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    Noni, Lynette
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    A girl known as Jane Doe who has the power to change reality has been held in a secret government facility for more than two years, but everything changes when she gets a new handler, the mysterious but kind Landon Ward.

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    Fleischman, Paul
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    New to town, Brent Bishop longs to stroll around school with the popular Brianna on his arm. But when Brianna begs him at a party full of schoolmates to stop hounding her, Brent's hopes are shattered. Trying to escape his humiliation, he attempts to destroy himself in a car crash and ends up killing Lea, an innocent teen unfortunate enough to cross his path. Lea's mother asks one thing of Brent: that he create four whirligigs from a picture of Lea and set them up at the four corners of the United States.

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    Pellicioli, Anna
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    Miriam Feldman was attracted to the artists, the musicians, the boys who wore broken-down cardigans. Boys like Elliot. Their relationship was intense, passionate, all consuming. When they were together, Miriam knew who she was, in the way you can only know when you're deeply in love. Now that it's over, Miriam has to pick up the pieces. Even when Elliot starts seeing someone else. Even when she impulsively knocks over a priceless work of art. Even when she's blackmailed by the mystery girl who saw her do it. Without a map, Miriam has to find her way. If only she knew how. Praise: “The language is evocative and atmospheric.” —Kirkus Reviews "This is a well-crafted debut that speaks to the agony of love gone wrong, making Pellicioli an author to watch." —Booklist

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    McCaughrean, Geraldine
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    Winner of the 2018 Carnegie Medal! New from Michael L. Printz Award winner Geraldine McCaughrean comes an extraordinary story of eight boys stranded on a rock in the middle of the sea, left to fight for their survival. Every time a lad went fowling on the stacs, he came home less of a boy and more of a man. If he went home at all, that is. Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summer, no one arrives to take them home. Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they've been abandoned-cold, starving and clinging to life, in the grip of a murderous ocean. How will they survive such a forsaken place of stone and sea? This is an extraordinary story of fortitude, endurance, tragedy and survival, set against an unforgettable backdrop of savage beauty.

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    Dass, Sarah
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    Seventeen-year-old Reyna has spent most of her life at the Plumeria, her family's gorgeous seaside resort in Tobago. But what once seemed like paradise is starting to feel more like purgatory. It's been two years since Reyna's mother passed away, two years since Aiden, her childhood best friend, first kiss, first love, first everything, left the island to pursue his music dreams. Reyna's friends are all planning their futures and heading abroad. Even Daddy seems to want to move on, leaving her to try and keep the Plumeria running. And that's when Aiden comes roaring back into her life as a VIP guest at the resort.

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    Sutton, Kelsey
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    For as long as she can remember, Alexandra Tate has been able to see personified Emotions, and she's found a best friend in Revenge. He's her constant companion as she waits outside Nate Foster's house, clutching a gun. Every night since Nate's release from prison, Alex has tried to work up the courage to exact her own justice on him for the drunk driving accident that killed her family. But there's one problem: Forgiveness. When he appears, Alex is faced with a choice—moving on or getting even. It's impossible to decide with Forgiveness whispering in one ear... and Revenge whispering in the other. Praise: "With lyrical prose, palpable emotion and suspenseful atmosphere, Sutton weaves a spellbinding tale." —Eve Silver, national bestselling author of The Game series "A poignant, heart-wrenching story of grief, love, and loss." —SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

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    Ahern, Cecelia
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    From the no. 1 bestselling author of PS, I Love You comes an enchanting novel about two childhood friends whom fate and destiny can't help toying with... From naughty children to rebellious teenagers, Rosie and Alex have stuck by each other through thick and thin. But just as they're discovering the joys of teenage nights on the town and dating disasters, they're separated. Alex's family moves from Dublin to America -- and Alex goes with them. For good. Rosie's lost without him. But on the eve of her departure to join Alex in Boston, Rosie gets news that will change her life forever -- and keep her at home in Ireland. Their magical connection sees them through the ups and downs of each other's lives but neither of them knows whether their friendship can really survive the years and miles -- as well as new relationships. And at the back of Rosie's mind is whether they were meant to be more than just good friends all along. Misunderstandings, circumstances and sheer bad luck have kept them out of each other's arms, but when presented with the ultimate opportunity, will they gamble everything -- including their friendship -- for true love? Destiny, Alex and Rosie discover, is a funny thing and fate isn't quite done with them yet...

