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• Last Chance Live!

  Henry, Helena Haywoode,

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  Last Chance Live! is the most popular reality show in America—and eighteen-year-old death row inmate Eternity Price’s last chance to live. Getting cast on the show could win her clemency preventing her execution… if she can convince the viewing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Watch Me

  Mafi, Tahereh,

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  James Anderson had a plan. Or half of one. He managed to do what his older brother, the famous Aaron Warner Anderson, never did: infiltrate Ark Island, the last refuge of The Reestablishment. No outsider has breached the stronghold of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Ocean Apart

  Tew, Jill

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  Eden Lowell has plenty to be frustrated about. In the flooded Marshes of former Miami, each day is about survival. Even her feelings for her best friend Henry are more complicated than they should be. Luckily, Eden knows exactly who to blame: the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Snowglobe

  Park, Soyoung,

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  Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that’s warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face the icy world to get to their jobs at the power plant, where they produce the energy Snowglobe needs.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Songlight

  Buffini, Moira,

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  Elsa is used to hiding the most important parts of herself—her feelings for Rye, her distaste for a world ruled by men, and, most crucially, her gift of songlight. She buries that secret deep inside. In Brightland, those with songlight are called…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Meadows

  Oakes, Stephanie (Young adult author),

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  Everyone hopes for a letter—to attend the Estuary, the Glades, the Meadows. These are the special places where only the best and brightest go to burn even brighter. When Eleanor is accepted at the Meadows, it means escape from her hardscrabble life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nightbreaker

  Ma, Coco,

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  Secretly hunting Deathlings, deadly creatures prowling Manhattan's subway tunnels and blood-soaked streets, vengeance-fueled Rei enters the Tournament, a competition to join the ranks of the city's legendary Deathling hunters, and finds there is no…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Under This Forgetful Sky

  Yero, Lauren,

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  When rebels infect his father with a fatal virus, 16-year-old Rumi escapes the armored walls of St. Iago to find a cure and is joined on his journey by 15-year-old Paz but wonders if they can trust in each other enough to imagine a different world.

• The Chaperone

  Hendrix, M,

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  Like every young woman in New America, Stella knows the rules: Stella can't go out by herself, or spend time with boys except at Visitations. Girls in New America must have chaperones at all times until they marry, so Stella's lucky that Sister…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Warning.

  Acevedo, Kristy

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  Alexandra Lucas' anxiety disorder was enough to deal with before then mysterious holographic doors suddenly appeared throughout the world, heralding the end of the earth. The holograms claim to be humans from the future offering the promise of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mindwalker

  Dylan, Kate,

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  Eighteen-year-old Sil Sarrah is determined to die a legend. But with only twelve months left before the supercomputer grafted to her brain kills her, Sil's time is quickly running out. In the ten years she's been rescuing field agents for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood Circus

  Victoire, Camila,

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  Debut author Victoire tackles themes of environmentalism and prejudice via a bone-chilling plot in this dystopian fantasy. Sixteen-year-old adopted Ava Sparrow lives inside the fenced area of Red River, a settlement in a future Canada, with other…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Stranded

  Daniels, Sarah

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  Aboard the Arcadia, which was once a luxurious sea vessel but now a refugee camp after an apocalyptic war, loyal citizen Esther and rebel Nik are thrown together by events that change their lives and the lives of everyone on the ship forever.

• Monarch Rising

  Glenn, Harper,

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  In a dystopian future seventeen-year-old Josephine Monarch has grown up in the Ashes, the poverty stricken borderlands of New Georgia, but today is the Lineup and if she is chosen she gets a chance to leave that behind--even though it will mean…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Getaway

  Giles, Lamar, 1979-

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  Jay discovers that the mountain resort where he lives and works with his friends and family is also a doomsday oasis for the rich and powerful who expect top-notch customer service even as the world outside the resort's walls disintegrates.

• The Memory Index

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  Vaca, Julian R.,

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  In a reimagined 1987, mankind's ability to remember has deteriorated. Five hundred randomly selected students will be sent to a prestigious boarding school, where they will trial the new medical technology in pursuit of a "better tomorrow." But when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  Brauning, Kate,

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  When the man responsible for her mother’s death, wealthy rancher Gabriel Gates, puts a $10,000 reward on her head, 17-year-old Dinah, homeless and alone in the woods, will stop at nothing to see this killer dead.

• Rise of the Red Hand

  Chadha, Olivia,

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  The South Asian Province is split in two. Uplanders lead luxurious lives inside a climate-controlled biodome, dependent on technology and gene therapy to keep them healthy and youthful forever. Outside, the poor and forgotten scrape by with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bearmouth

  Hyder, Liz,

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  The days are long and dark in the coal mines of Bearmouth, where people work hard for paltry wages for the Master, under the all-knowing watch of their Mayker. As demand to increase production climbs and ""axidents"" in the mines rise, young workers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Skyhunter

  Lu, Marie, 1984-

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  The nation of Mara is fighting a losing war against the Karensa Federation and its superior technology harnessed from the Early Ones—a fallen civilization readers will recognize as our own. Mara was supposed to be a safe haven for Talin and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation