2. “Hey man, it doesn’t matter if you
didn’t read the first one. Duh. Just
jump in with the second one.”
3. By winning the annual
Hunger Games, District
12 tributes Katniss
Everdeen and Peeta
Mellark have secured a
life of safety and plenty
for themselves and their
families, but because
they won by defying the
rules, they unwittingly
become the faces of an
impending rebellion.
4. “It wascool howKatniss volunteered for
her sister. I can’t stand mylil’ brother, but
I’d kill somebody to protect him.”
5. Seventeen-year-old
Teddy Anderson, who is
known on the streets as
T-Bear, decides to seek
revenge on the person
responsible for his little
sister's death, which was
caused by a stray bullet
from a semiautomatic
handgun.
6. “I looovePeeta, yet I loveGale, too. Mrs.
Nelson & Mrs. Dillard, I know you’re
married and I know you said it’s not at all
like Twilight, but who would you choose?”
7. Cassia has always had
complete trust in the
Society to make
decisions for her, but
when she is being
paired with her ideal
mate, a second face
flashes on the screen,
and Cassia begins to
doubt the Society's
infallibility as she tries
to decide which man
she truly loves.
8. “That was crazy how the Capitol was, like,
brainwashed and went along with it.
Those people were excited about kids
killing each other. That’s somescary
stuff! How couldyou even do that?”
9. A photo-illustrated look
at the youth
organizations Adolf
Hitler founded and used
to meet his
sociopolitical and
military ends; includes
profiles of individual
Hitler Youth members as
well as young people
who opposed the Nazis,
such as Hans and Sophie
Scholl.
10. “I just wanna keep rereading the series over
and over. I lovehowmildly demented Panem
is, and I just want to stick with this book
forever.“
11. In a future Chicago, sixteen-
year-old Beatrice Prior must
choose among five
predetermined factions to
define her identity for the
rest of her life, a decision
made more difficult when
she discovers that she is an
anomoly who does not fit
into any one group, and
that the society she lives in
is not perfect after all.
12. “I wanna know all the hard vocab in this
book, because IamKatniss. She’s gotta beso
tough. I justwanna learn fromher mistakes,
so I don’t have to make them.”
13. Trying to make sense of
the horrors of World War
II, Death relates the story
of Liesel--a young
German girl whose book-
stealing and story-telling
talents help sustain her
family and the Jewish
man they are hiding, as
well as their neighbors.
14. “Nuh uh,I didn’t jump at all when the mutts
appeared… The thing is I didn’t like how their
eyes weren’t like in the book; but still, the
muttations were the best for sure.”
15. 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.
17. Sixteen year old
Hazel, who has
cancer, meets
Augustus at a kids-
with-cancer support
group and as they fall
in love they both
wonder how they will
be remembered.
18. “Isn’t it awesomewhen you don’t exist inthe
real world but only in the worldof your book?
Especially when the characters think it’s an
Ethiopia, and it’s not.”
“Dude, it’s Utopia, not Ethiopia.”
19. Todd, one month
away from an
important birthday,
learns all the tough
lessons of adulthood
when he is forced to
flee after discovering
a secret near the
town where he lives.
20. “I loved it, but Iread the whole
trilogy in just a few days. Doesthat
mean it was too easy for me?”
21. A chilling prophecy about
the future. 1984 presents a
startling and haunting vision
of the world, so powerful
that it is completely
convincing from start to
finish. A powerful novel, its
hold on the imaginations of
multiple generations of
readers, or the resiliency of
its admonitions a legacy that
seems only to grow with the
passage of time.
22. “I hated this book! Well, not
really.I mean, Iloved it. It
just made me thinkthe
whole time. I still can’t stop.
Isn’t that awful?”
23. Three teens embark
upon a cross-country
journey in order to
escape from a society
that salvages body
parts from children
ages thirteen to
eighteen.
24.
25. In a dark future, when
North America has
split into two warring
nations, fifteen-year-
olds Day, a famous
criminal, and prodigy
June, the brilliant
soldier hired to
capture him, discover
that they have a
common enemy.
26. Through twists and
turns of fate, orphaned
Mary seeks knowledge
of life, love, and
especially what lies
beyond her walled
village and the
surrounding forest,
where dwell the
Unconsecrated,
aggressive flesh-eating
people who were once
dead.
27. In a distant future,
eighteen-year-old Lugh
is kidnapped, and while
his twin sister Saba and
nine-year-old Emmi are
trailing him across bleak
Sandsea they are
captured, too, and
taken to brutal
Hopetown, where Saba
is forced to be a cage
fighter until new friends
help plan an escape.
28. The Huntress Duece is
drawn to her new
partner, Fade, a
mysterious boy who is
not afraid to break the
rules of the elders, and
as she learns of the
elders' deceptions, she
and Fade push the
enclave to test their
faith and protect
themselves from
unexpected dangers.
29. In a future Manhattan
devastated by
environmental
catastrophes and
epidemics, sixteen-year-
old Lucy survives alone
until vicious hounds target
her and force her to join
Aidan and his band, but
soon they learn that she is
the target of Sweepers,
who kidnap and infect
people with plague.
30. Amy, having been cryogenically
frozen and placed onboard a
spaceship which was supposed
to land on a distant planet
three hundred years in the
future, is unplugged fifty years
too early and finds herself
stuck inside an enclosed world
ruled by a tyrannical leader
and his rebellious teenage heir
and confused about who to
trust and why someone is
trying to kill her.
31. Lena looks forward to
receiving the
government-mandated
cure that prevents the
delirium of love and
leads to a safe,
predictable, and happy
life, until ninety-five
days before her
eighteenth birthday and
her treatment, when
she falls in love.
