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The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2008
Share The Hunger Games ISBN-13: 9780439023481
ISBN-10: 0439023483
Call Number: T Collins
Set in the cruel world in the Capital of the nation of Panem, the annual Hunger Games pits young children against one another in a battle to the death on national t.v., so when Katniss is ordered to represent her district, she knows an important decision between survival and the love of another will have to be made when she is called to enter the ring.
 
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Matched - Allyson Braithwaite Condie
Publisher: Dutton Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/30/2010
Share Matched ISBN-13: 9780525423645
ISBN-10: 0525423648
Call Number: T Condie
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, so when Xander appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate--until Ky Markham's face appears for an instant before the screen fades to black.
 
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The maze runner - James Dashner
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/06/2009
Share The maze runner ISBN-13: 9780385737944
ISBN-10: 0385737947
Call Number: T Dashner
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
 
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Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/08/2005
Share Uglies ISBN-13: 9780689865381
ISBN-10: 0689865384
Call Number: T Westerfeld
In Tally's world, everyone gets to be transformed from ugly to gorgeous on their sixteenth birthday, but Tally's friend Shay would rather risk life on the outside than be operated on, and when she runs away, the authorities make Tally find her friend and turn her in.
 
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Divergent - Veronica Roth
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/03/2011
Share Divergent ISBN-13: 9780062024022
ISBN-10: 0062024027
Call Number: T Roth
In a dystopian future-era Chicago, 16-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 uncovers powerful secrets and truths about her identity, her family and the order of her society.
 
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  • Insurgent
  • Allegiant  (coming October 2013)
Delirium - Lauren Oliver
Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/2011
Share Delirium ISBN-13: 9780061726828
ISBN-10: 0061726826
Call Number: T Oliver
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, she falls in love.
 
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Wither - Lauren DeStefano
Publisher: Simon & Schuster BFYR
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/22/2011
Share Wither ISBN-13: 9781442409057
ISBN-10: 1442409053
Call Number: T DeStefano
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
 
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The knife of never letting go - Patrick Ness
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/14/2009
Share The knife of never letting go ISBN-13: 9780763645762
ISBN-10: 0763645761
Call Number: T Ness
Todd and Viola are pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron as they set out across New World, searching for answers about their colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing settlers from Old World.
 
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Feed - M. T. Anderson
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2002
Share Feed ISBN-13: 9780763617264
ISBN-10: 0763617261
Call Number: T Anderson
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, Titus meets Violet, an unusual teenage girl who is in serious trouble. By the author of Burger Wuss.
Skinned - Robin Wasserman
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/04/2009
Share Skinned ISBN-13: 9781416974499
ISBN-10: 1416974490
Call Number: T Wasserman
When her family uses their wealth to buy the best technology of the day and download their deceased daughter's being into a new, human-looking body that never ages, the life she knew is forever changed when she is rejected by her human friends for being the freak she has become.
 
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Ship breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2010
Share Ship breaker ISBN-13: 9780316056212
ISBN-10: 0316056219
Call Number: T Bacigalupi
A tale set in a Gulf Coast shanty town 100 years in the future finds teen Nailer dreaming of a better life on the sea before discovering a beached clipper ship and lone survivor.
 
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Across the universe - Beth Revis
Publisher: Razorbill
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/11/2011
Share Across the universe ISBN-13: 9781595143976
ISBN-10: 1595143971
Call Number: T REvis
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet 300 years in the future, but her frozen slumber abruptly ends 50 years too soon, not as the result of a computer malfunction but because someone on board the ship has tried to murder her.
 
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Never let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/12/2005
Share Never let me go ISBN-13: 9781400043392
ISBN-10: 1400043395
Call Number: T Ishiguro
A reunion with two childhood friends--Ruth and Tommy--draws Kath and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into the supposedly idyllic years of their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the serene English countryside, and a dramatic confrontation with the truth about their childhoods and about their lives in the present.
Gone - Michael Grant
Publisher: HarperTeen
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2008
Share Gone ISBN-13: 9780061448768
ISBN-10: 0061448761
Call Number: T Grant
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.
 
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