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Read it for: treacherous court politics, star-crossed romance, and a Moroccan-inspired setting.
Series alert: If you love this complex, gripping read about oppression and resistance, you're in luck -- it's the 1st in a new series. |
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500 Words or Less
by Juleah Del Rosario
A high school senior attempts to salvage her reputation among her Ivy League–obsessed classmates by writing their college admissions essays and in the process learns big truths about herself.
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For a Muse of Fire
by Heidi Heilig
Jetta, a teen who possesses secret, forbidden powers, must gain access to a hidden spring and negotiate a world roiling with intrigue and the beginnings of war.
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Squirm
by Carl Hiaasen
When Billy was three or four, his dad disappeared and his mother refuses to share information about his father's whereabouts. When he finally pieces together his dad's address in Montana, he heads out west. But instead of finding his dad, Billy finds his father's new wife and his stepsister, both members of the Crow Nation, and becomes embroiled in a cross country journey chasing his father on a well-intentioned but dangerous mission to protect wildlife from trophy hunters.
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Wildcard
by Marie Lu
Teenage hacker Emika Chen embarks on a mission to unravel a sinister plot and is forced to join forces with a shadowy organization known as the Blackcoats.
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Genuine Fraud
by E Lockhart
A novel of psychological suspense by the best-selling author of "We Were Liars" follows the experiences of a diabolically intelligent girl who repeatedly reinvents herself in an effort to secure a charmed existence and will stop at nothing to survive.
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I Am Still Alive
by Kate Marshall
Jess hadn't seen her survivalist dad in years. When she is forced to move to his cabin in the Canadian wilderness, they finally begin to really know each other. Then a secret from his past pays them a visit leaving Jess on her own. She must hunt for food, build shelter, and keep herself warm. But she's stronger than she ever imagined and determined to survive.
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Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother.
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Neverworld Wake
by Marisha Pessl
A car accident leaves Bee and her four estranged best friends trapped between life and death in Neverworld Wake, where they're doomed to repeat the same day until they can agree on which one of them gets to live.
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Nyxia
by Scott Reintgen
Emmett accepts an interstellar space contract but learns en route that to win the promised fortune he and nine other recruits face a brutal competition, putting their very humanity at risk.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for age 14 and up!
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Chester Library 250 W Main St. Chester, New Jersey 07930 (908) 879-7612
chesterlib.org
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