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The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

Part 1 of a 3 part series

•Survival skills

•Friendships

Hunger Games series:

Catching Fire & Mockingjay

by Suzanne Collins

These sequels are every bit as good as the first book in this action-packed, thought-provoking series.

•Survival skills

•Friendships

Maximum Ride series:

The Angel Experiment (book 1)

by James Patterson

After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.

Maximum Ride series:

School’s Out - Forever

by James Patterson

After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny--to save the world, whether she wants to or not.

The Host

by Stephenie Meyer

Melanie, whose mind has been almost completely taken over by an alien named Wanderer, convinces the alien to search for her lost lover, who fled the extraterrestrial invasion, and tries to find a way in which she and Wanderer can coexist.

•Love stories

•Spirits

Feed

by M.T. Anderson

In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.

•Computers

•Brain washing

The House of the Scorpion

by Nancy Farmer

In a future world where an evil empire called Opium is tucked in between the U.S. and Aztlán (formerly Mexico), a young clone named Matt comes of age. His foot is tattooed "Property of the Alacrán Estate"; he is the clone of El Patrón, the cruel 142-year-old ruler of Opium, a drug kingdom farmed by "eejits," brain-dead clones. This best-selling National Book Award winner is a long but engrossing adventure story.

Dune

by Frank Herbert

The story of a young prince, Paul Artreides, scion of a star-crossed dynasty, and of his journey from boy to warrior to ruler of a dying planet destined to become a paradise regained..

•Power struggles; revenge

•Political intrigue

Uglies

by Scott Westerfeld

Scott Westerfeld's "Uglies" series is set in a futuristic society where, at age sixteen, everyone is given an operation that turns them into perfect supermodels, and one girl challenges the system.

•Series sequels: Pretties, Specials

Blood and Chocolate

by Annette Curtis Klause

Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.

•Werewolves

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

•Series fiction

•High school stories

•Vampires

Demon in My View

by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices.

Peeps

by Scott Westerfeld

A clever blend of adventure, horror, and romance. Both medical thriller and science fiction, this fast-paced, captivating modern vampire story is enriched with biology and history.

•Vampires

•Horror

Evernight

by Claudia Gray

Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.

•Love stories

•Vampires

•School stories

Shattered Mirror

by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

As seventeen-year-old Sarah, daughter of a powerful line of vampire-hunting witches, continues to pursue the ancient bloodsucker Nikolas, she finds herself in a dangerous friendship with two vampire siblings in her high school.

Companions of the Night

by Vivian Vande Velde

When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices.

Thirsty

by M. T. Anderson

From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human.

•Vampires

•Horror

Carrie

by Stephen King

Presents the unnerving story of a terribly ostracized young girl with supernatural powers of telekinesis.

•Horror

•Psychokinesis