BETWEEN SHADES OF GRAY BY RUTA SEPETYSIn 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
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DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE
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DIVERGENT BY VERONICA ROTH
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
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GHETTO COWBOY BY G. NERI
Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths away from drugs and gangs.
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I'LL BE THERE BY HOLLY GOLDBERG SLOAN
Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
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READY PLAYER ONE BY ERNEST CLINe
Set in the futuristic world of 2044, Wade Watts finds refuge in the online world of OASIS, a virtual-reality game network that most of humanity plays. As an orphan, he resides in the slums of the Stacks, which is comprised of trailer homes piled on top of one another. Wade enters into a quest to solve the puzzles that the creator of OASES, James Holliday, built into the system before he died, which will yield massive power and wealth to whoever solves them.
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THE SILENCE OF MURDER
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THIS DARK ENDEAVOR BY KENNETH OPPEL
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.
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