of secrets from the past and present.
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The boy and girl who broke the world
by Amy Lynn Reed
Fantastical challenges and mutual losses forge a friendship between a cynical girl and an optimistic boy who begin questioning their perspectives about their pasts. By the author of The Nowhere Girls.
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Thirteen doorways, wolves behind them all
by Laura Ruby
Abandoned in a Depression-era Chicago orphanage with her sister, a young woman endures injustice, poverty and violence while struggling to survive in the years leading up to World War II. By the award-winning author of Bone Gap.
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The memory trees
by Kali Wallace
Eight years after her sister Patience's tragic death on her family's remote apple orchard, Sorrow returns to the land, determined to find out what really happened the night Patience died and what other secrets may be waiting for her there.
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Beautiful broken girls
by Kim Savage
When two sisters living next door to him drown themselves in the neighborhood quarry, Ben begins receiving cryptic postmortem notes from one of the girls directing him to clues about the terrible secrets that complicated the girls' lives.
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Bone Gap
by Laura Ruby
Knowing that his sister has been kidnapped by a dangerous assailant and that she did not abandon the family like their mother did years earlier, Finn confronts town secrets to organize a search. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of Lily's Ghost.
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