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Young Adult Fiction
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Everyone admires Talia Blanton's frightening stories, in which her friends play starring roles, until they start coming true. Original.
Young Adult Fiction
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Ever since her father died, kooky Gilda Joyce has been working hard to sharpen her psychic skills. She's determined to communicate with spirits from the Other Side and become a crack investigator of spooky, twisted mysteries. After wrangling an invitation to visit San Francisco relatives, Gilda discovers just how...
Young Adult Fiction
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When her legal guardian disappears, twelve-year-old Casey is forced to fend for herself in their New York City apartment and must rely on Paulie, the landlord's teenage foster son, for help, but his help comes with a dangerous price that could get Casey in trouble with the law. 20,000...
Young Adult Fiction
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Genre(s)
Age Range
10+
Release Date
September 13, 1999
A Southern charmer for fans of Newbery Honor book Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage Audrey Couloumbis's masterful debut novel brings to mind Karen Hesse, Katherine Paterson, and Betsy Byars's The Summer of the Swans—it is a story you will never forget. Willa...
Young Adult Fiction
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Author(s)
Age Range
14+
Release Date
February 08, 2005
DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. From the author of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller The Book Thief, I Am the Messenger is an acclaimed novel filled with laughter, fists, and love. A MICHAEL L....
Young Adult Fiction
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The summer before Troy Stotts turns seventeen, his mother dies. Troy and his father barely speak, communicating instead by writing notes on a legal pad by the phone. Troy spends most of his time with his closest friends: Tom Buller, brash and fearless, the son of a drunk; Gabe...
Young Adult Fiction
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" I read on. And then it happens. On page 89. Mary is humiliated, and I know I have to step in. There she is, in an ill-fitting, wine-colored gown that doesn't do anything for her mousy complexion, gathering up her music, when I pass by, and spill my...
Middle Grade Fiction
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The search for her little dog, Gus, leads eleven-year-old Izzy Cummings, a recent orphan, to learn secrets about her past
Young Adult Fiction
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When lonely and troubled teenager Tom White secretly witnesses the world of underground dog fights, he is horrified by what he sees. But Tom feels a deep connection with one of the dogs he momentarily encounters, a young pit bull snatched from an animal shelter by the vicious gang...
Kids Fiction
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Author(s)
Age Range
1+
Release Date
September 06, 2022
Look through the eyeholes to become your favorite farm animal! This interactive, rhyming board book encourages the imagination and playtime. Cock-a-doodle do! I'm a rooster! Wake up, I say. Moooooo! I'm a cow! I chew all day. At the farm,...
Kids Fiction
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Age Range
4+
Release Date
August 22, 2023
Why are Dad’s pirate jokes funny? Because they arrr in this pun-filled, giggle-worthy tribute to the paternal comedians among us. Captain Dad and his crew are having a day at the ocean, and of course Dad is bringing his treasure chest of jokes. Aye-aye, you say? Just...
Middle Grade Fiction
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Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle’s resident zoo sleuth when a rhinoceros is at risk in Big Game, a companion to Belly Up and Poached—which Kirkus Reviews called a “thrill-ride of a mystery.” When someone takes aim at Rhonda Rhino, FunJungle’s pregnant (and endangered) Asian greater one-horned rhinoceros,...
Kids Fiction
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Something new can change the way you look; it can change the way you feel; and, in the case of new socks, it can change the way you walk--especially if you're a chicken. With a quirky sense of humor, retro style, and hip attitude, Bob Shea captures the excitement...
The Lustrous Dark
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Young Adult Fiction
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Author(s)
Genre(s)
Age Range
14+
Release Date
May 19, 2026
For fans of Sabaa Tahir and Guillermo del Toro comes The Lustrous Dark, a sweeping YA fantasy, in which a young midwife’s apprentice rises up to take back the power that’s been stolen from women. Orphaned as a baby, Shay has spent her life training as the...
Kids Fiction
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Author(s)
Age Range
4+
Release Date
August 22, 2023
A joyful picture book from acclaimed author Margarita Engle about a young girl and her community celebrating the arrival of the water man who visits weekly to distribute water to the village. Water days are busy days, grateful, laughing, thirsty days. A small village no...
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