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
Pathfinder
Rigg, a thirteen year old boy, has a power that is one of a kind, the power to see the paths that people took in the past, be it recent or ancient. Rigg was tutored under his father, a man of secrets and a man that may not be Rigg’s true birth father. Rigg...
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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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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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Lock and Key
Ruby is the definition of independence. She doesn’t need help or sympathy from anyone. When Ruby’s mother abandons her without warning, She lives on her own in her house, working her mother’s job, paying as many bills as she can, cooking for herself, and trying to go to school. Ruby doesn’t tell anyone that...
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The Bellmaker
“Urgan sits in Gael’s Royal House, Warriormaid and Warriormouse, Say hasten, and give aid.” Dandin and Mariel, two warriors from Redwall, have wandered four seasons before they find themselves in the land of Southsward. This country was once peaceful, but has been conquered by the Urgan Nagru, his mate Silvamord, and their foul...
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Holes
“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake” Stanley Yelnats’s whole life has been filled with bad luck. His family believes that they are cursed because of their “no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great grandfather”. Stanley is the target of abuse from students in his school because of his size. Even the teachers will on occasion make rude...
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The Maze Runner
When Thomas wakes up, he is in a metal box. The box is cold and dark. Thomas is alone. Thomas wonders where he is, why he’s here, and or why can he only remember his name? All of a sudden the box started to move upwards. All of a sudden he was outside. He...
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The Hunger Games
“Let’s go back then, to the moment they called your sister’s name at the reaping,” says Caesar. “And you volunteered.” “She asked me to try really hard to win…I swore I would.” Once Katniss Everdeen takes her little sister’s place in the annual Hunger Games, it means near-certain death. Every year, one boy and...
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Forbidden
“He stares at me, aghast, tears wet on his cheeks. “W-what are you talking about?” I take a steadying breath, bracing myself against an onslaught of tears. “I mean, Lochan, how come I don’t love you anymore?” Lochan and Maya have always felt more like friends then siblings. Together, they have stepped in...
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