Fiction
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Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1)
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| Author: |
Jonathan Stroud |
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In an alternative London, a young apprentice gets back at the magician who cruelly humiliated him by summoning the djinni, Bartimaeus, to steal that magician's most prized possession. |
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| Title: |
Body of Christopher Creed
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| Author: |
Carol Plum-Ucci |
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When outcast Christopher Creed goes missing, everyone suddenly wants to know what happened to the classmate no one liked. |
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Bruiser
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| Author: |
Neal Shusterman |
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Brewster has always kept to himself to protect his secret and to avoid any pain. When Bronte attempts to befriend him, however, he struggles to resist her kindness. |
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Compound
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| Author: |
S. A. Bodeen |
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Eli is nine-years-old when a nuclear attack destroys planet Earth and his father forces his family to live in a bomb shelter. But does Eli's billionaire father have the best intentions for his family when he takes them underground? |
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Ender's Game
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| Author: |
Orson Scott Card |
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Slated from birth to be humanity's savior when the alien bugs invade, Ender must grow up fast, tough and totally isolated in the orbiting Battle School. |
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Flipped
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| Author: |
Wendelin Van Draanen |
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From 2nd grade on, Juli knows she wants to kiss Bryce, but Bryce thinks Juli is irritating and weird-at least until 8th grade. |
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Geography Club
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| Author: |
Brent Hartinger |
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To avoid attracting attention, a group of gay and lesbian students form the boring-sounding "Geography Club" at their school so they can discuss their lives. |
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| Title: |
Graceling
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| Author: |
Kristin Cashore |
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Katsa was born with a special skill, or grace. She has the ability to kill people with her bare hands, but it feels like a burden when the king forces her to do his dirty work. |
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House of the Scorpion
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| Author: |
Nancy Farmer |
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When he discovers the horrifying fate awaiting him, the young genetic clone of a powerful drug lord who rules a country called Opium, plans his escape. |
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| Title: |
Hunger Games
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| Author: |
Suzanne Collins |
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In a future world, twenty-four teens are selected by lottery to compete for survival in a televised tournament. |
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Keeping You a Secret
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| Author: |
Julie Anne Peters |
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Holland's senior year of high school turns upside down when she falls in love with an openly gay new girl at school. |
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Leviathan
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| Author: |
Scott Westerfeld |
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You've never seen World War I like this. Deryn Sharp, a Clanker girl disguised as a boy, meets the enemy, Prince Alek, a Darwinist, on the run after the assassination of his parents. |
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| Title: |
Life as We Knew It
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| Author: |
Susan Beth Pfeffer |
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When a meteor hits the moon and plays havoc with the tides on earth, Miranda's comfortable suburban life transforms into a day to day struggle to survive without such basic resources as running water, electricity, food, and even sunlight. |
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Maze Runner
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| Author: |
James Dashner |
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Waking up in the middle of a maze with no memory of what came before, sixteen-year-old Thomas must band together with other teens to figure out if escape is possible. |
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| Title: |
Right Behind You
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| Author: |
Gail Giles |
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As a young boy, Kip made a horrible mistake by setting a friend on fire. Now, at fourteen, he's starting over in a new state with a new name...but can he put his past behind him? |
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| Title: |
Rock and the River
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| Author: |
Kekla Magoon |
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It's nineteen-sixty-eight in Chicago, and fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is torn between following his father's peaceful approach to the Civil Rights Movement, or taking the direction his older brother has gone with the Black Panthers to mend the injustices and brutality he sees towards African-Americans. |
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| Title: |
Samurai Shortstop
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| Author: |
Alan Gratz |
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Toyo, sixteen, applies his father's nineteenth century lessons about the way of the Samurai into the early twentieth century world of his elite Tokyo boarding school and its baseball team. |
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Shade's Children
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| Author: |
Garth Nix |
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In a futuristic world where children are fodder for the war games of Overlords, its up to a group of brave teenage escapees to destroy the evil aliens. |
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Ten Things I Hate About Me
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| Author: |
Randa Abdel-Fattah |
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Leading a double life at 16 can be exhausting! To avoid prejudice and harassment, Jamilah (also known as Jamie) hides her Muslim-Lebanese heritage while studying at an Australian school. |
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| Title: |
Things Not Seen
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| Author: |
Andrew Clements |
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When 15-year-old Bobby wakes up one day and finds himself invisible, he needs help from family and friends to figure out how to reverse it. |
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Non-Fiction
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Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI
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| Author: |
Ryan Smithson |
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Ryan tells the harrowing story of his life while serving as a young army engineer in Iraq without taking a political stand on war or glossing over the gory details. |
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| Title: |
Mao's Last Dancer
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| Author: |
Li Cunxin |
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Li tells the story of his journey from poverty in Communist China to his world-wide acclaim as a professional dancer including his defection to America during the 1970s. |
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| Title: |
War to End all Wars: World War I
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| Author: |
Russell Freedman |
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This narrative encompasses all facets of WWI including battles, leaders, the new technologies that made it so destructive and an abundance of historical photographs. |
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