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Blood Red Road

Moira Young

To escape, she will have to fight. To survive, she will have to lead. Saba's world is shattered when her twin brother, Lugh, is captured by four cloaked horsemen. Determined to rescue him, Saba sets off into the lawless, wasted landscape left behind by the Wreckers. It's a brutal world where Saba discovers some surprising things about herself: She's a fierce fighter, a cunning opponent, and above

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The Testing

Joelle Charbonneau

Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in the Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out, her friends who do not pass the Testing disappear.

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Scythe

Neal Shusterman Β· 448 pages

*Thou shalt kill.* A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end lifeβ€”and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scytheβ€”a role that neither wants. These teens must master the β€œa

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Hurricane Gold

Charlie Higson Β· 368 pages

Future spy James Bond, a teenager in the 1930s, travels from hurricane-damaged Mexico to Lagrimas Negras, a Caribbean island containing a deadly obstacle course, as he tries to rescue two American children abducted by criminals.

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Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins Β· 400 pages

The second book in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy. After winning the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta return to their district. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out ... and then comes the cruellest twist: the contestants for the next Hunger Games are announced, and Katniss and Peeta are forced into the arena once more.

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Push

Eve Silver Β· 354 pages

"Miki Jones continues to fight the aiens threatening to invade Earth, but begins to doubt the intentions of the Committee who send teams on these missions"--

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Wither

Lauren DeStefano Β· 386 pages

It's an amazing literary experience brought to us by Lauren DeStefano. In Wither, the author explores an scenario where nothing is as it used to be. After genetic mutations made in order to extinguish epidemic diseases, the humanity is punished with an threaten of extintion caused by a misterious virus that reaps young lives, mens at the age of 25 and girls at 20; In order to protect humanity

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Ender's Game, Volume 2: Command School

Christopher Yost, Pasqual Ferry Β· 128 pages

A graphic adaptation of Orson Scott Card's best-selling second volume collects Ender's Game: Command School Issues 1-5 and follows the efforts of 9-year-old military commander Ender Wiggin to protect the human race against an invading alien force and his own teachers.

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Ready Player One

Ernest Cline Β· 384 pages

In the year 2044. reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts *really* feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines--puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever ca

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Interstellar Pig

William Sleator Β· 197 pages

Barney's boring seaside vacation suddenly becomes more interesting when the cottage next door is occupied by three exotic neighbors who are addicted to a game they call "Interstellar Pig."

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The Quillan Games

D.J. MacHale Β· 496 pages

With more questions than answers about Saint Dane, Bobby travels to the territory of Quillan and is forced to play games where only the winner survives.

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Enclave

Ann Aguirre

In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong--and dangerous.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

J.K. Rowling Β· 734 pages

The fourth book in the Harry Potter franchise sees Harry returning for his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, along with his friends, Ron and Hermione . There is an upcoming tournament between the three major schools of magic, with one participant selected from each school by the Goblet of Fire. When Harry's name is drawn, even though he is not eligible and is a fourth play

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Qualify

Vera Nazarian Β· 600 pages

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The Angel Experiment

James Patterson Β· 440 pages

Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time...like when Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is

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Angelfall

Susan Ee

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The Taking

Kimberly Derting Β· 357 pages

Waking up after a five-year absence with no memory of what happened, softball player Kyra Agnew is astonished to realize that she did not age while she was missing and teams up with her former boyfriend's now-teenaged younger brother to figure out what happened.

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The Initiation

Chris Babu Β· 320 pages

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Cress

Marissa Meyer Β· 561 pages

In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately,

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The Hunger Games: Official Illustrated Movie Companion

Kate Egan Β· 160 pages

This book takes readers behind the scenes of the making of THE HUNGER GAMES with exclusive interviews and information on the screenwriting, casting, and elaborate sets and costumes, as well as the actors' performances and directors' vision.

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Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Matt Dinniman Β· 366 pages

"The training levels have concluded. Now the games may truly begin." The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropol

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Bite Club

Rachel Caine

College student Claire Danvers discovers that an extreme sport pitting vampire against vampire--and sometimes vampire against human--is being broadcast on the internet from Morganville, Texas.

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Deadman Wonderland, Vol. 7

Jinsei Kataoka Β· 194 pages

Framed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashi finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre and fatal theme park/prison that has risen from the ruins of the Great Tokyo Earthquake-a hell on earth known as "Deadman Wonderland. The residents of G Ward band together to confront Warden Tamaki's Ninben, man-made Deadmen create

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Dreadnought

Mark Walden Β· 304 pages

"One of their own has gone rogue and is threatening global armageddon, with himself at the head of a sinister new world order. Meanwhile, Otto, Wing and other students from H.I.V.E. are en route to a training excersise in the Artic known as the ninety-three-percenter, owing to the proportion of students who make it back alive. But before they arrive, events take over, and Otto, Wing and his most t

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