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Abrahams, Peter. Reality Check.
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.

Amnesty International. Free? Stories about Human Rights.
Presents an anthology of fourteen stories by young adult authors from around the world on such themes as asylum, law, education, and faith, compiled in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Armstrong, Kelly. Awakening.
Fifteen-year-old necromancer Chloe, having escaped from Lyle House with Derek, Simon, and Rae, finds herself imprisoned in a laboratory run by a sinister organization determined to control her and her supernatural friends.

Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship Breaker.
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.

Bell, Hlilari. Player’s Ruse. (A Knight and Rogue novel).
In alternate chapters, Michael Sevenson, an anachronistic knight errant, and his street-wise squire Fisk, relate their journey to Huckerston, a port town where dangerous bandits are raiding merchant ships.

Black, Holly. The Poison Eaters and other Stories.
A girl wagers her soul in a sour-gummy-frog-eating contest with the devil. Love and a homemade coat rescue a boy from his fairyland jailers. A newly bitten teenage vampire uses the Internet to show the world just how uncool the "cold" life is. In this collection of stories, the supernatural intersects with everyday life in surprising and dangerous ways.

Bowler, Tim. Blade, Book 2: Out of the Shadows.
Badly injured, fourteen-year-old Blade must continue to use his exceptional "street smarts" and waning strength to outsmart dangerous thugs while he considers surrendering to the police to face the consequences of a past he has tried to forget.

Brewer, Heather. 11th Grade Burns: Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, v. 4
Another year goes bad for Vlad Tod when his former friend Joss, now a vampire slayer, returns to town, a mysterious new vampire arrives with a thirst for Vlad's blood, and his enemy D'Ablo brings Vlad's Uncle Otis to trial.

Brown, Jennifer. The Hate List.
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.

Bullen, Alexander. Wish: a novel.
After her vivacious twin sister dies, a shy teenaged girl moves with her parents to San Francisco, where she meets a magical seamstress who grants her one wish.

Caletti, Deb. The Secret Life of Prince Charming.
When seventeen-year-old Quinn learns that her charismatic but selfish father, with whom she has recently begun to have a tentative relationship, has stolen from the many women in his life, she decides she must avenge this wrong.

Cast, P.C. Burned: House of Night #7.
As Zoey's fate hangs in the balance, her friends must figure out how to bring her back from the Otherworld while coping with serious problems of their own.

Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay: The Hunger Games, Book 3.
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol wants revenge ... and President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe!

Cooney, Caroline. They Never Came Back.
When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tony Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.

Dashner, James. Maze Runner.
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

Derting, Kimberly. Body Finder.
Violet uses her uncanny ability to sense murderers and their victims to try to stop a serial killer who is terrorizing her town, and although her friend and would-be boyfriend Jay promises to keep her safe, she becomes a target.

Despain, Bree. Dark Divine.
Grace Divine learns a dark secret when her best friend from childhood returns, upsetting her pastor-father and the rest of her family, around the time strange things are happening in and near their small Minnesota town.

Doctorow, Cory. For the Win.
Trapped by strict contracts and threatened with violence, teenage "gold farmers" must play multiplayer online games for hours on end, harvesting virtual treasure their bosses sell to first-world customers for real money. But in today's global economy, even one person with an Internet connection has power-and a farmers' revolt can change the world.

Ellsworth, Loren. In a Heartbeat.
Eagan, who has died in a figure-skating accident, becomes a heart donor for Amelia, who then begins taking on some aspects of Eagan's personality, in a story told in their separate voices.

Fisher, Catherine. Incarceron.
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

Friend, Natasha. For Keeps.
Just as sixteen-year-old Josie and her mother finally begin trusting men enough to start dating seriously, the father Josie never knew comes back to town and shakes up what was already becoming a difficult mother-daughter relationship.

Going, K.L. King of the Screwups.
After getting in trouble yet again, popular high school senior Liam, who never seems to live up to his wealthy father's expectations, is sent to live in a trailer park with his gay "glam-rocker" uncle.

Gray, Claudia. Hourglass.
Star-crossed lovers Lucas and Bianca are on the run, pursued not only by Black Cross vampire hunters but also by the powerful vampires of Evernight, when Bianca learns that her destiny is tied to that of the wraiths.

