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13 Days of Midnight
When Luke Manchett's estranged father passes away, he inherits a dangerous host of ghosts that threaten everyone he holds dear. He must figure out how to banish or control them before they reach the height of their power in 13 days—Halloween night.- Horror, Thriller
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780763678654
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The Accident Season
Every October, Cara's family is plagued with slips, cuts, and fatal falls during “The Accident Season." On the eve of this year's season, the Irish teen notices that her childhood friend, Ellie, appears in every photo Cara's ever taken, prompting Cara to question the family curse.- Fantasy
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780525429487
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The Alex Crow
Ariel, Leonard Fountain, and the Alex Crow never knew their paths were destined to converge in the woods of Camp Merrie-Seymour for Boys—a strange adventure indeed.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780525426530
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All the Bright Places
Death plays a big role in the lives of high schoolers Theodore Finch and Violet Markey. He is constantly on the verge of suicide, and she is battling grief after her sister's death. The Indiana teens come together to work on a project and soon develop a bond, showing each other what it's like to live.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016, Teens' Top Ten 2016
- ISBN: 9780385755887
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All The Rage
Since Romy Grey accused the sheriff's son of rape, she has been ostracized and bullied by the community. When her former friend goes missing after a party Romy must decide if she's willing to raise her voice against the cultural tides of silence and sham -
Archivist Wasp
Wasp is a ghost-hunter in a strange and brutal world, who must kill to keep her job. When the ghost of a soldier from the distant past asks for her help, she embarks on a dangerous journey that makes her question everything she knows.- Paranormal
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9781618730978
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Audacity
After emigrating from Russia to America, Clara defiantly pursues an education and becomes a union organizer. Despite being beaten, jailed, and blacklisted, she refuses to be silenced. -
Beastkeeper
Sarah's mother abandons her family, and her father begins to transform into a monster. Fearing for her safety, he leaves her with her grandparents in a castle in the woods. Surrounded by magic, she must find a way to unravel her family's curse.- Fantasy
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780805099805
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Beastly Bones
Abigail Rook and her boss, R. F. Jackaby, are once again recruited to solve a potential supernatural case involving mysterious dinosaur bones, a murder, a thief, and cuddly kittens.- Mystery
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9781616203542
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Bone Gap
Told from alternating viewpoints, Bone Gap perfectly melds elements of fairy tales, myths, gothic romance, and magic realism into the story of Finn, who lives in a town with gaps in the very fabric of time and place.- Fantasy
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016, Michael L. Printz Award 2016
- ISBN: 9780062317605
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The Boy in the Black Suit
To deal with his mother's passing, Matt accepts a job at the local funeral home. Matt meets Lovey at her grandmother's funeral. The two of them share a bond that will help them both to move past their own. respective losses.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9781442459502
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The Bunker Diary
Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems is kidnapped and transported to an underground bunker, where he is joined by five other kidnapping victims. Where are they? Why have they been taken? And can they survive?- Horror, Thriller
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9781467754200
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Calvin
As a child, Calvin played with the toy Hobbes. Now Calvin is a schizophrenic teenager, and Hobbes is back—a delusion he can't control. If he can convince Bill Watterson to draw one final Calvin & Hobbes comic strip with a normal teenaged Calvin, will he be cured?- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780374380731
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Carry On
Simon Snow just wants to have a normal(ish) last year at his magickal school, Watford, with his girlfriend Agatha and his best friend Penny. However, the Insidious Humdrum has other plans. On top of that, Simon's discovery that his probably-vampire roommate and definite nemesis, Baz, has gone missing is far more distracting than he would have expected.- Fantasy
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016, Rainbow Book List - Young Adult Fiction 2016
- ISBN: 9781250049551
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Challenger Deep
As Caden descends into mental illness, his visions of a descent into the deep waters of a trench take over.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780061134111
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
In exchange for the life of the faerie she killed, 19-year-old Feyre returns to Prythia with the shapeshifter Tamlin to discover she must save the faerie lands from a blight that threatens both the Fae and human realms.- Fantasy
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9781619634442
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The Darkest Part of the Forest
Hazel should have known better than to make a deal with the fairies of the forest for her brother Ben's talent, but it's too late. The long-sleeping horned boy—the unrequited love of both siblings—has broken out of his glass box, and the Fae have come to exact their price. -
Death Coming up the Hill
In 1968, Ashe Douglas, 17, lives in a turbulent world—the conflict between his authoritarian father and peace-loving mother, the political and social unrest in the nation, and the Vietnam War itself. Afraid of being drafted, he has to make life-changing decisions.- Historical Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780544302159
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Denton Little's Deathdate
For as long as Denton could remember, he knew the day that he was going to die—and it's happening in 24 hours. However, the closer Denton gets to midnight, the more he hopes that he just might live to see another day.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780553496963
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Dime
Dime is looking for love and security when she finds Daddy, Brandy, and L.A. She believes she is loved even as she is groomed to work as a prostitute. When a much younger girl joins their “family,” Dime realizes that she has to break the cycle. -
Dumplin'
After deciding to enter Miss Teen Blue Bonnet Beauty Pageant, Willowdean and her friends defy expectations based on beauty and gain a greater sense of confidence and self worth. -
Eden West
Jacob, a member of the Grace, starts questioning his deeply held faith when he meets Lynna, a girl from the World, and Tobias, a new member of the Grace.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780763674182
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An Ember in the Ashes
Surrounded by unspeakable brutality, Laia, a slave, and Elias, a soldier, discover their destinies are intertwined as they struggle to find freedom from the tyranny around them.- Fantasy
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9781595148049
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The Emperor of Any Place
Evan meets the grandfather he has never known after his father's sudden death. At the same time, he is caught up in a WWII memoir about an unusual island populated by ghosts, monsters, and two enemy castaways. What is the tragic connection between his grandfather and the book?- Historical Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780763669737
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Everything, Everything
Maddy is a teenager with a serious autoimmune disease that prevents her from leaving the house. Yet, she seems content to stay home and read books. That is until a boy named Olly moves in next door. The two meet, and their quirky relationship is chronicled through emails, journal entries, IMs and old notes. -
Goodbye Stranger
Bridge survived a bad accident, wears cat's ears, and has made a rule with her friends: no fighting. To make seventh grade more complicated, her story intersects with that of both a new friend and a mysterious teenager, who is dealing with a betrayal.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780385743174
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The Great War: Stories Inspired by Objects from the First World War
Eleven established young-adult authors, including David Almond, Michael Morpurgo, and Marcus Sedgwick, have written short stories based on artifacts recovered from World War I. As varied as the objects themselves—a medal, a butter dish, sheet music—each one masterfully captures an aspect of wartime.- Historical Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780763675547
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The Hired Girl
After running away from her father who forbids education and burns her beloved books, fourteen-year-old Joan heads to Baltimore where she is hired as a maid for a Jewish family.
