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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.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Sunny Parker takes pride in her community at the Del Mar Garden Apartments, an affordable housing complex, but when an abandoned school in her neighborhood is proposed for new affordable housing, she discovers not everyone appreciates the community she calls home and becomes an advocate for her neighborhood.
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.
10) Chains of stone
Author
Series
The chains of love trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Two tales of forbidden love intertwine in this dark fantasy romance. An heiress set to inherit her mother's business finds herself falling for a slave who is forging a rebellion against her. Meanwhile, a mad queen decides to marry a slave-turned-prince even though he plans to kill her. Both unlikely pairs must choose between love and duty. Are they willing to give up everything they hold dear to protect each other, or will they end up slitting each...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
When sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis finds the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James outside the gates of an exclusive resort, she teams up with Ashley's older sister Nora to find the killer, and she is thrown into a world of unimaginable wealth and privilege--and the fight for her life.
12) It ends in fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Raised by an underground rebel group after the murder of her parents, seventeen-year-old Alka goes undercover at the most prestigious school of magic in an attempt to recruit for the rebellion and win the Great Game which would give her access to the seat of her en'emies power.
Author
Series
System Divine volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
As Laterre stands on the brink of war, Marcellus, Chatine, and Alouette must rush to stop The General from gaining access to a weapon that would mean complete control of the planet.
14) Brooklyn Bridge
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
15) Buried heart
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
On the run from the murderous King Nikonos, Jessamy must find a way for her beloved Kalliarkos to take his rightful place on the throne. Only then can he end the oppression of the Commoners by their long time Patron overlords. But Kal's rise to power is fraught with manipulation and shocking decisions that make Jes question everything they promised each other. As their relationship frays and Jes's family and friends beg her for help, will she cast...
16) Jackpot
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she and her popular and wildly rich classmate, Zan can find the ticket holder who hasn't claimed the prize"--
Author
Series
House of Serendipity volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
At Serendipity House, a grand mansion in 1920s London, two girls, one living downstairs as a servant and the other living in wealth upstairs, combine their fashion designing and dressmaking talents to secretly make outfits for the debutante ball and help one attendee who wants to escape high-society life.
19) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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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 anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Author
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.
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