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Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
�2011
Language
English
Description
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 one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
62) Liberator
Author
Series
Worldshaker volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Language
English
Description
After the Filthies seize control of the massive juggernaut Worldshaker, now called Liberator, members of the former elite, Swanks, remain to teach them, but class differences continue to cause strife and even Col and Riff may be unable to bring unity.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Prince Maxon before he fell in love with America, and a girl named Amberly before she became queen. See the Selection through the eyes of a guard who watched his first love drift away and a girl who fell for a boy who wasn't the prince. Features four novellas from the world of Kiera Cass's Selection series, two of which appear here in print for the first time. Additional content includes new scenes from The Selection, The Elite, and The One;...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In "The Prince," Maxon reveals there was another girl in his life before America; and in "The Guard," America falls for Aspen Leger, a Six who has risen in the ranks to become a member of the royal guard.
Author
Series
Winner's trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it with untrustworthy new allies and the empire as his enemy. Though he has convinced himself that he no longer loves Kestrel, Arin hasnt forgotten her, or how she became exactly the kind of person he has always despised. She cared more for the empire than she did for the lives of innocent peopleand certainly more than she did for him. At least, thats what he thinks. In the frozen north,...
Author
Series
Of metal and wishes volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When the downtrodden Noor rebel in the West, Wen, overhearing a plan to crush the Noor with powerful war machines, leaves the ghostly Bo, now a boy determined to transform himself into a living machine, and journeys into the war zone to warn the Noor--and her great love, Melik.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sofía Acosta, a fifth grader trying to fit into her ballet-obsessed Cuban American family and her affluent suburban New York community, learns to speak up for herself and others when she mistakenly reveals a visiting dancer's plan to defect to the United States.
69) Burning midnight
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teens Sully, Hunter, Dom, and Mandy team up in a race against unscrupulous billionaire CEO Alex Holliday to locate a collectible sphere, which may have a very steep price.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Felicita fakes her own suicide to escape from the strict confines of her aristocratic family and an arranged marriage, only to be confronted with the harsh realities of living in the slums and the ultimate discovery that the boy she has fallen in love with is plotting a rebellion to destroy her family.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Determined to focus on work rather than books, as his father had, twelve-year-old Patrick Waters leaves Belfast as a steward on the Titanic, but the very wealthy Harry Widener arranges to tutor him, drawing Patrick into association with thieves seeking Harry's very rare edition of Francis Bacon's Essays.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work, but their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.
75) The secret year
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Reading the journal of the high-society girl he was secretly involved with for a year helps high school senior Colt cope with her death and come closer to understanding why she needed him while continuing to be the girlfriend of a wealthy classmate.
Author
Series
Publisher
SFBC
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Insurgent: 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.
Divergent: 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...
77) Timeless
Author
Series
Timeless (Alexandra Monir) volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Forced to live with her wealthy, estranged grandparents in New York City after her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Michele retreats to her room where she finds a diary that transports her back to 1910--with life-changing consequences.
78) The gilded cage
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"An American farm girl discovers that she's an English heiress but claiming her fortune leads to danger and intrigue"--
Walthingham Hall in England seems like another world to Katherine Randolph, who grew up on a farm in Virginia. Her new life, filled with the splendor of upper class England in the 1820s, is shattered when she discovers the corpse of her brother George in a lake on the estate. Katherine can't accept that her brother's death was an...
79) The child thief
Author
Series
The Child Thief volume 1
Publisher
Nightlight Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
America in 2105 is beset with mass inequality, poverty and increasingly large numbers of the poor. A fractured America ushers in an authoritarian government that promises to solve these problems by redistributing children born to the poor to be adopted by the rich. Robin, a single teen mother, fell within the scope of the scheme and lost her baby two years ago. A life of factory work doesn't provide much hope until she stumbles upon a group of misfits...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
Wealthy, seventeen-year-old Anna begins to fall in love with her classmate, Abel, a drug dealer from the wrong side of town, when she hears him tell a story to his six-year-old sister, but when his enemies begin turning up dead, Anna fears she has fallen for a murderer.