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Found Families & Misfits United Wherever and however they meet, the characters in these stories feel like they don't fit in -- except with each other. |
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Aurora Rising: Aurora Cycle 01
by Amie Kaufman
After rescuing a girl who was trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries from interdimensional space, eighteen-year-old Aurora Academy graduate Tyler Jones is swept up in an interstellar war millions of years in the making.
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The Bone Spindle
by Leslie Vedder
When she pricks her finger on a bone spindle, treasure hunter Fi is stuck with the spirit of Briar Rose, a prince under a sleeping curse, and must team up with a tough-as-dirt girl warrior to free the prince—and herself.
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Cemetery Boys
by Aiden Thomas
Determined to prove himself a real brujo to the traditional Latinx family that does not accept his true gender, a trans boy summons the ghost of the resident bad boy, who refuses to return quietly to death.
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Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves
by Meg Long
Meg Long's Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves is a captivating debut about survival, found family, and the bond between a girl and a wolf that delivers a fresh twist on classic survival stories and frontier myths. On a frozen wasteland of a planet, a girl is on the run with a wolf who is born to be a killer but bound to be her guide. As they fight to escape ice goblins, giant bears, and a ruthless leader intent on trapping them both, one question drives them relentlessly forward: where do you turn when there is nowhere to hide?
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The Disasters
by M. K. England
Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.
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Emergency Contact
by Mary H. K. Choi
A chance encounter leads Penny and Sam to become each other's emergency contacts and they soon find themselves falling in love digitally, without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.
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The Gilded Ones
by Namina Forna
Inspired by the culture of West Africa, a feminist fantasy debut traces the experiences of an intuitive girl who is invited to leave her discriminatory village to join the emperor’s army of near-immortal women warriors.
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The Good Luck Girls
by Charlotte Nicole Davis
Sold as children and branded with cursed markings, five girls trapped in a brutal existence risk a dangerous escape and a harrowing journey to find freedom, justice and revenge in a country of human and inhuman forces that would deny them basic freedoms.
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Howl's Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
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I Hope You Get this Message
by Farah Naz Rishi
When Earth receives messages from another world, claiming that the planet is their created colony and that they are planning to destroy it within a week, three teens are forced to confront the mistakes of their past before they run out of time.
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If This Gets Out
by S. Gonzales
Best friends and members of a popular British boy band find their once-easy rapport straining under the pressures of fame and their management's decision for gay singer Reuben to stay in the closet.
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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Having believed he was happy with his place in the loving Mexican-American family he shares with his adoptive gay father, Sal turns angry and uncertain when his senior year arrives and he realizes that he wants to know more about his biological origins.
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Ink and Bone
by Rachel Caine
In a world where the Great Library of Alexandria governs the flow of information to the people, Jess discovers that those who control the Library believe that knowledge is more valuable than human life after his friend commits heresy.
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The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
by Mackenzi Lee
Hoping to travel to Germany to ask for help enrolling in medical school, Felicity has no money for the trip until a mysterious woman offers to travel with her and pay her way, which ends up entangling Felicity in a perilous quest across Europe.
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Last Bus to Everland
by Sophie Cameron
Forging a bond with a compassionate artist, Brody Fair joins a band of misfits and miscreants who meet weekly for adventures in a Narnia-inspired world, before dwindling magic forces him to choose between those he loves.
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Let Me Hear a Rhyme
by Tiffany D. Jackson
Three Brooklyn teens plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he is still alive, in a vibrant standalone novel by the NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Monday's Not Coming.
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Like a Love Story
by Abdi Nazemian
An Iranian youth who hides his sexual orientation from his family, an openly gay photographer and an aspiring fashion designer with an HIV-positive uncle fall in love and find their voices as activists during the height of the AIDS crisis in New York City.
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Losers Take All
by David Klass
Forced to join a sports team with his ragtag band of anti-athletic friends, Jack starts a rebel soccer team that is secretly dedicated to avoiding victory and undermining his school's jock culture, with unexpected results.
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Little Thieves
by Margaret Owen
Posing as a royal to rob the nobles blind, seventeen-year-old Vanja Schmidt is thrilled by her luck until she crosses the wrong god and is cursed to turn into the jewels she covets unless she can pay back her debts--quickly.
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
by Jesse Andrews
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin
by Kip Wilson
In Berlin on the cusp of World War II, Hilde, a former orphan, takes a job at a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers where she finally finds a place to belong until seeds of unrest force her to decide what's best for her future.
