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Elana K. Arnold, author of the Printz Honor book Damsel, returns with a dark, engrossing, blood-drenched tale of the familiar threats to female power—and one girl’s journey to regain it. You are alone in the woods, seen only by the unblinking yellow moon. Your hands are empty. You are nearly...

June's sister, April, is getting married. The lucky guy? A businessman whose cousin is Jasper King, the art maniac loner of her high school.The hate between them is mutual, but they can't avoid one another before the wedding. That becomes impossible when the two are thrown together into a car and forced to drive down the East Coast from Boston to Jacksonville for the wedding. Along the way, June must re-evaluate her relationship to Jasper. Sparks fly and ignite, and what happens next will go down in road trip history.

When a family argument turns into an urgent hunt for a missing child, seventeen-year-old Annie Boots must do everything in her power to bring her nephew home safely. Chris Crutcher, the acclaimed and bestselling author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, shares a provocative story about family...

Saints and Misfits is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life…starring a Muslim teen. There are three kinds of people in my world: 1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least, I do. They’re in...

Smierc, milosc, przyjazn, pieniadze i wykluczenie spoleczne - temu wszystkiemu musi sprostac Monika, uczennica przecietnego gimnazjum, która zyjac w otoczeniu beztroskich kolezanek i kolegów, skrywa swoja olbrzymia samotnosc. Czy kuszona przez najlepsza przyjaciólke i jej chlopaka zdecyduje sie, zeby za wszelka cene poprawic swój byt? Jak daleko posunie sie, aby pomóc mamie? Komu bedzie mogla zaufac? Pelna ciepla, wzruszen i niesamowitych zwrotów akcji ksiazka pomoze zrozumiec trudne decyzje, podejmowane przez mlodych ludzi.

Fifteen-year-old Polarity Weeks just wants to live a normal life, but with a mother diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, that's rarely easy. Her life gets exponentially more disastrous when her sixth-period history classmates start ogling a nude picture of her on the Internet.

Jesse seems like a normal sixteen-year-old, but he isn't. He is a victim of King - a ruthless hacker who has been blackmailing Jesse with incriminating screen photos and videos. So far, Jesse's given in to King's demands in order to protect his family. But now King wants something that's too horrible to contemplate - and if he doesn't get it, King will kill Jesse's little sister.

Loann's always wanted to be popular and pretty like her sister, Claire. So when Claire's ex-boyfriend starts flirting with her, Loann is willing to do whatever it takes to feel special even if that means betraying her sister. But as Loann slips inside Claire's world, she discovers that everything is not as it seems. Claire's quest for perfection is all-consuming, and comes at a dangerous price. And Loann is frightened she could lose the sister she's always idolized.

Tienes que conocerle para escapar de él. Cuatro chicas encerradas por un secuestrador. Ellas son sus flores, sus perfectas y puras flores. Pero ¿cuánto tiempo podrán sobrevivir dentro del sótano?...

“This revenge fantasy is as brutal as it is beautiful…An absolutely gorgeous retelling, artistry on every page, Oscar-worthy if it were a film.” — NPR Hannah Capin's Foul is Fair is a bloody, thrilling revenge fantasy for the girls who have had enough. Golden boys beware: something...

From the author of the acclaimed Blood Water Paint, a new contemporary YA novel in prose and verse about a girl struggling with guilt and a desire for revenge after her sister's rapist escapes with no prison time. Em Morales's older sister was raped by another student after a frat party. A jury...

This story from the acclaimed author of The Closest I’ve Come unflinchingly examines steroid abuse and male body dysmorphia. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Matt de la Peña. David Espinoza is tired of being messed with. When a video of him getting knocked down by a bully’s slap goes...

Esta es la primera pregunta que Elio se hace después de que Eva, su hermana, su compañera inseparable y su amiga del alma, caiga desde lo alto de una azotea. En ausencia de Eva, tan inteligente, tan inquisitiva, tan exigente e intolerante a la injusticia, ¿quién es Elio? ¿Quién es Mónica, su madre, a quien la adolescencia había colocado a mil planetas de distancia de su hija? ¿Qué lugar ocupa en este juego de ausencias Mateo, el psiquiatra de Elio, que tiene que ayudarlo a transitar por el duelo de una pérdida que primero debe desentrañar si ha sido accidental o provocada?

The groundbreaking National Book Award Finalist and Michael L. Printz Honor Book with more than 3.5 million copies sold, Speak is a bestselling modern classic about consent, healing, and finding your voice. "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of...

A dark, atmospheric YA fairy tale about two girls whose fates become intertwined when an old family curse comes to collect its due — perfect for fans of THE THIRTEENTH CHILD and A SORCERESS COMES TO CALL. Every family buries secrets. This one buries bones. Sixteen-year-old Briar Marlowe has...

A raw, mesmerizing, and healing novel about the power of finding your voice and sharing your story after trauma. “Lyrical prose combines with a searing indictment of how society treats young women.”—Kirkus Reviews “A powerful story of childhood trauma and what it means to confront sexual...

Fans of Lucy Christopher’s Stolen, Caroline B. Cooney’s The Face on the Milk Carton, and Natasha Preston’s The Cellar will be captivated by this twisty psychological thriller about an abducted girl who finally returns home to her family—but is she really who she claims to be? THE LOST...

He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the best of classical educations. Raised by a mysterious group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother–a princess in exile from a faraway land–are the only people in their household assigned names. As the...

For fans of We Were Liars, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Two Can Keep a Secret, and If He Had Been With Me comes a powerful psychological thriller with a gripping pace and Hitchcockian twists. Set against the backdrop of New York City, this compelling novel delves into the dysfunctional yet...

Lucky Linderman doesn’t want to wake up. . . . Lucky Linderman has been the target of Nader McMillan’s relentless bullying for as long as he can remember. But he has a secret—one that helps him wade through the mundane torture of his life. In his dreams, Lucky escapes to the war-ridden...