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The Love Letters of Abelard and Lilyby Laura CreedleWhat it's about: Lily, who has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Abelard, who has Asperger's, meet in detention and discover a mutual affinity for love letters--and, despite their differences, each other,
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Everlessby Sara HollandWhat it's about: In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency. The rich aristocracy, like the Gerlings, tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember. She and her father were servants at Everless, the Gerlings’ palatial estate, until a fateful accident forced them to flee in the dead of night. When Jules discovers that her father is dying, she knows that she must return to Everless to earn more time for him before she loses him forever. For fans of: Victoria Aveyard and Kendare Blake.
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| Here We Are Nowby Jasmine WargaWhat it's about: Though Taliah Abdallat doesn't know her father's identity, she suspects that he might be indie rock icon Julian Oliver – and her suspicions prove true when Julian turns up on her doorstep and asks her to meet his side of the family.
Read it for: A multicultural, multilayered family drama laced with romance and bittersweet song lyrics.
You might also like: Solo, by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess. |
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Love, Life, and the Listby Kasie WestWhat it's about: Abby Turner’s summer isn’t going the way she’d planned. She has a not-so-secret but definitely unrequited crush on her best friend, Cooper. And she’s been rejected from an art show because her work “has no heart.” So when she gets another opportunity to show her paintings, Abby isn’t going to take any chances. Which is where the list comes in. Abby gives herself one month to do ten things. But as the deadline approaches, Abby realizes that getting through the list isn’t as straightforward as it seems . . . and that maybe—just maybe—she can’t change her art if she isn’t first willing to change herself. For fans of: Sarah Dessen, Jenny Han, and Jennifer E. Smith
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| The Leavingby Tara AltebrandoStarring: Scarlett, Lucas, Kristen, Sarah, and Adam, who've just been dropped off in a park with no memories of how they spent the 11 years since their kidnapping and no idea why Max, who was taken when they were, isn't with them now.
Why you might like it: The voices of multiple narrators, each written with distinctive formatting, combine to create an unsettling, thought-provoking thriller about memory and identity. |
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Six Of Crowsby Leigh BardugoWhat it's about: Offered a chance to participate in a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams, criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker recruits a team of talented associates to organize a plot that is threatened by their mutual enmity. Who's it for: Fans of fantasy, action, and adventure.
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| Infinite in Betweenby Carolyn MacklerWhat it's about: Thrown together at freshman orientation, five high school students write letters to their future selves and pledge to read them together at graduation. In the four years that follow, Zoe, Jake, Mia, Gregor, and Whitney change and intersect in surprising ways.
Who it's for: Anyone looking for an insightful, character-driven slice of high school life as experienced by five very different students. |
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| Salt to the Seaby Ruta SepetysWhat it's about: Before embarking on its doomed final voyage in 1945, the Wilhelm Gustloff offered a last chance of escape for thousands of Eastern European refugees fleeing the brutality of World War Two.
Featuring: Joana, a guilt-ridden Lithuanian nurse; Emilia, a pregnant Polish teen; Florian, a secretive Prussian artist; and Alfred, a young Nazi soldier.
Try this next: Allan Wolf's The Watch That Ends the Night is another gorgeously written tale of a deadly shipwreck. |
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