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Young Adult Recommendations

 

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1. Alone out here

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Author:
Redgate, Riley
Average Rating:
3 stars
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When the president's daughter--eighteen-year-old Leigh Chen--ends up on the only ship escaping a dying earth, she and a group of teenagers must grapple with the challenges of what it will take to survive as the last remnants of humanity. The year is 2072. Soon a volcanic eruption will trigger catastrophic devastation, and the only way out is up.While the world's leaders, scientists, and engineers oversee the frantic production of a space fleet meant...

2. Betting on you

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Author:
Painter, Lynn
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"When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers. Bailey met Charlie a year ago on the long flight to Omaha, where she moved after her parents' divorce. Charlie's cynicism didn't mix well with Bailey's carefully well-behaved temperament, and his endless commentary was the irritating cherry on top of an already emotionally fraught trip. Now, Bailey and...

3. The fault in our stars

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Author:
Green, John, 1977-
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. Despite the tumor -shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears...

4. The field guide to the North American teenager

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Author:
Philippe, Ben
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."

5. The giver

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Author:
Lowry, Lois
Series:
Giver quartet volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.

6. The Hunger Games

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Author:
Collins, Suzanne
Series:
Hunger Games trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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"The Hunger Games as you've never seen it before--in a remarkable illustrated edition. Even at the age of sixteen, Katniss Everdeen knows it takes hard work, keen observation, and inner fortitude to survive in the world. Her home, District 12, is under the merciless rule of the Capitol, continually forced to pay after losing a long-ago civil war in the nation of Panem. One of the ways the Capitol keeps control is its annual Hunger Games, a televised...

7. I kissed Shara Wheeler: a novel

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Author:
McQuiston, Casey
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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After seventeen-year-olds Chloe and Shara - Chloe's rival for valedictorian - kiss, Shara vanishes leaving Chloe and two boys, who are also enamored with Shara, to follow the trail of clues she left behind. But during the search, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to Shara and her small Alabama town than she thought. Chloe Green is so close to winning. She's spent the four years since her moms moved her from Southern California to Alabama...

8. Renegades

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Author:
Meyer, Marissa
Series:
Renegades volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Secret identities. Extraordinary powers. She wants vengeance. He wants justice. The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies-humans with extraordinary abilities-who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone ... except the villains they once overthrew. Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for...

9. What the river knows: a novel

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Author:
Ibañez, Isabel (Novelist)
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Set in 1884, nineteen-year-old Inez travels to Egypt after the sudden death of her parents to uncover the truth about their deaths, and as she attempts to unravel the mysteries her parents sought, she becomes a pawn in a larger game that threatens to kill her. Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that's been...