Green, John. Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.

Harland, Richard. Worldshaker.
Sixteen-year-old Col Porpentine is being groomed as the next Commander of Worldshaker, a juggernaut where elite families live on the upper decks while the Filthies toil below, but when he meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run, he discovers how ignorant he is of his home and its residents.

Harvey, Alyxandra. Hearts at Stake.
As her sixteenth birthday approaches, Solange Drake, the only female vampire born in nine hundred years, is protected by her large family and her human best friend from attempts on her life by the vampire queen and her followers.

Henderson, Lauren. Kiss in the Dark.
Scarlett hopes for a fresh start at her grandmother's elite English boarding school, until her scheming nemesis Plum Saybourne also enrolls at the school and she herself becomes involved in a mystery concerning an on-campus death.

Hoffman, Alice. Green Witch.
A year after her world was nearly destroyed, Green has become the one villagers turn to for aid, but Green will need the help of other women who are believed to be witches if she is to find her best friend and her one true love.

Jinks, Catherine. Living Hell.
When the spaceship that he is on is transformed into a living organism and the machines turn on the ship's human occupants, treating them as parasites, Cheney leads the thousands of inhabitants in a fight for survival.

Joceln, Marthe. Folly.
In a parallel narrative set in late nineteenth-century England, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates the unhappy conclusion to her experiences as a young servant in an aristocratic London household while, years later, young James Nelligan describes how he comes to leave his beloved foster family to live and be educated at London's famous Foundling Hospital.

Lake, Nick. Blood Ninja.
After his father is murdered and a ninja saves his life, Taro discovers the connection between ninjas and vampires and finds himself being dragged into a bitter conflict between the rival lords ruling Japan.

Larbalestier, J. Liar.
Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered.

LeVann, Kate. Things I Know about Love.
Seventeen-year-old Livia Stowe travels from England to Princeton, New Jersey, to visit her brother who is studying there and to celebrate her recovery from a year-long struggle with leukemia, and while she is there she writes a blog about her experiences, which include falling in love.

Lipsyte, Robert. Center Field.
Mike lives for baseball and hopes to play in the major leagues one day, but he is distracted by a new player who might take his place in center field, an ankle injury, problems at home, and sinister happenings at school.

Lloyd, Caci. The Carbon Diaries 2017.
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies. (sequel to The Carbon Diaries 2015)

Lurie, April. Less Dead.
Noah Nordstrom, whose father is the host of an evangelical Christian radio program, believes that the person who has been killing gay teenagers in the Austin, Texas, foster care system, is a regular caller on his dad's show.

Lyga, Barry. Goth Girl Rising.
After spending six months in the Maryland Mental Health Unit, Kyra Sellars, a.k.a. Goth Girl, returns home to try and resume her life, but she finds that everything has changed, including the one person who really appreciated her for who she is, Fanboy. (sequel to The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl)

Mackler, Carolyn. Tangled.
The lives of four very different teenagers become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined after a short stay at a Caribbean resort.

Marr, Melissa. Fragile Eternity.
Aislinn and Seth struggle with the unforeseen consequences of Aislinn's transformation from mortal girl to faery queen as the world teeters on the brink of cataclysmic violence.

McMann, Lisa. Gone: The Wake Trilogy, Book 3.
While Janie ponders her future with Cabe, knowing that her abilities as a dream-catcher means eventual blindness and crippling, the father she never knew is hospitalized with brain trauma and seems to need her help.

Mead, Richelle. Spirit Bound. (A Vampire Academy novel)
When she returns to St. Vladimir's after a heartbreaking journey to Dimitri's birthplace, Rose eagerly anticipates graduation despite her fears that Dimitri will not be able to resist his vampire drive to stalk and transform her.

Meyer, Carolyn. The Bad Queen: rules and instructions for Marie-Antoinette .
In eighteenth-century France, Marie Antoinette rails against the rules of etiquette that govern her life even as she tries to fulfill her greatest obligation, giving birth to the next king, but she finds diversion in spending money on clothing, parties, and gambling despite her family's warnings and the whispers of courtiers.

