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Here are our favorite books about Friends and Frenemies. These titles are classified as Teen High School (TH) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.
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Divine Rivals
by Rebecca Ross
When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever.
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Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi
Coming of age in a land where her magi mother was killed by the zealous king's guards along with other former wielders of magic, Zélie embarks on a journey alongside her brother and a fugitive princess to restore her people's magical abilities.
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Powerless
by Lauren Roberts
An Ordinary blending in with the Elites to stay alive and out of trouble, Paeydn is thrown into the Purging Trials when she unwittingly saves one of Ilya's princes, a brutal competition to showcase the Elites' powers—the very thing she lacks.
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Serpent & Dove
by Shelby Mahurin
A first entry in a fantasy duology, set in a world where witches are burned at the stake, finds a young witch forced into marriage with a church huntsman, a situation that is further complicated by their growing feelings for each other.
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Squad
by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Becca moves to an upscale Silicon Valley suburb and is surprised when she develops a bond with girls who belong to the popular clique-and even more surprised when she learns their secrets.
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Ace of Spades
by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Devon and Chiamaka, two Black students at an elite prep school, compete for valedictorian until anonymous texts reveal their darkest secrets, forcing the pair to fight back, as the cyberbully's game soon turns deadly.
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You Have a Match
by Emma Lord
When the DNA service reveals Abby has a secret sister, shimmery-haired Instagram star Savannah Tully, it's hard to believe they're from the same planet, never mind the same parents - especially considering Savannah, queen of green smoothies, is only a year and a half older than Abby herself. The logical course of action? Meet up at summer camp (obviously) and figure out why Abby's parents gave Savvy up for adoption.
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UnOrdinary
by uru-chan
With the power hierarchy of the school unstable after Seraphina's suspension, Arlo suspects John is a real threat to the social order, but when a new danger strikes too close to home, they must put aside their differences to uncover a conspiracy that threatens them all.
Please note, this title can be found in the
Teen Graphic Novel section of the library.
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These Witches Don't Burn
by Sterling, Isabel
When evidence of dark magic begins to appear all over Salem, Massachusetts, Elemental Witch Hannah and her ex-girlfriend Veronica are forced to team up to stop the deadly attacks
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The Next New Syrian Girl
by Ream Shukairy
When their worlds collide, Khadija Shami, a sheltered Syrian American high school senior with a monstrous ego, and Leene Tahir, a Syrian refugee doing her best to survive school and family pressures while battling panic attacks, become the unlikeliest of friends.
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In the Wild Light
by Jeff Zentner
When his best friend, Delaney, gets them both full rides to an elite prep school in Connecticut, Cash must choose between his need to love and protect Delaney and his loyalty to his grandparents and their small Appalachian town.
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Begin Again
by Emma Lord
When her arrival at Blue Ridge State doesn't go as planned, aspiring self-help guru Andie Rose finds her voice as the anonymous Squire of the school's legendary pirate radio station, discovering that not all the best laid plans are necessarily the right ones.
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Shadowed
by Carl Deuker
Fifteen-year-old Nate plays soccer because his family expects him to, and he discovers basketball is his sport when Lucas moves in across the street, but Nat has an axe to grind with two star players.
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We'll Never Tell
by Wendy Heard
Filming the last episode of their viral YouTube channel We'll Never Tell at the site of a shocking murder/suicide that took place in 1972, the members of the team who remain alive after one of them is killed must solve the murder mysteries past and present.
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When We Had Summer
by Jennifer Castle
When their best friend Carly unexpectedly passes away, Daniella, Lainie and Penny, the remaining #SummerSisters, are brought back together by Carly's bucket list and work to keep her memory alive while navigating grief and loss.
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You Truly Assumed
by Laila Sabreen
After a terrorist attack near her home ignites Islamophobia, Sabriya and two other girls publish an online journal that goes viral, but when hateful comments and threats are made, they must risk everything to make their voices heard.
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The Book of Living Secrets
by Madeleine Roux
Excited to enter the world of a gothic romance they have been obsessed with for years, best friends Adelle and Connie are instead faced with unspeakable horrors and must rewrite their own ending to survive this nightmare.
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You'll Be the Death of Me
by Karen M. McManus
Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Now all they have in common is Carlton High and the beginning of a very bad day. In one chance move, their day turns from dull to deadly. And it's about to get worse. It turns out Ivy, Mateo, and Cal still have some things in common...like a connection to the dead kid. And they're all hiding something. Could it be that their chance reconnection wasn't by chance after all?
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The Last Words We Said
by Leah Scheier
Nine months after Danny disappeared, his closest friends, Ellie, Rae, and Deenie, deal with their loss very differently but will have to share secrets about the night he disappeared to uncover the truth.
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Simone Breaks All the Rules
by Debbie Rigaud
At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistence on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things get complicated, and Simone has to decide which rules are worth breaking, and which should just be left alone.
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So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix
by Bethany C. Morrow
At the Freedman's Colony of Roanoke Island, a haven for the recently emancipated, the four March sisters--Meg, Joanna, Bethlehem, and Amethyst--come into their own as independent, young Black women together facing love, sickness, heartbreak, and new horizons.
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