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High School Reads February 2017
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Frostblood
by Elly Blake
Fantasy. Hiding her powers of heat and flame from a frostblood ruling class that wants to destroy her kind, 17-year-old Ruby agrees in the wake of a tragedy to join a rebel cause that would use her powers as a weapon.
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The Truth of Right Now
by Kara Lee Corthron
Fiction. Returning to her privileged Manhattan high school after a harrowing sophomore year that resulted in estrangement from her closest friends, Lily, a white girl, bonds with artistic black transfer student Dari and finds their romance challenged by unexpected obstacles, including Dari's domineering Trinidadian father.
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Freeks
by Amanda Hocking
Fantasy. Mara has become used to the extraordinary. Roaming from place to place with Gideon Davorin's Traveling Carnival, she longs for an ordinary life where no one has the ability the levitate or predict the future. She gets her chance when the struggling sideshow sets up camp in the small town of Caudry and she meets a gorgeous local guy named Gabe. But before long, Mara realizes there's a dark presence lurking in the town that's threatening the lives of her friends. She has seven days to take control of a power she didn't know she had in order to save everyone she cares about and change the future forever.
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Factory Girl
by Josanne La Valley
Fiction. Forced to leave her rural home to work at a factory in southern China to help save the family farm, 16-year-old Roshen, an Uyghur minority, endures degrading work conditions while becoming increasingly determined to improve life for her people.
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The Radius of Us
by Marie Marquardt
Fiction. After being mugged, seventeen-year-old Gretchen is still struggling to deal with her fears. Then she meets Phoenix, an eighteen-year-old immigrant from El Salvador, and everything changes.
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| Carve the Mark by Veronica RothScience Fiction. Though the energy of the Current provides singular powers to everyone in the nearby nation-planets, Cyra's "currentgift" is more of a curse: it plagues her with constant pain that she can transfer to others by touch. Cyra's power-hungry brother, the ruler of the Shotet people, uses her as a weapon, but he also provides relief in the form of Akos, an enemy prisoner from Thuvhe whose gift can stop Cyra's pain. As Akos and Cyra forge an unexpected bond, each has to decide where their true loyalty lies. |
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Because of the Sun
by Jenny Torres Sanchez
Fiction. Hardening her heart in order to survive life with a brash and seemingly unloving mother only to be sent to the home of an unknown aunt when her mother dies, Dani forges an unexpected bond with a boy who seems to understand how much she is hurting.
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The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
by Chelsea Sedoti
Mystery. Unable to resist the missing-persons case of Lizzie Lovett, misfit Hawthorn Creely formulates a theory that is disregarded as too absurd before Hawthorn immerses herself in the missing girl's life, taking Lizzie's job and boyfriend, to determine what happened.
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| History Is All You Left Me by Adam SilveraFiction. Griffin and Theo are no longer a couple by the time Theo drowns, yet Griffin is still devastated. Already dealing with OCD and the painful fallout from their thorny breakup, Griffin is disoriented by Theo's death, and his confusion colors his understanding of his past, his future, and his relationships -- with Theo, with his friend Wade, and with Theo's last boyfriend, Jackson. With alternating chapters describing "history" and "today," you can watch Griffin's romance and grief unfold at the same time, each making the other more poignant. |
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