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 If you love playing Minecraft, you might like books about survival and the wilderness! |
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Brian is forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet. TEEN ADVENTURE PAULSEN GARY |
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Minecraft : the Island by Max BrooksAn official tie-in to the globally popular video game traces the story of a new hero stranded in the world of Minecraft who must survive a harsh environment while unraveling the secrets of a mysterious island. TEEN ADVENTURE MINECRAFT ISLAND |
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Minecraft : The Mountain by Max BrooksStranded in the world of Minecraft a hero finally encounters another person while fighting to get back home. TEEN ADVENTURE MINECRAFT MOUNTAIN |
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Nation by Terry PratchettAfter a tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and the things that matter to them. TEEN ADVENTURE PRATCHETT TERRY |
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Peak by Roland SmithAfter being arrested for scaling a New York skyscraper and then sent to live with his long-lost father and fellow climber, Peak Marcello finds it difficult to rebuild their bond. When his father suddenly pushes him to climb Mt. Everest, Peak must question his father's motives. TEEN ADVENTURE SMITH ROLAND |
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The Skeleton Tree by Iain LawrenceSurviving a shipwreck along the Alaskan coast, 12-year-old Chris struggles to find food and shelter alongside a prickly boy and a friendly raven as the salmon migration ends and dangerous cold weather sets in. TEEN ADVENTURE LAWRENCE IAIN |
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Wildfire : a Novel by W. R. PhilbrickThirteen-year-old Sam Castine is at summer camp. When camp is evacuated ahead of a fast moving wildfire, he makes the mistake of going back for his phone, and finds himself left behind, disoriented, and running for his life. TEEN ADVENTURE PHILBRICK W.R. |
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Battle Storm : An Unofficial Fortnite Novel by Cara J StevensThe Impossibles, the latest recruits, have everything to lose and even more to gain by moving up the ranks, but first they will need to come together as a squad and prove themselves on the battlefield. TEEN ADVENTURE FORTNITE |
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The Gauntlet by Karuna RiaziWhen twelve-year-old Farah and her two best friends get sucked into a mechanical board game called The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand, they know it is up to them to defeat the game's diabolical architect in order to save themselves and those who are trapped inside, including her baby brother Ahmed. TEEN ADVENTURE RIAZI KARUNA |
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsIn a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. TEEN DYSTOPIAN COLLINS SUZANNE |
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Leviathan by Scott WesterfeldIn an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts. TEEN SCI-FI WESTERFELD SCOTT |
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The Maze Runner by James DashnerSixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. TEEN DYSTOPIAN DASHNER JAMES |
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Ship Breaker by Paolo BacigalupiA tale set in a Gulf Coast shanty town 100 years in the future finds teen Nailer dreaming of a better life on the sea before discovering a beached clipper ship and lone survivor. TEEN DYSTOPIAN BACIGALUPI PAOLO |
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TEEN SPORTS FEINSTEIN JOHN |
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Blue Lock 1 by Muneyuki KaneshiroAfter a disastrous defeat at the World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's missing? An absolute ace striker. The Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, so Blue Lock--a rigorous training ground for 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players--is created. To survive this battle royale, the last striker standing will have to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in his way! TEEN MANGA BLUE LOCK 1 |
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Booked by Kwame AlexanderIn this graphic novel version of Booked,12-year-old Nick, who loves soccer but hates books, learns the power of words as he deals with family, first love and friendship. TEEN GRAPHIC SPORTS ALEXANDER KWAME |
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The Crossover by Kwame AlexanderFourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health. TEEN SPORTS ALEXANDER KWAME
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Ghost by Jason ReynoldsGhost is a naturally talented runner with a troubled background, but when he is recruited for an elite middle school track team, he must prove to his coach that he can overcome his problems and become the best sprinter in the city. TEEN SPORTS REYNOLDS JASON |
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Million-Dollar Throw by Mike LupicaKnown for his strong arm, 13-year-old football fanatic Nate Brodie feels confident that he could win the million-dollar prize as an invited guest at an NFL contest, but when pressures at home mount, Nate looks to his best friend Abby, who teaches him what true courage is all about. TEEN SPORTS LUPICA MIKE |
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Aster and the Accidental Magic by Thom PicoMoving to a new home in a remote area where her parents can immerse themselves in science, Aster receives a canine companion from a mysterious old woman before a trickster spirit offers her three wishes, in a first installment of a planned duology. TEEN GRAPHIC FANTASY ASTER 1 |
