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Steelheart: The Reckoners, Book 1

Brandon Sanderson - Audible Studios
Format: Paperback

From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of the Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson, comes the first book in a new, action-packed thrill ride of a series - Steelheart. Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers....
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Embassy Row #1: All Fall Down

Ally Carter - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Grace Blakely is absolutely certain of three things:1. She is not crazy.2. Her mother was murdered.3. Someday she is going to find the killer and make him pay.As certain as Grace is about these facts, nobody else believes her -- so there's no one she can completely trust. Not her grandfather,...
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Little Brother

Cory Doctorow - Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Format: Hardcover

Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works-and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.But...
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Airman

Eoin Colfer - Hyperion Books for Children
Format: Print book

Conor Broekhart was born to fly. In fact, legend has it that he was born flying in a hot air balloon at the world's fair. In the 1890's Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor...
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Divided We Fall

Trent Reedy - Scholastic
Format: Hardcover

Danny Wright never thought he'd be the man to bring down the United States of America. In fact, he enlisted in the Idaho National Guard because he wanted to serve his country the way his father did. When the Guard is called up on the governor's orders to police a protest in Boise, it seems...
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I Am the Weapon

Allen Zadoff - Little
Format: Paperback

"Previously published under the title "Boy Nobody"""""They needed the perfect assassin. " Boy Nobody is the perennial new kid in school, the one few notice and nobody thinks much about. He shows up in a new high school in a new town under a new name,...
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The Raft

S. A. Bodeen - Square Fish
Format: Paperback

Robie is an experienced traveler. She's taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute....
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The Eye of Minds

James Dashner - Delacorte
Format: Print book

The world is virtual, but the danger is real in the next series from MAZE RUNNER author James Dashner. The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and the more hacking skills you have, the more fun it is. Why bother following the rules when it's so easy to break them? But some...
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Nowhere to Run

Claire J. Griffin - Namelos
Format: Paperback

"How 'bout lettin' Calvin keep his knees on loan?" "Meanin' what?" "Meanin' you let him walk, and then his knees owe you. Like maybe he's favored to win the District Championship next spring. Some dudes are layin' bets. You say Calvin's gonna lose. And he does."...
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I,Q (I,Q The Series)

Roland Smith - Sleeping Bear Press
Format: Paperback

Thirteen-year-old Quest (Q) isnt sure hes ready for a new family. For a long time its just been him and his mom, Blaze. But everything changes when Blaze falls in love with Roger and they start a new rock band called Match. Now theyre married, have a hit record, and Match is going out on a year-long...
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