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    White, Tara
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    This moving tale of self-discovery takes place during the Oka uprising in the summer of 1990. Adopted as an infant, Carrie has always felt somehow out of place. Recurring dreams haunt her, warning her that someone close to her is in danger. When she discovers that her birth family is Mohawk living in Quebec, Carrie makes the long journey and finally achieves the sense of home and belonging that has always eluded her.

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    Lord, Emma
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    A bighearted novel about falling in love, making a mess, and learning to let go, When You Get the Chance is the next effervescent novel from Emma Lord , New York Times bestselling author of the Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club pick You Have a Match. Nothing will get in the way of Millie Price's dream of becoming a Broadway star. Not her lovable but super introverted dad, who raised Millie alone since she was a baby. Not her drama club rival, Oliver, who is the very definition of Simmering Romantic Tension. And not her "Millie Moods," the feelings of intense emotion that threaten to overwhelm. Millie needs an ally. And when an accidentally left-open browser brings Millie to her dad's embarrassingly moody LiveJournal from 2003, Millie knows just what to do-find her mom. But how can you find a new part of your life and expect it to fit into your old one without leaving any marks? And why is it that when you go looking for the past, it somehow keeps bringing you back to what you've had all along? A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books.

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    Norris, Kate
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    Teenage Winnie can see splits, the moment when outcomes in the multiverse diverge. In the middle of WWII, and afraid of what her ability could be used for, she keeps it hidden. Only her father knows. But he has a plan.

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    Gailey, Sarah
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    A moving, darkly funny novel about six teens whose magic goes wildly awry from Magic for Liars author Sarah Gailey, who Chuck Wendig calls an "author to watch." Keeping your magic a secret is hard. Being in love with your best friend is harder. Alexis has always been able to rely on two things: her best friends, and the magic powers they all share. Their secret is what brought them together, and their love for each other is unshakeable-even when that love is complicated. Complicated by problems like jealousy, or insecurity, or lust. Or love. That unshakeable, complicated love is one of the only things that doesn't change on prom night. When accidental magic goes sideways and a boy winds up dead, Alexis and her friends come together to try to right a terrible wrong. Their first attempt fails-and their second attempt fails even harder. Left with the remains of their failed spells and more consequences than anyone could have predicted, each of them must find a way to live with their part of the story.

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    Velasquez, Elisabet
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    "The energy. The clarity. The beauty. Elisabet Velasquez brings it all. . . . Her voice is FIRE!"- New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Woodson. An unforgettable, torrential, and hopeful debut young adult novel-in-verse that redefines what it means to "make it," for readers of Nicholasa Mohr and Elizabeth Acevedo. Sarai is a first-generation Puerto Rican eighth grader who can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister Estrella, she navigates the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. Sarai questions the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives with determination and an open heart, learning to celebrate herself in a way that she has been denied. When We Make It is a love letter to anyone who was taught to believe that they would not make it. To those who feel their emotions before they can name them. To those who still may not have all the language but they have their story. Velasquez' debut novel is sure to leave an indelible mark on all who read it.  

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    McLemore, Anna-Marie
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    Winner of the 2016 Tiptree Award!
    Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
    Stonewall Book Award Honor

    “McLemore’s second novel is such a lush surprising fable, you half expect birds to fly out of the pages… McLemore uses the supernatural to remind us that the body’s need to speak its truth is primal and profound, and that the connection between two people is no more anyone’s business than why the dish ran away with the spoon.”
    --Jeff Giles, New York Times Book Review

    Anna-Marie McLemore’s debut novel The Weight of Feathers was greeted with rave reviews, a YALSA Morris Award nomination, and spots on multiple “Best YA Novels” lists. Now, McLemore delivers a second stunning and utterly romantic novel, again tinged with magic.

    To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town. But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful sisters rumored to be witches. Now they want the roses that grow from Miel’s skin, convinced that their scent can make anyone fall in love. And they’re willing to use every secret Miel has fought to protect to make sure she gives them up.

    Atmospheric, dynamic, and packed with gorgeous prose, When the Moon was Ours is another winner from this talented author.

