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Young Adult Recommendations

 

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1. Anne of Green Gables

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Author:
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942
Series:
Anne of Green Gables volume 1.
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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...

2. The book thief

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Author:
Zusak, Markus
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4.5 stars
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. Set during World War II in Germany, Markus...

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

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London, Jack, 1876-1916
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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...

4. 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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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?...

5. Clap when you land

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Author:
Acevedo, Elizabeth
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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...

6. The cruel prince

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Author:
Black, Holly
Series:
Folk of the air volume 1.
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4.1 stars
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Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him--and face the consequences. As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace...

7. Divergent

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Author:
Roth, Veronica
Series:
Divergent trilogy volume 1.
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4.6 stars
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In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue -- Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family...

8. Eragon

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Author:
Paolini, Christopher
Series:
Inheritance cycle (Christopher Paolini) volume 1.
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4.5 stars
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In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a polished blue stone that pulls his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

9. The fault in our stars

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Author:
Green, John, 1977-
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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...

10. The field guide to the North American teenager

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Philippe, Ben
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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."

11. Firekeeper's daughter

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Author:
Boulley, Angeline
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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...

12. The giver

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Author:
Lowry, Lois
Series:
Giver quartet volume 1.
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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.

13. The golden compass

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Author:
Pullman, Philip, 1946-
Series:
His dark materials (Christopher Wormell, ill.)
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4.3 stars
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The Golden Compass forms the first part of a story in three volumes. The first volume is set in a world like ours, but different in many ways. The second volume is set partly in the world we know. The third moves between many worlds. In The Golden Compass, readers meet for the first time 11-year-old Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Jordan College in Oxford, England. It quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is...

14. The hate u give

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Thomas, Angie
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4.3 stars
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After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died. "Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal...

15. 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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"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...

16. I kissed Shara Wheeler: a novel

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McQuiston, Casey
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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...

17. Legend

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Author:
Lu, Marie, 1984-
Series:
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 1.
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4.6 stars
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In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day--a famous criminal, and prodigy June--the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.

18. The lightning thief

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Author:
Riordan, Rick
Series:
Percy Jackson & the Olympians volume 1.
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4.6 stars
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Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse -- Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for...

19. Little women

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Series:
Little Women series
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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...

20. The maze runner

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Author:
Dashner, James, 1972-
Series:
Maze runner trilogy volume 1.
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4.5 stars
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Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.