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• Grave Mercy : An His Fair Assassin Novel

  LaFevers, Robin

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fangirl

  Rowell, Rainbow

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  Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate.

• Going Bovine

  Bray, Libba

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  Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.

• I Am Number Four

  a Lorien Legacies Novel

  Lore, Pittacus

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  In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Elsewhere

  Zevin, Gabrielle

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  Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth.

• Daughter of Smoke and Bone

  Taylor, Laini

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  Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.

• Unwind

  Shusterman, Neal

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  The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound,"…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lightning Thief

  a Percy Jackson & the Olympians Novel

  Riordan, Rick

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  After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea, Percy Jackson is transferred from boarding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to prevent a catastrophic war between the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clockwork Princess

  Clare, Cassandra

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  When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.

• Speak

  Anderson, Laurie Halse

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  A traumatic event in the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year of high school.

• The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie,

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  After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.

• The Raven Boys

  a Raven Cycle Novel

  Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-

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  Blue Sargent's gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the Aglionby Academy, she discovers that together their talents are a dangerous mix.

• Eleanor & Park

  Rowell, Rainbow

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  Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

• All the Bright Places

  Niven, Jennifer

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  Meeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world.

• The Hunger Games

  Collins, Suzanne

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  In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Divergent

  Roth, Veronica

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  In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any…Read moreRead more of this annotation