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• Gorgeous Gruesome Faces

  Cheng, Linda,

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  Two years have passed since Sunny Lee lost her best friend Mina in a mysterious death. With their other BFF, Candie, the trio had been the hottest up-and-coming teen pop group, until it all suddenly ended. And Sunny can’t help but wonder…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little Moons

  Storm, Jen, 1986-

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  In this moving graphic novel, thirteen-year-old Reanna grieves the loss of her older sister. Can she find comfort through her family’s Ojibwe traditions? It’s been a year since Reanna’s sister, Chelsea, went missing on her way home from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lockjaw

  Cerilli, Matteo L.,

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  Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident — there’s a monster under the town, and she’s determined to kill it before anyone else gets hurt. She’ll need the help of her crew —…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pillow Talk

  Cooke, Stephanie, 1986-

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  Shy college freshman Grace Mendes discovers an unexpected passion for the gritty world of professional pillow fighting after attending her first match. Despite struggling with body image issues, she takes a leap and joins the Pillow Fight…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Space Between Here & Now

  Suk, Sarah,

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  Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells something linked to that memory. Her dad is convinced she’ll simply grow out of it if she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sweetness in the Skin

  a Novel

  Robinson, Ishi,

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  Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother (who wants to improve the family’s social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Takedown

  Bryan, Ali, 1978-

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  Sixteen-year-old star wrestler Rowan Harper’s biggest fan is her father. But he has ALS, and his symptoms are getting worse. Saving his life will cost more money than the family has, but Rowan finds a solution. Will she risk her chances…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the Dark Stands Still

  Poranek, A. B.,

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  Liska knows that magic is monstrous, and its practitioners are monsters. She has done everything possible to suppress her own magic, to disastrous consequences. Desperate to be free of it, Liska flees her small village and delves into the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Who We Are in Real Life

  Koops, Victoria

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  IRL, Darcy has just moved to the small prairie town of Unity Creek with her two moms. It feels like she left everything good behind in the city. She misses her tabletop gaming friends and her boyfriend — and is horrified by the homophobia…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Zombie Apocalypse Running Club

  Mac, Carrie, 1975-

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  Eira and Soren are queer twins living with their survivalist parents when a plague starts spreading that turns people into zombie-like monsters. They disagree with their parents about a lot, but they can’t deny that their way of life keeps…Read moreRead more of this annotation