Category: Children + YA
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2008 Blurb: In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and…
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Losing Brave by Bailee Madison & Stefne Miller: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2018 Blurb: Lost in the mystery and turmoil of her sister’s disappearance, Payton must overcome the aftermath of being the one left behind. She’s unable to remember even the smallest piece of what happened the day Dylan vanished. When sudden and reckless outbursts throw her from the…
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The Lonely Dead by April Henry: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2019 Blurb: A killer is on the loose, and only one girl has the power to find him. But in this genre-bending YA thriller, she must first manage to avoid becoming a target herself. For Adele, the dead aren’t really dead. She can see them and even…
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Unseelie by Ivrisse Housman: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2023 Blurb: Iselia “Seelie” Graygrove looks just like her twin, Isolde…but as an autistic changeling left in the human world by the fae as an infant, she has always known she is different. Seelie’s unpredictable magic makes it hard for her to fit in—and draws her and…
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Light and Air by Mindy Nichols Wendell: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2024 Blurb: It’s 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. Everyone is afraid of this deadly respiratory illness. But what happens when you actually have it? When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned—and then they are sent to the J.N. Adam…
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Winter by Marissa Meyer: Content Guides
Publication Date: Nov 2015 Blurb: Princess Winter is admired for her grace, kindness and beauty, despite the scars on her face. She’s said to be even more breath-taking than her stepmother, Queen Levana… When Winter develops feelings for the handsome palace guard, Jacin, she fears the evil Queen will crush…
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Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2016 Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord’s daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father’s wishes and society’s expectations, Audrey often…
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Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 1995 Blurb: Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie’s mother sends her on a dangerous mission to bring back help. But beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a…
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Cress by Marissa Meyer: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2014 Blurb: In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a…
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Four Found Dead by Natalie D. Richards: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2023 Blurb: Tonight, Tempest Theaters is closing forever, the last remaining business in a defunct shopping mall. The moviegoers have left, and Jo and her six coworkers have the final shift, cleaning up popcorn and mopping floors for the last time. But after an unexpected altercation puts…