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1. Last pick
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Last pick volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Three years ago, aliens invaded Earth and abducted everyone they deemed useful. The only ones spared were those too young, too old, or too "disabled" to be of value. Living on Earth under the aliens' harsh authoritarian rule, humanity's rejects do their best to survive. Their captors never considered them a threat--until now. Twins Sam and Wyatt are ready to chuck their labels and start a revolution. It's time for the kids last picked to step into...
2. Savvy
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Savvy (Ingrid Law) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Finished in TWO days!
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Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
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Chronicle of the dark star volume 3.
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...
4. The trap
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3.3 stars
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Strange, but good all the same. Four kids figure out how to leave their bodies while sleeping, but it's not creepy at all. Lots of friendship and teamwork. First crushes.
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In 1963, when twins Henry and Helen and their best friends, Alan and Nicki, try to find Alan's missing brother, Carl, they stumble into the knowledge of their "subtle forms" that can separate from their physical bodies, and into a criminal's plot to make himself immortal--at any expense.
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4.3 stars
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When Alfie McQuinn, the notorious jewel thief, is killed on a job, his last words to his son, March, are to "find jewels" and this instruction leads the boy to Jules, the twin sister he never knew he had--and the perfect partner to carry on the family business.
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Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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Emily and her friends think they'll find the help they need in Cielis, but something isn't right. Streets that were once busy are deserted, and the townspeople who are left live in fear. Emily is soon escorted to the Academy where she's expected to compete for a spot on the Guardian Council, a group of the the most powerful Stonekeepers. But as the number of competitors gets smaller and smaller, a terrible secret is slowly uncovered--a secret that,...
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Under their skin volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn and their robot stepsiblings, Jackson and Ava, try to save humanity from killer robots.
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Children of exile volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In the second book of Children of Exile, Edwy Watanaboneset is sent by his father to Refuge City to be with the siblings he didn't know he had. He didn't get a chance to say goodbye to his newly made friend Rosi or her brother Bobo. In Refuge City, living with his spoiled brother and sister, Edwy knows he has to save them and convinces Kiandra (sister) to help him. He discovers that Rosi was captured for announcing to marketplace that Edwy was missing and asking for help. She escaped from prison and is now running from the alien enforcers torward the border she doesn't know is there. The question is: can Edwy and his friends get there in time?
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Many surprises await twelve-year-old Edwy Watanaboneset when the Freds return him to Cursed Town, including that he has siblings in Refuge City who he will join in boarding school.
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Under their skin volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and most important, why their lives are in danger.
10. The stonekeeper
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Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 1.
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4.5 stars
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Emily's and Narvin's mother is kidnapped and dragged into a strange and magical world where, it seems, the children's great-grandfather has been before. It's up to the children to set things right and save their mother's life.
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Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 2.
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4.8 stars
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After chasing the monster that kidnapped their mother, Emily and Navin find themselves in a magical world of man-eating demons and shadowy enemies, where they must learn to control an amulet given to them by their grandfather.
Emily and her brother Navin head for Kanalis to find an antidote for the poison that is killing their mother.