CARAGH M. O'BRIEN: THE VAULT OF DREAMERS
"From the author of the Birthmarked trilogy comes a fast-paced, psychologically thrilling novel about what happens when your dreams are not your own."
The Forge School is the
most prestigious arts school in the country. The secret to its success:
every moment of the students' lives is televised as part of the
insanely popular Forge Show, and the students' schedule includes twelve
hours of induced sleep meant to enhance creativity. But when first year
student Rosie Sinclair skips her sleeping pill, she discovers there is
something off about Forge. In fact, she suspects that there are sinister
things going on deep below the reaches of the cameras in
the school. What's worse is, she starts to notice that the edges of her
consciousness do not feel quite right. And soon, she unearths the
ghastly secret that the Forge School is hiding—and what it truly means
to dream there. (goodreads.com)
KATE A. BOORMAN: WINTERKILL
Emmeline knows she’s not
supposed to explore the woods outside her settlement. The enemy that
wiped out half her people lurks there, attacking at night and keeping
them isolated in an unfamiliar land with merciless winters. Living with
the shame of her grandmother’s insubordination, Emmeline has learned to
keep her head down and her quick tongue silent. When the
settlement leader asks for her hand in marriage, it’s an opportunity for
Emmeline to wash the family slate clean—even if she has eyes for
another. But before she’s forced into an impossible decision, her dreams
urge her into the woods, where she uncovers a path she can’t help but
follow. The trail leads to a secret that someone in the village will
kill to protect. Her grandmother followed the same path and paid the
price. If Emmeline isn’t careful, she will be next. (goodreads.com)
SCOTT WESTERFELD: AFTERWORLDS
"Told in alternating
chapters is Darcy's novel, a suspenseful thriller about Lizzie, a teen
who slips into the 'Afterworld' to survive a terrorist attack."
Darcy Patel has put
college and everything else on hold to publish her teen novel,
Afterworlds. Arriving in New York with no apartment or friends she
wonders whether she's made the right decision until she falls in with a
crowd of other seasoned and fledgling writers who take her under their
wings… But the Afterworld is a
place between the living and the dead and as Lizzie drifts between our
world and that of the Afterworld, she discovers that many unsolved - and
terrifying - stories need to be reconciled. And when a new threat
resurfaces, Lizzie learns her special gifts may not be enough to protect
those she loves and cares about most. (goodreads.com)
GRETCHEN McNEIL: GET EVEN
"The Breakfast Club
meets Pretty Little Liars in Gretchen McNeil’s witty and suspenseful
novel about four disparate girls who join forces to take revenge on high
school bullies and create dangerous enemies for themselves in the
process."
Bree, Olivia, Kitty,
and Margot have nothing in common—at least that’s what they’d like the
students and administrators of their elite private school to think. The
girls have different goals, different friends, and different lives, but
they share one very big secret: They’re all members of Don’t Get Mad, a
secret society that anonymously takes revenge on the school’s bullies,
mean girls, and tyrannical teachers. When their latest target
ends up dead with a blood-soaked “DGM” card in his hands, the girls
realize that they’re not as anonymous as they thought—and that someone
now wants revenge on them. Soon the clues are piling up, the police are
closing in . . . and everyone has something to lose. (goodreads.com)
ANDREA PORTES: ANATOMY OF A MISFIT
"This
emotional, hilarious, devastating, and ultimately triumphant YA debut,
based on actual events, recounts one girl’s rejection of her high
school’s hierarchy—and her discovery of her true self in the face of
tragedy."
Outside, Anika Dragomir
is all lip gloss and blond hair—the third most popular girl in school.
Inside, she’s a freak: a mix of dark thoughts, diabolical plots, and, if
local chatter is to be believed, vampire DNA (after all, her father is
Romanian). But she keeps it under wraps to maintain her social position.
One step out of line and Becky Vilhauer, first most popular girl in
school, will make her life hell. So when former loner Logan McDonough
shows up one September hotter, smarter, and more mysterious than ever,
Anika knows she can’t get involved. It would be insane to throw away her
social safety for a nerd. So what if that nerd is now a
black-leather-jacket-wearing dreamboat, and his loner status is clearly
the result of his troubled home life? Who cares if the right girl could
help him with all that, maybe even save him from it? Who needs him when
Jared Kline, the bad boy every girl dreams of, is asking her on dates?
Who? (goodreads.com)
ANDREW SMITH: 100 SIDEWAYS MILES
Finn Easton sees the
world through miles instead of minutes. It’s how he makes sense of the
world, and how he tries to convince himself that he’s a real boy and not
just a character in his father’s bestselling cult-classic book. Finn
has two things going for him: his best friend, the
possibly-insane-but-definitely-excellent Cade Hernandez, and Julia
Bishop, the first girl he’s ever loved. Then Julia moves away,
and Finn is heartbroken. Feeling restless and trapped in the book, Finn
embarks on a road trip with Cade to visit their college of choice in
Oklahoma. When an unexpected accident happens and the boys become
unlikely heroes, they take an eye-opening detour away from everything
they thought they had planned—and learn how to write their own destiny. (goodreads.com)
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RICK YANCEY: THE INFINITE SEA
"The riveting follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The 5th Wave, hailed by Justin Cronin as 'wildly entertaining.' "
How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. Surviving
the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds
herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that
binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape,
Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others’ ultimate
goal: the extermination of the human race. Cassie and her friends
haven’t seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the
Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate
battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate. (goodreads.com)
MINDY McGINNIS: IN A HANDFUL OF DUST
"In this companion to Not a Drop to Drink,
Mindy McGinnis thrillingly combines the heart-swelling hope of a
journey, the challenges of establishing your own place in the world, and
the gripping physical danger of nature in a futuristic frontier."
The only thing bigger than the world is fear. Lucy’s
life by the pond has always been full. She has water and friends,
laughter and the love of her adoptive mother, Lynn, who has made sure
that Lucy’s childhood was very different from her own. Yet it seems
Lucy’s future is settled already—a house, a man, children, and a water
source—and anything beyond their life by the pond is beyond reach. When
disease burns through their community, the once life-saving water of
the pond might be the source of what’s killing them now. Rumors of
desalinization plants in California have lingered in Lynn’s mind, and
the prospect of a “normal” life for Lucy sets the two of them on an epic
journey west to face new dangers: hunger, mountains, deserts, betrayal,
and the perils of a world so vast that Lucy fears she could be lost
forever, only to disappear in a handful of dust. (goodreads.com)
KAT ZHANG: ECHOES OF US
To change the world, I may lose everything All
Eva ever wanted was the chance to be herself. But in the Americas, to
be hybrid—to share your body with a second soul—is not tolerated past
childhood. Now Eva and Addie, her sister soul, are constantly on the
move, hiding from the officials who seek to capture them. But the tide
is changing. A revolution is brewing, and people are starting to
question the hybrids' mistreatment. Then Marion, an ambitious
reporter, offers Eva and Addie a daring proposal: If they go undercover
and film the wretched conditions of a hybrid institution, she will not
only rescue them, she'll find a way to free Jackson, the boy Addie
loves. It's risky, and Eva will have to leave Ryan and her friends
behind, but if she succeeds, it could also tip the scales forever and
lead to hybrid freedom. As Eva and Addie walk into danger, they
cling to each other and the hope of a better future. But the price they
might pay is higher than they ever could have imagined. (goodreads.com)
