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New High School Books March 2026 |
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What We Did to Survive
by Megan Lally
A vacation in paradise turns deadly when four teens' sailing charter hits stormy seas in this propulsive new thriller from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Megan Lally!Hannah is having an incredible spring break. A week at a resort in Mexico with her best friend Emmy and her family is perfect for de-stressing from senior year, even if it's awkward being around Emmy's older brother, Jackson, who she's had a crush on for as long as she can remember.Still, the beach is gorgeous. So is the guy they meet in the surf. Except Hannah is now the third wheel in Emmy's vacation romance.Eager to impress Emmy, her wealthy new boyfriend charters a private sailboat to make the most of their last day in paradise, and Hannah and Jackson are invited along. As the clouds roll in and the skies darken, their boat is the only one leaving the marina. And the further they get into open water, the more unsettled Hannah becomes. A storm is brewing onboard that's as deadly as the one racing toward them. Forget surviving graduation. Who will make it back to land alive?
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Estela, Undrowning
by René Peña-Govea
Seventeen-year-old Estela grapples with racial tensions after placing second to a non-Latino student in a Latinâe poetry contest, all while battling anxiety over her family's looming eviction.
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The Free Verse Society
by Delali Adjoa
High school juniors Jae, a teen mom trying to rebuild her life in a new town, and Derek, a rich kid hiding his own secrets, are brought together in their schools poetry club, where they confront their pasts and explore their growing feelings for each other.
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Here for a Good Time
by Kim Spencer
A poignant coming-of-age YA featuring an Indigenous teen girl grappling with the effects of intergenerational trauma while navigating school, family and young love, by the bestselling author of Weird Rules to Follow. It is 1990. Morgan has lived all her life in the small fishing town of Prince Rupert in northern British Columbia. Ever since her mom took off when she was ten, Morgan has kept an eye on her dad, a commercial fisherman who works hard and occasionally parties even harder. After struggling to keep up and find a place at a public high school, Morgan's best friend Skye convinces her to attend an alternate school. There, she meets Nate. Both cute and intelligent, Nate introduces her to a wider worldview, including music, movies and books, and becomes a lifeline after an unimaginable tragedy strikes. In the aftermath, Morgan learns hard truths about her mother's painful past and the resulting intergenerational effects of that trauma, and as she struggles to come to terms with her new reality, an unexpected development offers a chance of a fresh start, with love and forgiveness at its core.
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To Deal with Kings
by M. K. Lobb
Following their successful heist of London's Great Exhibition, a kingpin and a magical inventor must work together to uncover an evil magical plot unfolding in the same location-- Provided by publisher.
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Crying Wolf
by James Butler
This pacy urban thriller is the US debut for an award-winning Irish author.Joey's stepdad, Vinnie, ran away from Dublin over a year ago. Now he's back, and everyone wants to know if he's still a wolf.Joey wants to believe Vinnie has given up his dodgy ways and returned to be near his family. But he's in no hurry to meet him. With his girlfriend going to Trinity College and his new start living with his aunt, Joey is trying to move on.But fate doesn't sit on a fence and Joey will have to confront his own painful past and the role his stepdad played in it.
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I Was a Teenage Death God
by M. J. Beasi
HIGH SCHOOL IS HARD ENOUGH WITHOUT BASICALLY BEING A DEATH GOD Every time seventeen-year-old Charlie Ford touches someone, they absorb seconds of their life . . . which adds up when Charlie has no way of giving that time back. It feels like enough of a curse without Lou--the bratty bully of a ghost who's hung around Charlie since childhood--forcing them to hand over that stolen life for her to use. Charlie will steal life from whomever Lou tells them to, as long as she doesn't hurt Charlie's twin Sam or their best friend and secret crush Ravi. So when Lou tries to force Charlie to take life from Ravi, Charlie refuses, and Lou retaliates. When Lou goes after Sam, Charlie breaks down and finally tells Ravi about their life-stealing abilities--and after some internet sleuthing, Ravi finds out that Charlie might not be the only person born with that power. Along with Sam, they embark on a weekend road trip to meet a pair of self-proclaimed death gods, hoping for answers and, if they're lucky, a solution to the whole Lou problem. But the answers about their powers only bring up more questions. With dark discoveries at every turn, Charlie must wrestle with a supernatural legacy that redefines their relationships to Sam and Ravi--and calls their very humanity into question. This irreverent contemporary fantasy is the first book in a duology.
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The Dragon and the Sun Lotus
by Amélie Wen Zhao
With áAn'yåing's kingdom teetering on the brink of destruction, and amidst a budding forbidden romance, she must now risk everything to protect her world-- Provided by publisher.
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