Mark Sanderlin
1) Mixed up
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Twelve-year-olds Reef and Theo have a mutual problem: their memories are getting mixed up, and that means that Reef is losing his memory of his mother, recently dead of COVID, which terrifies him--but for Theo his new memories are helping him deal with his domineering father.
3) Slugfest
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"Forced to take Physical Education Equivalency, aka "Slugfest," in summer school so he can maintain his star spot on the JV football team, Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor that turns into a summer he'll never forget."--
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They say Léon Delafosse will be France's next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious Paris Conservatory, there's no way an impoverished musician can make his way in 1890s Paris without an outside patron. Young gossip columnist Marcel Proust takes Léon under his wing, and the boys game their way through an extravagant new world. When the larger-than-life Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac...
7) New adult
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"Twenty-three-year-old Nolan Baker wants it all by the time he's thirty. Too bad he's single, barely able to cover his own expenses, and still paying his dues at a prominent NYC comedy club. When faced with his perfect sister's wedding, Nolan takes it as a wakeup call. It's time to quit comedy and make good on his practical dreams-most importantly, asking Drew Techler, his best friend, to be his date. But right as Nolan is about to give it all up,...
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"Holden James picked the worst time to have a meltdown. His chance to audition for his favorite game show, Madcap Market, should have been a moment of triumph...instead he's destroying the minibar in a grim Los Angeles hotel room...recently dumped, partnerless and sliding into misery...All Holden knows about Leo Min is that he's beautiful and unexpectedly sympathetic, and the chemistry between them is beyond. Maybe it's even enough to convince everyone,...
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Follow the threads of the Fates into the captivating sequel in the timeless fantasy series about four unlikely heroes bound together to save their world—and magic itself.
Blue, River, Shenli, and Wren are still reeling from the discovery that they are the four heroes foretold to save their world. The weight of their destiny and the expectations that come with it is a heavy burden, but when danger once again finds them and the people...
Blue, River, Shenli, and Wren are still reeling from the discovery that they are the four heroes foretold to save their world. The weight of their destiny and the expectations that come with it is a heavy burden, but when danger once again finds them and the people...
10) The outsider
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In the world of video game Minecraft, Jeremy lives in the biggest city in the Overworld, surrounded by tall buildings, redstone wonders, and many people, but still he feels lonely and wants a friend.
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[T]wo gay teen BFFs find their friendship tested when a serial killer starts targeting their school's Queer Club. Dearie and Cole are inseparable, unlikeable, and (in bad luck for them) totally unbelievable. From the day they met, Dearie and Cole have been two against the world. But whenever something bad happens at Stone Grove High School, they get blamed. Why? They're beautiful, flirtatious, dangerously clever queen bees, and they're always ready...
12) The wild book
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After his parents divorce, young Juan finds himself sent away for the summer to live with his strange Uncle Tito, who lives in an old library. However, when Juan learns that Uncle Tito is a magical Princeps Reader on a quest to find the never-before-read Wild Book, his summer becomes an adventure.
13) Silent Journey
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Scott Schroeder dreams of a day when he and his father can have a home of their own. Following an accident that took his mother's life eight years before, doctors discovered Scott was suddenly deaf. Blessed with being an accomplished gymnast and skilled at signing and reading lips, Scott's biggest challenge is convincing others he is able to do all the same things as those in the hearing world. Picking up on conversations he observes along the way,...
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Every second counts in the fight to save all time.
Dan Renfrew hates that he's a time jumper-seventeen-year-olds should not be stuck with the responsibility of saving history. But with no one else stepping up to stop Victor Stahl's plot to take over the world, Dan and his time-jumping partner Sam have no choice but to jump back into history again. They land on the Celtic island of Anglesey in 60 CE, hoping to find answers on how to stop Victor....
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2023 MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Art doesn't always imitate life. Sometimes it creates it.
"Only draw what is real."
This is the rule given to fourteen-year-old art prodigy Maxwell Cooper by his father, and is the only way Max's father will allow him to attend the prestigious boarding school Apogee Art Academy.
It's also a rule Max decides to defy.
During their first night of vacation at Bear Tooth Point Resort, he draws a portrait of a local legend...
16) Terminus Station
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Ira Blechman waits for a train to take him home, the last train he will ever take on the last night of his miserable, schlubby life. He has a plan. It's all worked out. In less than an hour, by his own hand, he will leave this Earth better off for the going.
The funny thing about plans, they unravel. For Ira, the unraveling starts with a strange train he's never seen; the train's only passenger, an even stranger woman, out-of-place and between worlds...
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Ben Mason and his friends are travelling back to Australia from a holiday in the United States when their plane crash-lands on a remote island. The Passengers try to stay safe and alive until rescue arrives. But strange things are happening, and the marooned passengers find out they are not alone. Soon Ben meets Noke and his family. People that morph into dragons and have lived on the islands for hundreds of years. Everyone must all work quickly to...
18) Save the Dudes
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It's the summer before 5th grade, and that means a ninja stealth picnic, supervillain jail, and a zombie apocalypse. The Dudes are five best friends who set out to save one of their number from the peril of private school. But code-names, battle training, and a campout of doom don't help as much as you'd think they would. Besides that, the girl next door has a teacup-sized pit bull, Tyler's mom has banned "screen time", and there's the rising cost...
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Being yourself isn't always easy. When you're new in school, all you want is to fit in. When eleven-year-old Warren and his family move to a new city, his twin brother, who has Down syndrome, attracts too much attention for Warren's liking. Bennie's different and doesn't care about it. But while Bennie may be oblivious to those who are curious or uneasy with him, Warren notices every smirk, comment, and sideways glance. Warren is weary of flip-flopping...
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In a world where Earth has become uninhabitable, the remaining human population live in a colossal space station which they call Second Earth. Twenty year old Fate Artemis has been convicted of a crime to which he cannot recall the events. The Council of High Judges allow him two options; to spend the next fifty rotations around the sun in isolation from Mars, or to compete in the biennial Exogames, an interplanetary competition with five difficult...