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I am not a vampire (anymore)
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"My goals for senior year were simple: find a prom dress I don't hate, and spend as much time as possible with my boyfriend, Max, and best friend, Sarita. Maybe try not to flunk history class. My plans did NOT include: babysitting a newborn vampire, who also happens to be Max's buddy, Ezra, and fighting off my ex-boyfriend. And generally worrying about death and blood and mayhem. Turning human was supposed to mean finally getting a second chance at a normal life. But ever since moving to Florida, nothing has been normal. What's worse is I actually made friends here. And when my dark past threatens to take it all away... well, being mortal totally sucks."
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YA FIC Mil
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How to lose yourself completely
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Ever since Sean's death, Case's anxiety has been spiraling. Sean wasn't just his older brother, he was also Case's best friend. When his parents suggest "adventure therapy," Case is desperate enough to agree. But after he boards the bus, he sees the one person he's been trying to avoid: Diana, Sean's girlfriend. Once they set off, there is the expected cringey singing and forced sharing. Then their counselor mysteriously disappears, the trip suddenly turns into a journey of survival. This group of kids, with nothing in common but their prescriptions and lack of social skills, will have to band together to make it back home. In the process, they will change each other's lives forever.
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YA FIC Bog
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Blue Beach
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Fifteen-year-old Blue Collins's parents own the only Black beach in Santa Monica in 1929, and she loves spending time there with her friend Ben Clark. It's a spot where they can be alone and where Ben's darker skin won't be judged by onlookers, or Blue's own family. When the pair discover the body of Dottie Whitehouse, a white debutante, Blue knows it's trouble. Blue Beach is already threatened by local white property owners, and now their whole community could be in danger. In a panic, Blue and Ben move Dottie's body into the waters of a nearby white beach. When Dottie's body washes ashore, and it isn't long before all eyes are on Ben. Everyone saw how Dottie teased him and how they shared smiles. And their history goes deeper than Blue ever realized. To save Ben from the outraged white townspeople, she'll need to do whatever she can to dig up the truth and prove his innocence. And Ben's isn't the only life that depends on it.
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YA FIC Par
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Cursed ever after
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Risa Porto is a Bad Thing who was born on a Bad Day and is cursed with Bad Luck. After years of taking the blame for every calamity, mishap, and minor inconvenience that befalls the townspeople of Barrow, Risa longs to escape her village. And on her seventeenth birthday, her wish is granted. Sort of. Risa owes a witch a favor, and it comes in the form of a quest: she must escort Prince Javi (the youngest, handsomest, and least significant of the kingdom’s princes through the dark and deadly Bosque to his wedding. This measly errand quickly spirals into a struggle with greedy assassins, a murderous cult, a vicious tyrant, and Risa’s own curse. Most unfortunate of all, Risa is not immune to Javi’s charms.
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YA FIC Nar
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We could be anyone
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Lola and Lisandro are actors during Hollywood's Golden Age, but you won't see them on any silver screen. Instead, these siblings use their talents to scam the rich and famous out of their ill-begotten cash. Lola plays the tragic ghost who haunts the mansions of the wealthy, and Lisandro plays the brave spiritualist who will help her soul find peace. The siblings have their sights set on their next target: The Coterie, the opulent estate of newspaper tycoon, Bixby Fairfax, and his famous mistress, Blythe Bell. A score this big will allow them to move anywhere. But this job requires them to do something they've never done before: switch roles. And strange things keep happening at The Coterie, things that Lola and Lisandro can't explain. As they are drawn deeper into The Coterie's gleaming façade and tensions rise between brother and sister, one question looms over them: will they be able to pull thi off, or will this be their last performance?
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YA FIC McL
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Stream : a novel in two voices
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With eighth grade done, Elio Solis plans to lock in on his gaming and show the fellas what he's got. Celi Rivera and her bestie are headed to Hawaii to sun, skate, and search content for her channel. But those dreams end when a catfishing incident rocks their Oakland community. Suddenly, parents are nosing in posts, taking phones, and laying down lectures about screen-time safety and well-being. Suddenly, Celi and Elio find themselves sent to rural Mexico, without internet, electricity, or even running water save for a dying stream that could wipe out the whole pueblo in the coming summer rains. Helping curanderas in a healing clinic, and carting sticks to rehabilitate the arroyo, turn summer dreams to misery. Can they find their way to each other, and slowly back to themselves?
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Book
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YA FIC Sal
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The book of Jupiter
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Thirteen-year-old Ara has grown up in an isolated community called Jupiter Station, led by Father Jupiter, a self-appointed prophet whose beliefs and visions rule the family. All her life, Ara has been waiting for the day when their large family will Ascend, becoming stardust and living forever as part of the planet Jupiter. At Jupiter Station, Questions are forbidden, as they can lead to Doubt. But after Mother Io dies and Ara's brother Leo vanishes, Father Jupiter's ideas become increasingly dangerous. Ara must decide what is worth questioning and what she's prepared to risk to discover the truth and protect her family.
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YA FIC Ste
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The fair-weather friend
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It's always sunny in Detroit for Faith Richards. The popular TV meteorologist, endearingly referred to as "The Fair Weather Friend" by her viewers, has the world by the tail. But one night, Faith leaves work on a dinner break and never returns. Her body is found the next morning. The town is reeling, suspects emerge, and long-buried secrets are uncovered. While her allies rally, her list of adversaries also grows. Little does anyone know that only the deepest secrets will expose the truth.
