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Legend

Marie Lu · 328 pages

A New York Times bestseller! What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted cr

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Gilded Cage

Vic James · 358 pages

"For readers of Victoria Aveyard and Kiera Cass comes a darkly fantastical debut set in a modern England where magically gifted aristocrats rule--and commoners are doomed to serve. NOT ALL ARE FREE. NOT ALL ARE EQUAL. NOT ALL WILL BE SAVED. Our world belongs to the Equals--aristocrats with magical gifts--and all commoners must serve them for ten years. But behind the gates of England's grandest es

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Wither

Lauren DeStefano · 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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Lies

Michael Grant · 447 pages

As conditions worsen in the FAYZ, where supernatural forces have trapped children under the age of fifteen and resources are running out, it becomes tempting to heed the words of a prophet who says that only death will set them free.

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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Carrie Ryan · 310 pages

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The Hollow People

Brian Keaney

On an island that houses the asylum where law-breakers are imprisoned, two teenagers rebel against a rigidly controlled society where dreams are considered antisocial and all citizens over the age of fourteen take a drug to control their behavior.

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Revolution 19

Gregg Rosenblum

Twenty years after robots designed to fight wars abandoned the battlefields and turned their weapons against humans, siblings Nick, Kevin, and Cass must risk everything when the wilderness community where they have spent their lives in hiding is discovered by the bots.

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The Fire

James Patterson, Jill Dembowski · 352 pages

Whit and Wisty Allgood have led the resistance against a totalitarian regime that has banned all forms of creativity and executed their parents, but even the growing strength of the siblings' magic has not been able to stop the evil dictator, and they must somehow prepare for an imminent showdown.

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Scythe

Neal Shusterman · 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 life—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 scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “a

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The City of Ember

Jeanne DuPrau · 270 pages

The film tie-in edition to this gripping and intriguing thriller set in an all-too-possible future. Now a major blockbuster starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins and Liz Smith.Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked - but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading th

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Witch & Wizard

James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet · 336 pages

**Your books, music, and art - BANNED** *You are holding an urgent and vital narrative that reveals the forbidden truth about these perilous times...* This is the astonishing testimonial of Wisty and Whit Allgood, a sister and brother who were torn from their family in the middle of the night, slammed into prison, and accused of being a witch and wizard. They are not alone in their terrif

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Anomaly

Krista McGee · 303 pages

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Memento Nora

Angie Smibert

In a near future in which terrorism is commonplace but memories of horrors witnessed can be obliterated by a pill, teens Nora, Winter, and Micah, create an underground comic to share with their classmates the experiences they want to remember.

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Incarceron

Catherine Fisher · 464 pages

Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. Very few prisoners believe that there is an Outside, however, which makes escape seems impossible. And then Finn finds a crystal key that allows him to c

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The Darkest Minds

Alexandra Bracken · 528 pages

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something frightening enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that had killed most of America’s children, but she and the others emerged with something far worse: f

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Whispers in Autumn

Trisha Leigh · 418 pages

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Prison Nation

Jenni Merritt · 302 pages

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Powerless

Lauren Roberts · 528 pages

Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya—the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites. The powers these Elites have possessed for decades were graciously gifted to them by the Plague, though not all were fortunate enough to both survive the sickness and reap the reward. Those born Ordinary are just that—ordinary. And when the king decreed that all Ordinaries be banished in order to pr

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The Ask and the Answer

Patrick Ness · 518 pages

Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Immediately separated from Viola and imprisoned, Todd is forced to learn the ways of the Mayor's new order. But what secrets are hiding just outside of town?

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Destroy Me

Tahereh Mafi · 111 pages

In Shatter Me, Juliette escaped from The Reestablishment by seducing Warner -- and then putting a bullet in his shoulder. But as she'll learn in Destroy Me, Warner is not that easy to get rid of . . . Back at the base and recovering from his near-fatal wound, Warner must do everything in his power to keep his soldiers in check and suppress any mention of a rebellion in the sector. Still as obse

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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 Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins · 384 pages

Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death. The nation of Panem, formed from a post-apocalyptic North America, is a country that consists of a wealthy Capitol region surrounded by 12 poorer districts. Early in its history, a rebellion led by a 13th district against the Capitol resulted in its destruction and the creation of an annual televised event known as the Hunger Games. In

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