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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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Toni is reeling in the wake of the loss of her roadie father and desperate to figure out where her life will go from here -- so she's heading back to the festival that taught her to love music in a last ditch effort to rediscover her passion. Olivia is a hopeless romantic whose heart has just taken a beating, and is beginning to believe that someone like her may never find "the one" -- but the Farmland Music and Arts Festival is a chance to at least...
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Razorbill
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Hannah's a witch, an Elemental with the power to control fire, earth, water, and air. But even though she lives in Salem, Massachusetts, her magic is a secret she has to keep to herself. She spends most of her time avoiding her ex-girlfriend (and fellow Elemental Witch) Veronica, hanging out with her best friend, and working at the Fly by Night Cauldron. But dealing with her ex is the least of Hannah's concerns when a terrifying blood ritual interrupts...
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Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends--one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria expects boredom, but what she finds is Steph Nichols, her grandmother's gardener. Soon, Aria is second-guessing who she is and what she wants to be, and a summer that once seemed lost...
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Melody McIntyre, stage manager extraordinaire, has a plan for everything. What she doesn't have? Success with love. Every time she falls for someone during a school performance, both the romance and the show end in catastrophe. So, Mel swears off any entanglements until their upcoming production of Les Mis is over. Of course, Mel didn't count on Odile Rose, rising star in the acting world, auditioning for the spring performance. And she definitely...
5) Pulp
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Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Duel narratives follow an eighteen-year-old closeted lesbian in 1955 keeping a secret romance and wanting to write her own stories and another young woman sixty-two years later studying 1950s lesbian pulp fiction for her senior project.
6) Spinning
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First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
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For ten years, figure skating was Tillie Walden’s life. She woke before dawn for morning lessons, went straight to group practice after school, and spent weekends competing at ice rinks across the state. Skating was a central piece of her identity, her safe haven from the stress of school, bullies, and family. But as she switched schools, got into art, and fell in love with her first girlfriend, she began to question how the close-minded world of...
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television. She never pictured fleeing her home in El Salvador under threat of death and stealing across the US border as "an illegal", but after her brother is murdered and her younger sister, Gabi's, life is also placed in equal jeopardy, she has no choice, especially because she knows everything is her fault. If she had never fallen...
10) #MurderFunding
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#MurderTrending volume 2
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Seventeen-year-old Becca auditions for a new, non-lethal reality show featuring Painiacs, hoping to prove that her deceased mother was not Alcatraz 2.0 executioner, Molly Mauler.
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Tamsin is the most powerful witch of her generation, but after committing the worst magical sin she is exiled by the ruling Coven and cursed with the inability to love. She can only get those feelings back-- temporarily-- by stealing love from others. Wren is a source, a person full of magic despite being unable to use it herself. As the only caretaker to her ailing father, Wren has spent her life hiding her secret. When her father falls victim to...
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Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta to the more conservative Rome, Georgia, he asks Jo to do the impossible: to lie low for the rest of her senior year. And Jo reluctantly agrees. Although it is (mostly) much easier for Jo to fit in as a straight girl, things get complicated when she meets Mary Carlson, the oh-so-tempting sister of...
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Dial Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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In a world bound for an epic flood, Natasha, a Principal Flyer in the court's Royal Flyers, a lauded fleet of aerial silk performers, will do anything to save her family, but unbeknownst to her, her newest recruit has plans of her own.
In a world bound for an epic flood, only a chosen few are guaranteed safe passage into the new world once the waters recede. The Kostrovian royal court will be saved, along with their guards. The fate of the court's...
14) Learned by heart
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"Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. Full of passion and heartbreak, the tangled lives of Anne Lister and Eliza Raine form a love story...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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An American girl goes to an exclusive Scottish boarding school where she becomes the roommate, best friend, and girlfriend of a royal princess.
When her sort-of-best friend/sort-of-girlfriend has been kissing someone else, Millie Quint decides to apply for scholarships to boarding schools ... the farther from Houston the better. She's accepted into an exclusive schools located in the rolling highlands of Scotland. The only problem: her new roommate...
16) Miss Meteor
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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A teen who secretly arrived with the meteor that gave her small hometown its name discovers that she is turning back into stardust and teams up with her best friend in an effort to secure her human existence by entering a local beauty pageant that has always been won by thin, blonde, white girls.
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Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
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For the last several years CeCe Ross has been in a serious relationship with her girlfriend Silvie. They enjoy their career as social media influencers, with thousands of fans, posting about fashion and relationship goals, and totally abandoning the liberal politics that were the subjects of her original social media profile. During their senior year Silvie breaks up with her, and CeCe meets Josh. He is not interested in online profiles but is interested...
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"Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor.But when the financial aid she was counting on unexpectedly falls through, Liz's plans come crashing down . . . until she's reminded of...
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2021.
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After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. When the accident sends Irene's car to the shop for repairs, the girls are forced to carpool, and their rocky start only gets worse. In trying to get back at her toxic ex, Scottie bribes Irene into a fake-dating scheme that...
20) Honor girl
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Candlewick Press
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Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys in a really deep way, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing . . . until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for...