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Young Adult Recommendations

 

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1. The 100

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Author:
Morgan, Kass
Series:
The 100 series volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
When 100 juvenile delinquents are sent on a mission to recolonize Earth, they get a second chance at freedom, friendship, and love, as they fight to survive in a dangerous new world.

2. Delirium

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Author:
Oliver, Lauren, 1982-
Series:
Delirium trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Description:
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, she falls in love.

3. Divergent

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Author:
Roth, Veronica
Series:
Divergent trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Description:
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...

4. The giver

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Author:
Lowry, Lois
Series:
Giver quartet volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Description:
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. The Hunger Games

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Author:
Collins, Suzanne
Series:
Hunger Games trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Description:
"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...

6. Los juegos del hambre

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Author:
Collins, Suzanne
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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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...

7. Legend

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Author:
Lu, Marie, 1984-
Series:
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Description:
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.

8. The maze runner

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Author:
Dashner, James, 1972-
Series:
Maze runner trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Description:
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.

9. The midnight star

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Author:
Lu, Marie, 1984-
Series:
Young elites volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. She s turned her back on those who have betrayed her and achieved the ultimate revenge: victory. Her reign as the White Wolf has been a triumphant one, but with each conquest her cruelty only grows. The darkness within her has begun to spiral out of control, threatening to destroy all that she s achieved.

10. Rebel

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Author:
Lu, Marie, 1984-
Series:
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
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...

11. Red queen

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Author:
Aveyard, Victoria
Series:
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Description:
Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood -- those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess...

12. Scythe

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Author:
Shusterman, Neal
Series:
Arc of a scythe volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Description:
In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (gleaned) by professional reapers (scythes). Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythe's apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation they must learn the art of killing and come to understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe's apprentice. And when it becomes clear that the...