The Hunger Games

by Collins, Suzanne

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

Library has 25 copies

Crushed

by McNeal, Laura and Tom

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Seventeen-year-old Audrey's life is turned upside down when she falls in love with a mysterious newcomer and a vicious gossip sheet exposes the secrets of both students and teachers at her school.

Library has 36 copies

Thirteen Reasons Why

by Asher, Jay

High school student Clay Jensen receives a box in the mail containing seven cassette tapes recorded by his crush, Hannah Baker, who committed suicide, and spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

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Library has 35 copies

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

by Foer, Jonathan Safran

Follows nine-year-old Oskar Schell as he encounters a number of interesting characters in his search for information about his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and tries to find the lock that fits the mysterious key he left behind.

Library has 35 copies

Graceling

by Cashore, Kristin

In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

Library has 40 copies

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

by Alexie, Sherman

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot.

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Library has 35 copies

Queen of Second Place

by Roberts, Laura Peyton

Tired of always coming in second, high school sophomore Cassie Howard tries everything to get a date with the hottest new boy in school, Kevin Matthews, before her nemesis, Sterling Carter, does.

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Library has 10 copies

One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

by Sones, Sonya

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Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.

Library has 9 copies

Maximum Ride: The angel experiment

by Patterson, James

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After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.

Library has 11 copies

Silent to the Bone

by Konigsburg, E. L

When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.

Library has 10 copies

Vegan Virgin Valentine

by Mackler, Carolyn

Mara's niece, who is only one-year-younger, moves in bringing conflict between the two teenagers because of their opposite personalities.

Library has 9 copies

The book has been on book pick lists for the ALA, New York Public Library, and Teen Reads Week.

Uglies

by Westerfeld, Scott

Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.

Library has 15 copies