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• The Companion

  Alender, Katie

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  The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Match Made in Mehendi

  Bajpai, Nandini,

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  Fifteen-year-old Simran "Simi" Sangha comes from a long line of Indian vichole - - matchmakers -- with a rich history for helping parents find good matches for their grown children. When Simi accidentally sets up her cousin and a soon-to-be lawyer,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Inheritance Games

  Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn),

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  When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.(Also available in eBook)

• The Canyon's Edge

  Bowling, Dusti

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  A year after the death of her mother in a restaurant shooting, Nora is left struggling to stay alive when a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong. (Also available in eBook)

• King and the Dragonflies

  Callender, Kacen

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  In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself. (Also available in eBook)

• Turning Point

  Chase, Paula,

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  Best friends Rasheeda and Monique navigate the ups and downs of a teenager's summer, Mo at home in the Cove; Sheeda at a sleepaway ballet intensive.

• Dress Coded

  Firestone, Carrie,

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  An eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion. (Also available in eBook)

• This Light Between Us

  a Novel of World War II

  Fukuda, Andrew Xia,

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  In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Silence Between Us

  Gervais, Alison

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  Maya has reservations about transferring to a hearing school after studying in a school for the deaf for years, but grows closer to Beau Watson, the student body president, who starts learning sign language to communicate with her. (Also available…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wink

  a Novel

  Harrell, Rob,

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  After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can push him through treatment and survive middle school. (Also available in eBook)

• When You Trap a Tiger

  Keller, Tae

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  When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni. (Also available in eBook)

• I'll Be the One

  Lee, Lyla

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  Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn't call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she's about to break all the rules that society, the media,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bone Houses

  Lloyd-Jones, Emily

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  When risen corpses called 'bone houses' threaten Ryn's village because of a decades-old curse, she teams up with a mapmaker named Ellis to solve the mystery of the curse and destroy the bone houses forever. (Also available in eBook)

• Don't Turn Out the Lights

  a Tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

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  "A life-size baby doll who stalks its prey. A flesh-hungry ogre who jingle jangles when he walks. A haunted house just dying for a visitor. What do all these things have in common? In collaboration with the Horror Writers Association, New York Times…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thirteens

  Marshall, Kate Alice

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  Neil Gaiman's Coraline meets Stranger things in a dark and twisted story about a sleepy town with a dark secret-and the three kids brave enough to uncover it. (Also available in eBook)

• Paola Santiago and the River of Tears

  Mejia, Tehlor Kay

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  In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River. (Also available…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bloom

  Oppel, Kenneth, 1967-

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  The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tornado Brain

  Patrick, Cat,

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  Seventh-grader Frankie, who has various sensory disorders, is determined to find her missing best friend, Colette, before it is too late. (Also available in eBook)

• City Spies

  Ponti, James,

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  Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City juvenile justice system to expose her foster parents as cheats and lawbreakers. However, instead of being hailed as a hero, she finds herself facing years in a juvenile detention…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Brother, Black Brother

  Rhodes, Jewell Parker

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  Suspended unjustly from elite Middlefield Prep, Donte Ellison studies fencing with a former champion, hoping to put the racist fencing team captain in his place. (Also available in eBook)