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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
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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. 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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3.9 stars
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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. A long walk to water

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Author:
Park, Linda Sue
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Pitkin Young Adult
YA P2356Lo
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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of a safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

5. The maze

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Author:
Hobbs, Will
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Pitkin Young Adult
YA H6827ma
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Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.

6. 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.

7. Peak

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Author:
Smith, Roland, 1951-
Series:
Peak volume 1.
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4.8 stars
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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.

8. Rebel

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Author:
Lu, Marie, 1984-
Series:
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 4.
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5 stars
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Pitkin Young Adult
YA L9262Le 4
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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...