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OCD, the Dude, and Me: A Novel
by Lauren Roedy Vaughn
In attitude and appearance, Danielle Levine stands out even at her alternative high school, and when her scathing and sometimes raunchy English essays land her in a social skills class, she meets Daniel, another social misfit who may just break her resolve to keep everyone at arm's length.
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One For All
by Lillie Lainoff
Finally finding a place where she belongs, Tania de Batz, a girl with a chronic illness secretly training as a Musketeer, must decide where her loyalties lie when she is torn between duty and dizzying emotion.
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The Raven Boys
by Maggie Stiefvater
Developing her mother's clairvoyant powers for seeing visions of people who are about to die, Blue is drawn into the life of rich private school boy, Gansey, who has involved three of his classmates in a quest that Blue believes will end with her involvement in Gansey's death.
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Realm Breaker
by Victoria Aveyard
A strange darkness grows in Allward. Even Corayne an-Amarat can feel it, tucked away in her small town at the edge of the sea. She soon discovers the truth. She is the last of an ancient lineage--and the last hope to save the world from destruction. Butshe won't be alone. Even as darkness falls, she is joined by a band of unlikely companions: a squire, forced to choose between home and honor, an immortal, avenging a broken promise, an assassin, exiled and bloodthirsty, an ancient sorceress, whose riddles hide an eerie foresight, a forger with a secret past, a bounty hunter with a score to settle. Together they stand against a vicious opponent, invincible and determined to burn all kingdoms to ash, and an army unlike anything the realm has ever witnessed.
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Shut Up, This is Serious
by Carolina Ixta
An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that the world is brimming with messy complexities.
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A Snake Falls to Earth
by Darcie Little Badger
Fifteen-year-olds Nina and Oli come from different words--she is a Lipan Apache living in Texas and he is a cottonmouth from the Reflecting World--but their lives intersect when Oli journeys to Earth to find a cure for his ailing friend and they end up helping each other save their families.
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So This is Ever After
by F. T. Lukens
Assuming the role of King of Ere, Arek discovers there is a magical catch– choose a spouse by your 18th birthday, or wither away into nothing– and, with the help of his mage, desperately searches for the perfect candidate.
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Sorcery of Thorns
by Margaret Rogerson
When apprentice librarian Elisabeth is implicated in sabotage that released the library's most dangerous grimoire, she becomes entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy that could mean the end of everything.
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The Sword of Summer
by Rick Riordan
Living on the streets of Boston after the death of his mother, Magnus is told by a mysterious stranger that he is the son of a Norse god and must track down a lost ancient sword to stop a war being waged by mythical monsters.
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The (Un)Popular Vote
by Jasper Sanchez
A heated school election forces Mark to decide between being true to himself and pleasing his congressman father, who has urged Mark to hide his past.
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Walk on Earth a Stranger
by Rae Carson
A young woman who possesses a supernatural ability to sense the presence of gold disguises herself as a boy and seeks safety and romance in California.
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We Are Not Free
by Traci Chee
Growing up together in the community of Japantown, San Francisco, four second-generation Japanese American teens find their bond tested by widespread discrimination and the mass incarcerations of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
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The Weight of the Stars
by Kayla Ancrum
Ryann dreams of traveling across the stars, but a career in space isn't an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the wrong side of town. Alexandria is a loner who spurns Ryann's offer of friendship, until a horrific accident leaves Alexandria with a broken arm. Ryann learns her secret: Alexandria's mother is an astronaut who volunteered for a one-way trip to the edge of the solar system. Every night Alexandria waits to catch radio signals from her mother. And its up to Ryann to lift her onto the roof day after day... until the silence between them grows into friendship, and eventually something more.
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Deadendia: The Watcher's Test
by Hamish Steele
When Barney gets a job at Dead End, a theme park haunted house, he discovers it is also a portal to hell, and must battle demonic party poopers with help from his best friend Norma and his talking dog Pugsley.
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Nimona
by Noelle Stevenson
Lord Blackheart, a villain with a vendetta, and his sidekick, Nimona, an impulsive young shapeshifter, must prove to the kingdom that Sir Goldenloin and the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are.
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On a Sunbeam
by Tillie Walden
An award-winning cartoonist presents the graphic-novel story of a crew member who travels to the ends of the universe to find a long-lost love while helping her team rebuild beautiful, broken-down historical structures on faraway planets.
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Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales
by Melanie Gillman
Characters in classic stories who have been forced to sit on the sidelines take center stage in this feminist, queer fairy-tale collection told in a graphic novel format by a Stonewall Honor-winning author and artist. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.
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