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Young Adult Recommendations

 

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1. 20,000 leagues under the sea

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Author:
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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In an age that has seen the wildest speculations of science become reality, Jules Verne is regarded as both a technological prophet and one of the most exciting masters of imagination the world has ever known. Of all his novels, none is more compelling and thrilling than 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. This extraordinary voyage into the depths of the unknown aboard the legendary submarine Nautilus—commanded by the brilliant, tragic Captain Nemo—explores...

2. All the dead lie down

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Author:
McCauley, Kyrie
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Newly orphaned seventeen-year old Marin accepts a nanny position for an acclaimed horror writer and her mother's childhood friend, but she soon realizes all is not well at Lovelace House and must unravel its secrets before they consume her. After a tragedy leaves Marin Blythe alone in the world, she receives an invitation from Alice Lovelace-- an acclaimed horror writer and childhood friend of Marin's mother-- offering a nanny position at Lovelace...

3. 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...

4. Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging: confessions of Georgia Nicolson

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Author:
Rennison, Louise
Series:
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

5. Anne of Green Gables

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Author:
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942
Series:
Anne of Green Gables volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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"Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from...

6. Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe

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Author:
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire
Series:
Aristotle and Dante volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship -- the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves...

7. Ballad & dagger

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Author:
Older, Daniel José
Series:
Outlaw saints volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world. When the island of San Madrigal disappeared into the sea., the survivors escaped to New York. Mateo, now a high school junior...

8. The blood years

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Author:
Arnold, Elana K.
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"Frederieke Teitler and her sister, Astra, live in a home, in a city, in a world divided. Their father left when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them from antisemitism, but now being a Jew has become increasingly dangerous, even in their beloved home of Czernowitz, long considered a safe haven for Jewish people. And when Astra falls...

9. The call of the wild, White Fang, and other stories

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Author:
London, Jack, 1876-1916
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Californian family dog Buck is happy spending his days eating and sleeping. That is until he is kidnapped, and is forced to work in the frozen north of Alaska as a sledge dog. Passed from owner to owner, Buck sets out on a remarkable journey to ensure his own survival. Will he make it? And, when tested, how hard will he struggle against returning to the wild? Packed with tension and excitement, Jack London's atmospheric story of adventure and endurance...

10. Caraval

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Author:
Garber, Stephanie
Series:
Caraval volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over.But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett...

11. Clap when you land

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Author:
Acevedo, Elizabeth
Average Rating:
2 stars
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"Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance--and Papi's secrets--the two girls are forced to face...

12. 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."

13. Firekeeper's daughter

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Author:
Boulley, Angeline
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything...

14. The lesbiana's guide to Catholic school

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Author:
Reyes, Sonora
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.

15. Little women

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Series:
Little Women series
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

16. One for all

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Author:
Lainoff, Lillie
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In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to...

17. Peak

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Author:
Smith, Roland, 1951-
Series:
Peak volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

18. Rebel

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Author:
Lu, Marie, 1984-
Series:
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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As Day and Eden struggle with who they've become since their time in the Republic, a new danger creeps into the distance between them, and Eden finds himself drawn into Ross City's dark side, where his legendary brother may not be able to save him. Eden Wing has been living in his brother's shadow for years. Even though he's a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, and a brilliant inventor, most people know him only as Daniel Wing's...

19. 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...

20. Simon vs. the Homo sapiens agenda

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Author:
Albertalli, Becky
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn't play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone's business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he's been emailing, will be compromised. With some...