The Hunger Games

By Suzanne Collins
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When her sister is chosen by lottery, Katniss steps up to go in her place.
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Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge

Mosca Mye is considered strange in her village, mostly because of her ability to read. When the strange con artist Eponymous Klent comes into town, throwing fancy words around like water and filling everyone's head with stories, Mosca sees her chance. She frees him from the stocks and together they flee to the great city of Mandelion! There Mosca meets the Duke's sister Lady Tamarind and gets caught up in a web of illegal printing presses, twin queens, floating coffee houses, and homicidal geese. Will she be able to sort out the strings and make everything right before she loses her head?

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The Squad: Perfect Cover by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Toby Klein is not exactly stereotypical cheerleader material. She's a computer hacker with a black belt in karate and an attitude problem. Never one to back down from a challenge, Toby quickly realizes that the A-list cheerleaders are actually a front for highly trained, athletically invincible operatives for the United States government. Can Toby handle the makeover? And can the squad handle her?

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Runemarks by Joanne Harris

It has been 500 years since Ragnarok. The old gods tales are not remembered and magic has been outlawed. Maddy, however, was born with a runemark on her face, and she has powers that frighten the villagers. Then old One-eye sends her on a quest that throws her world into Chaos. Are the old gods coming back? Who is One-eye anyway?

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Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Coraline and her parents have just moved to a new house. The house is very large and has been divided up into four seperate apartments, so the door in her living room now opens up onto a boarded up wall. One night Coraline opens the door in the middle of the night and finds, instead of a wall, another apartment with another mother and another father. These creepy parents have shiny black buttons sewn on their eyes and want Coraline to stay with them. When she escapes back to her apartment she discovers that the Other Mother has kidnapped her real parents and she must go back over there and use all her cunning to rescue her parents. Coraline is a creepy, pulse pounding ghost story that will have you gripping the book and reading the whole thing in one sitting. Just be sure not to read it alone!

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I'd Tell you I Love You but then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter

What isn't cool about going to spy-school? As a sophomore, Cammie Morgan is fluent in fourteen different languages, she has learned to blend into a crowd well enough to have earned the nickname "the Chameleon," and she's just starting her Covert Operations classes. During the third week of school, her Cov Ops class goes on assignment in town where she meets an ordinary non-spy boy - and one that sees HER!

When faced with romance, Cammie does what she has been taught. She hacks his computer, sorts through his trash, and follows him through town to try and determine his motives. Trying to be a normal girl, though, is not what Cammie has been trained for. Although the plot is sometimes predictable, the quick wit and easy humor make up for it. Although her background is unusual, Cammie is easy to relate to and easier to root for. Check this out for a fun, quick read that will have you giggling all night long.

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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Teen guest blogger Sarah wrote this review after reading Uglies for our Teen Book Club which meets the first Monday of the month.

In the future, everyone gets plastic surgery when they turn sixteen. The people wiht plastic surgery are called "pretties" and before that, everyone is an "ugly." Tally can't wait to turn pretty and have all the advantages involved, but she meets a girl named Shay who changes all that. Tally gets swept into an adventure in the wild and she finds out what being "pretty" really means. I loved this exciting book. It's full of adventure, secrets, and an awesome story-line that kept me reading for hours at a time. And trist me when I say this, after reading Uglies, you'll want a hover board like you just can't stand it.

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