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Renegade Girls
by Nora Neus
Stunt Girl follows seventeen-year-old Nell Nelson, an undercover reporter, as she works to expose the plight of young factory workers in nineteenth-century New York City with the help of her love interest, early street-photographer Alice Austen.
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Cope field
by T. L. Simpson
A teen baseball star who "has it all"-looks, wealth, and a pro-MLB father-grapples with an impossible choice: reveal his abuse at the hands of his father and risk being separated from his younger brother in the foster care system, or remain silent and risk his brother experiencing that same abuse.
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Watch me
by Tahereh Mafi
Ten years since the fall of The Reestablishment, it is ready to make a devastating move, in a journey through a dystopian landscape where enemies-to-lovers has never felt more impossible.
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A wizard of Earthsea : a graphic novel
by Fred Fordham
Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth, he was the reckless Sparrowhawk, and in his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets, unleashing a terrible shadow on the world.
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The summer I ate the rich
by Maika Moulite
Seventeen-year-old Haitian American zombie Brielle seeks revenge on the wealthy elites responsible for her immigrant family's pain.
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Find him where you left him dead
by Kristen Simmons
Summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead, Owen, Madeline, Emerson and Dax must restart the deadly game they never finished in order to bring Ian home, entering into a hell-scape of Japanese underworlds where they must make the ultimate sacrifice.
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The Getaway
by Lamar Giles
It's a small, small world: Jay and his family have it pretty good living and working at Karloff Country. It's an exclusive mountaintop theme park resort billionaires created to isolate themselves from climate change disasters ravaging the rest of the country.
What happens: Jay's friend Connie and her family mysteriously disappear just as wealthy visitors start moving in permanently. And Jay realizes this isn't paradise at all.
For fans of: compelling dystopian stories and Jordan Peele's thought-provoking horror movies.
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#murdertrending
by Gretchen McNeil
In a world... where prison is livestreamed and executions are a popular public spectacle, wrongly convicted murderer Dee Guerrera is determined to survive Alcatraz 2.0 and prove her innocence.
Is it for you? While the inventive violence and campy tone in this Black Mirror-style tale might be too much for sensitive readers, fans of horror and dark comedy will be riveted.
Series alert: For further gruesomely funny social commentary, check out the sequel, #murderfunding, and the prequel, #noescape.
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Dead Flip
by Sara Farizan
Halloween night, 1987: Twelve-year-old Sam, one of a trio of inseparable friends, disappears. Cori thinks he's dead, but Maz thinks an evil pinball machine took him.
Six years later: Maz, a track star with a drinking problem, and Cori, a closeted lesbian, aren't speaking. When Sam suddenly returns, still 12 years old, the two must reconcile to solve this creepy mystery.
For fans of: bittersweet, nostalgic depictions of the literal horror of adolescence, like It and Stranger Things.
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All These Bodies
by Kendare Blake
What it is: a fast-paced thriller inspired by a real-life murder spree from the 1950s which left victims mysteriously drained of blood.
Starring: 17-year-old Michael Jenson, an aspiring journalist hoping to cover the murder in his Midwestern town. Fifteen-year-old Marie Catherine Hale, found covered in blood at the scene, chooses Michael alone to hear her horrifying story.
For fans of: tales of small-town murder with supernatural speculations, like Lauren Oliver's Broken Things.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for age 14 and up!
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