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  • Pointe, Claw
    Pointe, Claw
    By Amber J. Keyser

    “Pink,” I repeat and recline the seat. It takes several minutes for her to manage a sentence. “Why do you do that?” “Do what?” “Needle people,” she snaps. I think sparks might start flying out of the top of her head. I offer synonyms.

  • The Way Back from Broken
    The Way Back from Broken
    By Amber J. Keyser

    A puff of sparks floated into the night, winking out above their heads. “He was stillborn.” “Jacey told me that,” said Rakmen. “I was wondering why.” Leah rocked back and forth on the log bench. “I remember thinking when I was pregnant ...

  • Bzrk Apocalypse
    Bzrk Apocalypse
    By Michael GRANT

    O'Dell yelled. The wobbly rocket arced toward them, fired from behind and below. It missed by inches and blew up against the stone wall. The sleigh was blown clear of the ramp, still a hundred feet up from the bottom of the valley.

  • Monsters
    Monsters
    By Ilsa J. Bick

    In the final volume of the Ashes trilogy, the future is uncertain for Alex and Tom as they continue the struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, and their lives are threatened by the Changed and other human survivors.

  • Strange Skies
    Strange Skies
    By Kristi Helvig

    "Tora Reynolds has escaped to a new planet, but must fight against the Consulate and a rebel leader to find and destroy her father's guns."--

  • No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
    No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
    By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

    A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller Vaunda Micheaux Nelson. 78 80 82 87-88 88 89 89 91 94 96 99 101 102 103 Adapted from Hugh Pearson, When Harlem Nearly Killed King (New York: Seven Stories ...

  • Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery
    Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery
    By Mary Amato

    Sixteen-year-old Lacy Brink, surprised to find herself dead and buried at Baltimore's Westminster Cemetery, recruits fellow poets Sam and Edgar Allan Poe in resisting tyrannical Mrs. Steele's rules by having an open mic night.

  • Out of Darkness
    Out of Darkness
    By Ashley Hope Pérez

    The novel chronicles a love affair between a teenage Mexican American girl and a teenage African-American boy in 1930's New London, Texas, occuring right up to the 1937 New London School explosion.

  • I, Claudia
    I, Claudia
    By Mary McCoy

    "Over the course of her high school years, awkward Claudia McCarthy finds herself unwittingly drawn into the dark side of her school's student government, with dire consequences"--

  • The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project
    The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project
    By Lenore Appelhans

    "Riley, a Manic Pixie Dream Boy, lives in Trope Town, where he makes a living appearing as a side character in novels--until he and his fellow manic pixies must ban together to save themselves from retirement"--

  • The Stand-In
    The Stand-In
    By Steve Bloom

    After 17-year-old Brooks agrees to be a stand-in Homecoming date for a friend's geeky but wealthy cousin, he realizes becoming a rent-a-date for the socially awkward could help him earn college money. What's the harm?

  • The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary
    The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary
    By NoNieqa Ramos

    A 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection A 2018 New York Public Library Best Book for Teens Macy's school officially classifies her as "disturbed," but Macy isn't interested in how others define her.

  • The Immortal Throne
    The Immortal Throne
    By Bree Despain

    In the final installment of the Into the Dark trilogy, Haden and Daphne are stuck in separate realms, racing time to save each other and fulfill their destinies before the monstrous Keres destroys everything they know.

  • The Shibboleth
    The Shibboleth
    By John Hornor Jacobs

    "There are certain shibboleths to our condition.

  • The Dickens Mirror
    The Dickens Mirror
    By Ilsa J. Bick

    In the second book of the Dark Passages series, Emma wakes up trapped in the body of a grown Victorian woman confined in an insane asylum, and Emma must find a way a way back to Reality or else her friends and family will die with her.

  • The Bunker Diary
    The Bunker Diary
    By Kevin Brooks

    I can't believe I fell for it.

  • The Future We Left Behind
    The Future We Left Behind
    By Mike A. Lancaster

    A thousand years after the release of the Straker Tapes, when Peter and Alpha discover that stories of human upgrades are true, they strive to stop a group of scientists from making a decision that could destroy humanity.

  • The Way Back from Broken
    The Way Back from Broken
    By Amber J. Keyser

    Rakmen's baby sister died in his arms of a heart defect. Now his family is broken, and he's exiled to wilderness trip while his parents "figure things out." Amber Keyser's YA debut is a wrenching story of adversity and hope.

  • Oblivion
    Oblivion
    By Sasha Dawn

    Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has ...

  • The Giant
    The Giant
    By Lex Thomas

    "Gonzalo, now released from the high school quarantine, travels across a ravaged America looking for his beloved girlfriend Sasha."--