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• The 5th Wave

  Yancey, Richard

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  Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898

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  In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen.

• Across the Universe

  Revis, Beth

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  Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her. Amy has left the life she loves for a world 300 years away Trapped in space and frozen in time, Amy is bound…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Blade So Black

  McKinney, L. L. (Leatrice L.)

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  This isn't the Wonderland you remember. The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bloodleaf

  Smith, Crystal (Crystal Campbell),

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  Aurelia, the first princess born in Renalt in 200 years, is destined to marry the mysterious prince of Achelva, Valentin, but her treacherous lady-in-waiting, Lisette, plots to take her crown. Princess Aurelia is the heir that nobody wants.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chalice

  McKinley, Robin

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  A beekeeper by trade, Mirasol's life changes completely when she is named the new Chalice, the most important advisor to the new Master, a former priest of fire.

• The Dark Is Rising

  Cooper, Susan, 1935-

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  On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers an astounding gift -- that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals who fight to keep the powers of evil, the Dark, from taking over the world. At once, he is plunged into a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Divergent

  Roth, Veronica

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Ember in the Ashes

  a Novel

  Tahir, Sabaa,

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  Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ender's Game

  Card, Orson Scott

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  A veteran of years of simulated war games, Ender believes he is engaged in one more computer war game when in truth he is commanding the last fleet of Earth against an alien race seeking the complete destruction of Earth.

• Eragon

  Paolini, Christopher

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  In Alagaësia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

• The Fault in Our Stars

  Green, John, 1977-

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  Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

• The Fellowship of the Ring

  Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings

  Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973

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  After discovering the true nature of the one ring, Bilbo Baggins entrusts it to the care of his young cousin, Frodo, who is charged with bringing about its destruction and thus foiling the plans of the Dark Lord.

• Fireborne

  Munda, Rosaria,

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  Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world, giving everyone—even the lowborn—a chance to test into the governing class of dragonriders. Now they are both rising stars in the new regime, despite backgrounds that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Giver

  Lowry, Lois,

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  Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Golden Compass

  Pullman, Philip, 1946-

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  The Golden Compass is the story of Lyra and her dæmon familiar and their dangerous journey to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule, and where her fearsome uncle is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world

• The Grace Year

  Liggett, Kim,

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  Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified of their magic, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry.

• The Guinevere Deception

  White, Kiersten,

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  Sent by a banished Merlin to protect King Arthur, a sixteen-year-old impersonating the deceased Guinevere struggles to fit in at Camelot where the magic she practices is banished.

• Half Bad

  Green, Sally (Novelist)

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  In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  Rowling, J. K.

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  Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.