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1) Taken
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Two girls have recently disappeared near the town where Stephanie lives. She is concerned but is sure that it could never happen to her. But then it does. Tied up and alone far from home, she manages to escape her captor and run for her life. But she is in the middle of nowhere, with no food, no shelter and no way home. And worst of all, she has run away before, so she is sure that the police will not take her disappearance seriously. She will need...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
Frances trabaja el turno de noche en una tienda de conveniencia local, dividiendo su tiempo entre los estantes de reposición de existencias y trabajando en su arte. Su rutina se rompe una noche cuando Devin entra en la tienda. Alega que es el hijo de un famoso artista local y ofrece su asesoramiento sobre sus dibujos. Aunque él parece saber demasiado sobre ella, Frances decide, en contra del consejo de su novio, que es raro pero inofensivo. En el...
3) Knifepoint
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Jill took a job which sounded perfect for the summer, guiding tourists on trail rides in the beautiful mountains. She didn't realize that the money was terrible, the hours long and the coworkers insufferable. After a blow-up with her boss, she takes a single man into the mountains for a ride, only to finds that he is a dangerous killer. When Jill fights back and manages to escape, she is in a desperate race to survive and make it to safety.
4) Death Wind
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Allie’s life has just taken a turn for the worse. Not only do her parents fight all the time, but now she thinks she might be pregnant. She hooks up with her old friend Razz, a professional skateboarder, and goes on the road. Razz is ranked number one, but his rivalry with Slammer is heating up, and Razz and Allie head for home—right into the path of a fierce tornado. To survive in the horror and destruction that follow the storm, Allie has to...
5) Creed
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, Dee, her boyfriend Luke and Luke’s brother Mike seek help in the nearby town of Purity Springs. But as they walk the vacant streets, the teens make some disturbing discoveries. The seemingly deserted homes each contain a sinister book with violent instructions on disciplining children. The graveyard is full of unmarked crosses. Worst of all, there’s no way to contact the outside world. When...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After his latest conviction for breaking and entering, Cameron is sent to an outdoor program for young offenders rather than a standard juvenile detention facility. There he meets Brianna, a girl who has been caught selling drugs at her school. They bond quickly, and she convinces Cameron to steal two sea kayaks and head off with her into the wilderness just as a hurricane is about to pound the coast.
7) Outback
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Since his girlfriend dumped him, Jayden has been avoiding school—and life in general. When his eccentric uncle Mel invites him to help with his biology research at an Australian university, he figures he has nothing to lose. Unfortunately, this means an expedition into the scorching desert heat of the Australian outback…with the increasingly paranoid Mel and an unfriendly biology student named Natalie. Then disaster strikes…and Jayden and Nat...
10) 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.
11) Immunity
Author
Series
Contagion duology volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Teens Thea, Coen, and Nova are rescued from a deadly planet, only to be taken prisoner on board a government ship and used as weapons in a sinister political plot.
12) Mockingjay
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunger games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to put aside her personal feelings and serve as their pawn.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 7
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Heartbroken after her best friend and soul mate, Fang, leaves her flock, Maximum Ride begins to believe the evil scientists trying to convince her she needs to save the world, and that Dylan, the newest member of her flock, is her perfect mate.
14) Messenger
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
16) Deadpoint
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ayla loves climbing. But she prefers to climb indoors, with all her safety harnesses in place and soft mats to land on. Her climbing partner and best friend, Lissy, is much more adventurous and loves the outdoors. When Lissy starts hanging out with Carlos, the new thrill-seeking guy in town, Ayla wants to keep an eye on her and finds herself tagging along on a weekend climbing trip up Black Dog Mountain. But things go very wrong when Lissy and her...
17) The living
Author
Series
The living volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.
18) Red wolf
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When fulfilling her duty as a shapeshifting guardian for her village means abandoning the young man she loves, the future she imagines with him, and her values, sixteen-year-old Adele must decide how far she is willing to go to keep her friends and neighbors safe.
19) Genesis
Author
Series
Project Nemesis volume 2
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Noah Livingston knows he is destined to survive. The 64 members of Fire Lake's sophomore class are trapped in a place where morals have no meaning and zero rules apply. But Noah's deaths have trained him-hardened him-to lead the strongest into the future ... whatever that may be. And at any cost. Min Wilder knows that survival alone isn't enough. In a violent world where brute force passes for leadership, it's tempting to lay back and let everyone...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tell the tale from separate perspectives.
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