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1) Black heart
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 3
Language
English
Description
Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, is torn between his decision to work for the federal government and his love for Lila, who has joined her father's criminal organization.
3) Red glove
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 2
Language
English
Description
When federal agents learn that seventeen-year-old Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, may be of use to them, they offer him a deal to join them rather than the mobsters for whom his brothers work.
5) Rot & Ruin
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.
7) White Cat
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A "dangerously, darkly gorgeous fantasy" (Cassandra Clare), from New York Times bestselling author Holly Black.
Cassel comes from a family of curse workers—people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, all by the slightest touch of their hands. Since curse work is illegal, they're all criminals. But not Cassel. He hasn't got the magic touch, so he's an outsider—the straight kid in a crooked...
Cassel comes from a family of curse workers—people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, all by the slightest touch of their hands. Since curse work is illegal, they're all criminals. But not Cassel. He hasn't got the magic touch, so he's an outsider—the straight kid in a crooked...
8) Taken
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the isolated town of Claysoot, every male is mysteriously "Heisted" on his eighteenth birthday, and seventeen-year-old Gray Weathersby is determined to figure out why"--
Author
Series
Summer novels (Jenny Han) volume 3
Language
English
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Description
The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo goes on the run with Innocent, his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money, and after facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer that Deo finds renewed hope.
11) Bone Gap
Author
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
12) Bits & pieces
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-two short stories, eleven of which were previously published, based on the Rot & Ruin series in which fifteen-year-old Benny Imura and his friends fight a zombie plague in a post-apocalyptic America. Includes a related comic book script.
13) Dark angel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When his older brother is released from prison, seventeen-year-old Jeff's family secret is revealed, causing upheaval in his home, school and love life.
14) Bottled up
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
A high school boy comes to terms with his drug addiction, life with an alcoholic father, and a younger brother who looks up to him.
16) Dust & decay
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In post-apocalyptic America, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura and his friends set out into the great Rot & Ruin hoping to find a better future but are soon pitted against zombies, wild animals, insane murderers, and the horrors of Gameland.
Author
Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As Day and Eden struggle with who they've become since their time in the Republic, a new danger creeps into the distance between them, and Eden finds himself drawn into Ross City's dark side, where his legendary brother may not be able to save him.
Eden Wing has been living in his brother's shadow for years. Even though he's a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, and a brilliant inventor, most people know him only as Daniel Wing's...
18) Vandal
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
173 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The love-hate relationship between high school musician Will and his older brother Jason is fueled by the abuse Will suffers at Jason's hands but a devastating accident changes the everything for the boys and their family.
19) A good long way
Author
Publisher
Pinata Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
105 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three Mexican American teenagers in a small-town in Texas struggle with difficulties at home and at school as they try to attain the elusive status of adulthood.
Author
Publisher
DK Ink
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
101 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When he sees all the attention which his parents and people in the neighborhood give to Jacob, eleven-year-old Paul struggles with his feelings toward this younger brother who has Down syndrome.
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