2. Juliet exists in a world where diseases
are killing off the human population,
the clouds are the wrong color, food is
hard to find, and birds don’t fly
anymore.We meet her in the jail cell
where she’s being held byThe
Reestablishment, people who promise
to fix the world. She’s been locked away
because her touch kills. She
accidentally killed someone, and was
deemed dangerous, but now that
there’s talk of war,The
Reestablishment thinks they may have
a better use for her. Juliet must choose
her fate: be a weapon or a warrior. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT1KL-
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3. Mr. Nak's Angry Management
group is a place for misfits. A
place for stories. And, man,
does this crew have stories.
Three of them:
Agnus Bethune & Sarah Byrnes
MontanaWest, her dad
Marcus James & Matt Miller
4. Pattyn’s family is religious,
but she questions her
beliefs and the rules she
lives by.When her
alcoholic, abusive dad
catches her in a
compromising position,
she’s shipped off to her
aunt in Nevada, where she
learns some lessons about
life and love.
5. Beatrice lives in a Dystopian
version of Chicago, where society
is divided into 5 factions, each
dedicated to a virtue. At age 16,
each person must align themselves
with a faction. Her decision is
between staying with her family
and being true to herself. During
the highly competitive initiation
that follows, Beatrice renames
herselfTris and struggles alongside
her fellow initiates to live out the
choice they have made.
Fan trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=1miMuha7wXw
6. In this sequel to Divergent,
one choice can transform
you—or it can destroy you.
But every choice has
consequences, and as
unrest surges in the
factions all around her,Tris
Prior must continue trying
to save those she loves—
and herself—while
grappling with haunting
questions of grief and
forgiveness, identity and
loyalty, politics and love.
7. This is a story about a monster. Not
a dragon or a mythological beast,
but a very real, very destructive
monster--crystal meth--that takes
hold of seventeen-year-old Kristina
Snow and transforms her into her
reckless alter-ego Bree. Based on
her own daughter's addiction to
crystal meth, Ellen Hopkins' novel-
in-verse is a vivid, transfixing look
into teenage drug use.Told in
Kristina's voice, it provides a
realistic portrayal of the tortured
logic of an addict.
8. When Margo Roth Spiegelman
beckons Quentin Jacobsen in
the middle of the night—
dressed like a ninja and plotting
an ingenious campaign of
revenge—he follows her.
Margo’s always planned
extravagantly, and, until now,
she’s always planned solo. After
a lifetime of loving Margo from
afar, things are finally looking up
for Q . . . until day breaks and
she has vanished. Always an
enigma, Margo has now
become a mystery. But there
are clues. And they’re for Q.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZXseQjc
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9. Finnie and Paul are best
friends and hockey
players, but they come
from different sides of
the track. A story about
greatness and legend.
But it's also a heartsong
to family, friendship, and
apology.
10. In the summer of 1973 Joe Castle was
the boy wonder of baseball, the
greatest rookie anyone had ever
seen. The kid from Calico Rock,
Arkansas dazzled Cub fans as he hit
home run after home run, politely
tipping his hat to the crowd as he
shattered all rookie records.
Calico Joe quickly became the idol of
every baseball fan in America, including
PaulTracey, the young son of a hard-
partying and hard-throwing Mets
pitcher.On the day that WarrenTracey
finally faced Calico Joe, Paul was in the
stands, rooting for his idol but also for
his Dad.Then Warren threw a fastball
that would change their lives forever…
11. Five months ago,Valerie
Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened
fire on their school cafeteria. Shot
trying to stop him,Valerie
inadvertently saved the life of a
classmate, but was implicated in
the shootings because of the list
she helped create. A list of people
and things she and Nick hated.
The list he used to pick his targets.
Now, after a summer of seclusion,
Val is forced to confront her guilt
as she returns to school to
complete her senior year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWNGIR
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12. Hazel is sixteen, with
terminal cancer, when she
meetsAugustus at her kids-
with-cancer support group.
The two are kindred spirits,
sharing an irreverent sense of
humor and immense charm,
and watching them fall in
love even as they face
universal questions of the
human condition--How will I
be remembered? Does my
life, and will my death, have
meaning?--has a raw honesty
that is deeply moving.