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Yours truly

2014
Zoe, a teenager in Bath, England, writes letters to a death-row inmate in Texas, hoping to find comfort in sharing her guilty secret over the death of a friend with someone who can never tell her family.

We'll never be apart

Haunted by memories of the fire that killed her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Alice Monroe is in a mental ward when, with support from fellow patient Chase, she begins to confront hidden truths in a journal, including that the only person she trusts may be telling her only half of the story.

Patron saints of nothing

2020
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.

Clue by clue

2019
"Crack the code with Carmen Sandiego! In this original story inspired by the Netflix animated series, a special clue-decoding wheel built right into the front cover allows readers to hunt for long-lost pirate's treasure alongside the world's greatest thief"-- Provided by publisher.

Secret weapon

seven untold adventures from the life of a teenaged spy
2019
"A short story collection that expands the universe of teen spy Alex Rider from author Anthony Horowitz"--Provided by publisher.
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The cipher

2015
"Robert 'Smiles' Smylie and his friend Ben become embroiled in a high-stakes negotiation with a pair of suspicious Feds when Ben cracks a code with the power to unlock all the Internet's secrets"--Provided by publisher.
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Dead to me

2015
In 1948 Hollywood, a treacherous world of tough-talking private eyes, psychopathic movie stars, and troubled starlets, sixteen-year-old Alice tries to find a young runaway who is the sole witness to a beating that put her sister, Annie, in a coma.
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Ask the dark

2015
Billy Zeets, a 14-year-old semi-delinquent, begins to investigate when boys go missing and several butchered bodies show up in his town.
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The accomplice

2019
"When his best friend Woody is arrested--an unwitting accomplice to a robbery--Theodore Boone must work to prove his innocence"--Provided by publisher.

Never say die

2017
Fifteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider travels around the world on a dangerous mission to destroy the deadly terrorist organization, Scorpia, once and for all.
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