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Renegade

Debra Driza · 438 pages

Mila is back on the run--this time with potential boyfriend Hunter by her side. As they search for a man who might know more about her mysterious past, Mila must rely on her android abilities to protect them from the people who want her dead. But embracing her identity as a machine leads her to question the state of her humanity, as well as Hunter's true intentions.

Robots & AndroidsCat and Mouse ChaseIdentity FormationTeen Protagonist
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The Rise of Nine

Pittacus Lore · 360 pages

Cat and Mouse ChaseHidden IdentityTeen ProtagonistFast-Paced
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Dark Matter

Blake Crouch · 359 pages

One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his so

Identity FormationCat and Mouse ChaseTense and SuspensefulFast-Paced
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Scorpia

Anthony Horowitz · 368 pages

Still reeling from the terrible discovery he has made about his father, teenage MI6 superspy, Alex Rider, is determined to find out more. Travelling to Italy, he manages to infiltrate the glamorous world of Claudia Rothman, beautiful society hostess and member of the international criminal organization, Scorpia. She reveals that Alex's father was murdered by MI6, in an operation masterminded by He

Cat and Mouse ChaseHidden IdentityTense and SuspensefulTeen Protagonist
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Cinder

Marissa Meyer · 448 pages

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when

Robots & AndroidsTeen ProtagonistHidden IdentityFast-Paced
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Insurgent

Veronica Roth · 544 pages

One choice can transform you--or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, 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. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with h

Identity FormationTeen ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulFast-Paced
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Killer Instinct

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 376 pages

Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother s murder, Cassie hopes she and the rest of the team can stick to solving cold cases from a distance. C

Cat and Mouse ChaseTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistFast-Paced
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Boy Nobody

Allen Zadoff · 337 pages

Sixteen-year-old Boy Nobody, an assassin controlled by a shadowy government organization, The Program, considers sabotaging his latest mission because his target reminds him of the normal life he craves.

Hidden IdentityTeen ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulFast-Paced
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Defiant

Brandon Sanderson · 433 pages

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction. Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her forever. She came face to face with the Delvers, and finally got answers to the questions she's had about

Robots & AndroidsIdentity FormationTeen ProtagonistFast-Paced
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The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer · 380 pages

The story takes place in the country of Opium, a strip of land between Mexico (now called Aztlán), and the United States. Opium, which is essentially an opium-producing estate, is ruled by Matteo Alacrán, also known as El Patrón. El Patrón's work-force consists of illegal immigrants whom the Farm Patrol (ex-criminals who are tempted with the offer of protection from the police) enslave when they c

Identity FormationTeen ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulYoung Adult
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Runaway

Meg Cabot · 310 pages

Sometimes what we ask for isn't what we really need and ends up being far from what we actually want. Emerson Watts is the right-hand girl to big star Nikki, but it seems that there aren't enough positive points about this job to make it truly worthwhile, no matter how it looks to outsiders. Emerson Watts is on the run: from school, from work, from her family, from her friends, from herself. As

Identity FormationTeen ProtagonistHidden IdentityYoung Adult
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Monster

Walter Dean Myers · 281 pages

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

Identity FormationTeen ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulYoung Adult
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Delirium

Lauren Oliver · 441 pages

The first book in Lauren Oliver’s New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution, and the power to choose. In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forwar

Identity FormationTeen ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulYoung Adult
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SYLO

D.J. MacHale · 432 pages

Teen ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulScience FictionFast-Paced
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The Face on the Milk Carton

Caroline B. Cooney · 188 pages

After recognizing the photo of the little girl listed as missing on the milk carton, 15-year-old Janie Johnson’s life is forever changed as she struggles to balance loyalty with doing what is right.

Identity FormationTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistHidden Identity
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Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom

Tsugumi Ohba · 200 pages

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami, a death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legen

Cat and Mouse ChaseHidden IdentityTeen ProtagonistTense and Suspenseful
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Fang

James Patterson · 309 pages

**Fang will be the first to die.** Maximum Ride is used to to living desperately on the run from evil forces sabotaging her quest to save the world - but nothing has ever come as close to destroying her as this horrifying prophetic message. Fang is Max's best friend, her soul mate, her partner in the leadership of her flock of winged children. A life without Fang is a life unimaginable. **Bu

Cat and Mouse ChaseScience FictionYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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The Scorch Trials

James Dashner · 384 pages

Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch. The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them. There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destructi

Cat and Mouse ChaseTeen ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulScience Fiction
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The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness · 496 pages

An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer.Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets th

Cat and Mouse ChaseTeen ProtagonistFast-PacedScience Fiction
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Origin

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 366 pages

Daemon will do anything to get Katy back.After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he's facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. Taking out anyone who stands in his way? Done. Burning down the whole world to save her? Gladly. Exposing his alien race to the world? With pleasure."All Katy can do is survive." Surrounded by enemies, the only wa

Cat and Mouse ChaseTeen ProtagonistHidden IdentityScience Fiction
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All Systems Red

Martha Wells · 156 pages

The series is about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit, which manages to override its governor unit, thus enabling it to develop independence. It calls itself Murderbot, and likes to watch unrealistic soap operas. As it spends more time with some caring humans, it starts developing feelings that it does not care for.

Robots & AndroidsIdentity FormationFast-PacedFirst Person Narrator
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The Immortal Rules

Julie Kagawa · 485 pages

Identity FormationYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorTeen Protagonist
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Infinity Lost

S. Harrison

Identity FormationScience FictionTense and SuspensefulTeen Protagonist
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Th1rt3en

Steve Cavanagh · 356 pages

Cat and Mouse ChaseHidden IdentityTense and SuspensefulFast-Paced

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