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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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| We Are Villains by Kacen CallenderMilo, a scholarship student at Yates Academy, returns to campus after the death of his best friend. When Liam, king of Yates, hires Milo to identify who’s accusing him of murder, secrets are bound to come out. This twisty thriller will draw fans of dark academia and morally gray characters. |
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Nothing bad happens here
by Rachel Ekstrom-Courage
Sixteen-year-old Lucia falls in with a group of glamorous girls while spending the summer on Nantucket, but her new friends have a dangerous secret, and they would do anything to take revenge on those who have wronged them.
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All the noise at once
by DeAndra Davis
All Aiden has ever wanted to do was play football just like his star quarterback brother, Brandon. An overstimulation meltdown gets in the way of Aiden making the team during summer tryouts, but when the school year starts and a spot unexpectedly needs to be filled, he finally gets a chance to play the game he loves.
However, not every player is happy about the new addition to the team, wary of how Aiden’s autism will present itself on game day. Tensions rise. A fight breaks out. Cops are called.
When Brandon is wrongly charged for felony assault on an officer, everything Brandon has worked for starts to slip away, and the brothers’ relationship is tested. As Brandon’s trial inches closer, Aiden is desperate to figure out what really happened that night. Can he clear his brother’s name in time?
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| Run Away With Me by Brian SelznickDanny is spending a lonely summer in Rome while his mother works there. A hand-drawn map leads him to Angelo, and romance blossoms as they explore the city. Like author Brian Selznick’s middle-grade blockbusters Wonderstruck and The Invention of Hugo Cabret, his YA debut blends prose and intricate illustrations. |
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| Artifice by Sharon CameronTo keep her family afloat during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Isa sells a forged Rembrandt to the Nazis, pulling her into dangerous work smuggling Jewish babies to safety and forging more art. This immersive historical thriller is ideal for fans of Ruta Sepetys and Elizabeth Wein. |
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I'll Give You the Sun
by Jandy Nelson
Fiction. When they were 13, dreamy Noah and his daring twin sister Jude were inseparable. By the time they're 16, they can hardly stand each other. What happened in between? Alternating perspectives (between brother and sister, past and present) reveal each sibling's experiences of artistic exploration, heartrending loss, and exhilarating first love, illuminating how Noah and Jude's strong relationship was shattered…and how it might be rebuilt. Author Jandy Nelson's lush, stylized language overflows with vivid images and "brims with emotion" (Publishers Weekly), making I'll Give You the Sun an unforgettable experience.
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| A Forgery of Roses by Jessica S. OlsonMyra is a Prodigy, able to heal people through portrait painting. Desperate for the money she would earn for bringing the governor’s son back from the dead, she puts herself in the path of a murderer. Read-alikes: Margaret Robinson’s An Enchantment of Ravens; Renee Ahdieh’s The Beautiful. |
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You're welcome, universe
by Whitney Gardner
When Julia gets kicked out of the Kingston School for the Deaf for putting up an illegal mural, she is moved to a mainstream school in the suburbs where she starts putting up more art, but she soon finds that someone is showing off their skills by adding to her tags.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up!
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