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LP FIC Gar
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Medicine wheels
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When Bryce's mom walks out on her abusive boyfriend and back into jail for breaking her probation, he's left facing the summer of his junior year with no parents, no phone, and only the clothes on his back. With nowhere to call home, Bryce crashes at his grandparents' house on Wolf Creek reservation. Wolf Creek is full of memories and old friends--including Robbie and Mikayla, who hang out at the local skate park. Skateboarding reminds Bryce of his late dad: carefree, riding like he could fly. If Bryce could learn to ride like that, he'd take his crew to the top of the skateboarding championship at the end of the summer, and finally prove he's not a loser, especially to the online-famous, captivating Mikayla. Summer is looking up, even as he's falling on his face. But when a fresh loss takes Bryce down, he'll need to learn to lean on his Ojibwe community to get back on the board. Only then can he discover his father's real legacy--and the true meaning of unconditional love.
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Book
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YA FIC Gra
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Voices in the sea foam
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Can true love break a curse that crosses lifetimes? Aito used to think he was an ordinary kid, until the day he fell in love at first sight with a boy at school. Suddenly, memories of his previous life as the tragic little mermaid came flooding back, leaving him unable to speak or stand without agonizing pain. The terrifying ordeal made him swear off love entirely, but a fateful encounter with his charming college classmate Toru now threatens to shake his resolve, and pushes him into dark waters that might drown him for good.
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Book
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YA FIC Kot
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Beware the Abbott boys
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Fraternal triplets Henry, Bram, and Adam Abbott, live in a mansion on the outskirts of Silver Creek. For decades, their family's been at odds with the town, long before Mariana Flores died in a fiery accident on the Abbott property last year. The police ruled out foul play, but everyone in Silver Creek would say one of the Abbott boys killed her, they just don't know which one. But Hayden, the girl who lives next door to the Abbotts, swears they're innocent. Henry's her best friend, and she's been worried about Adam ever since he was injured in the accident that killed Mariana. As for Bram, he's complicated, but he and Mariana were in love. When the new school year begins and a popular girl is found dead in the woods, the hunt for a monster begins anew. The security camera footage doesn't show the face of the boy she was last seen with, but underneath the hoodie could be any one of the Abbott brothers. To clear their names, Hayden starts investigating the death, but the deeper she digs, the more uncertain she becomes.
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Book
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YA FIC Ich
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Libertad
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Alongside her sister, Ximena Reale now sails under the banner of the legendary pirate Gasparilla. But, between the bounty on "Gasparilla's" head and the Empire's renewed efforts to stomp out piracy, the sisters' fellow pirates are suddenly wary of swearing allegiance to their cause. After a betrayal in the one place they were supposed to be safe, Gasparilla's crew hits the high seas again and Ximena is reunited with Cazador Dante de Le̤n. Her longtime rival has been tasked with capturing her, and Ximena doesn't know if she can trust the information he's feeding her about the empire's plans to take over the Northern Archipelago's silver mines. "Gasparilla" heads north to rob the robbers, but the Empire has a few nasty tricks up their sleeves, including putting a traitor in the pirates' midst. With the armada closing in, Ximena finds herself scrambling to protect the people she loves.
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Book
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YA FIC Jam
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The game of oaths
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It's 1896, and beneath a hotel in the heart of Paris is the famed le Cirque des Ombres, led by ringmaster and Enchanteur Jean-Pierre. Behind the dazzling spectacles, the circus performers are bound by magical contracts, also making them potential players in the annual Game of Oaths, an underground bloodthirsty tournament watched by the wealthy elite. Twelve will compete, and eleven will die. And seventeen-year-old trapeze artist Falan Sunkara is out for revenge. After her sister ended up as one of the unlucky eleven last year, she wants nothing more than to make Jean-Pierre pay for her death. When she's chosen to compete in this year's tournament, Falan is not above playing dirty and forging unlikely alliances. But to be the last one standing, she has to determine whom to trust and whose motives to question.
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Book
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YA FIC Ban
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For the greatest good
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Moral victories don't solve public health crises. Money does. After years of poor water quality, Gavin fears his town, Pondville, is one burst pipe away from losing access to safe drinking water forever. Demoralized, Gavin and his best friend MacKenzie turn to his estranged father, a board member of the infamous water company CrispFlow. CrispFlow is known for giving out grants to improve public facilities, but they've also been buying and privatizing cities' failing water systems, often leaving those towns' situations worse than they found them. Gavin wouldn't trust CrispFlow to privatize their water, but with his father on the board and Gavin and Mack interning at town hall, he might just be able to walk away with the grant money instead. Gavin's dad agrees to rig the grant process if Gavin and MacKenzie sabotage the competition to help Crisp-Flow win an infrastructure bid. It's not above board, but everybody wins. As long as no one gets caught.
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Book
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YA FIC Han
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All That Glows
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Ever since the rain turned green, Kyrie’s world has been bathed in glowing dust. She packs it into old mascara tubes and sells it as makeup alongside dried cacti, threadbare blankets, and long-expired canned food. There’s not much else to do when everyone outside Kyrie’s small town in the Mojave Desert died from the plague-bearing rain ten years ago. Everyone―except the man in the rubber mask. He’s on the dangerous side of the fence, huffing infected air like it’s nothing, babbling to Kyrie about college and umbrellas and yogurt and everything else that disappeared the day it rained. He doesn't seem to know that the world ended, and he has no explanation for how he survived the apocalypse. But Kyrie doesn't believe in ghosts, and she can’t trust him. But he’s right about one thing: towns without secrets aren’t surrounded by chain-link fences. And chain-link fences won’t keep out the plague forever.
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YA FIC Smy