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 Scorch Trials
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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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 Crazy Horse Electric Game
Sean Bigelow Chris Crutcher Realistic Fiction Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars This was the biggest time of Willies life. He had just pitched the best game of his young career. He had just won the championship game against his biggest rival, he had an amazing girlfriend, but everything changed with the accident. Now,...
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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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The Time Traveler’s Wife
Henry DeTamble, played by Eric Bana, has a gene that not many people in the world have. This gene causes him to be a time traveler. But with this type of a gene mutation you can’t decide when and where you want to travel. It just happens, instantaneously, and he has no...
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Mattimeo
In a world without humans, animals have evolved, talking, walking, fighting with weapons, and building houses. Peace is present at Redwall Abbey. The abbey is home to generations of mice, otters, hedgehogs, squirrels, birds, and Constance the Badger. This peace is broken when Slagar comes to town. Bent on revenge, Slagar, with his sly and...
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
Imagine only being able to express yourself through pictures. Your first year of school, the only way you could communicate to others, was through your drawings. Drawing took you to another world; a world of your own. For Hollis Woods, drawing pictures was her doorway to a place where she actually wanted to be....
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The Kings of Clonmel
A Ranger’s work is never done. Whether he is dealing with international affairs or simply a small band of marauders in his own fief, the Rangers work from dawn until dusk. There are fifty fiefs in the kingdom of Araluen and each one has its own Ranger. The time setting is more of a...
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