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The Quiet You Carry
Barthelmess, Nikki
978-1-63583-028-6 • $14.99
Trade paperback original • 5.25 x 8 • 352 pages
When seventeen-year-old Victoria Parker
is suddenly placed into foster care, she struggles to find words for the abuse that upended her life. Determined to keep her head down, stay out of trouble, and graduate on time, Victoria soon realizes that no matter how hard she tries to move forward, the trauma in her past won’t leave her alone.
“This hard-to-put-down novel takes on grim topics unflinchingly but also gives readers hope that honesty and kindness will prevail.” —Kirkus Reviews
“A raw, unflinching work of fiction that delves into the world of foster care.”
—School Library Journal
Words and Their Meanings
Bassett, Kate
978-0-73874-029-4 • $11.99
Trade Paperback Original • 5.19 x 8 • 360 pages
A gifted writer, seventeen-year-old Anna O’Mally is headed for the stars. Or she was until her uncle Joe died. Anna worshipped the ground Joe walked on . . . until she discovers that she didn’t know him as well as she thought she did.
A 2015 IPPY Award Gold Medalist (Young Adult Fiction)
A 2014 Foreword IndieFab Honorable Mention Winner (Young Adult Fiction)
“Bassett’s debut novel scores a hat-trick of literary merit in a strongly crafted and complex plot, deeply drawn characters with palpable grief, and beautifully woven and rich prose.”—School Library Journal
Pirouette
Bavati, Robyn
978-0-73873-481-1 • $9.99
Trade Paperback Original • 5.19 x 8 • 312 pages
Simone was raised as a dancer, but she hates performing. Hannah loves nothing more than dancing, but her adoptive parents think it should only be a hobby. When the two girls meet at camp, they discover they’re identical twins. Choreographing a plan to switch places, they realize fooling their friends
and family is more challenging than they expected.
“An excellent debut novel.”—School Library Journal
“[T]eens from all backgrounds will recognize the family conflicts and the pull of a forbidden passion.”—Booklist
Sirenz
Bennardo, Charlotte, and Natalie Zaman
978-0-73872-319-8 • $9.95
Trade Paperback Original • 5.19 x 8 • 288 pages
Bickering frenemies Meg and Shar are doing some serious damage at a midnight sample sale when they find themselves arguing over a pair of shoes—with fatal consequences. One innocent bystander later, the girls are suddenly at the mercy of Hades, god of the underworld. To make them atone for what they’ve done, Hades forces the teens to become special-assignment Sirens, luring to the Underworld any individual whose unholy contract is up.
“[F]unny and entertaining. . . . Bennardo and Zaman are bringing the gods into the twenty-first century, and Meg and Shar get caught up in the fast-paced drama.”—Booklist
Sirenz Back in Fashion
Bennardo, Charlotte, and Natalie Zaman
978-0-73873-187-2 • $9.95
Trade Paperback Original • 5.19 x 8 • 288 pages
When Shar tries on a ring from Hades, it activates an obscure contractual clause
that puts Shar and Meg in Hades’ service once more. Shar is whisked away to the Underworld to prepare a ball for Persephone, while Meg is sent to retrieve the errant soul of spoiled rich girl Paulina Swanson and send her to the abyss.
Ricochet
Berla, Kathryn
978-1-63583-040-8 • $11.99
Trade Paperback Original • 5.25 x 8 • 288 pages
When seventeen-year-old Tatiana discovers that she is living four different but parallel lives in the multiverse, she and her other selves must band together to stop a megalomaniac scientist: their father.
“A coming-of-age story with a thought-provoking science fiction twist.”—Foreword Reviews
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