One of the best parts of my job is ordering new books for the Edge–reading the reviews, seeing what popular authors come up with next, or finding out about an upcoming sequel to an old favorite. Read on to find out about some of the new YA fiction titles coming to our shelves this month.

The Dark Place by Britney Lewis
Grades 8 and up
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“The day before her 17th birthday, Hylee Williams vanishes from a cookout at her Kansas City home. She emerges nine years in the past in a twisted alternate version of a childhood memory in which her family learned that her older brother had gone missing. When she returns to the present, her parents refuse to acknowledge her sudden disappearance and send her to live with her grandmother in the Missouri suburbs. Hylee uneasily settles into her new school, but she continues to randomly blink out of her contemporary life into that sinister alternate world. With no one to turn to, she struggles to understand what’s happening to her and whether it could be related to her brother’s disappearance.” –Publisher's Weekly

The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan
Grades 10 and up
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“Following a summer camp massacre perpetrated by a mysterious group of animal-masked, machete-wielding assailants, teenagers Sloan and Cherry, the event’s sole survivors, have become inseparable. Moreover, their shared trauma deepens their romantic relationship into a mutually codependent dynamic as the two struggle to adjust to life after the incident. But when one of the masked murderers is taken into custody, Sloan uncovers disturbing facts about the circumstances surrounding the events at Camp Money Springs that lead her to suspect Cherry of knowing more about the tragedy than she’s been letting on.” –Publisher's Weekly

A Little Like Waking by Adam Rex
Grades 8 and up
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“Realizing she’s stuck in a dream, a girl journeys with a boy and a cat to discover what’s real. Zelda lives in an idyllic town where everyone knows her name, but her world is upended when she comes across a cute boy she hasn’t seen before. This leads to the realization that she’s inhabiting a dream world; she doesn’t know if her memories are real or just more dreams. Zelda learns the boy’s name is Langston, and together they set off toward the edge of the dream on an adventure, accompanied by Patches, her erudite talking cat.” –Kirkus Reviews

Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott
Grades 9 and up
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“Though art has always been her dream, Audrey hasn’t drawn in months, since her ex-boyfriend, Charlie, encouraged her to change styles to appeal to colleges and then broke up with her. Audrey still has a chance, though: RISD asked her to submit more pieces in order to take her off the waitlist, but she can’t find any inspiration in art or in love—until the grumpy regular at her parents’ corner store, Mr. Montgomery, flips a quarter that sends her back in time two hundred years to 1812 England.” –Booklist

Tilly in Technicolor by Mazey Eddings
Grades 9 and up
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“A life-changing summer in Europe brings two neurodivergent teens together. Tilly, 18, has ADHD and a psyche dented by parental expectations she’s unable or unwilling to meet. Her parents have long held up Mona, her Yale alumna sister, as Tilly’s exemplar. Mona has relocated to London to start Ruhe, an environmentally friendly nail polish business, with Amina, her business partner and romantic prospect. Hired as their summer intern, Tilly’s thrilled to escape disempowering parental oversight that veers from infantilizing (‘Are you being good for Mona?') to rigid insistence on academic achievement. While flying to London, Tilly’s English seatmate, Oliver, also 18, witnesses Tilly’s ADHD symptoms firsthand (call it a meet-awkward).” –Kirkus Reviews

House of Marionne by J. Elle
Grades 8 and up
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“A desperate teen with deadly magical secrets turns to her family legacy. Without much explanation from her mother, high school senior Raquell Janae Marionne only understands that they can’t stay in one place long because of the toushana that grows inside her like a curse. The Draguns are assassins tasked with hunting anyone suspected of possessing this magic, and a slip-up has left Quell alone, seeking refuge with her only remaining family—her grandmother who is headmistress of House Marionne of the Order of Highest Mysteries.” –Kirkus Reviews