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The First Rule of Punk
By: Celia C. Pérez

Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.

Stargazing
By: Jen Wang

Moon's family has moved in next door to Christine's, which means Moon and Christine have graduated from friends to best friends. With that new title comes new secrets--and Moon confesses to Christine that she sometimes has visions of celestial creatures who give her messages from space, telling her that Earth is not her true home. 

The Fire Within
By: Chris d'Lacey

When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career.

Percy Jackson & The Olympians (Series)
By: Rick Riordan

Twelve-year-old dyslexic Percy Jackson goes to summer camp where he sees images of Greek gods and goddesses everywhere even when no one else can. Percy learns he is the child of a famous god right in the middle of an intense battle as the gods try to topple each other.

Legend
By: Marie Lu
(YA TITLE)

In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.

Uglies
By: Scott Westerfeld
(YA TITLE)

Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time.

Number the Stars
By: Lois Lowry

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

A Night Divided
By: Jennifer Nielsen

When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped on the eastern side where they were living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West--four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father on a viewing platform on the western side and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom.

Rangers Apprentice (Series)
By: John Flanagan

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.

Fablehaven (Series)
By: Brandon Mull

Kendra and Seth find themselves in the midst of a battle between good and evil when they visit their grandparents' estate and discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures.