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Young Adult Recommendations

 

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1. Alone out here

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Author:
Redgate, Riley
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3 stars
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Pitkin Young Adult
YA R3165aL
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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. The Hunger Games

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Author:
Collins, Suzanne
Series:
Hunger Games trilogy volume 1.
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4.7 stars
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53 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Pitkin Young Adult New Book Collection
YA C7133ih 1
Pitkin Young Adult
YA C7133hu 1
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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...

3. Los juegos del hambre

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Author:
Collins, Suzanne
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Pitkin Spanish Collection
SPANISH FICTION C7133jh 1
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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. "Es la hora. Ya no hay vuelta atrás. Los juegos van a comenzar. Los tributos deben salir a la Arena y... luchar por sobrevivir. Ganar significa fama...

4. Peak

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Author:
Smith, Roland, 1951-
Series:
Peak volume 1.
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Pitkin Young Adult
YA S6583p
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A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

5. A suffragist's guide to the Antarctic

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Author:
Lai, Yi Shun
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Pitkin Young Adult
YA L1858su
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In 1914 England, eighteen-year-old American Clara lies about her age and citizenship to land a coveted spot on an Antarctic expedition, but when the crew is marooned on an ice floe, Clara's mission to advance the women's suffrage movement takes a back seat to survival.

6. You're not supposed to die tonight

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Author:
Bayron, Kalynn
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YA B3626yo
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"Charity has the summer job of her dreams, playing the "final girl" at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business. But on the last weekend of the season, Charity's co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity's role as the final girl suddenly...