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The 5th Wave Rick Yancey

Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.

Attack on Titan Hajime Isayama Call Number: 741.5 I76 2012

For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city, trapped in fear of the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans.

Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick Joe Schreiber

Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to sen-ior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assas-sin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious Jaguar, on a mission in Manhattan.

Beka Cooper: Terrier Tamora Pierce

When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of "Dogs," as the Provost's Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a murdered baby in Tortall's Lower City.

Bloody Jack L.A. Meyer Series: Bloody Jack

Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan dis-guises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea ad-venture in search of pirates.

The Castaways Iain Lawrence

Bad luck continues to follow Tom Tin and his mates as they find themselves aboard a formerly abandoned ship, are taught to be sailors by two black-hearted castaways they rescue, and sail to a Caribbean island where they make important new friends and ene-mies.

The Compound S.A. Bodeen Series: The Compound

After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground com-pound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.

Crazy Dangerous Andrew Klavan

Sam Hopkins fights back when he sees bullies harassing Jennifer, an eccentric school-mate who, he learns, is having terrifying hallucinations about demons, death, and de-struction which may just come true unless Sam can stop them.

Deadly Flowers: a ninja's tale Sarah L. Thomson

Ophaned at a young age, fifteen-year-old Kata is a trained ninja who works alone and can take care of herself. She is fully prepared for her first solo assignment, that is until she learns she is to be an assassin and she flees with her target and his sister, fighting to survive against skilled samurai warriors, deceptive ninjas, and supernatural beings in order to protect a powerful family secret.

Delilah Dirk and the King's Shilling Tony Cliff

When globe trotting troublemaker Delilah Dirk and her friend Selim are accused of es-pionage against the British crown, they must clear their names, even if it means return-ing to respectability.

The Devil’s Breath David Gilman

After learning that his explorer father is missing, Max is determined to find him, no mat-ter what dangers may lay in his path. A secret clue his father left behind leads Max to the inhospitable wilderness of Namibia, where he soon discovers a potentially massive ecological disaster masterminded by Shaka Chang, a very powerful and completely ruthless man—a man Max fears may have put his father in mortal danger.

Evil Genius Catherine Jinks Call Number: Fiction

Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.

Game of Lives James Dashner

The VirtNet combined the most cutting-edge technology and the most sophisticated gaming for a full mind-body experience. And it was Michael's passion. But now every time Michael sinks, he risks his life. The VirtNet has become a world of deadly conse-quences, and Kaine grows stronger by the day. The Mortality Doctrine-- Kaine's master plan-- has nearly been realized, and if Kaine succeeds, it will mean worldwide cyber domination. Michael and his friends are the only ones who can put the monster back in the box-- if Michael can figure out who his friends really are....

Heist Society Ally Carter A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.

Hit Count Chris Lynch

Arlo Brodie loves being at the heart of the action on the football field, and while his dad cheers him on, his mother quotes head injury statistics and refuses to watch, but Arlo's winning plays, the cheering crowds, and the adrenaline rush are enough to convince him that everything is OK--in spite of the pain, the pounding, the dizziness, and the confusion.

Ink and Bone Rachael Caine

"Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the Library to deliver the content of the greatest works of history instantly, but the personal ownership of books is expressly forbidden ... When his friend inadvertently commits heresy by creating a device that could change the world, Jess discovers that those who control the Great Library be-lieve that knowledge is more valuable than any human life--and soon both heretics and books will burn"--Dust jacket flap.

Lady Midnight Cassandra Clare

Five years age the Shadowhunters were brought to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is now a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses. Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, she investigates a demonic plot that stretch-es across Los Angeles. Julian's brother Mark was captured by the faeries five years ago, but has been returned as a bargaining chip. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind and they need the Shadowhunters' help to do it.

Leviathan Scott Westerfield

On the eve of World War I, the machine-loving Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their big steam-powered Clankers. Inspired by Darwin, the British have fabricated animals into warships. Their mothership, "Leviathan," is a marvelous whale-dirigible, in this new trilogy by the bestselling author of the Uglies series.

Lockdown Alexander Gordon Smith Series: Escape from Furnace

Furnace Penitentiary: the world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface. Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign him-self to a death behind bars.

Manners and Mutiny Gail Carriger

In an alternate England of 1851, Sophronia Temminnick is the only hope for her friends, her school, and all of London when she must put her espionage training to the test to thwart an evil Picklemen plot.

Moribito Nahoko Uehashi

The wandering warrior Balsa is hired to protect Prince Chagum from both a mysterious monster and the prince's father, the Mikado.

Ms. Marvel G. Willow Wilson Call Number: 741.5 qW748m 2014 v.01

Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City - until she's suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find out as she takes the Marvel Universe by storm! When Kamala discovers the dangers of her newfound powers, she unlocks a secret behind them, as well. Is Kamala ready to wield these immense new gifts?

My Kind of Crazy Robin Reul

"Hank Kirby can't catch a break. He doesn't mean to screw up. It just happens. Case in point: his attempt to ask out the girl he likes literally goes up in flames when he spelled "prom"" in sparklers on Amanda Carlisle's lawn...and nearly burns down her house, without ever asking her the big question. Hank just wants to pretend the incident never happened. And he might've gotten away with it--except there is a witness. Peyton Breedlove, brooding loner and budding pyromaniac, saw the whole thing, and she blackmails Hank into an unu-sual friendship.

Oathbreaker: Assassin’s Apprentice Susan Vaught

Follows the intertwining adventures of Leyr Mab, high prince and heir to the throne, Aron Brailing, a farm boy with a destiny greater than he can imagine, and Dari Ross, a mysteri-ous halfling with ties to a powerful race of shapeshifters long believed to be extinct.

Rash Pete Hautman

In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.

The Recruit Robert Muchamore Series: CHERUB, a division of MI5

James is the latest CHERUB recruit. He’s a bit of a troublemaker, but he’s also bril-liant. And CHERUB needs him. James has no idea what to expect, but he’s out of op-tions. Before he can start in the field he must first survive one hundred grueling days of basic training, where even the toughest recruits don’t make it to the end.

The Red Queen Victoria Aveyard

In a world divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities--seventeen-year-old Mare, a Red, dis-covers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. But Mare risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard --a growing Red rebellion--even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction.

Rot and Ruin Jonathan Maberry Series: Benny Imura

In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is final-ly convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.

Shadow Hero Gene Luen Yang Call Number: 741.5 qY222sh 2014

In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity: the Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero.

Ship Breaker Paolo Bacigalupi Series: Ship Breaker

In a futuristic world, teenage Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.

Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first.

Steelheart Brandon Sanderson

At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with super-human powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners--the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny.

Stormbreaker Anthony Horowitz Series: Alex Rider, Book 1

After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.

Sure Fire Jack Higgins

Resentful of having to go and live with their estranged father after the death of their mother, fifteen-year-old twins, Rich and Jade, soon find they have more complicated problems when their father is kidnapped and their attempts to rescue him involve them in a dangerous international plot to control the world's oil.

Tunnels Roderick Gordon Call Number: Fiction

When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeolo-gist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world un-derneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.

Variant Robison Wells

After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexi-co's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.

White Cat Holly Black

When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.

Worldshaker Richard Harland

Sixteen-year-old Col Porpentine is being groomed as the next Commander of Worldshaker, a juggernaut where elite families live on the upper decks while the Filth-ies toil below, but when he meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run, he discovers how igno-rant he is of his home and its residents.