The boy who spent a fateful, long-ago summer with his brother and teenage cousins, only to endure a secret so monstrous it led three children to do the unthinkable. Over the course of one night, while stuck at a party deep in the New England woods, Andrew battles both the pain of his past and the isolation of his present. Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing.
A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein: Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane.
On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? The Color Purple by Alice Walker: The Color Purple is the story of two sisters—one a missionary to Africa and the other a child wife living in the South—who remain loyal to one another across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7, He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. The Diviners by Libba Bray: The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.
As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfurl in the city that never sleeps. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened…. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders.
His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If the world survives, that is. Eragon by Christopher Paolini series: Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy—until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed.
Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save—or destroy—the Empire. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon: My disease is as rare as it is famous. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. Falling From Grace by S.
The new guy in school is different. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell: Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind? Fifteen by Beverly Cleary: It seems too good to be true. Stan is tall and good-looking, friendly and hard-working — everything Jane ever dreamed of.
If only she knew all the clever things to say.
If only she were prettier. If only she were ready for this…. Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen: The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. Still walking around with my first kiss. This is a classic romantic comedy of errors told in alternating chapters by two fresh, funny voices. Wendelin Van Draanen is at her best here with a knockout cast of quirky characters and a hilarious series of misunderstandings and missed opportunities.
But underlying the humor are two teens in transition. They are each learning to look beyond the surface of people, both figuring out who they are, who they want to be, and who they want to be with. This unfamiliar, isolated landscape is much the same as the world outside: But those who call it home have little or no control over their fate. Good Kings Bad Kings challenges our definitions of what it means to be disabled in a story told with remarkable authenticity and in voices that resound with humor and spirit.
Deep down, Dicey hopes they can find someone to trust, someone who will take them in and love them. Told in a series of vignettes — sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous — it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers. They arrive in New York City in to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wild and wondrous and not always welcoming U.
For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. If I Stay by Gayle Forman sequel: In the blink of an eye everything changes. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces- to figure out what she has lost, what she has left, and the very difficult choice she must make. Heartwrenchingly beautiful, this will change the way you look at life, love, and family. Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. Too bad the rest of the world has to get in their way. Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close.
At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways. Determined to succeed at life-which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job-Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away.
The stress becomes unbearable and Craig stops eating and sleeping-until, one night, he nearly kills himself. There, isolated from the crushing pressures of school and friends, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety. Legend by Marie Lu series: What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.
The Maze Runner by James Dashner series: When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade. Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. Everything is going to change. Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying.
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin: If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. But Naomi picked heads. So Whitley acts out. It will take all three of them to help Whitley get through her anger and begin to put the pieces of her family together.
Monster by Walter Dean Myers: Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. Open Road Summer by Emery Lord: Her best friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her own. But when Matt Finch joins the tour as its opening act, his boy-next-door charm proves difficult for Reagan to resist, despite her vow to live a drama-free existence.
This summer, Reagan and Lilah will navigate the ups and downs of fame and friendship as they come to see that giving your heart to the right person is always a risk worth taking. The Outsiders by S. No one ever said life was easy. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. The Princess Bride by William Goldman: Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen: Sydney has always felt invisible.
Peyton is handsome and charismatic, but seems bent on self-destruction.
Then she meets the Chatham family. Drawn into their warm, chaotic circle, Sydney experiences unquestioning acceptance for the first time. Chatham, who even though ailing is the heart of the family. The Selection by Kiera Cass series: For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels.
To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks. Then America meets Prince Maxon. Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh.
Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free.
Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling. Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha.
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi series: I have a curse. I have a gift. Unfortunately, the family that kills together also meddles together, and when Missi's mom decides her daughter's life is a little too solitary, she packs Missi off the Costa Rica for an undercover assignment on a low-budget Survival reality TV show. Amidst the ridiculous challenges, tribal voting, and late-night sneaking to the nearby resort, Missi finds herself not only scoping out her family's latest target, but also Lex Danby, the hottest contestant on the island.
But Missi's hormones get put on the back burner when someone starts sabotaging the show Other Greatest Hits Mysteries available: Put all of that together with the worst put-together reality show possible, and the result is a fun read.
Candace Cameron Bure and Paul Greene. Jesse Metcalfe and Fiona Gubelmann. Taylor Cole and Jack Turner. For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. To be fair, it was a hard sell. Aug 02, Heide Goody rated it it was amazing.
I Shot You Babe: Coney Bombay isn't your average PhD. While he may be well versed in philosophy, he's also one of the most lethal members of the Bombay Family of assassins. Choosing to travel the world operating carnival rides and spending quite evenings knitting with his pet guinea pig, even in his crazy family, Cy stands out as wild card. But after a series of run-ins with perennial grad student, Veronica Gale, the cool cat is starting to feel a little hot under the collar.
In her research, Ronnie Gale has seen a lot. Problem is, she hasn't actually done a lot. The mysterious Cy Bombay seems about to change all of that when a whirlwind adventure takes them from the small-town country fair to the outer reaches of Mongolia, and into a murder mystery with Cy squarely in the center. Ronnie's going to have to climb out of her ivory tower and get a little down and dirty if she wants to survive Cy Bombay's wild ride.
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Fans will enjoy the capers of cousin Cy Talented Langtry has a real gift for the absurd. Paradise By The Rifle Sights: Instead, he ends up with a lethal assignment that isn't his, a reluctant role as the new Bachelor on a reality TV show, and a slew of menacing death threats. Paris knew life as a Bombay wasn't easy, but if this assassin is going to find the love of his life, he's got to find out who's threatening his life first What do the Minotaur, Rasputin, the first man hung for murder in America, and the Countess of Blood all have in common?
From pet Dodo birds to Ancient Greece and 20th Century Russia, get the stories Bombay children have been told for thousands of years. Stories that have been shrouded in blood-sworn secrecy…until now! Ever wondered what it's like to be born into a family of assassins? Gin Bombay knows, and now she's sharing her family's deepest, darkest secrets Four more family stories have been released from the vault, including Rio Bombay—wanna-be cowboy and wild west gunslinger, Caspian—the first Bombay to have to take out another Bombay, Aberdeen—the hoop-skirted Antebellum Assassin, and Dublin Bombay—the Scottish Viking Slayer!