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The Declaration

By Malley, G.R.

          In 2040 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient “Surplus” training to become a house servant, has her world view challenged when she meets Peter and discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.

 

Epic

By Kostick, Conor

             On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, 14 year old Erik persuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik’s father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families.

 

Rash

By Hautman, Pete

             In a future society that has decided it would “rather be safe than free,” 16 year old Bo’s anger management problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.

 

Before I die
By Downham, Jenny
             A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.

 

Converting Kate
By Weinheimer, Beckie.  

         After moving from Arizona to Maine, sixteen-year-old Kate tries to recover from her father's death as she resists her mother's dogmatic religious beliefs and attempts to find a new direction to her life.

 

Ask me no questions
By Budhos, Marina Tamar

         Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring fear, frustration, and sorrow for the whole family.

 

Clubbing
By Watson, Andi.  

            A spoiled London girl conquers the stuffy English countryside when she solves a murder mystery on the nineteenth hole of her grandparents' golf course. Presented in graphic novel form.

 

Lizard people
By Price, Charlie.  

            While visiting his mentally ill mother at a psychiatric hospital, high school junior Ben Mander starts talking to a young man who claims that he travels back and forth between the present and the year 4000, searching for a cure for mental illness.

 

Nailed
By Jones, Patrick
             An outcast in a school full of jocks, sixteen-year-old Bret struggles to keep his individuality through his interest in drama and music, while trying to reconnect with his father.

 

 

 

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