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Beautiful
Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.
In a small South Carolina town, where it
seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is
powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic
connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on
her sixteenth birthday.
Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld. In an
alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run
from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using
mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised
as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly
genetically-engineered beasts.
Shiver
by Maggie Stiefvater. In all the years
she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been
particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has
been watching her with increasing intensity.
Viola
in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani.
When fourteen-year-old
Viola
is sent from her beloved Brooklyn to boarding school
in
Indiana for ninth grade, she overcomes her initial reservations as she
makes friends with her roommates, goes on a
real
date, and uses the unsettling ghost she keeps seeing as the subject of a
short film--her first.
Witch
and Wizard
by James Patterson.
Torn from
their parents in a society increasingly controlled by the government,
15-year-old Wisty and her older brother, Whit, are incarcerated in a
totalitarian prison where they discover they have incredible
supernatural powers.
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