In a futuristic world, all humans struggle with a disease known as “The Flare”. The disease makes those infected attempt to attack and consume other humans. An agency known as W.I.C.K.E.D. is struggling to discover a cure for the disease. Luckily, a small percentage of people, 0.01% of the population, are immune. These people,...
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The Death Cure
The Scorch Trials
Thomas, an intelligent teenager leader, struggles to survive in the derailed world. Earth, once plentiful with life and healthy, has been scorched by sun flares. The climate, hindered by the disastrous flares, now produces extremely high temperatures and storms worse than ever seen before. All land between the two tropics (Cancer and Capricorn) is...
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The Forsaken
The rules are simple.When you’re sixteen, you take the test. If it says that you’re a good egg, someone that isn’t capable of crime, you can stay. You’ll be able to live your life in the U.N.A, given the possibility of a future, even if that future means that you have no independence. But...
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The Last command
“‘Sir?’ Captain Pellaeon said, searching his superior’s face for the stress the Grand Admiral must be feeling. The stress he himself was certainly feeling. This was not just another strike against the Rebellion, after all, not a minor shipping raid or even a complex hit-and-fade against some insignificant planetary base. After nearly a month...
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The Maze Runner
Waking up in a dark scary environment, Thomas can’t seem to remember much. It’s as if he can only remember basic things, things like riding a bike. But he can’t seem to remember ever actually riding one. When he first sees light above him, while he’s huddled against the wall in fear several kids,...
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Revolution
Revolution tells the story of two girls living centuries apart, one never knowing the other. Andi, heartbroken over the loss of her younger brother, finds the diary of a young girl living in 18th century Paris and becomes caught up in a plot to rescue a child prince who lived and died over two...
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Mockingjay
Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire. After battling through yet another arena, Katniss was taken to an unknown district thirteen. There she discovered her own home, the place she grew up and became the strong, independent girl she is, was burned to the ground by the capitol. After days and days spent...
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“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”
“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire to be released in 2013” Published by Christopher Rosen Written by Sean Bigelow Christopher Rosen of Huffingtonpost.com reports that “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” will be released as a motion picture in November 2013. The film will start of where “The Hunger Games” left off, with Katniss Everdeen...
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Uglies
“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful” Tally Youngblood was the last of her friends to turn sixteen. She was counting down the days till she could receive the surgery that would turn her beautiful. In Tally’s world, set three hundred years in the future, every teen receives cosmetic surgery to...
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Cinder
Cinder was adopted by a doctor and his wife, Adri, when she was very young. Not long after Cinder was adopted, the doctor died. Adri never even wanted Cinder. I mean who would, she’s a cyborg. In New Beijing, cyborgs are the lowest of the low. So, wanting nothing to do with her, Adri...
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