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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.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio, Audio CD, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook, Playaway
Description:
"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 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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Book, Adult Literacy Book, Audio CD, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook, Playaway
Description:
"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...

3. Chomp

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Author:
Hiaasen, Carl
Average Rating:
4 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.

4. City of bones

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Author:
Clare, Cassandra
Series:
Mortal instruments volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Book, Audio CD, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook, Playaway
Description:
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. The lightning thief

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Author:
Riordan, Rick
Series:
Percy Jackson & the Olympians volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, Illustrated Edition, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook, Playaway
Description:
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...

6. Peak

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Author:
Smith, Roland, 1951-
Series:
Peak volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Book, Audio CD, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eBook, Playaway
Description:
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

7. The princess diaries

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Author:
Cabot, Meg
Series:
Princess diaries volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.

8. The red pyramid

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Author:
Riordan, Rick
Series:
Kane chronicles volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Book, Audio CD, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook, Playaway
Description:
After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.

9. Walk two moons

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Author:
Creech, Sharon
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Book, Audio CD, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook, Playaway, Read-Along Book
Description:
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.