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San José Public Library

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  • Becoming prime suspects in the murder of their principal known for doling out extreme discipline, three Urban Promise Prep School students team up to catch the real killer and clear their names.
    Book, 2023New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023. — YA FICTION Brooks
  • Finds the Bayview friends targeted by an anonymous adversary who uses an increasingly dangerous truth-or-dare app to keep the late Simon’s gossip legacy alive.
    Book, 2023New York : Delacorte Press, 2023. — YA FICTION McManus
  • Soon after receiving an anonymous message stating that she has twenty-four hours to play a game by the sender's rules or he will kill her sister, sixteen-year-old Crystal Donovan realizes that cooperating will destroy her friends' lives and she must…
    Book, 2022New York : Wednesday Books, 2022. — YA FICTION Urban
  • A year after their best friend's death, Chelsea and her friends return to the lake house where it happened and, as betrayals are revealed and accusations made, they have one night to unravel a mystery before a killer among them exacts their revenge.
    Book, 2022New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2022. — YA FICTION Mele
  • While spending a summer with her famous mother and her criminal boyfriend, Sydney Reilly, age fifteen, finds love with Nicco but her premonition of something bad coming proves dreadfully accurate.
    Book, 2020New York : Simon Pulse, 2020. — YA FICTION Caletti
  • Persepolis

    The Story of a Childhood

    Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-
    The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contraditions between public and private life.
    Book, 955.0542 Satrapi
  • Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now change-averse Simon has to find a way to…
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016. — YA FICTION Albertal
  • A gang leader's son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one's brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning The Hate U Give.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022. — YA FICTION Thomas
  • Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable—more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn’t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia’s worried.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — YA FICTION Jackson
  • After her presentation at school goes very wrong and she is suspended, Haitian American teen Alaine is sent to work in a Haitian nonprofit, where she learns about the local culture and her family's heritage.
    Book, 2019Toronto, Canada : Inkyard Press, [2019] — YA FICTION Moulite
  • Dragged off to a treacherous magical land as retribution for killing a wolf, huntress Feyre learns that her captor is one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.
    Book, 2020New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. — YA FICTION Maas
  • When circumstances put Millie Michalchuk and Callie Reyes together over the course of a semester, the girls realize they have more in common than they ever imagined.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] — YA FICTION Murphy
  • When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
    Book, 2020New York : Penguin Books, 2020. — YA FICTION Ribay
  • Sixteen-year-old America Singer is one of only six girls still competing in the Selection--but before she can fight to win Prince Maxon and the Illean crown, she must decide where her own heart truly lies.
    Book, 2014New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014. — YA FICTION Cass
  • The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all.
    Book, 2015New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. — YA FICTION Kaufman
  • Lou, Reid, Coco, and Ansel are on the run from coven, kingdom, and church ; fugitives with nowhere to hide. To survive, they need allies. Strong ones. But as Lou becomes increasingly desperate to save those she loves, she turns to a darker side of…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021. — YA FICTION Mahurin
  • The body double of Castellane's Prince Conor Aurelian, Kei knows he has one destiny: to die for Conor, but when he meets Lin, a physician searching for forbidden knowledge to heal her friend, they are drawn into the underworld of a criminal ruler…
    Book, 2023New York : Del Rey, [2023] — SF/FAN Clare
  • By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of…
    Book, YA FICTION Collins
  • A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners, Guy Montag, suddenly realizes their merit.
    Book, 2013New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013. — YA FICTION Bradbury
  • When Shang is greviously harmed by a blow meant for her, Mulan, still disguised as Ping, travels to the Underworld with Shang's lion guardian to bring him back.
    Book, 2019Los Angeles : Disney Press, 2019. — YA FICTION Lim