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From the publisher:

“Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father’s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and imagination.

As long as her father has a map for it, he can sail to any time, any place, real or imagined: nineteenth-century China, the land from One Thousand and One Nights, a mythic version of Africa. Along the way they have found crewmates and friends, and even a disarming thief who could come to mean much more to Nix.

But the end to it all looms closer every day.

Her father is obsessed with obtaining the one map, 1868 Honolulu, that could take him back to his lost love, Nix’s mother. Even though getting it - and going there - could erase Nix’s very existence.

For the first time, Nix is entering unknown waters.

She could find herself, find her family, find her own fantastical ability, her own epic love.

Or she could disappear.

*Awards and Starred Reviews*

School Library Journal, starred review - 12/01/15

Locus Award, First Novel - nominee 2017

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Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother, Jamie, is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute─

She sneaks out to join him.

So begins a new adventure for Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan─and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?

Set during one of the most explosive periods in world history, this amazing story is equal parts adventure and a moving tale of family, identity, and the fire of self-worth that can, when fed, burn brightly in all of us.

*Awards and Starred Reviews*

• Horn Book Magazine, starred review - 2015

• Kirkus Reviews, starred review - 2015

• Publishers Weekly, starred review - 2015

• Children's Book Committee Award, Fiction Winner - 2016

• E.B. White Read Aloud Award, Middle Readers Finalist - 2015

• Great Stone Face Book Award, Grades 4-6 nominee - 2015

• Isinglass Teen Read Award, Grades 6-8 nominee - 2015

• Parents Choice Award, Fiction Gold Medal Winner - Spring 2015

• Newbery Medal, Children's Honor Book - 2016

• Schneider Family Book Award, nominee - 2016

• Beehive Award, Fiction nominee - 2017

• Georgia Children's Book Award, Children's Book Finalist - 2017

• Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award, nominee - 2017

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From the publisher:

Alina Starkov doesn’t expect much from life. Orphaned by the Border Wars, the one thing she could rely on was her best friend and fellow refugee, Mal. And lately not even that seems certain. Drafted into the army of the war-torn homeland, they’re sent on a dangerous mission into the Fold, a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh.

When their convoy is attacked, all seems lost until Alina reveals a dormant power that not even she knew existed. Ripped from everything she knows, she is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling. He believes she is the answer the people have been waiting for: the one person with the power to destroy the Fold.

Swept up in a world of luxury and illusion, envied as the Darkling’s favorite, Alina struggles to fit into her new life without Mal by her side. But as the threat to the kingdom mounts, Alina uncovers a secret that sets her on a collision course with the most powerful forces in the kingdom. Now only her past can save her… and only she can save the future.

*Awards and Starred Reviews*

• School Library Journal, starred review - 6/1/2012

• RT Reviewers Choice Award, Young Adult Protagonist Winner - 2012

• RT Book Reviews Top Pick - 2012

• Tayshas Reading, Young Adult commended - 2013

• Texas Lone Star Reading List, Young Adult commended - 2013

• Beehive Award, Young Adult nominee - 2014

• Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, nominee - 2014

• Isinglass Teen Read Award Grades 6-8 nominee - 2014

• Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Young Adult nominee - 2014

• South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award nominee - 2014

• Truman Readers Award Grades 6-8 nominee - 2014

• Volunteer State Book Award, High School nominee - 2014

• Volunteer State Book Award,  Middle School nominee - 2014

• Evergreen Young Adult Book Award nominee - 2015

• Rhode Island Teen Book Award, Ages 12 & Up nominee - 2015

• Sequoyah Book Award, Intermediate nominee - 2015

• Young Reader's Choice Award, Intermediate/Grades 7-9 nominee - 2015

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From the publisher:

This morning, Katy thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do today. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.

The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations - XXXXXX and XXXXXX - are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down on them, exes Kady and Ezra - who are barely even talking to each other - are forced to fight their way onto the evacuating fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.

But the warship is the least of their problems. A deadly XXXXXX has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results. The fleet’s AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what the XXXXX is going on. As Kady hacks into a tangled web of data to find the truth, it’s clear only one person can help her bring it all to light: the ex-boyfriend she swore she’d never speak to again.

