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To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights.

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Fantasy

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501

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2020

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Tacy Deonn

Legendborn

Seventeen-year-old Zelie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.

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Fantasy

Genre/theme:

531

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2018

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Tomi Adeyemi

Children of Blood and Bone

J.B., Ramon, and Trey, students of the Urban Promise Prep School, must follow the school's strict rules, but when their principal is murdered, the three boys must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested.

Synopsis

Mystery

Genre/theme:

294

Pages:

2023

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Nick Brooks

Promise Boys

Lost in the Great Smoky Mountains, rising high school senior Ashley Hawkins must fight for survival without any tools, growing in awareness that the world is not tame, and neither are people.

Synopsis

Adventure/Survival

Genre/theme:

231

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2020

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Mindy McGinnis

Be Not Far From Me

With the highest kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military organization tasked with the neutralization of kaiju. Kafka Hibino hopes to one day keep his pact with his childhood friend Mina to join the Japan Defense Force and fight by her side. But while she's out neutralizing kaiju as Third Division captain, Kafka is stuck cleaning up the aftermath of her battles. When a sudden rule change makes Kafka eligible for the Defense Force, he decides to try out for the squad once more. There's just one problem--he's made the Defense Force's neutralization list under the code name Kaiju No. 8.

Synopsis

Manga

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unpaged

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2021

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Naoya Matsumoto

Kaiju No. 8 Volume 1

When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.

Synopsis

Mystery

Genre/theme:

376

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2020

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Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Inheritance Games

The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love--even where they are not supposed to.

Synopsis

Historical Fiction/Romance

Genre/theme:

379

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2023

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Krystal Marquis

The Davenports

In a world divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities--seventeen-year-old Mare, a Red, discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. But Mare risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard--a growing Red rebellion--even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction.

Synopsis

Fantasy

Genre/theme:

388

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2015

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Victoria Aveyard

Red Queen

Fifteen-year-old Stevie and Nora's plan to abandon their conservative small town for California so they can be together is shattered when a terrible fall steals every trace of Stevie's relationship with Nora from her memory.

Synopsis

Romance

Genre/theme:

308

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2023

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Alyson Derrick

Forget Me Not

To his great surprise, uncool eleventh-grader Max Cobb is invited to join the Chaos Club, an exclusive group of students responsible for some of the biggest pranks at his high school.

Synopsis

Humor

Genre/theme:

331

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2016

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Kurt Dinan

Don't Get Caught

On her sixteenth birthday, orphan Himari Momochi inherits her ancestral estate that she's never seen. Momochi House exists on the barrier between the human and spiritual realms, and Himari is meant to act as guardian between the two worlds. But on the day she moves in, she finds three handsome squatters already living in the house, and one seems to have already taken over her role!

Synopsis

Manga

Genre/theme:

152

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2015

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Aya Shouoto

The Demon Prince of Momochi House Vol 1

Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.

Synopsis

Sports

Genre/theme:

328

Pages:

2018

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Randy Ribay

After the Shot Drops

The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a companion to their silent, mysterious daughter, Agatha. At first, helping with Agatha--and getting to know her handsome older brother--seems much better than the group home. But soon, the isolated, gothic house begins playing tricks on Margot's mind, making her question everything she believes about the Suttons . . . and herself. Margot's bad dreams may have stopped when she came to live with Agatha--but the real nightmare has just begun

Synopsis

Mystery/Thriller

Genre/theme:

439

Pages:

2021

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Katie Alender

The Companion

As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.

Synopsis

Graphic Novel/Realistic Fiction

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unpaged

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2020

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jason Reynolds/Danica Mongorodoff

Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel

Emmett accepts an interstellar space contract but learns en route that to win the promised fortune he and nine other recruits face a brutal competition, putting their very humanity at risk.

Synopsis

Sci-Fi

Genre/theme:

376

Pages:

2018

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Scott Reintgen

Nyxia

Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, they come to understand the surprising and delightful ways in which love works.

Synopsis

Romance/Graphic Novel

Genre/theme:

263

Pages:

2020

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Alice oseman

Heartstopper Volume 1

Presents a love story spanning the history of two teenagers' lives and all the moments when if one little thing had been different, their futures would have been together instead of apart.

Synopsis

Romance

Genre/theme:

381

Pages:

2019

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Laura Nowlin

If He Had Been with Me

In the magic realm, magic is everything--everyone can use it, and one's skill determines their social status. Deep in the forest, oblivious to the ways of the world, lives Mash. Thanks to his daily training, he's become a fitness god. When Mash is discovered, he has no choice but to enroll in magic school, where he must beat the competition without revealing his secret--he can't use magic! Mash just wants to live in peace with his father in the forest. But the only way he'll ever be accepted in the magic realm is by attending magic school and becoming a Divine Visionary--an exceptional student revered as one the chosen. But without an ounce of magic to his name, Mash will have to punch his way to the top spot.

Synopsis

Manga

Genre/theme:

214

Pages:

2021

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Hajime Komoto

Mashle: Magic & Muscle Volume 1

Eric Gansworth tells the story of his life and family through poems about their Onondaga heritage, from the horrible legacy of government boarding schools, to watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to his fight to be an artist who balances multiple worlds.

Synopsis

Biography

Genre/theme:

330

Pages:

2020

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Eric L Gansworth

Apple: Skin to the Core

In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.

