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Meg Cabot
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Point
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Paranormal
New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, a dark, fantastical story about this world . . . and the underworld. Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world,...
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Divergent (Divergent Book 1)
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Veronica Roth
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
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Dystopian
In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor(the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to...
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Myra McEntire
Publisher
Egmont
Genre
Paranormal
One hour to rewrite the past . . . For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn't there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents' death,...
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The Hunger Games (Book 1)
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Suzanne Collins
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Scholastic
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Science Fiction
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