Nadol, Jen. The Mark.
While living in Kansas with an aunt she never knew existed and taking a course in philosophy, Cass struggles to learn what, if anything, she should do with her ability to see people marked to die within a day's time.

Nelson, Jandy. The Sky is Everywhere.
In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.

Ness, Patrick. Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, Book 3).
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.

O’Brien, Caraugh. Birthmarked.
In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those who live outside it, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her parents are arrested and taken into the city.

Oliver, Lauren. Before I Fall.
After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.

Patneaude, David. Epitaph Road.
In 2097, men are a small and controlled minority in a utopian world ruled by women, and Kellen fights to save his father from an outbreak of the virus that killed ninety-seven percent of the male population thirty years earlier.

Peet, Mal. Exposure.
Paul Faustino, South America's best soccer journalist, reports on the series of events that hurl Otello from the heights of being a beloved and successful soccer star, happily married to the pop singer Desdemona, into a downward spiral, in this novel loosely based on Shakespeare's play, Othello.

Peters, Julie. Rage: a love story.
Johanna finally begins dating the girl she has loved from afar for years, but Reeve is as much trouble as she claims to be as she and her twin brother damage Johanna's self-esteem, friendships, and relationship with her sister.

Plum-Ucci, Carol. Fire Will Fall.
Moved to a mansion in the South Jersey Pine Barrens, four teenagers, trying to recover from being poisoned by terrorists, struggle with health issues, personal demons, and supernatural events, as operatives try to track down the terror cell.

Rennison, Louise. Are these my Basoomas I see Before Me? (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series).
British teenager Georgia Nicolson's humorous diary entries reveal the results as she finally chooses between potential boyfriends, but then becomes involved in a play with the one not chosen, further complicating her love life.

Sachar, Louis. The Cardturner.
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative.

Saenz, Benjamin. Last Night I Sang to the Monster.
Eighteen-year-old Zach does not remember how he came to be in a treatment center for alcoholics, but through therapy and caring friends, his amnesia fades and he learns to face his past while working toward a better future.

Schreiber, Ellen. Love Bites: Vampire Kisses #7.
Goth teen Raven and her vampire boyfriend, Alexander, face new challenges when Alexander's sexy and charismatic best friend, Sebastian, arrives in Dullsville.

Sedgwick, Marcus. Revolver.
Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold.

Shields, Gillian. Immortal.
As she falls in love with the mysterious Sebastian, Evie Johnson, a scholarship student at the Wyldcliffe Abby School, is haunted by a sisterlike figure that seems to be sending her a warning.

Smith, Andrew. In the Path of Falling Objects.
In 1970, after their older brother is shipped off to Vietnam, Jonah and his younger brother Simon leave home to find their father, who is being released from prison, but soon find themselves hitching a ride with a violent killer.

Stevenson, Rob. In the Woods.
When Cameron discovers an abandoned baby while riding his bike along a forest trail, everyone looks at the event as a miraculous coincidence, but Cameron has a secret about why he was riding down that stretch of trail at just the right time.

Stiefvater, Maggie. Linger.
As Grace hides the vast depth of her love for Sam from her parents and Sam struggles to release his werewolf past and claim a human future, a new wolf named Cole wins Isabel's heart but his own past threatens to destroy the whole pack. (sequel to Shiver)

Stork, Francisco X. Last Summer of the Death Warriors.
Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on avenging the senseless death of his sister, but after he meets D.Q, who is dying of cancer, and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys find their lives changed by their interactions.

Tomlinson, Heather. Toads & Diamonds.
A retelling of the Perrault fairy tale set in pre-colonial India, in which two stepsisters receive gifts from a goddess and each walks her own path to find her gift's purpose, discovering romance along the way.

Ward, Rachel. Num8ers.
Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider, they become more involved than either of them had planned.

Williams, Katie. The Space between Trees.
When the body of a classmate is discovered in the woods, sixteen-year-old Evie's lies wind up involving her with the girl's best friend, trying to track down the killer.

Wilson, Diane. Raven Speak.
In 854, the bold fourteen-year-old daughter of a Viking chieftain, aided by her old and thin but equally intrepid horse and an ancient, one-eyed seer, must find a way to keep her clan together and save them from starvation.