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Hold Tight, Don't Let Go: A Novel of Haiti
Devastated by the 2010 Haitian earthquake, 15-year-old Magdalie's world is turned upside down. Despite losing her mother and being separated from her beloved cousin, she finds the strength to survive in a chaotic and dangerous new world.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9781419712043
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I'll Meet You There
Skylar is determined to escape her dead-end town for art school, but a new love interest and her mother's issues threaten to derail her plans- Romance
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780805097955
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Illuminae
Kady and Ezra have just broken up, and then their planet is bombed by a megacorporation. The pair escapes to a government ship, but must put their differences aside in order to survive and stop a plague that has resulted from the use of a bioweapon.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016, Teens' Top Ten 2016
- ISBN: 9780553499117
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Infinite in Between
Five teens meet at freshman orientation and promise to meet up again at graduation.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780061731075
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Kissing in America
Sixteen-year-old Eva Roth confronts the complexities of grief, relationships, and love of all kinds as she begins to forge her own voice and path as a woman and a poet. -
Kissing Ted Callahan (and Other Guys)
Riley makes a pact with her friend to add some romance to their lives and documents the whole thing in a secret notebook.- Romance
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780316371520
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The Last Time We Say Goodbye
After her younger brother, Tyler, commits suicide, Lex struggles with the grief, a family that has fallen apart, the sudden distance between her and her friends, and memories of Tyler that still feel all too real.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780062318473
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Little Peach
In a desperate attempt to find a place and family to call home, Michelle becomes a victim of human trafficking.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 978006266958
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More Happy Than Not
Aaron Soto is a sixteen-year-old Puerto Rican living in the Bronx, happy in his relationships with his girlfriend and childhood friends, despite his father's recent suicide. When Aaron starts to fall for a guy and things go terribly wrong, how far will he go to erase the horrible memories of his past? -
Out of Darkness
In 1937 East Texas, Mexican American Naomi and African American Wash begin a bittersweet romance. Perez's beautifully crafted novel is a moving portrayal of both powerful love and a period marked by oppressive, destructive racism.- Historical Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016, Michael L. Printz Award 2016
- ISBN: 9781467742023
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Paper Hearts
Based on a true story, this novel in verse gives voice to a group of young women who banded together to survive and reclaim their personhood in the face of the dehumanizing cruelty of Auschwitz. -
Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty
This collection of poems twists and shatters the fairy tale image of women, girls, beauty, love, gender and body. -
The Porcupine of Truth
Carson is stuck in Billings, Montana, when he meets Aisha. The two head out for an epic road trip that will change both their lives. Their adventure helps them find a community, a history, and a family. -
Razorhurst
Set in a gritty town in 1932 Sydney, Australia, this tale follows two female orphans as they survive murders, gang wars, and ghosts over the course of one weekend.- Historical Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9781616955441
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The Rest of Us Just Live Here
With prom and graduation weeks away, Mikey and his friends just want to enjoy their final days together, but another story is unfolding, one that involves their classmates, a mysterious blue light, and the end of the world.- Fantasy
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780062403162
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Rook
In the distant future after a polar shift has destroyed all technology, Sophia has been helping political prisoners escape their executions by working as the Red Rook. But to save her family from ruin, she must marry wealthy Rene—who has secrets of his own.
- Dystopian
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780545675994
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The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
While languishing in a juvenile detention center following an assault conviction, 17-year-old Minnow Bly relives the events that led to her imprisonment, including the mystery surrounding her cult leader's death and the loss of her hands.- Mystery
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016, William C. Morris Debut YA Award 2016
- ISBN: 9780803740709
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Saint Anything
Sydney lives in the shadow of her older brother—everyone's favorite. When he makes a terrible choice that lands him in jail, everything changes. Sydney might be able to escape to a new school and new romance, but she can't escape her family's problems.- Romance
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780451474704
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Shadowshaper
Sierra Santiago was amped on her summer of painting murals and hanging with friends, before noticing the murals were fading faster than normal. Another street artist named Robbie is the only one who can help her to unlock this mystery.- Fantasy
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2016
- ISBN: 9780545591614
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Show and Prove
In the summer of 1983, Smiles and Nike experience the pains of growing up in the South Bronx.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780375847073
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Closeted high schooler Simon Spier is being blackmailed—either help Martin Addison get together with the girl of his dreams (Simon's good friend) or Simon's sexuality and email romance with mystery classmate “Blue” will be made public. Follow Simon as he comes out, handles his bully, and navigates how to be with “Blue” in real life.