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A Game of Fox & Squirrels by Jenn ReeseWhen eleven-year-old Samantha is given a mysterious card game called "A Game of Fox & Squirrels," the animal characters of the game come to life and offer Sam anything she desires if she completes the game, but she soon learns that they are hiding rules she isn't prepared for. TEEN FANTASY REESE JENN |
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Kamisama Kiss by Julietta SuzukiNewly homeless Nanami learns that accepting an offer to stay in a Shinto shrine has made her the shrine's new deity, and to fulfill her duties she needs the reluctant help of her familiar, a fox spirit in the form of an attractive young man. TEEN MANGA KAMISAMA 1 |
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Odder by Katherine ApplegateOdder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn. TEEN FANTASY APPLEGATE ODDER |
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Owly: The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer by Andy RuntonOwly is a kind, yet lonely, little owl who's always on the lookout for new friends and adventure. The first graphic novel in the series contains two enchanting novellas, "The Way Home" & "The Bittersweet Summer." TEEN GRAPHIC ADVENTURE OWLY 1 |
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Schooled by Gordon KormanAfter his hippie grandmother ends up in the hospital, Cap Anderson is forced to leave the commune where he is homeschooled and attend Claverage Middle School, where his odd looks and behavior make him the target of bullies. TEEN REALISTIC KORMAN GORDON |
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The Bone Witch by Rin ChupecoDiscovering her power after accidentally resurrecting her brother from the dead, Tea is ostracized by her community and offered guidance by a wise witch who helps her pursue training as a wielder of elemental magic. TEEN FANTASY CHUPECO RIN |
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Chaos & Flame by Tessa GrattonTo save her adoptive Kraken father from House Dragon, Darling Seabreak must join forces with the enemy, the dutiful War Prince for House Dragon, to survive the fiery prophecies and ancient blood magic threatening to devastate their entire world. TEEN FANTASY GRATTON TESSA
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A Consuming Fire by Laura E. WeymouthAfter her twin sister's life is taken by the god of the mountain, Anya, driven by love and vengeance—and refusing to let any other girls suffer the same fate—sets out to kill him. TEEN FANTASY WEYMOUTH LAURA |
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Graceling by Kristin CashoreHaving the ability to kill a man with her bare hands since she was a young girl, Katsa, a Graceling, has been forced to do the king's dirty work for years in order to live in his kingdom, but things change dramatically when she falls in love with Prince Po and secrets about her powers are suddenly revealed. TEEN FANTASY CASHORE KRISTIN
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Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth LimWhen her beautiful 17-year-old sister Vanna is to be auctioned off in a vulgar betrothal contest, Channi, who is cursed with a serpent's face, defends Vanna from the cruelest of suitors, unleashing an evil that could sever their bond forever. TEEN MYTHOLOGY LIM ELIZABETH |
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Riven by Mindee ArnettMars Darksvane, a young mercenary magic user with a deadly secret, must perform one final task for crime boss Una to guarantee his freedom, which forces him to pick a side in a fight he's avoided his entire life. TEEN ARNETT MINDEE |
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A Ruinous Fate by Kaylie SmithOnly three Rolls away from becoming the last Blood Warrior and starting the Fates' War that will destroy both her people and their magic, powerful witch Calliope Rosewood, whose fate is tied to Witch's Dice, sets out to choose her own destiny. TEEN FANTASY SMITH KAYLIE |
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Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret RogersonA foundling apprentice raised in one of her kingdom's great libraries finds her fate in the hands of a sworn enemy when she is implicated in an act of sabotage behind the release of a dangerous grimoire. TEEN FANTASY ROGERSON MARGARET |
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Tess of the Road by Rachel HartmanTiring of the oppressive limits imposed on women in the medieval kingdom of Goredd, strong-minded Tess flees when her family decides to send her to a nunnery and embarks on a journey in the Southlands, pretending to be a boy, before running into a dragon friend who helps her find purpose and a way to make peace with a troubling secret past. TEEN FANTASY HARTMAN RACHEL |
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Unraveller by Frances HardingeThe only person who has the power to unravel curses, Kellen does not yet fully understand his talent but must remove his own curse before he unravels everything and everyone around him. TEEN FANTASY HARDINGE |
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 If you love to play horror games like FNAF, The Last of Us and Resident Evil, you might like to read some of these terrifying books. |
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Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare BlakeFor three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before. TEEN HORROR KENDARE BLAKE |
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Clown in a Cornfield by Adam CesareResolving to keep her head down through graduation when a factory closing divides the adults and kids in her small community, Quinn is caught in a dispute between tradition and progress before a homicidal corporate mascot begins targeting teens. TEEN HORROR CESARE ADAM |
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Eat Your Heart Out by Kelly DeVosSix disgruntled teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp during Flagstaff, Arizona's worst blizzard in a century, only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because it is crawling with genetically-modified monsters.
