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172 hours on the moon - Johan Harstad
- Dark side of the moon? In 2019, teens Mia, Antoine, and Midori are selected by lottery to join experienced astronauts on a NASA mission to the once top-secret moon base, DARLAH 2, while in a Florida nursing home, a former astronaut struggles to warn someone of the terrible danger there. |
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Bitterblue - Kristin Cashore
- Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her heavy responsibility and the futility of relying on advisors who surround her with lies as she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities. Read Graceling and Fire by the same author. |
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City of lost souls - Cassandra Clare
- When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world's destruction. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series. |
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Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein
- A pilot and a spy on a mission to France are grounded during WW2. One of them has a chance at survival; the other is doomed. This is a story of friendship, intrigue, and a whole lot of history. |
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Enchanted - Alethea Kontis
- It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.
When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends.
Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—and a man Sunday’s family despises. |
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Grave Mercy - Robin LaFevers
- In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny. |
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I Hunt Killers - Barry Lyga
- What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dad? Jasper (Jazz) Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could--from the criminal's point of view. And now bodies are piling up in Lobo's Nod. In an effort to clear his name, Jazz joins the police in a hunt for a new serial killer. But Jazz has a secret--could he be more like his father than anyone knows? |
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Insurgent - Veronica Roth
- As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Sequel to Divergent. |
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Never fall down - Patricia McCormick
- When soldiers arrive in his hometown in Cambodia, Arn is just a kid, dancing to rock ‘n’ roll, hustling for spare change, and selling ice cream with his brother. When he is separated from his family and assigned to a labor camp, the soldiers ask if any of the kids can play an instrument. Arn volunteers, pulling him into the center of what we know today as the Killing Fields. |
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Paper Covers Rock - Jenny Hubbard
- In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up. |
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Rotters - Daniel Kraus
- If you can stomach it, you won't be able to put it down! Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he's never known, and who's the town pariah. You'll never guess what his dad does for a living. |
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Starters - Lissa Price
- Fans of Hunger Games might enjoy this one! To support herself and her younger brother in a future Beverly Hills, sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it. |
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The abused werewolf rescue group - Catherine Jinks
- When Tobias wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the night before, a mysterious man tells him he has a dangerous condition, and he finds himself involved with a group of werewolves convinced he needs their help. |
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The drowned cities - Paolo Bacigalupi
- In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her. |
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The fault in our stars - John Green
- Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 12, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs. for now. Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too - post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at cancer kid support group, Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and - shockingly, to her - interested in Hazel. |
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The opposite of tidy - Carrie Mac
- Fifteen-year-old Junie, barely coping with her unhappy family life, directs her date Wade to her best friend's house, pretending she lives there. As the weeks go by, her lies - and her Mother's collections- pile up until one day they are laid bare and she must face the consequences. |
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The Story of Us - Deb Caletti
- After jilting two previous fiances, Cricket's mother is finally marrying the right man, but as wedding attendees arrive for a week of festivities, complications arise for Cricket involving her own love life, her beloved dog Jupiter, and her mother's reluctance to marry. |
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This dark endeavor - Kenneth Oppel
- When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura. |
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