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New York Times bestselling author Julie Buxbaum explores the blinding power of lies, the tight grip of family secrets, and the magic of first love in this poignant novel about a trio of friends and the allure of romantic feelings that fractures their bond as they struggle to remain true to...

WINNER OF THE SCHNEIDER FAMILY BOOK AWARD FOR TEENS! A beautifully realistic, relatable story about mental health—anxiety, perfectionism, depression—and the healing powers of art—perfect for fans of Girl in Pieces and How it Feels to Float. Whatever you struggle with, you are not alone and...

Margot Mertz, a girl who runs an internet cleanup business, embarks on a quest to take down a revenge-porn site targeting the girls in her school. “A twisty-turny narrative that had me laughing one minute and screaming the next. Margot Mertz is the hero we all need!”—Adam Sass...

The third book in The Kissing Booth series—now a Netflix film starring Joey King, Jacob Elordi and Molly Ringwald! Elle is spending the summer before college at her family beach house with her boyfriend Noah and best friend Lee hoping to have the best summer ever--until new choices about...

The behind-the-scenes access of Almost Famous meets the searing revelations of metoo in this story of a teen journalist who uncovers the scandal of the decade. Ever since seventeen-year-old Josie Wright can remember, writing has been her identity, the thing that grounds her when everything else...

A poignant coming-of-age novel about two best friends whose friendship is tested when they get the opportunity to leave their impoverished small town for an elite prep school. For fans of Looking for Alaska. Life in a small Appalachian town is not easy. Cash lost his mother to an opioid...

A luminous story of a young artist grappling with first love, family boundaries and the complications of a cross-cultural relationship. Perfect for fans of Sandhya Menon, Erika Sanchez and Jandy Nelson. Praise for American Betiya A Bank Street College of Education Best Book of 2022 A YALSA Best...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller A William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist An Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Honor Book “Extraordinary . . . a beautifully layered novel about first love, tribalism and that brief, magical period when kids have one foot in high...

The New York Times and Sunday Times best-selling, brilliantly crafted crime-thriller sequel to the no.1 debut of 2019, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES. “Nail-biting, taut and pacy. Jackson [is] a homegrown thriller writer to watch." – Guardian Booktok Author of...

Amelia Applebaum não está apaixonada por Walter Holland. Ele é só seu youtuber favorito, mais ou menos famoso, e caoticamente bissexual — assim como ela! Talvez Amelia tenha postado um vídeo cantando para convidá-lo para o baile? Sim… Talvez Amelia tenha apagado logo depois e fingido...

Dante ist Social-Media-Manager im Mont Lacroix und gilt als der Sonnenschein des Hotels, aber sobald ihm jemand zu nahe kommt, verschließt er sich und vor allen Dingen sein Herz. Zu tief sitzen seine Ängste, die er niemanden sehen lässt - als Eloise in sein Leben stolpert. Eloise, die dringend eine Auszeit braucht und deshalb eine Assistenzstelle im Lacroix annimmt.

A contemporary YA continuation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, following Margaret, the youngest Dashwood sister. By the prize-winning author of Ellie Pillai is Brown, Christine Pillainayagam. She started a fire, now her life is burning down . . . Maggie is trying to work out who she...

Things People Ought to Know About Me: After my brother died, I didn’t cry. Thirteen-year-old Lucy Bains is smarter than your average seventh grader, but there is a lot she doesn’t understand: how her brother Henry, a seventeen-year-old violin virtuoso, can possibly be depressed when he’s...

For fans of You’ve Reached Sam and See You Yesterday, this captivating and mind-bending second-chance romance explores what it means to love—even across the multiverse. Aria Patel likes stability, certainty, predictability. It’s why she’s so into science. It's why she dumped her...

In this fiercely moving YA romance novel, Leti Rivera's love of street racing is put to the test when tragedy strikes her family and threatens to tear her apart from the boy she's falling for. Seventeen-year-old Leti Rivera dreams of becoming a famous female street racer. Her brother taught her...

Marlowe Meadows understands a lot of things. She understands that calculus isnt overwhelmingly beautiful to everyone and that it typically kills the mood when you try to talk Python coding over beer pong. She understands that people were surprised when golden boy Josh asked her out and she went...

Castillo Torres, Student Body Association event chair and serial planner, could use a fairy godmother. After a disastrous mishap at her sisters quinceaera and her mother's unexpected passing, all of Cass plans are crumbling. So when a local lifestyle-guru-slash-party-planner opens up...

From the author of the bestselling phenomenon, the Kissing Booth, comes another sizzling story about an overachieving girl who unknowingly kisses the one guy she shouldn’t the night before her new internship begins. One summer internship. Two complete opposites. And a connection neither...

After a killer school talent show performance in full masculine presentation, trans boy Kinkade is quickly knocked back down to earth when his crush rejects him, and the whole school sees him in the dress his mother forced him to wear for a family photo. So when the new girl, Madi, assumes he is...

A timely and gripping social-suspense novel about book banning, activism, and standing up for what you believe, from the New York Times bestselling author of Internment. After her dad abruptly abandons her family and her mom moves them a million miles from their Chicago home, Noor Khan is forced...