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Omaha Custom List: Teen World Building Adventure 1/2024

This list was created by librarians at Omaha Public Library for a teen patron who enjoyed the Harry Potter series and Ruta Sepetys's "Between Shades of Gray" who is looking for their next great world-building and adventure-driven read. You can request your own list at omahalibrary.org/find-your-next-read!

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  • First in a series: Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The…
    Book, 2020Los Angeles : Freeform Books, 2020.
  • First in a series: In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them…
    Book, 2016New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2016]
  • After crash-landing in France in 1943 and being captured by Nazis, a female wireless operator for the British (who goes by Queenie, Eva, Verity, and various other aliases) reveals bits of code in exchange for reprieve from torture...and to postpone…
    Book, 2012New York : Hyperion Books, 2012.
  • In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
    Book, 2017New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
  • What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it's a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with…
    Book, 2020New York : Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
  • In this fantasy inspired by ancient Mesoamerica, a lineage of seers defiantly resists the shifting patriarchal state that would see them destroyed.
    Book, 2022New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2022.
  • First in a series: Six dangerous outcasts must learn to work together after they are offered an impossible heist that can save the world from destruction.
    Book, 2015New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
  • When her grandmother, the chair of their family's luxury coat business, dies suddenly and her fortune goes missing, Lily Rosewood and three other seemingly random teens are sent on a treasure hunt around Rosetown that becomes more dangerous than she…
    Book, 2023New York, New York : Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
  • First in a series: When a long-term attack against her world by the alien Krell escalates, Spensa's dream of becoming a pilot may come true, despite her deceased father being labeled a deserter.
    Book, 2018New York : Delacorte Press, [2018]
  • A high school junior teams up with a hacker during a police brutality protest to shut down a device that creates an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out.
    Book, 2022Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2022]
  • Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life.
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
  • After a bloody palace uprising, Katyani, a young guardswoman to the royal family, discovers she is not who she thought she was and becomes a major pawn in the political games of a monster-filled land on the brink of war.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Wednesday Books, 2022.
  • First in a series: Wanting to escape her previous life after the accidental death of her mother, 16-year-old Bree enrolls in a program for high school students at the local university before her witness to a magical attack reveals her undiscovered…
    Book, 2020New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020.
  • To save her mother's life, 17-year-old Ross Quest enters the Thieves' Gambit, a series of dangerous, international heists where the grand prize is a wish for anything in the world, forcing her to decide who to con and who to trust before time runs…
    Book, 2023New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2023.