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This World We Live In
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
A post-apocalyptic world where a family struggles to survive and find hope in a world without electricity, food, and safety.
It’s been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earth’s climate. For Miranda Evans, life as she knew it no longer exists. Her friends and neighbors are dead, the ... (Goodreads)
The Dead and the Gone
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
After an asteroid hits the moon, life in New York City becomes a struggle for survival. Follow the story of a teenage boy and his family.
Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event–an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific ... (Goodreads)
Life As We Knew It
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
A teenage girl's struggle to survive an apocalyptic disaster, relying on her resilience and resourcefulness.
Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, ... (Goodreads)
Deep Blue
by Jennifer Donnelly
Haunted by tragedy, a talented musician struggles to find her voice and purpose in life. A journey of self-discovery and healing.
Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe. When Serafina, a mermaid ... (Barnes & Noble)
Gathering Blue
by Lois Lowry
A young girl's story of struggle and resilience in a post-apocalyptic world.
In her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. It is a society ruled by savagery and deceit that shuns and discards the weak. Left orphaned and ... (Goodreads)
Unwind
by Neal Shusterman
A dystopian future world where teenagers are subjected to a “harvesting” process that splits them apart.
Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives. The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age ... (Goodreads)
Noggin
by John Corey Whaley
After dying of cancer, Travis Coates' head is cryogenically frozen and then attached to a new body five years later.
2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Travis Coates has a good head…on someone else’s shoulders. A touching, hilarious “tour de force of imagination and empathy” ( Booklist , starred review) from John ... (Barnes & Noble)
Nobody's Princess
by Esther M. Friesner
A young princess defies societal norms and expectations to forge her own path and become a legendary warrior.
She is beautiful, she is a princess, and Aphrodite is her favorite goddess, but something in Helen of Sparta just itches for more out of life. Not one to count on the gods—or her looks—to take care ... (Goodreads)
Shadowfell
by Juliet Marillier
A young girl escapes an oppressive society and embarks on a dangerous journey to a mystical land.
Sixteen-year-old Neryn is alone in the land of Alban, where the oppressive king has ordered anyone with magical strengths captured and brought before him. Eager to hide her own canny skill–a uniquely ... (Goodreads)
Evil Star
by Anthony Horowitz
The second book in the "Power of Five" series, five teenagers must stop an ancient evil from destroying the world.
Following the events of, Raven's Gate, (which took place a few weeks before the beginning of Evil Star ), Matt goes to a new private school which the Nexus are funding, but is left friendless because ... (Wikipedia)
Necropolis
by Anthony Horowitz
The third book in the "Power of Five" series, where five teenagers must fight against evil forces to save the world from destruction.
Scarlett Adams ' school tutor group is taken on a trip to St Meredith's Church where she sees a vision of Matthew Freeman , who leads her to the door with the pentagram etched into it. There, she is ... (Wikipedia)
Faerie Wars
by Herbie Brennan
When a boy discovers a hidden world of faeries, he becomes embroiled in a war between two rival factions.
When Henry Atherton helps Mr. Fogarty clean up around his house, he expects to find a mess and a cranky old man; what he doesn't expect to find is Pyrgus Malvae, crown prince of the Faerie realm, who ... (Goodreads)
Bruiser
by Neal Shusterman
A boy with a mysterious ability to absorb the pain and injuries of others becomes the target of those who want to exploit him.
The New York Times bestselling author of Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman, delivers a suspenseful, eloquent, and thrilling novel that you won't be able to stop thinking about after you've put it ... (Barnes & Noble)
Gone
by Lisa McMann
A teenage boy wakes up one day to find that everyone over the age of 15 has disappeared. Chaos ensues as he and other kids struggle to survive.
Things should be great for Janie—she has graduated from high school and is spending her summer with Cabel, the guy she’s totally in love with. But deep down she’s panicking about how she’s going to ... (Barnes & Noble)
Cress
by Marissa Meyer
A girl's fight to reclaim her identity and save her kingdom from a tyrannical queen.
The novel begins with an introduction to Crescent "Cress" Moon Darnel, a sixteen-year-old girl living in a satellite in space that has been her prison for most of her life. She is contacted by ... (Wikipedia)
The Singing
by Alison Croggon
A young girl discovers her magical powers and must use them to save her world from darkness.
