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The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline - DCB
Format: Paperback

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting...
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Flawed

Cecelia Ahern - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Print book

"In a future society where 'flawed' people who have committed crimes are branded with an F, a young girl takes a stand"--
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#MurderTrending

Gretchen McNeil - Freeform
Format: Hardcover

@doctorfusionbebop: Some 17 y. o. chick named Dee Guerrera was just sent to Alcatraz 2.0 for killing her stepsister. So, how long do you think she'll last? @morrisdavis72195: I hope she meets justice! She'll get what's coming to her! BWAHAHA! @EltonJohnForevzz: Me? I think Dee's innocent....
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Legend

Marie Lu - Speak
Format: Paperback

"Legend doesnt merely survive the hype, it deserves it."From the New York Times bestselling author of The Young Elites What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republics...
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Renegades

MARISSA MEYER

From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer, comes a high-stakes world of adventure, passion, danger, and betrayal.Secret Identities.Extraordinary Powers.She wants vengeance. He want
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WAR GIRLS

Tochi Onyebuchi - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Two sisters are torn apart by war and must fight their way back to each other in a futuristic, Black Panther-inspired Nigeria.The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky. In a war-torn...
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Want

CINDY PON - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author Cindy Pon comes an edge-of-your-seat sci-fi thriller, set in a near-future Taipei plagued by pollution, about a group of teens who risk everything to save their city.Jason Zhou survives in a divided society where the elite use their wealth to buy longer...
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Rebel Seoul

AXIE OH - Tu Books
Format: Hardcover

EAST ASIA, 2199. After a great war, the East Pacific is in ruins. In brutal Neo Seoul, where status comes from success in combat, ex-gang member Lee Jaewon is a talented pilot rising in the academy's ranks. Abandoned as a child in the slums of Old Seoul by his rebel father, Jaewon desires...
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The Belles

Dhonielle Clayton - Freeform
Format: Hardcover

Camellia Beauregard is a Belle. In the opulent world of Orleans, Belles are revered, for they control Beauty, and Beauty is a commodity coveted above all else. In Orleans, the people are born gray, they are born damned, and only with the help of a Belle and her talents can they transform...
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The Testing

Joelle Charbonneau - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

It's graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. All Cia can think about - hope for - is whether she'll be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates...
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Matched

Ally Condie - Speak
Format: Paperback

"The hottest YA title to hit bookstores since The Hunger Games."--Entertainment WeeklyA New York Times bestsellerCassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's...
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The Maze Runner

James Dashner - Delacorte Press
Format: Paperback

Book one in the blockbuster Maze Runner series that spawned a movie franchise and ushered in a worldwide phenomenon! And don't miss The Fever Code, the highly-anticipated series conclusion that finally reveals the story of how the maze was built! When Thomas wakes up in the lift,...
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Little Brother

Cory Doctorow - Tor
Format: Print book

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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Divergent

Veronica Roth - HarperCollins
Format: Print book

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, 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...
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Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles

Marissa Meyer - Square Fish
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series!Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted...
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Life As We Knew It (Life As We Knew It Series)

Susan Beth Pfeffer - Harcourt
Format: Paperback

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's still would be open. High school sophomore Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one marble hits another." The result is catastrophic....
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Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

Miles Hyman - Hill and Wang
Format: Paperback

Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" continues to thrill and unsettle readers nearly seven decades after it was first published. By turns puzzling and harrowing, "The Lottery" raises troubling questions about conformity, tradition, and the ritualized violence...
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The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness
Format: Paperback(Reissue)

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Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1)

Scott Westerfeld - Simon Pulse
Format: Paperback

In Tally's world, everyone gets to be transformed from ugly to gorgeous on their sixteenth birthday, but Tally's friend Shay would rather risk life on the outside than be operated on, and when she runs away, the authorities make Tally find her friend and turn her in. Original.
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Graceling

Kristin Cashore - Harcourt
Format: Print book

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, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
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Unwind

Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would "unwind" them Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding...
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