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The Moon and More (Hardcover)

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ISBN-13: 9780670785605
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Published: Viking Juvenile, 6/2013

Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome, kind, fun. He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby, the beach town where they both grew up. But now, in the summer before college, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough.

Enter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker assisting on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist. Theo's sophisticated, exciting, and, best of all, he thinks Emaline is much too smart for Colby.

Emaline's mostly-absentee father, too, thinks Emaline should have a bigger life, and he's convinced that an Ivy Leagu...


The Testing (Hardcover)

$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780547959108
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 6/2013

In Cia's dystopian society it's an honor to be chosen for The Testing.  But it’s not enough to pass the Test. Cia will have to survive it.

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The 5th Wave (Hardcover)

$18.99
ISBN-13: 9780399162411
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Published: Putnam Juvenile, 5/2013

The Passage meets Ender's Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.
Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until sh...


Dead End in Norvelt (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9781250010230
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Published: Square Fish, 5/2013

Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year’s best contribution to children’s literature and the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction!

 

Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is “grounded for life” by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack&#...


Gorgeous (Hardcover)

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ISBN-13: 9780545464260
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Published: Scholastic Press, 5/2013

Inner beauty wants out. When eighteen-year-old Becky Randle’s mother dies, she’s summoned from her Missouri trailer park to meet Tom Kelly, the world’s top designer. He makes her an impossible offer: He’ll create three dresses to transform Becky from a nothing special girl into the most beautiful woman who ever lived. Becky thinks Tom is a lunatic, or that he’s producing a hidden camera show called World’s Most Gullible Poor People. But she accepts, and she’s remade as Rebecca. When Becky looks in the mirror, she sees herself – an aw...


Reboot (Hardcover)

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ISBN-13: 9780062217073
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Published: Harper Teen, 5/2013
"La Femme Nikita" meets "Maximum Ride" in this action-packed debut novel about 17-year-old Wren, who has risen from the dead as a Reboot and is now the government's top soldierNuntil she is given an order she refuses to obey....

Code Name Verity (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9781423152880
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Published: Disney-Hyperion, 5/2013

Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.

When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.

As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot...


The Enchantress (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9780385735360
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Published: Ember, 5/2013

The two that are one must become the one that is all. One to save the world, one to destroy it.
 
San Francisco:
Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel have one day left to live, and one job left to do. They must defend San Francisco. The monsters gathered on Alcatraz Island have been released and are heading toward the city. If they are not stopped, they will destroy everyone and everything in their path.

But even with the help of two of the greatest warriors from history and myth, will the Sorceress and the legendary Alchemyst be able to defend the city? Or is it th...


Golden (Hardcover)

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ISBN-13: 9781442452169
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Published: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 5/2013

Love, tragedy, and mystery converge in this compelling novel from “an author to watch” (Booklist).

Seventeen-year-old Parker Frost has never taken the road less traveled. Valedictorian and quintessential good girl, she’s about to graduate high school without ever having kissed her crush or broken the rules. So when fate drops a clue in her lap—one that might be the key to unraveling a town mystery—she decides to take a chance.

Julianna Farnetti and Shane Cruz are remembered as the golden couple of Summit Lakes High—perfect in every w...


Crazy (Paperback)

$9.99
ISBN-13: 9781442413481
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Published: Simon Pulse, 5/2013

He’s falling in love—and she’s falling over the edge of sanity. From the author of Beautiful and Clean, a “real and relatable” (VOYA) exploration of a romance marred by mental illness.

What if I can’t ever be who you want me to be?

Connor knows that Izzy will never fall in love with him the way he’s fallen for her. But somehow he’s been let into her crazy, exhilarating world and become her closest confidante. The closer they get, however, the more Connor realizes that Izzy’s highs are too high a...