My Favorites: by a teenager


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1. Cress

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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Working to overthrow Queen Levana, a fugitive Cinder and her companions search for Rapunzel-like hacker Cress, who has been trapped on a satellite since childhood and who has received orders from Levana to foil Cinder's efforts.
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
In the months before her one-way trip to Mars, Adri Ortiz is sent to Wichita to live with a elderly cousin and finds herself fixating on where she came from and the stories of two women who lived more than a hundred years earlier.
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Series:
Renegades volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
As Nova, Adrian, and the rest of their crew face escalating crime in Gatlon City, covert weapons and conflicting missions have Nova and Adrian questioning not only their beliefs about justice, but also their feelings for each other.
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Thrilling, imaginative, steam-punk version of WWI
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Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Amazing character development and scientific plot! Should be a YA book
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With a plot combining science and the supernatural, four kids are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla.
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Star rating for The Hunger Games
Series:
Hunger Games volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Notes:
As good as everyone said, had to beg to read Had me immersed in every thought, action, and emotion(usually pain-filled) of the main character, Katniss. Somewhat sad ending, hopeless and yet hopeful at the same time
Description:
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. "In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol...
Book cover for "The harp and the ravenvine"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Better than the first, unexpected twists and secrets
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While Horace and Chloe struggle to master new powers under the shadow of a rising adversary who threatens all Keepers, a faraway new Keeper, April, travels with a mysterious woman in the hope of fixing her damaged Tan'ji magical object.
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Notes:
better than I expected, many twists and turns, very imaginative
Description:
Stella's parents are on the first expedition to the uncharted lands of Solace, but Stella doesn't want to be left behind. Stowing away aboard the ship, she finds a mysterious boy who is also hiding, and he's keeping a very big secret. She must decide whether to trust him or risk the fate of the expedition.
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Amazing art! I completely understood the story without any words. Incredibly imaginative!
Description:
In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.

12. Risked

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Series:
The missing volume 6.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
never noticed the author's note before. filled with more on the life of the Romanov family. The book is actually very accurate other than the time travelers intervening.
Description:
Jonah, thirteen, and Katherine, eleven, travel through time to 1918 Russia just as Alexei, Anastasia, and the rest of Tsar Nicholas II's family is about to be executed. Author's note includes facts about the Romanov's and the mystery surrounding their deaths.
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Series:
Impyrium volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
some darker qualities, but a really well developed story and world
Description:
Two unlikely allies confront a conspiracy that is even bigger and more sinister than they imagine in this high-stakes fantasy.
Book cover for "Everything else in the universe"
Star rating for Everything else in the universe
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
In 1971, twelve-year-old Lucy Rossi's dad returns from Vietnam after losing part of his arm, and her whole family must learn to adjust to a new dynamic, but Lucy's friend Milo unknowingly helps her navigate through this difficult time of fear and uncertainty to realize she is much tougher than she thought.
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Series:
The Ability volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
While Chris and five other twelve-year-olds learn to make the most of their mental abilities in a secret, government-run school last used in 1977, twins Ernest and Mort are studying under someone with much more sinister motives.

16. Scumble

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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Mibs's cousin Ledge is disappointed to discover that his "savvy"--the magical power unique to each member of their family--is to make things fall apart, which endangers his uncle Autry's ranch and reveals the family secret to future reporter Sarah.
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5 stars
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When shadow creatures search for a secret cache of starstuff that fell to London many centuries ago, Wendy Darling employs the help of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys to protect the Sword of Mercy--the key that unlocks the vault where the starstuff is hidden.
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Having barely made it through the battle at the Centauri system with their lives, Liam and Phoebe awake on a mysterious ship in the middle of a dead universe. The ship bears the markings of a human starliner that disappeared decades ago--but even more disturbing than that is the massive alien machine floating in the starless space before them. A machine long abandoned but now showing signs of life. A machine that has begun speaking to Liam in a voice...
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Thirteen-year-old Bethany's parents have always been overprotective, but when they suddenly drop out of sight with no explanation, leaving her with an aunt she never knew existed, Bethany uncovers shocking secrets that make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
Book cover for "Origins of Olympus"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
4.5. much better than the previous three.
Description:
"A deadly plague has struck Olympus and is slowly aging and killing the Olympians. Emily can only stand by and watch as those she loves fade and die. But in one last desperate attempt to save those she loves, she journeys back to Earth to face the CRU, then back in time to confront Cronus, leader of the Titans and father of the gods"--