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These bodies between us
by Sarah Van Name
Friends Callie, Talia, Cleo and Polly spend their summer learning to become invisible and when it actually works, they revel in their reckless new freedom until they discover disappearing comes at a cost.
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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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Lakelore
by Anna-Marie McLemore
Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water. But Bastiâan Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who've been there...Then the lines between air and water begin to blur. The world under the lake drifts above the surface. If Bastiâan and Lore don't want it bringing their secrets to the surface with it, they have to stop it and to do that, they have to work together.
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Remember me gone
by Stacy Stokes
Learning her family's unique ability to remove people's painful memories, 16-year-old Lucy Miller, after practicing on her father, wakes up with no memory of what happened and teams up with a local to fill in the missing pieces.
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Reverie
by Ryan La Sala
While recovering from an attack that leaves him without his memory, gay teenager Kane Montgomery stumbles into a world where dreams known as reveries take on a life of their own, and it is up to Kane and a few unlikely allies to stop them before they spillover into the waking world.
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Home is not a country
by Safia Elhillo
A novel in verse follows the experiences of a misfit teen in a discriminatory suburban community who questions her mixed heritage before unexpected family revelations force her to fight for her own identity.
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Lobizona
by Romina Garber
When her mother is arrested by ICE, sixteen-year-old Argentinian Manu--who thinks she is hiding in a Miami apartment because she is an undocumented immigrant--discovers that her entire existence is illegal.
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The mirror season
by Anna-Marie McLemore
After Ciela and Lock are sexually assaulted at the same party, they develop a cautious friendship through her family's possibly-magical pastelerâia and his secret forest of otherworldly trees.
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Thirty talks weird love
by Alessandra Narvâaez-Varela
In Cuidad Juâarez, Mexico in 1999, where kidnapping of girls and women is common, a woman approaches thirteen-year-old Anamaria claiming to be her future self, offering advice and requesting help
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Burn
by Patrick Ness
When her impoverished family is forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, Sarah is surprised by the dragon's protective nature before learning about a prophecy that links her to a deadly assassin, a dragon-worshipping cult and two FBI agents.
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Coral
by Sara Ella
The worlds of Coral, Brooke, and Merrick, teens wounded by mental illness and family problems, collide and they must choose what to leave behind in order to survive and start fresh.
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As you wish
by Chelsea Sedoti
In Madison, a small town in the Mojave Desert, everyone gets one wish that will come true on his or her eighteenth birthday, and Eldon takes his very seriously.
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The secret of a heart note
by Stacey Lee
A rare aroma expert embarks on what she fears will be a life of solitude and dreams of a normal high school existence before an accident leads to an unexpected forbidden romance. By the author of Under a Painted Sky.
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Next stop
by Debbie Fong
Still grieving her brother's death, Pia, a soft-spoken middle-schooler, embarks on a bus tour that changes her life.
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Suncatcher
by Jose Pimienta
Discovering that the soul of her beloved late grandfather has become trapped in an old guitar and that the only way to free him is to play the perfect song, an obsessive teen forfeits her friendships, band and health in her determination to craft a flawless piece of music.
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