TEEN SUPERNATURAL DEVOS KELLY
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Lally's Game by Scott CawthonA forbidden artifact from the past beckons to Selena. Jessica leads a double-life from her friends and coworkers in the children's wing of a hospital. Maya can't resist the temptation to explore an off-limits area of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex. But in Freddy's world, everything comes with a price to pay. TEEN HORROR |
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Lockdown : Escape From Furnace by Alexander Gordon SmithAlex is framed for murder and becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys disappear in the middle of the night and return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible. TEEN HORROR SMITH ALEXANDER |
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Man Made Monsters by Andrea L. RogersHaunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period. TEEN HORROR ROGERS ANDREA |
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Rot & Ruin: Warrior Smart by Jonathan MaberryAfter seeing an aircraft, Benny, Nix, Chong, and Lilah make their way across the zombie infested lands of the west coast in hopes of finding other survivors. TEEN HORROR MABERRY JONATHAN |
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The Silver Eyes by Scott CawthonTen years after the murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, Charlie and her childhood friends get together on the anniversary of the event at the abandoned pizza place to find that the four animatronic entertainment mascots have changed. TEEN HORROR CAWTHON SCOTT |
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This Delicious Death by Kayla CottinghamEx-zombies living in Southern California, four best friends attend a musical festival in the desert, as a last hurrah before graduation, where they soon discover someone is drugging ghouls and reawakening their hunger for flesh and must work together to stop the carnage. TEEN HORROR COTTINGHAM KAYLA |
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The Undead Truth of Us by Britney S. LewisSifting through what's real and what's magic since the death of her mother, 16-year-old Zharie Young, who has been seeing zombies everywhere, meets a new boy named Bo who contradicts everything she thought she knew about monsters. TEEN HORROR LEWIS BRITNEY |
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Crater: a Helium-3 Novel by Homer H. HickamIn the twenty-second century, Crater Trueblood, who mines the Moon for Helium-3 to produce energy for a war-torn Earth, undertakes a mission that could mean the difference between life and death for every inhabitant on the Moon. TEEN SCI-FI HICKAM HOMER |
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Fallen Angels by Walter Dean MyersSeventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. TEEN HISTORICAL MYERS WALTER |
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I Pledge Allegiance by Chris LynchEnlisting as a group when one of them is drafted into the Vietnam War, best friends Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck pledge their loyalty to one another before reporting to different branches of service. TEEN HISTORICAL LYNCH CHRIS |
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Legend by Marie LuIn a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy. TEEN DYSTOPIAN LU MARIE |
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A tale inspired by a true story follows the World War I experiences of 14-year-old Stanley, who upon joining the war effort to escape his father's rages is assigned to the experimental War Dog School, where he trains a problematic Great Dane with whom he attempts to find his missing soldier brother. TEEN HISTORICAL ANGUS SAM |
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Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean MyersRobin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him. TEEN HISTORICAL MYERS WALTER |
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If you love fast-paced games about running from the law, high speed chases, criminals, thieves and scoundrels, you might like these heart-pounding stories.
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Jacked by Carrie MacWhen Zane is carjacked by a masked gunman he must do what he can to find a way out of the situation, and find out what his abductor really wants. TEEN THRILLERS MAC CARRIE |
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Stage Dreams by Melanie GillmanIn 1861, Grace, a runaway, and Flor, a stagecoach robber, join forces to thwart a plan by the Confederate Army in the New Mexico Territory. TEEN GRAPHIC HISTORICAL GILLMAN MELANIE |
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Stolen City by Elisa A. BonninWilling to steal anything for the right price, twin thieves Arian and Liam are hired to steal an artifact capable of ripping the souls from the living—the same artifact that used to belong to their late mother, making this mission personal. TEEN FANTASY BONNIN ELISA |
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A high-profile art theft in which valuable van Gogh sketches are stolen puts everyone's lives--including sixteen-year-old Violet's and her father's--in danger until they can produce the missing painting.
TEEN MYSTERY RENN DIANA |
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