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The red pyramid
by Rick Riordan
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane unites his children, Sadie and Carter, for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, hoping to set things right for his family after the death of the children's mother--instead, he awakens the gods of Egypt and unleashes the worst of them, the god Set, who banishes Julius to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives.
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Red Rising
by Pierce Brown
A tale set in a bleak future society torn by class divisions follows the experiences of secret revolutionary Darrow, who after witnessing his wife's execution by an oppressive government joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy.
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Ruby red
by Kerstin Gier
Since the time-traveling gene that runs in her family was supposed to skip 16-year-old Gwen, she was quite surprised when she started taking leaps into the past, which came complete with archaic manners, fancy clothes and an obnoxious--but gorgeous--traveling counterpart.
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Scarlet
by Marissa Meyer
A continuation of the series that began with the best-selling Cinder finds Scarlet Benoit teaming up with street fighter Wolf to find her missing grandmother, a journey that compels them to join forces with fugitive Cinder, who is fleeing the vicious Lunar Queen Levana.
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Red kayak
by Priscilla Cummings
Regarded as a hero for his dramatic rescue of a little boy, thirteen-year-old Brady Parks uncovers a secret that places him in the middle of tragedy that will force him to chose between what he knows is right and being loyal to his friends.
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The Scarlet letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hester Prynne is ostracized from her seventeenth-century Puritan community for refusing to name the father of her child, the product of an adulterous relationship
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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
The glory, pride, horror, and cowardice that are associated with war are depicted in a classic account of a young soldier's Civil War experiences, in a new edition of the masterful novel, first published in 1895 and featuring an introduction by Alfred Kazin.
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Red queen
by Victoria Aveyard
When her latent supernatural powers manifest in front of a noble court, Mare, a thief in a world divided between commoners and superhumans, is forced to assume the role of lost princess before risking everything to help a growing rebellion.
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Princess in pink
by Meg Cabot
In a series of humorous diary entries, high school freshman (and Genovian Princess) Mia tries to get her reluctant boyfriend to take her to the prom
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Tangerine
by Edward Bloor
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
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Bitterblue
by Kristin Cashore
Eight years after Graceling, 18-year-old Bitterblue, now the queen of Monsea, realizes the weight of her responsibilities and the futility of relying on advisors as she tries to help her people heal from the 35-year spell cast by her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities. The long-awaited companion to the New York Times best-sellers Graceling and Fire.
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Blue bloods
by Melissa De la Cruz
When Schuyler Van Alen, a sophomore at a prestigious New York City private school, turns fifteen, she notices herself going through physical and psychological changes that may have something to do with a fellow coed's murder in which she was found drained of all her blood.
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13 little blue envelopes
by Maureen Johnson
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
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The color purple
by Alice Walker
The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years
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Between shades of gray
by Ruta Sepetys
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil.
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Black heart
by Holly Black
Working as an informant for the government despite his con-artist family's operations on the wrong side of the law, Cassel Sharpe struggles with his past as an assassin and his increasingly blurred sense of right and wrong when the girl he loves takes up with the mafia and his Fed contacts ask him to participate in a morally dubious assignment.
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Blackout
by Robison E. Wells
A mysterious virus that infects teens with impossible superpowers ensnares everyday high school students Jack and Aubrey in a complex web of deception, loyalty and danger involving trained terrorists Laura and Alex, with whom they confront an apocalyptic threat.
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