The Compound
by S.A. Bodeen
Eli’s multi-billionaire father has prepared a compound for their family in case of a nuclear attack. When Dad gets word that the attack is eminent, the whole family goes underground. As each year passes their supplies and tolerance for each other dwindle until Eli must decide just how far he will go to survive.
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Finding Daddy - Louise Plummer
City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau

Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature
by Robin Brande
Mena, ostracized at church, home, and school for writing a letter of apology to a gay teen who was harassed into trying to kill himself by her fundamentalist friends, struggles to find her way when new friends and school experiences force her to think about what she really believes.
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Ringside - Jen Bryant
Big Mouth Ugly Girl - Joyce Carol Oates
Poison Ivy - Amy Goldman Koss
The Boy Who Dared - Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Freak - Marcella Pixley

Airman
by Eoin Colfer
When Conor Broekhart is wrongly imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, he plots his escape and creates a plan for a flying machine which he hopes will help him in his attempt to clear his name.
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The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Airborn - Kenneth Oppel

The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
When 16 year old Katniss’s beloved younger sister is chosen by lottery to represent her district at the Hunger Games, Katniss steps up to go in her place. There, she and her district partner are pitted against teens from all the districts in Panem in a brutal kill or be killed fight for survival.
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Epic - Conor Kostick
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 - Andrea White
The Game of Sunken Places - M.T. Anderson
Full Tilt - Neal Shusterman
Heir Apparent - Vivian Vande Velde

Waiting For Normal
by Leslie Connor
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
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Savvy - Ingrid Law
Itch - Michelle D. Kwasney
Dovey Coe - Frances O'Roark Dowell
How It in Peach Hill - Marthe Jocelyn

Gym Candy
by Carl Deuker
Mick Johnson will do anything to be the best football player, even take steroids. He knows the risk but nothing is more important than the game.
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Boost - Kathryn Mackel
Whale Talk - Chris Crutcher

The London Eye Mystery
by Siohban Dowd
When Ted and Kat take their cousin Salim to ride the popular ferris wheel, the London Eye, he gets on but never gets off. How could he have simply vanished? Ted, whose brain is “wired differently,” and Kat must put together the clues to figure out what happened Salim.
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The Mystery of the Third Lucretia - Susan Runholt
Eye of the Crow - Shane Peacock
Enola Holmes series - Nancy Springer

The Possibilities of Sainthood
by Donna Freitas
While regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint, fifteen-year-old Antonia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for everything from help with preparing the family's fig trees for a Rhode Island winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy.
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1001 Cranes - Naomi Hirahara
Leap of Faith - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Artichoke’s Heart - Suzanne Suplee
How to Ditch your Fairy - Justine Larbalastier

Diamond Willow
by Helen Frost
In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.
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Love that Dog - Sharon Creech
Dogsong - Gary Paulsen
Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George
Grow - Juanita Havill
Home of the Brave - Katherine Applegate

Theh Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution
by Sally Gardner
After performing in a magic show at a private party hosted by a count, considered by some to be the devil, Yann Margoza, a young gypsy, finds himself in a sweeping adventure in which he befriends a lonely heiress, dodges a bullet and gets caught up in the French Revolution.
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I, Coriander - Sally Gardner
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
The Gypsy Crown - Kate Forsyth
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Sorcery and Cecelia, or, The enchanted chocolate pot : being the
correspondence of two young ladies of quality regarding various magical
scandals in London and the country - Patricia C. Wrede
The Smile - Donna Jo Napoli

Found (The Missing, Book 1)
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Jonah and his friend Chip, both adopted 13 years ago, begin receiving mysterious letters claiming they are among the “missing” and in great danger. The boys must figure out who they are and where they came from before it's too late.
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The Girl with the Silver Eyes - Willo Davis Roberts
Invitation to the Game - Monica Hughes
The Time Travelers - Linda Buckley-Archer

The Great Wide Sea
by M.H. Herlong
Ben’s life is turned upside down when his mother is killed unexpectedly. Much to his surprise and dismay his father sells all their belongings, purchases a boat, and takes Ben and his younger brothers on a year long sailing trip. Things go from bad to worse when the boys wake up one morning to find their father missing from the boat while at sea.
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Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
The Young Man and the Sea - Rodman Philbrick

The Black Book of Secrets
by F.E. Higgins
After narrowly escaping a horrible fate at the hands of his cruel parents, Ludlow Fitch finds himself in the company of a mysterious pawnbroker who trades people’s deepest, darkest secrets for cash. As Ludlow works as the pawnbroker’s apprentice, he begins to trust him. But he must decide if he can trust the pawnbroker enough to share his own dark secrets.
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The Bone Magician -- F.E. Higgins
Foundling (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book One) - D.M. Cornish
Fly By Night - Frances Hardinge

Suck It Up
by Brian Meehl
Morning McCobb, recent graduate of the IV League and a vegan vampire, is on a mission to change the public perception of vampires from bloodthirsty
killers to something more heroic.
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The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites - Heather Brewer
Sucks to Be Me - Kimberly Pauley

The Adoration of Jenna Fox
by Mary E. Pearson
After an accident and year-long coma, seventeen-year-old Jenna awakens to a life she does not remember. Her parents describe the past, but the memories are slow to come. What does come are more questions: Who is Jenna Fox? And, what really happened after the accident?
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Eva - Peter Dickinson
Airhead - Meg Cabot
Turnabout - Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Dead and the Gone
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
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life as we knew it - Susan Beth Pfeffer
Gone - Michael Grant
Alas Babylon - Pat Frank
The Other Side of the Island - Allegra Goodman

Antsy Does Time
by Neal Shusterman
When Antsy discovers that classmate Gunnar is suffering from a terminal illness, he offers to give Gunnar a month of his life. Others want to donate months, and Antsy starts trading time like stocks on Wall Street! All of this plus the attention of Gunnar’s gorgeous older sister, stressful hours at his parents’ restaurant, and a visit from an overbearing aunt create one wild
ride for Antsy Bonano!
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The Schwa was Here - Neal Shusterman
Son of the Mob - Gordon Korman
Go Big or Go Home - Will Hobbs
The Big Game of Everything - Chris Lynch

Unwind
by Neal Shusterman
In a futuristic world where parents can have their children unwound between the ages of 13 and 18, three teenagers on their way to a harvest camp escape this fate and are swept into an underground network that helps Unwinds fight for their very survival.
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The Declaration - Gemma Malley
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Truesight - David Stahler

I.Q. Independence Hall
by Roland Smith
Q and his new stepsister Angela are following their rock star parents on tour. But someone is following them.
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Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz
I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You - Ally Carter
H.I.V.E. : Higher Institute of Villainous Education - Mark Walden
Chasing Vermeer - Blue Bailliett

How Not to be Popular
by Jennifer Zeigler
When Maggie moves with her parents yet again, she vows to avoid making friends this time so she won’t experience heartbreak when she must leave them behind. She launches Operation Avoid Friends at her new high school in Austin, but the results are not at all what she expects.
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Confessions of a Serial Kisser - Wendelin Van Draanen
Zen and the Art of Faking It - Jordan Sonnenblick
All Shook Up - Shelley Pearsall