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 * = [[image:Possessed.jpg]] ||= **Possessed**

When Rayne finds a summer job at a secluded country estate, she sees her chance to escape her needy boyfriend, her annoying mother, and all the other stresses of hot, crowded London. The estate is quiet and spacious, and she meets fun new friends, among them a gorgeous local boy named St. John, who adores her. But her dreams of a carefree summer are shattered when she learns that the estate has a dark past—and so does St. John. || || **For Keeps** by Natasha Friend

Josie has never met her dad, and that’s fine with her. To Josie, Paul Tucci is just a guy who got her mom pregnant and then moved away. It all happened sixteen years ago, when Josie’s mom was still a teenager herself. But now Paul Tucci is back in town, and Josie has to deal with not one but two men in her life—her father and her first boyfriend, who Josie fears will hurt her just like Paul hurt her mother. || by Francisco X. Stork
 * = [[image:the_last_summer_of_the_death_warriors.jpg]] ||= **The Last Summer of the Death Warriors**

Pancho is reserved, angry, and determined to avenge his sister’s death. D.Q. is effusive, optimistic, and determined to complete his philosophical Death Warrior Manifesto before brain cancer kills him. When they meet at St. Anthony’s orphanage, they become unlikely best friends. Then they fall for the same girl. || || **Hex Hall** by Rachel Hawkins

After a prom-night spell goes horribly wrong, teen witch Sophie is sent to Hex Hall, a reform school for wayward witches, faeries, and shapeshifters. Even there, Sophie is a misfit. Worse than that, a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and Sophie’s only friend is the prime suspect. || by Catherine Fisher
 * = [[image:incarceron.jpg]] ||= **Incarceron**

Seventeen-year-old Finn is an inmate of Incarceron, a prison so vast that most prisoners doubt Outside even exists. Determined to escape, he finds a crystal key that allows him to communicate with Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, who lives Outside. Claudia is doomed to an arranged marriage and agrees to help Finn get free—if he will help her in turn. || || **Cosmic** by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Twelve-year-old Liam is tall for his age. Extremely tall. And he has facial hair. He’s already mistaken for a grown-up on a fairly regular basis. So when he hears about a special spaceship flight for a group of kids and an adult chaperone, he decides to con his way on as the adult chaperone. It’s a pretty cosmic experience—until the rocket gets stuck in space, 239,000 miles from home. || by Gary Paulsen
 * = [[image:woods_runner.jpg]] ||= **Woods Runner**

It’s 1776, and thirteen-year-old Samuel lives in the wilderness of Pennsylvania with his parents. The War for Independence seems a distant concept until Indian and British soldiers take Samuel’s parents captive and transport them to New York. Now Samuel will need to use all his hunting and survival knowledge to track and save them—and not even Indian tomahawks, savage Hessian soldiers, or a chatty companion named Annie will slow him down. Includes historical notes. ||= || **The Carbon Diaries 2017** by Saci Lloyd

“I know I promised Mum to stay out of trouble, but there’s limits to how straight a punk girl can go and still be herself.” Laura Brown, now a college student in London, is the bassist for the //dirty angels//, a punk out. t that sings against corruption. But when Europe’s political climate changes for the worse, it’s time for Laura to change, too, and make the jump from practicing with her band to practicing what her band preaches. ||=  ||

by Jordan Sonnenblick
 * = [[image:after_ever_after.jpg]] ||= **After Ever After**

Thirteen-year-old Jeff, a leukemia survivor, has a lot on his mind. His reliable older brother, Steven, has had a breakdown, moved to Africa, and gone incommunicado. A statewide test that determines whether kids pass to the next grade is coming up, and Jeff is terrible at math. Finally, and most worrisome of all, Jeff ’s best friend, Tad, a wise-cracking fellow cancer survivor, has been missing a lot of school lately. || || **One Crazy Summer** by Rita Williams-Garcia

“Cecile Johnson?” the stewardess asks. “Are you these colored girls’ momma?” Eleven-year-old Delphine doesn’t expect much when she and her two younger sisters fly across the country to spend the summer of 1968 with their tall, mysterious poet mother who abandoned the family years ago. Cecile sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers—even though she doesn’t seem to support “the cause”—and remains distant when they are together. However, as time passes, Delphine and her sisters make surprising discoveries about their mother and themselves. || by Rick Bowers In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation. Reproductions of selected documents. Bibliography. Quote sources. Index. Black-and-white photo insert || ||  What Will Your New Book Be?!?! ||
 * = [[image:spies_of_mississippi.jpg]] ||= **Spies of Mississippi:The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Moveme**