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Young Adult Recommendations

 

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1. 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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Pitkin Young Adult
YA L8474ca
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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...

2. City of bones

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Author:
Clare, Cassandra
Series:
Mortal instruments volume 1.
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4.8 stars
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Pitkin Young Adult
YA C5912mi
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When 15-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?...

3. The fault in our stars

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Author:
Green, John, 1977-
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4.7 stars
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Pitkin Young Adult
YA G7965fa
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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 giver

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Author:
Lowry, Lois
Series:
Giver quartet volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Pitkin Young Adult
YA L9215gi 1
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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.

5. My side of the mountain

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Author:
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012
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4.3 stars
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25 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

6. Soul surfer: a true story of faith, family, and fighting to get back on the board

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Author:
Hamilton, Bethany
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4.5 stars
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YA 927.9732 H217
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The teenage surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack in 2003 describes how she has coped with this life-altering event with the help of her faith, the changes in her life, and her return to the sport she loves. In this moving personal account of faith and fortitude, internationally ranked surfer Bethany Hamilton tells how she survived a shark attack that cost her arm--but not her spirit. They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How...