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Compound by Todd Strasser
Living in a compound built by his father the family has lived here for six years. The world is gone but that is not the only problem. What Eli’s father built to keep the family safe now won’t let them out. |
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Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
Riding across country with your best friend until he leaves you high and dry with the police and families thinking your friend met foul play by your hand. Months later you find out what really happen. Do you tell the families and authorities what happened? |
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Gracling by Kristin Cashore
Gracelings are rare people that are born with extreme skills. Some become outcasts and some live a life of privilege. Katsa should have been able to live a life of privilege, under her uncle the King, but she meets Prince Po and her life is about to change.
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The Hunter Games by Suzanne Collins
The first in the trilogy of the Hunger Games. This books introduces you to Katniss, her community, friends, family and the ever oppressing government. In a startling conclusion read how Kit embaresses the government through the ending of games pitting teenagers against each other. |
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Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
Abandoned by her mother Ruby is moved to her sister’s luxurious house. Use to being on her own because her sister left her and her mother Rudy is not sure who to believer. Her sister who says it is the best for Ruby or should Ruby look for her mother. Ruby does not fit in with the luxurious life style and prep school but not all the students she meets are as they seem.
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The Musician’s Daughter by Susanne Dunlap
How why was her father murdered? And of all days – on Christmas Eve! The family now in need of money and with her mom about to give birth. Fifteen-year-old Theresa works as a copyist for the composer Franz Joseph Haydn. Little does she realize the web she has walked into about the events and people surrounding her father’s murder.
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Paper Towns by John Green
Margo is loved by many from afar. She is adventuresome but when she appears in Quentin’s bedroom dressed as a ninja he has to think twice about what he is about to get himself into.
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Playing with Matches by Brian Katcher
Who knew, least of all Leon, that he would become good friends with Melody. Melody with the burned face, the class outcast, the freak. As friends Leon and Melody get along but then Leon kisses Melody and soon he realizes that playing with someone’s heart, especially someone who has been burned before, is as dangerous as playing with matches. |
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The Juvie Three by Gordon Korman
This is the last chance for three 'juvies but why is the 'house father' wanting to take responsibility for three problem teenagers that don't even like each other. When things get out of control and the house father is ill how to the 'juvies' hold their lives together so the social worker does not figure out they are living on their own.
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Although Frankie was sent to this highly competitive boarding school at age 14 she was a geek. Her father, was the head master but no one was to know of the connection between the two. A year later she has a sharp tongue, a chip on her shoulder, a gorgeous boyfriend and a way of getting in trouble. Oh, there are so many pranks to be done.
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Wake by Lisa McMann
Janie is sucked into other people’s dreams. Trying to stay away from sleeping people, even classmates at school, is becoming a problem for Janie. She is drawn deeper and deeper into nightmares that are affecting her work and friends. Then there is the dream that she is more than a witness she is a participant.
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Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Ashley is juggled between caseworkers, homes, shuffled from school to school, and endures abuses from a particularly bad foster family. This story inspires us to find the courage to succeed and stand up for oneself.
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Stealng Heaven by Elizabeth Scott
This town is tryly heaven. Well stealing from the locals with her Mom isn't exactly what Danielle wants to continue when she meets a guy and makes friends. Where do her loyalties lie? With her friends or Mother.
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Good Enough by Paula Yoo
As a Korean-American daughter Patti is expected, no not expected, it has been planned since her birth by her parents that she will score high on the SAR and get into Harvard.
But, Patti loves playing the violin, meets cute Trumpet Guy and she begins to ask herself what she wants.
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Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
Jennifer and Cameron were drawn to each other because they were both social outcasts. There became good friends but when Cameron disappeared without warning, Jennifer was lost. The only friend that understood her was gone. Now in high school hiding under the fact that she is popular is still the girl that misses Cameron. Cameron suddenly reappears and they both confront the past to move to the future.
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