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1) Insurgent
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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"--Provided by publisher.
2) Alebrijes
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Leandro takes the fall for his sister and is exiled into an ancient drone, he embarks on a perilous journey beyond the city's walls where he encounters mutant monsters, wasteland pirates, and fellow outcasts as he tries to save his sister and fellow Cascabeles from the oppressive regime.
3) Belles
Author
Series
Belles volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Isabelle loves her impoverished North Carolina beach community, but when her grandmother must enter a nursing home, Izzie is placed with distant relatives she never knew--a state senator and his preppy wife and children.
4) Blythewood
Author
Series
Blythewood volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"After a summer locked away in a mental institution, seventeen-year-old orphan Ava Hall is sent to Blythewood, a finishing school for young ladies that is anything but ordinary"--
5) The Jewel
Author
Series
Lone city trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.
6) Landry Park
Author
Series
Landry Park volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic, fractured United States where the oppressed Rootless handle the raw nuclear material that powers the Gentry's lavish lifestyle, seventeen-year-old Madeline Landry must choose between taking over her father's vast estate or rebelling against everything she has ever known, in the name of justice.
Author
Series
At Somerton volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
"The intertwined lives of the prominent Averley family and the servants of Somerton Court are forever changed when an old secret comes to light"--
9) Sparkers
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Marah, an underclass 'sparker' in a society ruled by magicians, works with her friend Azariah to find a cure for a mysterious disease that turns its victims' eyes black"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
For soccer games Sierra rides a bus out of the city to fields that are nicer than the "lot" in her neighborhood, but so her auntie can be at her last game, she asks Coach Marco if the team might play in her neighborhood on a day her aunt does not work.
11) The storyteller
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"17-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl determined to escape her small island town, but when rich-kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess her feelings about her loving, complex family, her lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves"--
Author
Series
At Somerton volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In the second book in the At Somerton series, Rose grows into her new titled position in the Averley family, while Ada must decide between saving her family or betraying her heart"--
Author
Series
We set the dark on fire volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Dani must question everything she's worked for as she learns about the corruption of the Median government"--
Author
Series
Rules of summer volume 2
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-olds Rory McShane and Isabel Rule are back for another summer in East Hampton, but their friendship is put to the test as each girl deals with boyfriends, summer jobs, and family issues.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 7
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1384 England, seventeen-year-old Evangeline, ward and cousin of King Richard II, tries to escape from an arranged marriage, dreaming of a life outside Berkhamsted Castle, where she might be free to marry for love and not politics, but when she runs away and joins a small band of servants on their way back to their home village, she finds herself embroiled in a tangled web that threatens England's monarch.
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