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The spotless reputation? Check. The gorgeous movie star? Check. The only problem? She can’t seem to stop embarrassing herself around him. Eliza isn't an actress like her friends. She'd rather come up with the stories than appear in them. When she took up a couple summer jobs on campus,...
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Dreams do come true. It’s Jude's job to make sure they don’t. Born with the curse of prophetic nightmares, Jude sees violent murders through the eyes of the killer before they happen. His father, who shares Jude’s dark gift, has trained Jude to save the innocent...
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Age Range
12+
Release Date
August 06, 2023
Fourteen-year-old Audrey Wood has more balls than a baseball team. Eccentric on purpose with light-saber wit, she’s a Wikipedia addict, a connoisseur of single-color-palette wardrobes, a sly-dog sleuth, and a budding social advocate. Her home is the second floor of her dad’s animal hospital in Louisville, KY, though she’s...
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A thrilling, coming-of-age story with a queer protagonist about the power of friendship, overcoming harmful stereotypes, growing up in the shadow of family expectations, and discovering your true self. High school best friends Hashim, Alex, and Maryam must confront real-life issues that loom for Gen-Z today, including...
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Age Range
16+
Release Date
August 15, 2023
Growing up on the proverbial "wrong side of the tracks" gave me a long list of bullies and a short list of friends. I spent most of my childhood days thinking of creative ways to escape the dirty pit that was Palmer, Georgia, until a new kid showed up...
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Author(s)
Age Range
12+
Release Date
September 04, 2023
"…a thought-provoking and engaging tale…beautifully crafted to combine history and personal growth…" – Munir Muhammad for Readers’ Favorite “I loved the themes covered by this book… diversity, tolerance, climate issues, and our moral responsibility to do the right thing.” – Frank Mutuma for...
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Author(s)
Age Range
15+
Release Date
March 27, 2020
Justin Ortega doesn’t just make mixtapes, he lives them. Justin Ortega might as well be starring in his very own coming-of-age 80s movie. If only he could find his dream boy to pull up in front of his house in a red convertible and sweep him...
Escaping Eleven (Eleven Trilogy, 1)
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Author(s)
Age Range
14+
Release Date
December 08, 2020
My name is Eve Hamilton and I live in Compound Eleven. Here, the hierarchy of the floors is everything. And on my floor, we fight―which is better than the bottom floor, where they toil away in misery. Only the top floor has any ease in this harsh...
Gimmicks and Glamour
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Author(s)
Genre(s)
Age Range
13+
Release Date
August 15, 2023
Ashly Harris has a secret she’s been keeping all her life. To everyone else she’s just a seventeen-year-old party girl and problem senior at Hackley High School. She has always felt alone, and not just because she’s biracial and openly bisexual. Ashly sees faeries all around her,...
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Author(s)
Age Range
12+
Release Date
July 31, 2023
Okay. Start at the beginning, Mom always tells me, so here goes: I was born. At the usual age and in the usual manner, at least so I've been told. It's not like I remember it personally, which is probably a good thing all told, what with...
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Hamelin is only a few weeks old as he and his parents, Johnnie and Simon, flee from trackers. Certain of their eventual capture and desperate for their son’s survival, Johnnie and Simon devise a plan that lands Hamelin in a nearby orphanage. As Hamelin grows up in this nontraditional...
Where the Lightning Goes
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Author(s)
Age Range
13+
Release Date
May 30, 2023
After a powerful wizard tears Elle’s soul apart and steals her memories, she’s locked in a house to rot. Her only remaining memory is of falling from the sky, though even that raises more questions than it answers. Upon her escape, she falls into a world that’s equal parts...
Karma of the Sun
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Author(s)
Age Range
13+
Release Date
January 17, 2023
Six suns, six blasts in the sky; a seventh one, and the earth will die. In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries...
Odin's Child
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Age Range
14+
Release Date
March 23, 2021
...The story examines and upends everything its characters believe in, including their world, their history, their faith, and themselves, while intertwining elements of politics and Norse mythology with a side of forbidden romance. Kirkus Reviews The intrigue, scope, and depth of His Dark Materials, set in an...
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Sixteen-year-old Reece is an expert at keeping secrets. She has to be, since her father abducted her ten years ago. For as long as she can remember, she’ s been on the run, sneaking food out of the dumpster and sleeping in the woods. Every time she moves, the...
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