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  • Legendborn series. After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC-Chapel Hill seems like the perfect…
    Book, 2020New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020. — Y FICTION DEONN
  • The Legacy of Orïsha series. Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a…
    Book, 2018New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018. — Y FICTION ADEYEMI
  • Michael Vey

    the Prisoner of Cell 25

    Evans, Richard Paul
    The Michael Vey series. To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey is an ordinary fourteen-year-old. In fact, the only thing that seems to set him apart is the fact that he has Tourette's syndrome. But Michael is anything but ordinary. Michael…
    Book, 2011New York : Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse, 2011. — Y FICTION EVANS
  • To All the Boys I've Loved Before series. Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent.
    Paperback, 2014New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2014] — Y FICTION HAN
  • The Arc of the Scythe series. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe--a role that neither wants. These teens must master the "art" of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.
    Book, 2016New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2016] — Y FICTION SHUSTERMAN
  • The Powerless trilogy. Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya--the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites. Those born Ordinary are just that--ordinary. And when the king decreed that all Ordinaries be banished to preserve his Elite…
    Book, 2023New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2023] — Y FICTION ROBERTS
  • The This Poison Heart duology. When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents hope that surrounded by plants and flowers, she will finally learn to control her gift. But their new home is sinister…
    Book, 2021New York : Bloomsbury, 2021. — Y FICTION BAYRON
  • The Inheritance Games 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…
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — Y FICTION BARNES
  • The Maze Runner trilogy. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He's surrounded by strangers--boys whose memories are also gone. Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless,…
    Paperback, 2009New York : Delacorte Press, c2009. — Y FICTION DASHNER
  • The Mortal Instruments Series. Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is…
    Paperback, 2013New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2013, c2007. — Y FICTION CLARE
  • The Beautiful Creatures series. In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family…
    Paperback, 2010New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010, c2009. — Y FICTION GARCIA
  • The Lunar Chronicles. Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince…
    Paperback, 2012New York : Feiwel & Friends, 2012. — Y FICTION MEYER
  • The Miss Peregrine series. A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its…
    Paperback, 2016Philadelphia : Quirk Books, [2016] — Y FICTION RIGGS
  • The Uglies series. Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. In just a few weeks she'll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty. And as a pretty, she'll be catapulted into a high-tech…
    Book, 2005New York : Simon Pulse, c2005. — Y FICTION WESTERFELD