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Author
Language
English
Description
A young woman in nineteenth-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide, and she believes there is more than meets the eye, so in order to uncover the truth she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.
Author
Series
[Pledge trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Charlaina "Charlie" Hart has defeated the tyrant Queen Sabara and taken control of Ludania, only to have Sabara's soul fuse itself with her own.
43) Catch rider
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Despite her poor background and ferocious competition from more privileged girls, fourteen-year-old Sid pursues her dream of becoming a catch rider--a show rider who can ride anything--with help from her Uncle Wayne.
Author
Series
Weather Witch volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While Jordan Astraea is completing her brutal training to become Conductor of the massive airliner Artemesia, Rowen is forced aboard a different air vessel with a dangerous crew and cargo which could lead to revolution for the still-young United States.
45) Sky's end
Author
Series
Above the black volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades"--
Author
Language
English
Description
On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their sexuality. But beneath the glitz and superficial normalcy, a class war has begun, and it is nothing like the conventional portrayal of the decade. Against this backdrop Aaron Holland Broussard discovers the poignancy of first love and a world of violence he did not know existed. When Aaron spots the beautiful and gifted...
47) Captive
Author
Series
Blackcoat rebellion volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
While being forced by the Blackcoats to impersonate Lila Hart, the Prime Minister's niece, Kitty Doe finds herself imprisoned in Elsewhere, an inescapable detention area for criminals.
49) Ravencliffe
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ava Hall continues to learn more about herself and her heritage through her work in a New York City settlement house as well as through her social obligations with the Blythewood girls.
50) Red at the Bone
Author
Language
English
Description
"Two familes from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...
51) Dig two graves
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
While at a girls' empowerment camp, high school pariah Neve and her new best friend Diane joke about killing each other's bullies, and soon after returning home, Neve finds herself being blackmailed into committing murder.
53) Queen
Author
Series
Blackcoat rebellion volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
To defeat the corrupt government, Kitty Doe must expose Prime Minister Daxton's secret. Securing evidence will put others in jeopardy, including the boy she's loved forever and an ally she barely trust.
54) A worthy rebel
Author
Publisher
Northern Lights Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A young noblewoman tries to flea an arranged marriage and meets a kind peasant along the way.
55) Wings
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In this conclusion to the Black City trilogy, Natalie finds herself separated from Ash, who is hiding out from the Sentry government. But they'll never give up their hope of reuniting and their quest to bring an end to the terrible reign of Purian Rose"--
56) Belles
Author
Publisher
Poppy
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Isabelle loves her impoverished North Carolina beach community, but when her grandmother must enter a nursing home, Izzie is placed with distant relatives she never knew--a state senator and his preppy wife and children.
57) S.T.A.G.S
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A scholarship student at prestigious St. Aidan the Great School, Greer is delighted by an invitation to an exclusive weekend of "huntin' shootin' fishin'" until she learns she and the other misfits are the prey.
58) The summer wives
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after being banished from Winthrop Island, Miranda Schuyler returns to find justice for the man she once loved.
59) Secrets at sea
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
In "The Prince," Maxon reveals there was another girl in his life before America; and in "The Guard," America falls for Aspen Leger, a Six who has risen in the ranks to become a member of the royal guard.