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    Tiny Pretty Things cover

    Tiny Pretty Things

    Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this soapy, drama-packed novel featuring diverse characters who will do anything to be the prima at their elite ballet school.

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    Shiny Broken Pieces

    June, Bette, and Gigi are competing one final time for a spot at the prestigious American Ballet Company. With the stakes higher than ever, these girls have everything to lose…and no one is playing nice.

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    The Rumor Game

    One of Us Is Lying meets the thriller Gossip where a nasty rumor starts chaos among former friends, and things get out of control.

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    A Match Made in Mehendi cover

    A Match Made in Mehendi

    A YA Indian Matchmaking where a freshman girl topples the high school hierarchy using her family’s legendary matchmaking guide to set up the quiet new girl with the star of the soccer team.

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    Love Radio Cover

    Love Radio

    The Sun is Also a Star meets Hitch where a clever teen DJ full of love advice meets his match in a budding writer who is allergic to love.

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    Promise Boys

    When the beloved principal of a prestigious and infamous charter school is found dead, three boys of color must investigate to clear their names. Everyone has their own version of what happened - and some of them may be lying. 

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    The Lilies

    One of Us Is Lying meets A Good Girl's Guide to Murder in this don't-dare-to-look-away dark academia thriller that explores how secrets can rot an institution--and the people who uphold it--from the inside out.

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    Love Requires Chocolate

    A new romance series that's Emily In Paris meets A Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants! In this first book, budding theatre nerd Whitney Curry studies abroad in Paris, France, where she meets her match in a cute, aloof footballer.

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    Last Gate of the Emperor

    An Afrofuturistic Treasure Planet where twelve-year-old Yared discovers he’s the secret, displaced prince of a mythical Ethiopian empire and must defeat invaders trying to dismantle Addis Prime – and destroy him, because his very existence violates the treaty that brokered peace years ago.

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    Last Gate of the Emperor #2: The Royal Trials

    Yared is back in the final installment from NY Times Bestselling author Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel Mackennon and though the battle of Addis Prime is over, the Axum Empire is still fractured. Now, as Yared enters the depths of Old Earth to defeat a band of spacefaring pirates, he'll learn there's more to these misfits and their home than meets the eye. 

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    Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky

    A middle grade American Gods that’s Jason Reynolds meets magic, starring a seventh-grade boy who accidentally creates a hole into the Midpass, a world where ancient African gods clash with gods of African-American legend.

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    Tristan Strong Destroys the World

    Tristan Strong, just back from victory in Alke, the land of African American folk heroes and African gods, must return and reunite with his loud-mouthed sidekick, Gum Baby in order to rescue Nana and stop the culprit from creating further devastation only if he can figure out a way to sew broken souls back together.

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    Tristan Strong Keeps Punching

    Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the finale of Kwame Mbalia's trilogy, in which Tristan Strong faces off with his archenemy, King Cotton, once and for all.

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    Futureland

    A MG Westworld by way of Artemis Fowl where 12-year-old Cameron, son of the famous creators of the worldwide theme park phenomenon FUTURELAND, must stop an unknown force from stealing their legacy and cutting-edge technology and using it for sinister purposes. 

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    Futureland: The Nightmare Hour

    The theme park of your dreams is back in this action-packed sequel as Cam Walker and his friends take on creepy carnivals, insidious tech, and a nightmarish new enemy to save the world.

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    Futureland: The Architect Games

    Futureland: The Architect Games

    Mazes and mind games await in this epic third book about the theme park of your dreams, where Cam Walker goes head-to-head with the villains who have been after Futureland from the start.

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    The Gauntlet

    An inverted Jumanji where twelve-year-old Farah and her two friends get sucked into a supernatural board game and must work to win their way out or be stuck in the game world forever.

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    The Battle

    A high-tech Zathura where the evil game Architect is back from The Gauntlet with a new partner-in-crime—The MasterMind—to face eleven-year-old Ahmed and his best friend Winnie as the game world takes over New York City and threatens to consume the world.

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    Nothing Interesting Ever Happens to Ethan Fairmont

    Nothing interesting ever happens to Ethan Fairmont...until the day an extraterrestrial visitor crash lands in Ethan's neighborhood. Ethan's a self proclaimed genius inventor, but can he and his friends repair alien Cheese's ship and get him home before dangerous people find him? 

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    Too Many Interesting Things are Happening to Ethan Fairmont

    Too Many Interesting Things Are Happening to Ethan Fairmont

    Ferrous City is suddenly a lot more interesting--in fact, a little too interesting for Ethan Fairmont.

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    The Prankmaster General: The New School Skirmish

    A Diary of a Wimpy Kid featuring a Japanese military brat with a penchant for pranks.

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    Airi Sano Prankmaster General: Public Enemy Number One

    The Prankmaster General: Public Enemy Number One

    Airi is back for another hilarious story of friendship and pranks, and this time, there's drama--literally!

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    Airi Sano Prankmaster General: International Menace

    The Prankmaster General: International Menace

    In this latest laugh-out-loud adventure, Airi's pranks go global on a family trip to Japan--but is pranking really all it's cracked up to be?

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    How to Heal a Gryphon

    An Italian-centered Fablehaven meets The Witches where a magical vet must face a pack of  Strega malocchi and save her brother and an injured gryphon.

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    How to Save a Unicorn

    To save a unicorn's life, Giada the Healer will have to risk it all.

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    The Trouble With Shooting Stars

    A magical Wonder where a spunky snooping girl discovers her neighbors are spazzatrici – part of an old order of moon sweeps and star catchers from Italy.

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    Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble by Anna Meriano

    Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble

    A Latinx Just Add Magic series where eleven-year old Leo discovers her family’s bakery isn’t just serving up Mexican treats in her small Texas town, but also, problem-solving magic.

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    Love Sugar Magic: A Sprinkle of Spirits by Anna Meriano

    Love Sugar Magic: A Sprinkle of Spirits

    A Latinx Just Add Magic where eleven-year-old Leo is back, discovering that her deceased Abuela--and a gaggle of other ghosts--are suddenly alive once again and only Leo can return them to El Otro Lado. 

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    Love Sugar Magic: A Mixture of Mischief

    A Latinx Just Add Magic where eleven-year-old Leo is back, discovering her special power and meeting her not-so-trustworthy abuelo, all while battling a new bakery that has arrived in town ready to steal all the Lograño pastry secrets (and magic!).

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    The Spindle of Fate

    Inspired by Chinese mythology, Aimee Lim's debut middle grade peers into the dark and gritty underworld, while showcasing the unbreakable bond between a family and the lengths we'll go to save them. Release Date: June 4, 2024.

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    Totally Psychic by Brigid Martin

    Totally Psychic

    When 12-year-old Paloma’s parents move them from Miami to Los Angeles, she hatches a plan to get her career as a medium up and running by hosting seances at her new school (she can, in fact, see ghosts). But when a reading gone awry leaves Paloma in a sticky situation with a new friend, she’ll need more than a crystal ball to find her way out of this mess.

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    Where There Be Monsters

    Amari and the Night Brothers meets a MG Lovecraft Country for kids.

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    Fortune's Kiss

    For fans of Caraval and Hotel Magnifique where two best friends wager their lives in a magical gambling house to achieve their wildest dreams. Releasing Fall 2024.

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