Barry Lyga
1) The hive
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Language
English
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In a future where online comments are monitored by the Hive and are met with terrible consequences, Cassie is forced to go on the run after she posts an edgy joke.
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.
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Series
I hunt killers volume 3
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jazz Dent, who has been shot and left to die in New York City, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, who is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
9) Manga man
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Ryoko Kiyama, a character from a Japanese comic book, or manga, falls through a rip into the real world--the western world--and tries to survive as the ultimate outsider at a typical American high school.
10) Johnny Quick
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Series
Flash volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Follows Barry Allen as he continues his mission to protect Central City from the sinister Hocus Pocus-- but this time, a new evil lurks beneath the city streets. The Flash plans to travel to Earth 2, but instead he lands in a world where everything is the exact opposite of what he knows. Including the villain in this town. Johnny Quick looks like the Flash. He runs like the Flash. He... may be the Flash? But the only way for the real Flash to get...
11) The secret sea
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Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Three friends find themselves plunged into a world of quantum physics, a rare disease that only affects identical twins, and a mysterious fact about a real-life global catastrophe"--
13) Edited
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"On its surface, this is the story of a boy, Mike, and the girl he loses. It's the story of how he swears to do anything and everything to get her back. It's also the story of a world going to ruin, a world like our own, but seen through a very warped and cracked mirror. It's also the story of a story, a story told only in flashes and excerpts and summaries, a story that contains clues that could fix this broken world or end it once and for all."...
14) Boy toy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
After five years of fighting his way past flickers of memory about the teacher who molested him and the incident that brought the crime to light, eighteen-year-old Josh gets help in coping with his molestor's release from prison when he finally tells his best friends the whole truth.
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Triumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mundane, filtered through the fantastical. Superheroes are, appropriately enough, a sort of super-genre, encompassing all other story types. This YA anthology features 13 short stories that creatively turn superhero tropes on their head, while still paying homage to the genre that has found fans for more than eight decades. And there will be no mistake--superheroes don't have to just be generic...