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• Sunrise on the Reaping

  Collins, Suzanne

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  #1 - "It's the 50th annual Hunger Games and as the games begin, District 12 tribute Haymitch Abernathy realizes he's been set up to fail, but something in him wants to fight, in the fifth book in the Hunger Games series."

• The Summer I Turned Pretty

  Han, Jenny

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  #2 - "Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different."

• Powerless

  Roberts, Lauren, 2002-

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  #3 - "An Ordinary blending in with the Elites to stay alive and out of trouble, Paeydn is thrown into the Purging Trials when she unwittingly saves one of Ilya's princes, a brutal competition to showcase the Elites' powers--the very thing she lacks."

• The Cruel Prince

  Black, Holly

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  #4 - "Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hatchet

  Paulsen, Gary

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  #5 - "After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce."

• Throne of Glass

  Maas, Sarah J.

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  #6 - "After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Selection

  Cass, Kiera

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  #7 - "Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Six of Crows

  Bardugo, Leigh

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  #8 - "Six dangerous outcasts must learn to work together after they are offered an impossible heist that can save the world from destruction."

• The Final Gambit

  Barnes, Jennifer Lynn,

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  #9 - "To inherit billions, all Avery Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks in Hawthorne House, with the help of the Hawthorne brothers. But then trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help--and whose presence in Hawthorne…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Once Upon a Broken Heart

  Garber, Stephanie

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  #10 - "Desperate to stop her beloved from marrying another, sixteen-year-old Evangeline Fox strikes a deal with the mythic Prince of Hearts leading her down a dangerous path that may ultimately end in her destruction."

• Better Than the Movies

  Painter, Lynn,

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  #11 - "Enlisting the help of her cute but annoying next-door neighbor in the hope of snagging an unlikely prom date with a crush who has just moved back into town, Liz discovers that she is becoming unexpectedly more attracted to her mischievous new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scythe

  Shusterman, Neal

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  #12 - "In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Caraval

  Garber, Stephanie

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  #13 - "Believing that she will never be allowed to participate in the annual Caraval performance when her ruthless father arranges her marriage, Scarlett receives the invitation she has always dreamed of before her sister, Tella, is kidnapped by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red Queen

  Aveyard, Victoria

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  #14 - "When her latent supernatural powers manifest in front of a noble court, Mare, a thief in a world divided between commoners and superhumans, is forced to assume the role of lost princess before risking everything to help a growing rebellion."

• The Ruins of Gorlan

  Flanagan, John (John Anthony)

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  #15 - "When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger."

• Divine Rivals

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  Ross, Rebecca (Rebecca J.),

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  #16 - "When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever."

• I Must Betray You

  Sepetys, Ruta

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  #17 - "In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Firekeeper's Daughter

  Boulley, Angeline

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  #18 - "Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths."

• The Book Thief

  Zusak, Markus

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  #19 - "Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors."

• The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie

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  #20 - "After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died."