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Happily Ever After Kiera Cass

Collects the four novellas in the Selection series that introduce Prince Maxon

before he met and fell in love with America and Amberly before she became

queen. Also includes scenes from Celeste, two short stories, a Where are they

now? section and a sneak peek at the Siren.

Gallagher Girls series Ally Carter

The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is a fairly typical all-girls

school that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE, the latest in

chemical warfare in science; and students received extra credit for breaking CIA

codes computer class. So in truth, Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school

for geniuses but its really a school for spies.

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You Level 5.9 / 10 points

Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy Level 6.1 / 9 points

Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover Level 5.8 / 9 points

Only the Good Spy Young Level 5.0 / 8 points

Out of Sight, Out of Time Level 4.7 / 10 points

United We Spy Level 4.3 / 9 points

Graceling Realm series Kristin Cashore

Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight--she's a

Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of

the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with

killing, she is forced to work as the king's thug.

Graceling Level 5.3 / 18 points

Fire Level 6.2 / 18 points

Bitterblue Level 5.6 / 23 points

Winterkeep (2021)

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The Mortal Instruments series Cassandra Clare

Able to see demons and the Shadowhunters dedicated to returning them to their

own dimension, Clary, age 15, is drawn into a bizarre world when her mother

disappears and Clary herself is almost killed. The plot contains sexual situations

City of Bones Level 5.0 / 20 points

City of Ashes Level 5.0 / 18 points

City of Glass Level 5.3 / 23 points

City of Fallen Angels Level 5.2 / 18 points

City of Lost Souls Level 5.1 / 22 points

City of Heavenly Fire Level 5.8 / 32 points

The Lunar Chronicles Marissa Meyer

Each book entails a science fictional twist on an old fairy tale, including Cinderella,

Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Snow White.

Cinder Level 5.8 / 14 points

Scarlet Level 5.8 / 16 points

Cress Level 6.0 / 22 points

Fairest Level 6.0 / 7 points

Winter Level 5.9 / 33 points

Stars Above Level 6.1 / 14 points

Boston Jacky L.A. Meyer

Level 6.5 / 14 points

Orphaned by the plague and begging on the streets of London, Jack is elated to

get work as a ship's boy. But what if the ship's boy is a girl?

Whippoorwill Joseph Monninger

Level 4.7 / 9 points

Two New Hampshire teenagers fall into an unlikely relationship as they come

together to save a mistreated dog.

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Maximum Ride series James Patterson

After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the

"birdkids," the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find

themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.

The Angel Experiment Level 4.6 / 11 points

School's Out-Forever Level 4.4 / 11 points

Saving the World Level 4.8 / 10 points

The Final Warning Level 5.0 / 7 points

Max Level 5.2 / 8 points

Fang Level 4.6 / 8 points

Angel Level 4.8 / 8 points

Nevermore Level 5.1 / 9 points

Forever Level 5.6 / 11 points

Daniel X series

Fifteen-year-old Daniel is following in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter,

exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma.

Dangerous Days of Daniel X Level 4.6 / 5 points

Watch the Skies Level 6.6 / 6 points

Demons and Druids Level 5.4 / 6 points

Game Over Level 6.5 / 6 points

Armageddon Level 5.6 / 8 points

Lights Out Level 5.7 / 7 points

100 series Kass Morgan

When one hundred juvenile delinquents are sent on a mission to recolonize Earth,

they get a second chance at freedom, friendship, and love, as they fight to survive in

a dangerous new world.

The 100 Level 5.9 / 11 points

Day 21 Level 5.6 / 10 points

Homecoming Level 5.9 / 12 points

Rebellion Level 5.5 / 9 points

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Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series Ransom Riggs

Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children Level 5.7 / 13 points

Hollow City Level 5.7 / 15 points

Library of Souls Level 5.6 / 18 points

A Map of Days Level 5.1 / 18 points

The Conference of the Birds Level 5.3 / 12 points

The Desolations of Devil’s Acre

Jason Reynolds

Long Way Down Level 4.3 / 2 points

As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts

who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.

Miles Morales: Spider Man Level 4.9 / 9 points

Brooklyn Visions Academy student Miles Morales may not always want to be a

super hero, but he must come to terms with his identity--and deal with a villainous

teacher--as the new Spider Man.

Free Fall Alex Segura

It's been a few years since Poe's mother, who was a pilot for the Rebellion, passed

away, and Poe and his father have had more and more trouble connecting. Not

sure what he wants to do with his life, teenage Poe runs away from home to find

adventure, and to figure out what kind of man he is meant to be.

Star Wars: Rebel Rising Beth Revis

Level 5.6 / 13 points

Follows the adventures of Jyn Erso as she trains under Saw Gerrera and learns how

to become a proper rebel, preparations that come in handy when she is asked by

the Rebellion to find out about the weapon that her father is helping the Empire

construct.

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The Perfectionists series Sara Shepard

Ava, Caitlin, Mackenzie, Julie, and Parker are all driven to be perfect--no matter the cost. At first the girls think they have nothing in common, until they discover that they all hate the same person: handsome womanizer Nolan Hotchkiss, who's done things to hurt each of them. They come up with the perfect plan to murder Nolan--jokingly, of course. They'd never actually go through with it. But when Nolan turns up dead in the exact way they'd discussed, the girls suddenly become prime suspects in his murder. Only, they didn't do it. So who did? Unless they find the real

killer, and soon, their perfect lives will come crashing down around them.

The Perfectionists Level 4.9 / 10 points

The Good Girls Level 5.0 / 11 points

Everlife Series Gena Showalter

Locked in an asylum for her refusal to let her parents dictate her afterlife choices,

Ten Lockwood finds herself caught in a violent power struggle between the two

leading Everlife realms that would do anything to claim her powerful soul.

Firstlife Level 4.4 / 16 points

Lifeblood Level 4.6 / 15 points

Everlife Level 4.6 / 17 points

Quarantine series Lex Thomas

When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers David and Will and

the other students soon break into gangs that fight each other for survival and the

hope of escaping their quarantine.

The Loners Level 4.5 / 13 points

The Saints Level 4.6 / 12 points

The Burnouts Level 4.9 / 9 points

The Giant Level 5.1 / 12 points

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Reboot series Amy Tintera

Seventeen-year-old Wren rises from the dead as a Reboot and is trained as an elite

crime-fighting soldier until she is given an order she refuses to follow.

Reboot Level 4.7 / 12 points

Rebel Level 4.9 / 11 points

Arc of a Scythe Neil Shüsterman

In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be

randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must

compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants.

The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't.

Scythe Level 6.5 / 17 points

Thunderhead Level 6.7 / 20 points

The Toll Level 6.6 / 24 points

Unwind Dystology

In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have

their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens

go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.

Unwind Level 5.0 / 14 points

UnWholly Level 5.8 / 18 points

UnSouled Level 5.7 / 18 points

UnDivided Level 6.3 / 18 points

UnBound Level 5.5 / 14 points

Dry Level 5.5 / 16 points

A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's

quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices

if she and her brother are to survive.