Synopsis

Sci-Fi

Genre/theme:

373

Pages:

2017

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Adam Silvera

They Both Die at the End

A groundbreaking and timely graphic memoir from one of the most iconic figures in American sports-and a tribute to his fight for civil rights. On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans.

Synopsis

Biography/Graphic Novel

Genre/theme:

200

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2022

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Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile

Victory. Stand! Raising my Fisrt for Justice

In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country.

Synopsis

Historical Fiction

Genre/theme:

319

Pages:

2022

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Ruta Sepetys

I Must Betray You

It's springtime at Kimberly Magic Academy, and that means the arrival of a fresh crop of first-year students. Whether it's the quiet and studious Oliver Horn or Nanao Hibiya, a samurai girl from a distant land, they come with wands and swords at their waists, ready to take their first steps on the road to magical mastery. However, beneath its brilliant facade of cherry blossoms, the academy hides countless dangers and dark secrets, ready to take the lives of the unprepared!

Synopsis

Manga

Genre/theme:

191

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2021

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Sakae Esuno

Reign of the Seven Spellblades Vol 1

An autobiography about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and his life growing up in New York, becoming the basketball star he's known to be, and getting involved in the world around him as an activist for social change.

Synopsis

Biography

Genre/theme:

289

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2017

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kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Becoming Kareem: Growing Up on and off the Court

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first.

Synopsis

Fantasy

Genre/theme:

465

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2018

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Leigh Bardugo

Six of Crows

Lord Ballister Blackheart seeks to bring down the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics with the aid of his new shapeshifting sidekick Nimona.

Synopsis

Graphic Novel/Fantasy

Genre/theme:

266

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2015

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ND Stevenson

Nimona

The world is divided into two factions, humans and monsters called katawara. Despite being a katawara, Tama loves humans and vows to protect them from evil, even if it means fighting her own kind. Her stepbrother Jinka, however, hates humans, despite mostly being one. The siblings are joined by a cowardly swordsman named Shinsuke, who wants to learn how to become strong. When the group uncovers a plot to experiment on humans and transform them into monsters, they vow to defeat whoever is behind it... Even if it means battling an entire army of warriors. The people they meet, places they see, and creatures they battle will be legendary!

Synopsis

Manga

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169

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2023

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Satoshi Mizukami

Sengoku Youko Volume 1

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet--from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu--on a five-star scale.

Synopsis

Nonfiction

Genre/theme:

318

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2021

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John Green

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as "edgy" humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew. Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account's discovery. Not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created the account. Not the group of kids who followed it. Not the adults--educators and parents--whose attempts to fix things too often made them worse. In the end, no one was laughing. And everyone was left asking: Where does accountability end for online speech that harms? And what does accountability even mean?

Synopsis

Nonfiction

Genre/theme:

480

Pages:

2023

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Dashka Slater

Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives it Changed

In a climate-ravaged New York deeply divided by class, Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho, three teens of refugees from a fallen African utopia, begin to develop supernatural powers.

Synopsis

Fantasy

Genre/theme:

351

Pages:

2023

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Omar Epps & Clarence A. Haynes

Nubia: The Awakening

Darrow, a Red, which is the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future, joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy after witnessing the execution of his wife.

Synopsis

Sci-Fi

Genre/theme:

400

Pages:

2014

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Pierce Brown

Red Rising

Presents a graphic novel of George Orwell's '1984' in which Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the future political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the Party that controls all human thought and action.

Synopsis

Classic Adaptation/Graphic Novel

Genre/theme:

222

Pages:

2021

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George Orwell/Fido Nesti

1984 The Graphic Novel

Title appears on spine and front cover at "Moth" with the word "me" inside the O. Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.

Synopsis

Novel-in-verseMagical Realism

Genre/theme:

248

Pages:

2021

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Amber McBride

Me Moth

Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.

Synopsis

Historical Fiction/Adventure

Genre/theme:

304

Pages:

2021

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Alan Gratz

Ground Zero

Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.

Synopsis

Realistic Fiction

Genre/theme:

359

Pages:

2012

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Benjamin Alire Saenz

Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death.

Synopsis

Sci-Fi

Genre/theme:

395

Pages:

2021

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Xiran Jay Zhao

Iron Widow

Throughout the years both Rowan and Neil have been at competition with one another on everything from who has the best ideas for school functions to which one will be their graduating class's valedictorian. However, in the twenty-four hours left they have as high school students, the two learn they share something much deeper than a rivalry.

Synopsis

Romance

Genre/theme:

373

Pages:

2020

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Rachel Lynn Solomon

Today Tonight Tomorrow

Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, two students at Niveus Private Academy, are selected to be part of the elite school's senior class prefects and struggle against an anonymous bully who reveals all of their secrets.

Synopsis

Mystery/Thriller

Genre/theme:

418

Pages:

2021

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Faridah Abike-Iyimide

Ace of Spades

In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't.

Synopsis

Sci-Fi

Genre/theme:

433

Pages:

2016

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Neal Shusterman

Scythe

As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.

Synopsis

Mystery

Genre/theme:

389

Pages:

2021

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Holly Jackson

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged marriage with him.

Synopsis

Romance/Humor

Genre/theme:

380

Pages:

2017

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Sandhya Menon

When Dimple Met Rishi