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Dear Evan Hansen
Have you ever felt lonely, like no one can notices you...unless you do something embarrassing? Maybe you constantly feel self-conscious,...

Suzanne Severns
Mar 4, 20191 min read
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What I Leave Behind
Sixteen-year-old Will spends a great deal of time walking; he has ever since his father died and his best friend was raped. As he walks...

Suzanne Severns
Mar 1, 20191 min read
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Not If I Save You First
When Maddie's father, a secret service agent, saves the President's wife from being kidnapped by a Russian gang at the White House, her...

Suzanne Severns
Feb 27, 20191 min read
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Far From the Tree
Grace, Maya, and Joaquin all have the same mother who gave them up for adoption when she was young. It is only when Grace becomes a...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 28, 20191 min read
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The Young Elites
Adelina Amouteru is a Young Elite. She and the others like her are despised by their fellow countrymen. The Young Elites survived the...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 28, 20191 min read
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Illuminae
The year is 2575, and an illegal mining colony on Kerenza, is attacked by BeiTech Industries. Karenza High School seniors Kady and her...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 24, 20191 min read
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Watched
Naeem is a major disappointment to his father who emigrated from Bangladesh. When Naeem tells his father he will not be graduating due to...

Suzanne Severns
Dec 16, 20181 min read
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Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card
In this timely memoir, Iranian immigrant Sara Saedi recounts her upbringing in the United States after her family brought her and her...

Suzanne Severns
Dec 12, 20181 min read
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Landscape with Invisible Hand
Adam is an artist. In his works, he renders imaginative locations such as unique castles or he portrays the changes in the landscape that...

Suzanne Severns
Dec 3, 20181 min read
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The Ones
James and his long-time girlfriend Cody are known as Ones, genetically modified humans who were bred to be more intelligent, attractive,...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 22, 20181 min read
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Avalanche
After Matt's spring break plans with his father don't work out (due to the young woman his dad left his mom for), he goes with his friend...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 16, 20181 min read
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The Hate U Give
Starr Carter lives in Garden Heights, a poor African-American neighborhood where gang violence is the norm. This is why her parents send...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 29, 20181 min read
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Little & Lion
Suzette, nicknamed Little by her step-brother Lionel, aka Lion, comes home to California from her New England boarding school at the...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 14, 20181 min read
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Overturned
Edgar Award-winning author Lamar Giles sets his latest mystery in seedy Las Vegas where Nathan Tate, a professional poker player and...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 23, 20181 min read
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Ascent
Peak Marcello is back in the third installment of the Peak series by award-winning author Roland Smith. Unlike the previous novels, most...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 10, 20181 min read
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Game Change
Perhaps the worst thing that could befall a high school football team is for its quarterback to have a serious injury just before the...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 3, 20181 min read
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The Only Thing To Fear
What would've happened if Nazi Germany, Japan, and Italy had won World War II? And what if their experiments led to the development of...

Suzanne Severns
Jul 18, 20181 min read
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All the Crooked Saints
Imagine that in one small desert town, there can be a myriad of seemingly magical people such as a priest with the head of a coyote, a...

Suzanne Severns
Jul 10, 20181 min read
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The Sun Is Also a Star
It's quite possible that when Nicola Yoon wrote this book, she asked herself either before or during its writing whether two people can...

Suzanne Severns
May 24, 20181 min read
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Ready Player One
The year is 2044, and trillionaire James Halliday, creator of the virtual universe known as the OASIS, has just died with no heirs. Who...

Suzanne Severns
May 6, 20181 min read
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