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GALLERY: Best YA Books of the Year: ALL CROPS Image Tout

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GALLERY: Best YA Books of the Year: Double Down (Lois Lane) by Gwenda Bond The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure

GALLERY: Best YA Books of 2016: Delilah Dirk and the King’s Shilling by Tony Cliff

GALLERY: Best YA Books of the Year: Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard

GALLERY: Best YA Books of the Year: Love, Lies, and Spies by Cindy Anstey

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GALLERY: Best YA Books of the Year: Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo

GALLERY: Best YA Books of the Year: The Girl In the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse

GALLERY: Best YA Books of the Year: The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle

GALLERY: Best YA Books of the Year: When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

GALLERY: Best YA Books of the Year: The Sun Is Also a Star, Nicola Yoon

GALLERY: Best YA Books of the Year: March by John Lewis