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Dramacon, Vol. 2

Svetlana Chmakova · 196 pages

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction
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13 Little Blue Envelopes

Maureen Johnson · 317 pages

Inside little blue envelope 1 are $1,000 and instructions to buy a plane ticket. In envelope 2 are directions to a specific London flat. The note in envelope 3 tells Ginny: Find a starving artist. Because of envelope 4, Ginny and a playwright/thief/ bloke–about–town called Keith go to Scotland together, with somewhat disastrous–though utterly romantic–results. But will she ever see him again? Ever

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction
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Starry Night

Isabel Gillies · 336 pages

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction
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Isla and the Happily Ever After

Stephanie Perkins · 368 pages

Isla has had a crush on classmate Josh since their freshman year at the School of America in Paris, but after a chance encounter over the summer in Manhattan they return to France for their senior year where they are forced to confront challenges every young couple in love must face. As they begin their senior year in France, Isla and Josh are quickly forced to confront the heartbreaking reality

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction
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The Truth Commission

Susan Juby · 309 pages

As a project for her "creative non-fiction module" at a school for the arts, Normandy Pale chronicles the work of the Truth Commission, through which she and her two best friends ask classmates and faculty about various open secrets, while Norm's famous sister reveals some very unsettling truths of her own.

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction
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Goodbye, Rebel Blue

Shelley Coriell · 299 pages

Rebecca "Rebel" Blue, a loner rebel and budding artist, reluctantly completes the bucket list of Kennedy Green, an over-committed do-gooder classmate who dies in a car accident following a stint in detention where both girls were forced to consider their morality and write bucket lists. "Rebel" Blue completes the bucket list of Kennedy Green, a classmate who died following a stint in detention wh

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction
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Fall in Love Like a Comic! Vol. 1

Chitose Yagami, Nancy Thistlethwaite · 200 pages

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadFunny
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Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast

Cameron Dokey

Belle is convinced she has the wrong name, as she lacks her sisters' awe-inspiring beauty. So she withdraws from society, devoting her time to wood carving. Secretly, Belle longs to find the fabled Heartwood Tree. If carved by the right hands, the Heartwood will reveal the face of one's true love. During a fierce storm, Belle's father stumbles upon the mysterious Heartwood -- and encounters a

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadFantasy
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The Glass Swallow

Julia Golding · 316 pages

Rain designs exquisite stained glass for the windows of her city. But the law is clear - it is forbidden for girls to be part of the glassmakers' guild. To keep her secret hidden, she leaves home and travels to the strange new country of Magharna. When Peri witnesses Rain's capture by a gang of bandits, both his fate and his heart become tied to hers. They escape the outlaws, but Peri and his fami

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadFantasy
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The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl

Melissa Keil · 352 pages

Alba loves living behind a bakery, drawing comics, and watching bad TV with her friends, but problems arise with certain boys in her life and also, the world might be ending, so as doomsday enthusiasts flock to idyllic Eden Valley, Alba's life is thrown into chaos.

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction
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The Queen's Rising

Rebecca Ross · 439 pages

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadRomance
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Blaze

Laurie Boyle Crompton

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction
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Shiva's Fire

Suzanne Fisher Staples · 276 pages

In India, a talented dancer sacrifices friends and family for her art.

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Dragonsinger

Anne McCaffrey · 277 pages

Pursuing her dream to be a Harper of Pern, Menolly studies under the Masterharper learning that more is required than a facility with music and a clever way with words. Sequel to Dragonsong.

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadFantasy
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Fire Colour One

Jenny Valentine

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction
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A Blue So Dark

Holly Schindler · 277 pages

As Missouri fifteen-year-old Aura struggles alone to cope with the increasingly severe symptoms of her mother's schizophrenia, she wishes only for a normal life, but fears that her artistic ability and genes will one day result in her own insanity.

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction
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Da Vinci's Tiger

L.M. Elliott · 312 pages

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadRomance
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Jane, Unlimited

Kristin Cashore · 458 pages

**If you could change your story, would you?** Jane has lived a mostly ordinary life, raised by her recently deceased aunt Magnolia, whom she counted on to turn life into an adventure. Without Aunt Magnolia, Jane is directionless. Then an old acquaintance, the glamorous and capricious Karin Thrash, blows back into Jane's life and invites her to a gala at the Thrashes' extravagant island mansion

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadFantasy
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Threads

Sophia Bennett

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction
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A Blind Spot for Boys

Justina Chen · 321 pages

After a bad breakup and the discovery that her father is quickly going blind, sixteen-year-old photographer Shana and her parents travel to Machu Picchu for an adventure, where Shana meets Quattro, a boy with secrets of his own.

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction
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Beauty Pop, Vol. 8

Kiyoko Arai · 200 pages

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadFunny
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The Broken Bridge

Philip Pullman · 218 pages

Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive.

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction
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Other Words for Love

Lorraine Zago Rosenthal · 354 pages

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction
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Butterfly

V.C. Andrews · 170 pages

All she wanted was to be someone's little girl... Fate made her a lonely orphan, yearning for the embrace of a real family and a loving home. But a golden chance at a new life may not be enough to escape the dark secrets of her past...

Artist ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale LeadContemporary Fiction

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