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    Muller, Rachel
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    Chloe McBride has some reservations about accepting her elderly great-aunts' invitation to spend part of the summer with them in Little Venice, but her initial reluctance is outweighed by her curiosity about the mysterious key that came with her aunts' note. She's also anxious to put the humiliating memory of a disastrous piano recital as far behind her as possible. Chloe's great-aunts tell her the legend of her great-grandfather, Dante Magnus, an ambitious magician who vanished without a trace almost a century earlier, and Chloe begins to search for clues to his disappearance. When her investigations eventually lead her to a mysterious rosewood box, which has been hidden for almost a hundred years, Chloe's belief in the power of magic forces her to confront her own fears and ambitions.

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    Steiger, A. J.
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    A heartbreaking debut YA romance featuring a neuroatypical girl with a tragic history and the chronically ill boy trying to break the vault encasing her heart. Alvie Fitz doesn't fit in, and she doesn't care. She's spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust, adapt. Pretend to be normal. It sounds so easy. If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps, she'll be legally emancipated. Free. But if she fails, she'll become a ward of the state and be sent back to the group home. All she wants is to be left alone to spend time with her friend, Chance, the one-winged hawk at the zoo where she works. She can bide her time with him until her emancipation. Humans are overrated anyway. Then she meets Stanley, a boy who might be even stranger than she is-a boy who walks with a cane, who turns up every day with a new injury, whose body seems as fragile as glass. Without even meaning to, she finds herself getting close to him. But Alvie remembers what happened to the last person she truly cared about. Her past stalks her with every step, and it has sharp teeth. But if she can find the strength to face the enemy inside her, maybe she'll have a chance at happiness after all.

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    Raina, Arushi
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    Written from the points of view of four young people living in Johannesburg and Soweto in 1976, one white, one South Asian, one a Black student and one a Black gangster, this book explores the roots of the Soweto Riots and the relationships between the races in a South Africa about to explode.

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    Ameyaw, Maya
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    A Black teen dancer with dreams of landing a spot in a prestigious ballet company must learn to dance on her own terms in this explosive debut about the healing power of art and friendship, perfect for fans of Heartbreaker and Tiny Pretty Things. Ballet is Aisha’s life. So when she’s denied yet another lead at her elite academy because she doesn’t “look” the part, she knows something has to change–the constant discrimination is harming her mental health. Switching to her best friend Neil’s art school seems like the perfect plan at first. But she soon discovers racism and bullying are entrenched in the ballet program here, too, and there’s a new, troubling distance between her and Neil. And as past traumas surface, pressure from friends and family, a new romance, and questions about her dance career threaten to overwhelm her. There’s no choreography to follow–for high school or for healing. Aisha will have to find the strength within herself–and place her trust in others–to make her next move.

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    Gray, Cecilia
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    Kat is destined to be a star and her big break has arrived at last! As the assistant to a celebrity classmate on the set of a feature film, she's going to show everyone she has what it takes. That is, until she discovers pursuing her dreams may mean forfeiting her heart. Unless she can find a way to have both… * * *Dive into the fabulous, fun lives of six Academy girls as their friendships are tested, torn and ultimately triumph… The last thing that the girls at the elite Jane Austen Academy need is hot guys to flirt with. But over the summer the school has been sold, and like it or not, the guys are coming. And it’s about to turn the Academy—and the lives of its students—totally upside down… The Jane Austen Academy series are modern retellings of Jane Austen classics set at a beachside California boarding school. Don't miss the rest of the Jane Austen Academy, where sassy girls, hot guys and Jane Austen collide! Book 1: Fall For You (Lizzie – Pride and Prejudice) Book 2: So Into You (Ellie – Sense and Sensibility) Book 3: When I'm With You (Kat – Northanger Abbey) Book 4: Suddenly You (Fanny – Mansfield Park) Book 5: Only With You (Emma – Emma) Book 6: Always You (Anne – Persuasion) Now with a reader's discussion guide for your book club, student group, or Jane Austen fan club. * * *Praise for The Jane Austen Academy A What’s Hot Pick – RT Book Reviews "A unique twist on a classic… A compelling mix of action, drama and love." – Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Engaging characters, a gentle romance, budding friendships, and a payoff that is incredibly rewarding." – Indie JaneI "I love Cecilia Gray's Jane Austen Academy books! I recommend them to my students regularly— what a great way to bring Austen's classic stories forward for a modern audience." – Pimples. Popularity and Protagonists "Cute. Adorable. Genius. Amazing. I'm running out of synonyms... I loved all the friendships! Girl power!" – Monique Morris, Goodreads "Another awesome Austen innovation!" – Cheryl Beck, Educator "An incredibly charming novel— a heroine worth cheering for! – Growing Up YA "An instant favorite!" —Electively Paige Reviews "Whether you’re a romantic or a Jane Austen fan, you can’t help falling for this book." -  EZ Read "I can visualize a cult following. Bravo!" – Reader’s Favorite "Its own story cleverly woven within the classic." - Book Haven Extraordinaire "The series is getting better and better." – Nikki Harriet, Goodreads "Gray's characters are so full of life, hope and dreams, it's a pleasure to read about them." – Schenni's Book Nook "You should read this book if you like sweet romances and great friendships that are strong enough to last through anything." - Wonderous Reviews

