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1) Ship breaker
Author
Series
[Ship breaker volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
2) True legend
Author
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA.
Author
Series
Things not seen volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Teens, especially those not in the uber-popular set, know all about feeling invisible. But what would happen if you actually did wake up invisible one day? Fifteen-year-old Bobby is faced with this curious predicament ... Doing his best to adapt, Bobby informs his parents and grows more and more frustrated as they try to control his (unseen) life. Attempting to take matters in his own hands, he ventures out--naked--to the library, where he meets...
5) Brilliant
Author
Series
Avery sisters trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Quinn struggles to maintain her image as a brilliant, good girl when her mother's major error at work leads to financial and legal troubles that turn Quinn's and her younger sisters' world upside-down.
Author
Language
English
Description
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Brooklyn has been making bad decisions since, at age two, she became famous for falling down a mine shaft, and so she starts a blog to let others make every decision for her, while her community-service hours are devoted to a woman who insists Brooklyn read her "Choose the Story" books.
Author
Series
The Tribe (Clay Chapman) volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After practically burning down his last school, Spencer Pendleton wants to keep out of trouble at Greenfield Middle but between attacks from the school bully and being recruited by the mischievous tribe of dropouts hiding in the building, Spencer seems headed for permanent detention.
10) Camp Cannibal
Author
Series
The Tribe (Clay Chapman) volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Spencer Pendleton wants to make a fresh start when his father sends him to Camp New Leaf but the Tribe is there, planning to put down roots, and Spencer must stop them before someone is seriously hurt--or worse.
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