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You'd Be Home Now
Emory Ward (aka Emmy) doesn't really know who she is. Her mother, a lawyer whose family is well-off thanks to a textile mill, wants her...

Suzanne Severns
Jun 19, 20221 min read
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The War to End All Wars: World War I
If you've ever read any books by Russell Freedman, you know he excels at providing highly interesting, concise historical accounts that...

Suzanne Severns
May 21, 20221 min read
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Sabotage: The Mission to Destroy Hitler's Atomic Bomb: Young Adult Edition
During World War II, when the Allies realized that Germans in occupied Norway were creating so-called "heavy water" for use in Atomic...

Suzanne Severns
May 15, 20221 min read
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Day Zero
In the not-too-distant future, the United States is experiencing "The New Depression" and there is a great deal of political divisiveness...

Suzanne Severns
May 8, 20221 min read
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White Smoke
Marigold is running from ghosts and not just the ghosts from her past. Ever since her family moved from their home in California to their...

Suzanne Severns
Apr 25, 20221 min read
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I Must Betray You
The year is 1989 and communist regimes in Eastern Europe are falling apart. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is full of hope that...

Suzanne Severns
Apr 17, 20221 min read
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All These Bodies
It's 1958, and there's been a string of murders in the midwest in which the bodies are found completely drained. In the latest murder...

Suzanne Severns
Apr 10, 20221 min read
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They Both Die at the End
In the not-too-distant future, people receive a phone call from Death-Cast to let them know that it is their last day on Earth. No one...

Suzanne Severns
Apr 3, 20221 min read
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Nyxia
Emmett Atwater has been given the chance of a lifetime...leave Detroit and receive training on a state-of-the-art spaceship in order to...

Suzanne Severns
Mar 27, 20221 min read
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Ordinary Hazards
In this memoir in verse, award-winning writer Nikki Grimes shares the story of her difficult childhood as the daughter of a paranoid...

Suzanne Severns
Feb 20, 20221 min read
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Horrid
In this atmospheric thriller, Jane North-Robinson moves from beautiful California with her mother Ruth to the family's ancestral home in...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 30, 20221 min read
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Moxie
Junior Vivian Carter is fed up with boys in her high school getting away with wearing t-shirts with lewd expressions while girls are...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 22, 20221 min read
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Slay
Kiera is a seventeen-year-old student at a private school who creates an action video game called Slay in which contestants duel each...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 15, 20221 min read
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Panic
Each year in the small town of Carp, seniors compete in a game called Panic, but the stakes are high. The winner could take home $67,000,...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 9, 20221 min read
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Dune
Yes, I know Dune was published decades ago but, despite impassioned pleas from my sister to read it when I was a teenager, I never...

Suzanne Severns
Dec 6, 20211 min read
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I Killed Zoe Spanos
When Anna Cicconi arrives in the Hamptons for a summer nanny job, everyone is shocked by her resemblance to Zoe Spanos, a college student...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 28, 20211 min read
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Concrete Rose
Seventeen-year-old Maverick "Mav" Carter is facing a lot of challenges. His dad was known as Big Don in Garden Heights but he's in prison...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 14, 20211 min read
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The Haunted
When Hendricks and her family move to a small town to leave a troubling incident behind in the city, they get more than they bargained...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 7, 20211 min read
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Five Total Strangers
Mira is desperate to get home and spend Christmas with her mother, but when her connecting flight gets canceled due to an incoming...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 24, 20211 min read
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If You're Out There
When Zan's best friend Priya moves to California, she suddenly ghosts her, not responding to her texts and breaking off her relationship...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 17, 20211 min read
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