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• The Thrashers

  a Novel

  Soto, Julie, 1988-

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  Seventeen-year-old Jodi Dillon, the outsider in an exclusive high school group, is caught between loyalty and self-preservation after the mysterious death of a former friend, as strange events and unsettling truths begin to unravel about the group's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl You Know

  Rose, Elle Gonzalez,

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  When eighteen-year-old Luna's twin sister Solina dies mysteriously just before returning to Kingswood Academy, Luna infiltrates the boarding school by posing as her sister to uncover the truth behind her death, but dark secrets make the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Missing Clarissa

  a Novel

  Jones, Ripley,

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  High school juniors and best friends Blair and Cameron start a true crime podcast to investigate an unsolved murder in their hometown, and after making a startling discovery, they accuse a potentially innocent man of murder on one of their episodes.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Into the Light

  Oshiro, Mark,

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  When you're like me, you have to lie.It's been one year since Manny was cast out of his family and driven into the wilderness of the American Southwest. Since then, Manny lives by self-taught rules that keep him moving--and keep him alive. Now, he's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Q

  Tintera, Amy,

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  A trusted lieutenant for one of the post-pandemic quarantine zone's controlling families, 17-year-old Maisie Rojas has 48 hours to get the infected son of a U.S. presidential candidate out of the Q zone, where he was dropped, before disaster strikes.

• What's Coming to Me

  Padilla, Francesca

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  After the ice cream stand where she works is robbed, seventeen-year-old Minerva Gutierrez plans to get revenge on her predatory boss while navigating grief, anger, and dreams of escape from her dead-end hometown.

• The Mary Shelley Club

  Moldavsky, Goldy,

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  A deliciously twisty YA thriller about a mysterious club with an obsession for horror.

• Disappeared

  Stork, Francisco X.

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  Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Together We See

  Tison, Ari,

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  Told in multiple points of view, Together We See follows Ulá Dominguez, a Bribri-American teenager, and her brother, Kabék, searching for the truth behind her land-activist father's mysterious death on their Native territory in Costa Rica. Their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Moth Dreamer

  Farrell, Amy Lynn,

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  Grief, guilt, and dark visions won't let Aubrey go in this coming-of-age novel for young adults. The Moth Dreamer is a gripping tale that blends Anishinaabe traditions with a haunting journey through the physical and spiritual realms.

• Sisters in the Wind

  Boulley, Angeline,

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  Ever since Lucy Smith’s father died five years ago, “home” has been more of an idea than a place. Five years in the foster system has taught her to be cautious and smart. But she wants to believe Mr. Jameson and his “friend-not-friend”, a tall and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beast

  Van Camp, Richard,

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  Lawson Sauren’s life has always been entwined with the lives of the Cranes brothers. Cody Cranes became an unexpected friend when they shared a tent at summer camp—but now he’s disappeared. Star athlete Stanley Cranes survived the canoe accident…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking for Smoke

  Cobell, K. A.

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  When a classmate is murdered during a traditional Blackfeet giveaway, Mara, Loren, Brody and Eli, the last people to see her alive, must take matters into their own hands and clear their names -- even though one of them may be the killer.

• Warrior Girl Unearthed

  Boulley, Angeline,

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  With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's…Read moreRead more of this annotation