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Young adult fiction
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Author:Saenz, Benjamin AlireSummary: - Author:McGinnis, MindySummary:
Tress Montor's family used to mean something, until she didn't have a family anymore. Felicity Turnado has a secret: she was with the Montors the night they disappeared. Now she can't look at Tress without feeling shame...
- Author:Roth, VeronicaSummary:
More Four! Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by The Initiate, the second of four new short stories told from Four's perspective. Each brief story explores the world...
- Author:Kowalski, WilliamSummary:
The year is 2147. Chago, twenty-four, is a prisoner in a world made up only of prisoners and those who guard them. The only bright spot in Chago’s life is his son, Jim-Jim, whose mother is a guard. In an effort to resolve overcrowding...
- Author:Kwaymullina, AmbelinSummary:
They're known as Firestarters. Boomers. Skychangers. The government calls them Illegals -- children with inexplicable abilities -- and detains them in menacing facilities so that society is kept out of harm way. Ashala Wolf and her...
- Author:Mahoney, KarenSummary:
When she was seven, a horrific fey attack killed Donna Underwood’s father and drove her mother mad. Her own nearly fatal injuries were fixed by alchemy—the iron tattoos branding her hands and arms. Now seventeen, Donna feels like a...
- Author:Hughes, MonicaSummary:
The Keeper of the Isis Light is the first book in Monica Hughes' acclaimed trilogy, and it is the story of Olwen Pendennis, the Keeper of the Isis Light. She and her companion, Guardian, have lived alone on the remote planet Isis since...
- Author:Donovan, LoisSummary:
Lois Donovan’s new historical fiction, The Journal, begins in 2004 when thirteen-year-old Kami receives a bizarre offer involving a historic house in Edmonton, from her estranged grandfather. A move to Edmonton was definitely not part...
- Author:Peck, Michael AllenSummary:
"Paul Reid died in the snow at seventeen. The day of his death, he told a lie— and for the rest of his life, he wondered if that was what killed him." And so begins the battle for the afterlife, known as The Commons. It's been taken...
- Author:Betcherman, MichaelSummary:
High-school football star Matt Barnes was on the top of the world until a freak snowboarding accident ended his promising sports career and left him with a permanent limp. As he struggles to accept his changed body, Matt becomes...
- Author:Korman, GordonSummary:
Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.
- Author:Kloss, BarbaraSummary:
Winter has fallen upon Valdon. It's been five months since Daria Regius arrived at the castle, and her grandfather, the king, has stripped her of all freedoms, building even more barriers around her lonely life. But darkness moves....
- Author:Foon, DennisSummary:
Two years have passed since Roan fled the destruction of his village. He has survived the polluted wilds of the Devastation, escaped the lethal mind traps of the Dreamfield, and infiltrated the heart of the sinister City. Through it all...
- Author:DunsanySummary:
When his people tell him that they want a magic lord to rule them, the Lord of Erl sends his son Alveric to retrieve Lirazel, daughter of the King of Elfland, to be his wife. At first, the King was angered and sent guards to kill...
- Author:Henning, SarahSummary:
The Princess Bride Princess Amarande is finally on the verge of having everything she wants. To be with her true love Luca, no one nor law standing in the way. To rule Ardenia as queen outright, no marriage necessary, as Luca does the...
- Author:Martel, SuzanneSummary:
Winner of the Ruth Schwartz Award. Jeanne Chatel has always dreamed of adventure. So when the eighteen-year-old orphan is summoned to sail from France to the wilds of North America to become a king's daughter and marry a French settler...
- Author:Starr, DavidSummary:
This novel for young readers or young adults is about Duncan Scott, who is also the protagonist in David Starr's earlier novel, The Nor'Wester. In this new novel, set in 1810, Duncan returns to England to search for his sister, and...
- Author:Roy, PhilipSummary:
The Kingdom of No Worries is the story of three young friends who create their own kingdom on a piece of land that emerges in the middle of the river that runs through their city. Inspired by their actions to create a democracy that is...
- Author:Aiken, JoanSummary:
The king of the Elves loses his crown when the elves have their spring cleaning. Prince Coriander, on a quest to find the precious crown, faces great danger.
- Author:Richards, DavidSummary:
The Lady at Batoche is the story of three young people who are changed forever by the brutal simplicities of battle. It shares the same meticulous research and vivid recreation of history as Richards' much-praised first novel Soldier...
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