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1) Divergent
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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.
2) Worldshaker
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Col Porpentine is being groomed as the next Commander of Worldshaker, a juggernaut where elite families live on the upper decks while the Filthies toil below, but when he meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run, he discovers how ignorant he is of his home and its residents.
3) Powerful
Author
Series
Powerless volume 1.5
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Now alone, Adena learns the streets of Loot by herself and meets a mysterious Elite named Kai Azer who harbors a dangerous ability, but their love is quickly interrupted when Adena becomes Paedyn's seamstress for the Purging Trials.
4) Alebrijes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For 400 years, Earth has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel -- or go it alone in the wilderness beyond, filled with wandering spirits and wyrms. They don't last long. 13 year-old pickpocket Leandro and his sister Gabi do what they can to forge a life in Pocatel. The city does not take kindly to Cascabel like them -- the descendants of those who worked the San Joaquin Valley...
5) Sky's end
Author
Series
Above the black volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades"-- Provided by publisher.
6) Plus one
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In an alternate United States where Day and Night populations are forced to lead separate--but not equal--lives, a desperate Night girl falls for a seemingly privileged Day boy and places them both in danger as she gets caught up in the beginnings of a resistance movement.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the School of Here, an unsettling and peculiar place that is nonetheless familiar to us all. A place full of codes and unspoken rules that are passed down from year to year. At Here, society is highly stratified, the pairs, friend groups, and outcasts are all ruled by a godlike prince. This year--as all other years--things are not at all as they seem. A self-effacing first-year student vanishes into thin air. A persecuted outsider delivers...
9) I'm the girl
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis finds the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James outside the gates of an exclusive resort, she teams up with Ashley's older sister Nora to find the killer. She is thrown into a world of unimaginable wealth and privilege-- and the fight for her life. As Ashley's killer closes in, it may not be a matter of who is guilty, but who is guiltiest. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In "The Prince," Maxon reveals there was another girl in his life before America; and in "The Guard," America falls for Aspen Leger, a Six who has risen in the ranks to become a member of the royal guard.
11) Captive: #2
Author
Series
Blackcoat rebellion volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While being forced by the Blackcoats to impersonate Lila Hart, the Prime Minister's niece, Kitty Doe finds herself imprisoned in Elsewhere, an inescapable detention area for criminals.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Every year, summer begins when the Callahans arrive on Mariposa Island. That's when Elena Finney gets to escape her unstable, controlling mother by babysitting for their two children. And the summer of 1986 promises to be extra special when she meets J.C., the new boy in town, whose kisses make Elena feel like she's been transported to a new world. Joaquin Finney can't imagine why anyone would want to come to Mariposa Island. He just graduated from...
13) The crown: #5
Author
Series
Selection volume 5
Publisher
HarperTeen, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years have passed since America Singer and Prince Maxon fell in love, and their daughter is the first princess to hold a Selection of her own.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Best friends Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales grapple with the complexities of their relationship even while they spend their senior year apart due to a pandemic that disproportionately affects young people.
Author
Publisher
Flux
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, two seniors at an elite girls school grow close as they work together on a project and Zoey, a scholarship student, begins dating wealthy, troubled Olivia's twin brother, Liam, but romance blossoms between the girls, threatening both of their relationships with Liam.
Author
Series
Bright young things volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Cordelia Gray's high-profile romance with celebrity pilot Max is threatened by secrets, ambitious Letty becomes a target in cutthroat Hollywood and newlywed Astrid finds herself in the company of a man other than her husband.
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
20) Outside in
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After leading a victorious rebellion against the Uppers, Trella is forced to continue her leadership role and must help her people face a threat from outside their cube.