*Awards and Starred Reviews*

• Kirkus Reviews, starred review - 2015

• Publishers Weekly, starred review - 2015 & 2016

• Booklist, starred review - 2015

• RT Book Reviews, Top Pick - 2015

• Grand Canyon Reader Award, Finalist - 2018

• Kirkus Best Books - 2015

• Booklist Best YA Books  - 2015

• YALSA Best Fiction - 2016

• VOYA’s Perfect Tens - 2015

• Amazon Best YA Books - 2015

• Junior Library Guild selection

• Goodreads Choice Awards semi-finalist

• Mighty Girl top books - 2015

• A Huffington Post Top Ten YA Books - 2015

• REAL Awards 2020 Shortlist

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From the publisher:

Moon Blake is ten years old when his father dies, but Moon is sure he can survive on his own. After all, for his entire life he and Pap had been hiding in the forest in Alabama, and he knows everything there is to know about wilderness survival. Moon can grow and trap his own food, make his own clothes, navigate by the stars, and build a fire in the rain. Now he needs to follow Pap’s final request to go to Alaska and find others living off the land just like them, and then he’ll be fine.

Moon’s determination to live free and isolated the way his father taught him soon brings him into contact with more people than he’s ever met in his life. He becomes property of the state and must live at a boys’ home. When Moon escapes to return to the forest, he takes along a couple of friends, his first ever. But the law is after him, and Moon discovers the outside world - both the good and the bad - he begins to wonder if what Pap told him is really true at all.

*Awards and Starred Reviews*

• Booklist, starred review - 11/1/06

• Horn Book Magazine, starred review - 4/1/07

• Kliatt, starred review - 11/1/08

• Bank Street - Best Children’s Book of the Year - 2007

• E.B. White Read Aloud Award, Older Readers Winner - 2007

• Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, Children’s Winner - 2007

• Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, nominee - 2008

• ALA Best Books for Young Adults - 2008

• Young Hoosier Book Award, Middle Grades nominee - 2009

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From the publisher:

Friends are a liability. Julia learns this the hard way when she covers up a slur about her best friend with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural, sprayed right across the gymnasium wall of the Kingston School for the Deaf.

Her (supposed) best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her moms set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a “mainstream” school in the suburbs, where she’s treated like an outcast as the only deaf student.

Out in the ‘burbs, Julia paints anywhere she can , eager to claim some turf of her own. A tag on a sign, a piece on an overpass. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off - and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a graffiti war.

Now Julia must risk arrest and expulsion to go toe to toe with her rival… or face losing the only piece of her identity that still makes sense.

*Awards and Starred Reviews*

• Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA), starred review - 4/1/17

• Schneider Family Book Awards Winner, Best Teen Book - 2018

• Kids’ Indies Next List, For Teens - Spring 2017

• New York Public Library Best Books for Teens - 2017

• Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year, nominee -  2018

• TAYSHAS Reading List - 2018

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From the Publisher:

Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters--and their own inner demons--on one last quest before school starts again.

In the Cardboard Kingdom, you can be anything you want to be--imagine that!

The Cardboard Kingdom was created, organized, and drawn by Chad Sell with writing from ten other authors: Jay Fuller, David DeMeo, Katie Schenkel, Kris Moore, Molly Muldoon, Vid Alliger, Manuel Betancourt, Michael Cole, Cloud Jacobs, and Barbara Perez Marquez. The Cardboard Kingdom affirms the power of imagination and play during the most important years of adolescent identity-searching and emotional growth.

*Awards and Starred Reviews*

• Eisner Award: Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12), nominee

• DiNKY Award Winner: Best Work for Young Readers

• Society of Midland Authors Honoree for Children’s Fiction

• School Library Journal - Best Books 2018

• New York City Public Library “Best Books for Kids” 2018

• National Council of Teachers of English Recommended Book

• Kirkus Reviews, starred review - 2018

• Booklist, starred review - 2018

• Bulletin of Center for Children’s Books, starred review - 2018

• Publishers Weekly, starred review - 2018

• School Library Journal, starred review - 2018

• Texas Blue Bonnet Master List Selection, 2019-2020

From the Publisher

Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat.

Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete.

An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two.

A bad romance, or maybe three.

Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villians.

A girl who refuses to give people what they want from her.

A girl who refuses to be the person she once was.

*Awards and Starred Reviews*

• Kirkus Reviews, starred review - 6/15/17

• Publishers Weekly, starred review - 6/26/17

• Booklist, starred review - 6/1/17

• Horn Book Guide, starred review - 4/1/18

• Horn Book Magazine, starred review - 9/1/17

• School Library Journal, starred review - 6/1/17

• BuzzFeed 28 Best YA Books of 2017

• Los Angeles Public Library Best of 2017: Teen Books

• Booklist Top 10 Crime Fiction for Youth - 2018

• L.A. Times Book Prize, Young Adult Literature, Finalist - 2018

• YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, nominee - 2018