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Arntson, Steven
The Wikkeling
In the restrictive city of Addition, a group of friends at a highly competitive school suffer from mysterious headaches before sharing several odd experiences, including the arrival of a strange, threatening creature called the Wikkeling.
234 p. 2011
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Booraem, Ellen
The Unnameables
On an island in whose strict society only useful objects are named and the unnamed are ignored or forbidden, thirteen-year-old Medford encounters an unusual and powerful creature, half-man, half-goat, and together they attempt to bring some changes to the community.
318 p. 2008
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Brodien-Jones, Chris
The Owl Keeper
Eleven-year-old Max partners with an unusual girl, Rose, who shares his appreciation of the silver owls that the High Echelon wants to destroy, and together they make a perilous journey seeking to fulfill a prophecy.
306 p. 2010
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Carman, Patrick
Atherton : The House of Power
Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others. First book in the Atherton series.
330 p. 2007
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Christopher, John
The White Mountains
Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants.
184 p. 1967
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Clayton, Emma
The Roar
In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so. Sequel: The Whisper.
481 p. 2009
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Collins, Suzanne
Gregor the Overlander
When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy. First book of the Underland Chronicles.
311 p. 2004
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Connor, Leslie
Crunch
The oldest Mariss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
330 p. 2010
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Diamand, Emily
Raiders' Ransom
In 23rd-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, the piratical raiders kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English fishergirl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue attempt, with a mysterious talking jewel from a past computer age tucked in her belt as ransom. Sequel: Flood and Fire.
334 p. 2009
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DuPrau, Jeanne
The City of Ember
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions. First book in the Ember series.
270 p. 2003
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Falls, Kat
Dark Life
When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat. Sequel: Rip Tide.
297 p. 2010
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Flanagan, John
The Ruins of Gorlan
When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger. First book in the Ranger's Apprentice series.
249 p. 2005
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Fox, Helen
Eager
Unlike Grumps, their old-fashioned robot, the Bell family's new robot, Eager, is programmed to not merely obey but to question, reason, and exercise free will. Sequel: Eager's Nephew.
280 p. 2004
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Gordon, Roderick
Tunnels
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father. First book in the Tunnels series.
472 p. 2008
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Gray, Eva
Behind the Gates
Starting boarding school in a disaster-stricken America of the near future, Louisa pretends that her best friend is her twin sister, forges friendships with her outspoken new roommates and wonders why the school forbids students to contact their parents. First book in the Tomorrow Girls series.
211 p. 2011
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Haarsma, PJ.
Virus On Orbis 1
When twelve-year-old Johnny and his sister arrive on Orbits in a space ship of orphans, he finds he has a unique ability to communicate with computers. First book in the Softwire series.
262 p. 2006
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Among the Hidden
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. First book in the Shadow Children series.
153 p. 1998
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Hall, Teri
The Line
Rachel thinks that she and her mother are safe working for Ms. Moore at her estate close to The Line, an invisible border of the Unified States, but when Rachel has an opportunity to Cross into the forbidden zone, she is both frightened and intrigued. Sequel: Away.
219 p. 2010
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Hughes, Mark Peter.
A Crack in the Sky
In a post-apocalyptic world, thirteen-year-old Eli, part of the most powerful family in the world, keeps noticing problems with the operations of his domed city but his family denies them, while in the surrounding desert, the Outsiders struggle to survive while awaiting a prophesied savior.
405 p. 2010
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Krumwiede, Lana
Freakling
After a traumatic accident removes his telekinetic ability, or psy, twelve-year-old Taemon is exiled to the "dud farm," where he is surprised to find kind, open people who enjoy using their hands but there are also mysteries at the colony and when Taemon unwittingly leaks one of the secrets he must find the courage to repair the damage, even if it means returning to the city from which he was banished.
309 p. 2012
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