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1) Alebrijes
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Leandro takes the fall for his sister and is exiled into an ancient drone, he embarks on a perilous journey beyond the city's walls where he encounters mutant monsters, wasteland pirates, and fellow outcasts as he tries to save his sister and fellow Cascabeles from the oppressive regime.
2) Pawn: Bk. 1
Author
Series
Blackcoat rebellion volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Escaping a life of marginalization and misery, Kitty Doe joins the most powerful family in the country, a choice that requires her to assume the identity of the Prime Minister's niece and stop a rebellion that ended her predecessor's life.
3) Inhuman
Author
Series
Fetch volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Beyond the Titan wall lies the Feral Zone, and the only people who break quarantine and venture there are the "fetches", who are paid exorbitant sums to bring back items that were left behind when the wall went up--but Delaney McEvoy's father is there and she is being forced to find him and bring him back.
Author
Series
Sky jumpers volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When an earthquake causes the deadly band of air that covers the post World War III Earth to begin to sink over the town of White Rock, twelve-year-old Hope must lead a team through the Bomb's Breath and across the Forbidden Flats to obtain the mineral which will save the town.
Author
Series
We set the dark on fire volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Dani must question everything she's worked for as she learns about the corruption of the Median government"--
6) Champion
Author
Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic--and each other--and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities.
7) Blood circus
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In this lush and terrifying debut Camila Victoire draws upon her own experience in a traveling circus to create a future where cruelty and spectacle hold the keys to subjugating humans on a ravaged earth.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A generation has passed since the confluence destroyed the world. Inequality, cyberterrorism, superbugs, and overpopulation ultimately lead to the quarantine of Manhattan. A society called New America emerged, in which all people are supposedly equal but live in segregated zones based on their job type, under the powerful rule of the Bureau. When a menacing truth about the future of New America comes to light, young Drayden must endure a test called...
10) The middler
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Maggie, a middle-born child where only the eldest are valued, has her world turned upside-down by forbidden friendship with Una, a wanderer girl from outside the boundaries of Fennis Wick.
13) A time to die
Author
Series
Out of time volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Parvin Blackwater believes she has wasted her life. At only seventeen, she has one year left according to the Clock by her bedside. In a last-ditch effort to make a difference, she tries to rescue Radicals from the government's crooked justice system. But when the authorities find out about her illegal activity, they cast her through the Wall -- her people's death sentence. What she finds on the other side about the world, about eternity, and about...
14) The insurrection
Author
Series
Initiation volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Having survived the Initiation and expedition, one battle remains: the fight for the heart and soul of New America. Drayden and his friends, enlisting the help of Professor Worth, must find a way back to New America before the Guardians imperil their return. But for these teens, their problems are only beginning. The Bureau, which never expected them to survive the expedition, will do everything in their power to prevent New America's darkest secrets...
15) A time to speak
Author
Series
Out of time volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
What happens when you live longer than you wanted to? Parvin Blackwater wanted to die, but now she's being called to be a leader. The only problem is, no one wants to follow. The Council uses Jude's Clock-matching invention to force "new-and-improved" Clocks on the public. Those who can't afford one are packed into boxcars like cattle and used for the Council's purposes. Parvin and Hawke find themselves on a cargo ship of Radicals headed out to sea....
16) Sunker's deep
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sharkey is a Sunker--he was born on a fortunate tide, and everyone in the giant submersible Rampart knows it. He's a hero, a future admiral, beloved by the ancestors who his crew believe visit him in the form of sea creatures. The trouble is his life is based on a lie--he's never been visited by ancestors. He's been a fake hero for years, but when the Sunkers are attacked, he must become a real one. And he has no idea how to go about it. Meanwhile,...
17) Hunting by stars
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just...
18) Liberación
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Cassia y Ky abandonaron la Sociedad tras la promesa de un mundo más libre en el que poder estar juntos, lejos de las Autoridades y de sus tiránicas normas. Pero ahora que lo han encontrado deben volver a separarse: a Cassia el Alzamiento le ha asignado un puesto como infiltrada en el corazón de la Sociedad; mientras que Ky deberá trabajar en la rebelión desde el otro lado de la frontera.
In search of a better life, Cassia joins a widespread...
20) Flood City
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Flood City is the only habitable place left on the drowned Earth, but it is also a battleground between the Star Guard who have controlled the city for decades and the Chemical Barons in their spaceships who once ruled the planet, want it back, and are now preparing to destroy it; the future will depend on Max, his sister Yala of Flood City, and Ato, a young Chemical Baron who just wants to keep his twin brother alive and not hurt anyone--and somehow...
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