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Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 3
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.
2) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue -- Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family...
Author
Series
Throne of glass novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she's at last returned to the empire -- for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past. She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight. She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die just to see her again. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped...
4) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love."--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"An empowering reflection on the many things we are and the ways we relate to the world"--
Who are you exactly? What makes you, you? You are a living thing, a friend, a mystery, a miracle. You can be whatever you chose: it's your life to write, because you are a story! - adapted from jacket
Author
Series
Greenglass House volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Milo is stuck spending the winter holidays in a house full of strange guests who are not what they seem-again! He will have to work with friends old and new to uncover clues in search of a mysterious map and a famous smuggler's lost haul"--
12) Like
Author
Language
English
Description
In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The daughter of a self-help superstar, Audrey is determined to create her own identity and agrees to go on her mother's book tour, hoping to figure out how they fit into each other's lives, but is unaware of how much this summer will upend her carefully planned life"--
Author
Series
Not quite narwhal and friends volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
Born deep in the ocean, Kelp is not like the other narwhals and one day, when he spies a creature on land that looks like him, he learns why.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.
16) Moonflower
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and wants to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they rejects.
17) Wutaryoo
Author
Language
English
Description
Wutaryoo enjoys hearing other animal's origin stories but wants to learn her own, so she sets out on a journey on which she meets many strange creatures and learns important truths.
18) The lost girl
Author
Language
English
Description
When they are separated for the first time since birth, Iris and Lark struggle with insecurities over their individual identities at the same time things begin to go missing around town.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After lying on her college admissions, seventeen-year-old Jasmine needs to win her senior class election, but the Iran Hostage Crisis explodes across the nightly news and her opponent begins to stir up anti-Iranian hysteria at school causing Jasmine to reconcile with her identity in way she never has before.
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