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    Gray, Cecilia
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    Kat is destined to be a star and her big break has arrived at last! As the assistant to a celebrity classmate on the set of a feature film, she's going to show everyone she has what it takes. That is, until she discovers pursuing her dreams may mean forfeiting her heart. Unless she can find a way to have both…* * *Dive into the fabulous, fun lives of six Academy girls as their friendships are tested, torn and ultimately triumph…The last thing that the girls at the elite Jane Austen Academy need is hot guys to flirt with. But over the summer the school has been sold, and like it or not, the guys are coming. And it’s about to turn the Academy—and the lives of its students—totally upside down…The Jane Austen Academy series are modern retellings of Jane Austen classics set at a beachside California boarding school. Don't miss the rest of the Jane Austen Academy, where sassy girls, hot guys and Jane Austen collide!Book 1: Fall For You (Lizzie – Pride and Prejudice)Book 2: So Into You (Ellie – Sense and Sensibility)Book 3: When I'm With You (Kat – Northanger Abbey)Book 4: Suddenly You (Fanny – Mansfield Park)Book 5: Only With You (Emma – Emma)Book 6: Always You (Anne – Persuasion)Now with a reader's discussion guide for your book club, student group, or Jane Austen fan club.* * *Praise for The Jane Austen AcademyA What’s Hot Pick – RT Book ReviewsA unique twist on a classic… A compelling mix of action, drama and love. – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Engaging characters, a gentle romance, budding friendships, and a payoff that is incredibly rewarding. – Indie JaneI love Cecilia Gray's Jane Austen Academy books! I recommend them to my students regularly - what a great way to bring Austen's classic stories forward for a modern audience. . – Pimples. Popularity and ProtagonistsCute. Adorable. Genius. Amazing. I'm running out of synonyms...I loved all the friendships! Girl power! – Monique Morris, GoodreadsAnother awesome Austen innovation! – Cheryl Beck, EducatorAn incredibly charming novel - a heroine worth cheering for! – Growing Up YA"An instant favorite!" —Electively Paige ReviewsWhether you’re a romantic or a Jane Austen fan, you can’t help falling for this book.. -  EZ ReadI can visualize a cult following. Bravo! – Reader’s FavoriteIts own story cleverly woven within the classic. ~ Book Haven ExtraordinaireThe series is getting better and better. – Nikki Harriet, GoodreadsGray's characters are so full of life, hope and dreams, it's a pleasure to read about them. – Schenni's Book NookYou should read this book if you like sweet romances and great friendships that are strong enough to last through anything. ~ Wonderous Reviews

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    Reid, Raziel
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    School is just like a film set: there's The Crew that make things happen, The Extras who fill the empty desks, and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But Jude doesn't fit in. He's not part of The Crew because he isn't about to do anything unless it's court-appointed; he's not an Extra because nothing about him is anonymous; and he's not a Movie Star because even though everyone know his name like an A-lister, he isn't invited to the cool parties. As the director calls action, Jude is the flamer that lights the set on fire. Before everything turns to ashes from the resulting inferno, Jude drags his best friend Angela off the casting couch and into enough melodrama to incite the paparazzi, all while trying to fend off the haters and win the heart of his favourite co-star Luke Morris. It's a total train wreck! But train wrecks always make the front page.

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