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Today’s The Stack is sponsored by Dark Horse Comics.

From the writer of Shade the Changing Girl!

Pearl Plankette ran away from her home to escape an abusive father and an unhappy future. Disguised and reborn as a boy named Soupy, she hitches her star to an unlikely hobo, and they begin their journey from the cold heartbreak of their eastern homes toward the sunny promise of California in this train-hopping, Depression-era coming-of-age tale.

* From Shuster Award-winning and Eisner-nominated writer Cecil Castellucci!

* An original graphic novel!

* Perfect for younger readers!

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Riot Rundown

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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Perfect, the thrilling sequel to Flawed by Cecelia Ahern.

In this thrilling sequel to Flawed, Celestine North must make a choice: save just herself or risk her own life to save all Flawed people.

Celestine lives in a society that demands perfection. After she was branded Flawed by a morality court, Celestine’s life has completely fractured—all her freedoms gone. But Celestine has a secret—one that could bring the entire Flawed system crumbling to the ground. A secret that has already caused countless people to go missing.

With tensions building, can she prove that to be human in itself is to be Flawed?

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Riot Rundown

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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Katie Ganshert’s Life After.

A fiery explosion claims the lives of passengers on Chicago’s transit system. As the sole survivor, Autumn Manning is haunted by the lives of the victims. When forces come together to bring her face-to-face with reminders of devastating loss, she must decide what path to take forward. In Life After, Katie Ganshert’s most complex and unforgettable novel yet, the stirring prose and authentic characters pose questions of truth, goodness, and ultimate purpose in this emotionally resonant tale.

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Riot Rundown

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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Freeform Books.

Who would you rely on if your tech turned against you? Kyla Cheng—president of her community club, a debate team champ, dating the yummy Mackenzie Rodriguez and the most popular student at her Brooklyn high school—gets taken down a peg when a fake video goes viral.

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Riot Rundown

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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Love And First Sight by Josh Sundquist.

In his debut novel, YouTube personality and author of We Should Hang Out Sometime, Josh Sundquist explores the nature of love, trust, and romantic attraction.

On his first day at a new school, blind sixteen-year-old Will Porter accidentally groped a girl on the stairs, sat on another student in the cafeteria, and somehow drove a classmate to tears. High school can only go up from here, right?

As Will starts to find his footing, he develops a crush on a charming, quiet girl named Cecily. Then an unprecedented opportunity arises: an experimental surgery that could give Will eyesight for the first time in his life. But learning to see is more difficult than Will ever imagined, and he soon discovers that the sighted world has been keeping secrets. It turns out Cecily doesn’t meet traditional definitions of beauty–in fact, everything he’d heard about her appearance was a lie engineered by their so-called friends to get the two of them together. Does it matter what Cecily looks like? No, not really. But then why does Will feel so betrayed?

Told with humor and breathtaking poignancy, Love and First Sight is a story about how we relate to each other and the world around us.

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Riot Rundown

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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Carina Press.

From New York Times and #1 ebook bestselling author Alexa Riley. Ryan Justice may be her boss, but nothing will stop him from making her his. Paige Turner is trying to outrun her past. Her need for Ryan got in the way of revenge, took her off course. Redirected her focus. Before she knew it, he’d made his way into her life. Into her heart. True love doesn’t let secrets as big as these stay buried. And when the truth about Paige’s father is finally exposed, Ryan will do anything to fix everything. Paige has always been his—and his alone.

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Riot Rundown

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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Blood Rose Rebellion by Rosalyn Eves.

Sixteen-year-old Anna is a member of the ruling class who control all magic through an ancient master spell. But she is unable to perform even the simplest magic. All she can do is break spells—by accident. Her family sends her to Hungary where she meets a mysterious boy (or two), comes face-to-face with “The Rebellion” that wants to use her to free magic for all, and confronts the extent of her own powers. What Anna wants more than anything is to belong in her own world. But she may instead be the key to tearing the world apart.

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Riot Rundown

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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Chronicle Books.

Dive into your destiny and learn more of what the stars have in store for you. This brilliant little book is a guide to the future for the fate-curious among us, diving into the meaning of names, zodiac signs and birthdays, unveiling the significance behind friendships, color choices and love interests and providing entertaining predictions for everything from careers and romance to health and self-fulfillment. Truly fortune telling at your fingertips.

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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Penguin Random House.

Seoul, 1978. At South Korea’s top university, the nation’s best and brightest compete to join the professional elite of an authoritarian regime. Success could lead to a life of rarefied privilege and wealth; failure means being left irrevocably behind. In this sweeping yet intimate debut, Yoojin Grace Wuertz details four intertwining lives that are rife with turmoil and desire, private anxieties and public betrayals, dashed hopes and broken dreams—while a nation moves toward prosperity at any cost.

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The Stack

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Today’s The Stack is sponsored by Insight Comics.

Based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, The Baker Street Four provides an inside look behind the infamous Baker Street Irregulars on the gritty streets of Victorian London.

Billy, Charlie, and Tom are inseparable, and for good reason. Filled with con men and scoundrels, London’s East End is not easily survived alone. Fortunately, the three friends—and their faithful feline companion—can count on the protection of Sherlock Holmes, for whom they act as his eyes and ears.

When Tom’s girlfriend is kidnapped, the Baker Street Irregulars must put their budding sleuthing skills to use. Then, when a Russian immigrant is framed for a Jack the Ripper–inspired crime, our heroes set out to discover the truth and uncover a conspiracy that may go deeper than they ever imagined.

Hailed by critics and audiences, The Baker Street Four has received numerous awards and was featured at Angoulême in 2012.