Maerad and Cadvan have returned to Innail. Maerad has realised that she has been carrying the runes of the Treesong (the magical, ancient song through which it is believed the Speech came into being) ... (Wikipedia)
The Faerie Path
by Allan Frewin Jones
A mortal girl discovers she is a faerie princess and must navigate the dangerous politics of the faerie realm.
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Anita has an accident and ends up in hospital with her boyfriend Evan. To brighten her mood, at midnight her parents give her one of her presents, one sent to ... (Wikipedia)
Midwinterblood
by Marcus Sedgwick
A cycle of seven stories spanning centuries, all connected by a mysterious island and a love that transcends time.
Have you ever had the feeling that you've lived another life? Been somewhere that has felt totally familiar, even though you've never been there before, or felt that you know someone well, even ... (Goodreads)
Scarlet
by Marissa Meyer
A re-imagining of the classic story of Little Red Riding Hood set in a futuristic world.
Scarlet Benoit is a young girl living on her grandmother's farm in Rieux, France. Her grandmother has gone missing for many weeks and Scarlet is sure that she has been kidnapped rather than left on ... (Wikipedia)
A Hidden Fire
by Elizabeth Hunter
A librarian discovers a hidden world of vampires and magic, and must navigate dangerous alliances to protect those she loves.
A phone call from an old friend sets Dr. Giovanni Vecchio back on the path of a mysterious manuscript he's hunted for over five hundred years. He never expected a young student librarian could be the ... (Goodreads)
The Monkey's Paw
by Diane Mowat
A cursed monkey's paw grants three wishes to a family, but at a terrible cost.
Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about ... (Goodreads)
Raven's Gate
by Anthony Horowitz
A troubled teen is sent to a remote village where he uncovers a sinister plot involving ancient rituals and supernatural forces.
Fourteen-year-old delinquent Matthew 'Matt' Freeman and his seventeen-year-old friend Kelvin Johnson break into an Ipswich warehouse late at night, to steal electrical products but are caught by the ... (Wikipedia)
The Riddle
by Alison Croggon
A young girl discovers she is the last in a line of powerful mages, and must use her magic to save her world from darkness.
A young woman embraces her power – and her destiny -- as the thrilling quest begun in THE NAMING continues! Maerad is a girl with a tragic and bitter past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. ... (Goodreads)
Fade
by Lisa McMann
A teenage boy discovers he has the ability to enter people's dreams and alter them, but his power comes with dangerous consequences.
SOME NIGHTMARES NEVER END. For Janie and Cabel, real life is getting tougher than the dreams. They're just trying to carve out a little (secret) time together, but no such luck. Disturbing things are ... (Goodreads)
Fairest of All
by Serena Valentino
A retelling of the story of Snow White from the perspective of the Evil Queen, exploring her descent into darkness and obsession with beauty.
The tale of the young princess and her evil stepmother, the Wicked Queen, is widely known. Despite a few variations from telling to telling, the story remains the same—the Queen was jealous of the ... (Goodreads)
The Sapphire Rose
by David Eddings
The final book in "The Elenium" trilogy, where Sparhawk and his companions must save the world from an ancient evil.
David Eddings returns to The Elenium, the splendid fantasy series that began with the thrilling novels Diamond Throne and Ruby Knight. Finally the knight Sparhawk had come to possess Bhelliom, ... (Goodreads)
Shadowland
by Peter Straub
A young man discovers his family's dark secrets and confronts the evil lurking in the shadows.
You have been there…,if you have ever been afraid. Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician. Learning ... (Goodreads)
Wake
by Lisa McMann
A teenage girl discovers she can enter strangers' dreams and must use her newfound power to prevent a disaster.
The book begins with multiple flashbacks, all leading to Janie's extraordinary powers and where she stands in the present day. Janie Hannagan is an independent, 17-year-old senior at Fieldridge High ... (Wikipedia)
Murder Is Easy
by Agatha Christie
Amateur sleuth investigates a series of suspicious deaths in a small village.
Upon his return to England after his overseas job in the police, Luke Fitzwilliam shares a London-bound train carriage with Lavinia Pinkerton. She talks with him about her reason to travel to ... (Wikipedia)
I Hunt Killers
by Barry Lyga
Jazz, son of a notorious serial killer, uses his knowledge to help the police catch a new killer. But can he escape his own dark past?
What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dad? Jasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for ... (Goodreads)
