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Two more weeks, and Lily Hopper is officially finished with boarding school! When she receives a mysterious note inviting her to join the anonymous senior class Jester in executing the end-of-year prank, Lily sees her chance for a little fun. The Jester turns out to be Taggart Swell, her ex-boyfriend. She'd back out, but he has a brilliant plan to steal the school's yearbooks, targeting Lilly's prom date: Senior Class President, Daniel. As the pranksters...
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Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Reeling from the death of her cousin, Hannah concocts a risky plan to enroll in her cousin's elite private school and find who gave her the lethal pills, but the deeper Hannah goes the more she risks losing everything.
3) Medusa
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Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A descendant of Medusa, Ava is sent to the Accademia del Forte in Venice after an altercation with a classmate, where she must learn to control her emotions, especially when she unearths a terrible secret that could change the world forever"--
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Kairos files volume 1
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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When the normally unseen sixth grader Hector discovers he can turn invisible, he learns that he is not the only invisible boy at his school and there are worse things than bullies lurking the halls.
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Liars Society volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad...But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone, that is, except for Jack, who is entirely mediocre...But Jack has a secret of his own...one with the...
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Buffy prequel volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan-favorite and LGBTQIA+ icon Tara Maclay gets the main character treatment in this YA prequel full of '90s nostalgia, mysterious murders, and a star-crossed romance, written by New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Ashley Poston. Tara Maclay isn’t thrilled to be starting her senior year of high school in a new town. But if she can just keep her head down, then maybe she can make it through this year in Hellborne,...
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Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"As Yuuya’s skills in the other world improve, so too does his life in the real world. Starting fresh at Ousei Academy, he begins to shine at academics and sports, even making a few new friends. Has Yuuya finally found a place that really accepts who he is?"--
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Audrey Singer revels in her position as the admissions director of an exclusive Manhattan private school. Parents cater to her whims and desires, desperate to give their children an edge. Audrey's power is undeniable; privilege comes with the territory. Her perfect marriage completes the glossy picture of her life. Until the arrival of the neurotic, vulnerable Sarah Price. Determined to get her son into the city's most coveted kindergarten class,...
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Mindy's Book Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"From comedy writing duo Alli Frank and Asha Youmans comes The Better Half, a sidesplitting spin on reaching the pinnacle of life, only to stare down a slippery slope on the other side. After a difficult five years, at age forty-three, Nina Morgan Clarke’s time has finally arrived. With an ex-husband relocated across the country, her father bouncing back after the loss of his beloved wife, and her daughter, Xandra, thriving at boarding school,...
10) Tender beasts
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer. With the death of Sunny's mother, matriarch of the wealthy Behre family, Sunny's once picture-perfect life is thrown into turmoil. Her mother had groomed her to be the family's next leader, so Sunny is confused when the only instructions her mother leaves is a mysterious note: 'Take care of Dom.' The problem is, her youngest brother, Dom, has always been a near-stranger to Sunny...and seemingly...
11) The revenge game
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Alyson is a romantic, and sometimes it gets her into trouble. Like last summer, she thought her co-worker was into her, when in reality he found her flirting pathetic. Then she meets Brenton Riggs Jr., and right away she knows that their connection isn’t just in her head. When he swoops in to save her one night from a less than savory party encounter, she falls head-over-heels. Finally, someone Alyson likes who likes her back! But when she finds...
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Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"'You must work twice as hard to get half as much.' Adina Walker has known this the entire time she's been on scholarship at the prestigious Edgewater Academy -- a school for the rich (and mostly white) upper class of New England. It's why she works so hard to be perfect and above reproach, no matter what she must force beneath the surface. Even one slip can cost you everything. And it does. One fight, one moment of lost control, leaves Adina blacklisted...
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Toilet-bound Hanako-kun volume 10
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"If Nene and Kou want to return to their own world, they have to kill “Amane Yugi” and “Sousuke Mitsuba”— or rather, the versions of them living within the canvas of No. 4’s boundary. Faced with that cruel choice, Nene instead proposes a way to escape from this fake world to the boy she can’t help but call “Hanako-kun.” At the same time, Kou tries to win over Mitsuba...but just who exactly is this “Mitsuba”?!"--
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Toilet-bound Hanako-kun volume 9
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"On a day like any other, Nene goes to school only to find Hanako-kun acting like one of her normal classmates ...?! Weirder still, even though he's supposed to be a ghost, nobody seems to find the presence of this so-called Amane-kun strange at all. Nene is determined to get to the bottom of his, and her search leads her to a mysterious tower ..."--Back cover
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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In this beautiful, evocative, and often surreal retelling of Bran Stoker's Dracula, a fearsome enemy arrives from the east, bringing with it horrors the likes of which have never been seen in the British Empire. Standing opposed are Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray and her stalwart companions, united in a cabal that eclipses gender, nationality, and station until the day that they can achieve victory. As Mina struggles to find her place as Whitby School's...
17) Prison school: 6
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Yen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"As Kiyoshi and the boys continue to fumble their way through their newfound freedom, the girls of the Shadow Student Council now find themselves inmates of the prison. With rumors of scandalous behavior behind bars running wild, will the Official Student Council torpedo the reputation of the Shadow Student Council once and for all?" -- -- cover page 4.
18) Made Glorious
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
Description
On the surface, Rory is the underdog -- a scholarship kid, teased for her weight, but we soon find out that she will go to any length to secure the lead role in her school's senior musical. She is charming, conniving, and brutally ambitious.You will find yourself rooting for her, while simultaneously dreading what she might do!
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When an anonymous neighborhood forum gets hacked, the darkest secrets of New York's wealthiest residents come to light-including some worth killing for-in this gripping suspense novel from the author of Just One Look. It was all confidential. Right up to the moment when it wasn't. UrbanMyth: It was lauded as an alternative to the performative, show-your-best-self platforms-an anonymous discussion board grouped by zip code. The residents of Manhattan's...
20) Curious tides
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Series
Drowned gods duology volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Teen mage Emory must unravel the truth behind the secret society that may have been involved in her classmates' deaths.
Emory might be a student at the prestigious Aldryn College for Lunar Magics, but her healing abilities have always been mediocre at best--until a treacherous night in the Dovermere sea caves leaves a group of her classmates dead and her as the only survivor. Now Emory is plagued by strange, impossible powers that no healer should...
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