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3) Matched
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, whom to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?
4) Incarceron
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells and corridors, but metal forests, dilapidated cities, and wilderness. It has been sealed for centuries, and only one man has ever escaped. Finn has always been a prisoner here. Although he has no memory of his childhood, he is sure he came from Outside. His link to the Outside, his chance to break free, is Claudia, the warden's daughter, herself determined to escape an arranged marriage....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
Author
Publisher
Oni Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
53 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the heroic princess Amira rescues the kind-hearted princess Sadie from her tower prison, the two band together to defeat a jealous sorceress with a dire grudge against Sadie.
7) Clover
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her father dies within hours of being married to a white woman, a ten-year-old black girl learns with her new mother to overcome grief and to adjust to a new place in their rural black South Carolina community.
Author
Series
Ring and the crown volume 1
Language
English
Description
In an alternative past where the Franco-British Empire controls the world's only source of magic, Princess Marie-Victoria, heir to the throne, and Aelwyn Myrddyn, a bastard mage, rekindle their childhood friendship as they plot to save Marie from a loveless, political marriage.
9) 1001 cranes
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.
10) The caged graves
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867 to marry a man she has never met, seventeen-year-old Verity Boone gets caught up in the a mystery surrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a dangerous hunt for Revolutionary-era gold.
11) The book of Ivy
Author
Series
Book of Ivy duology volume 1
Language
English
Description
In an apocalyptic future where girls from the losing faction are forcibly married to boys of the winning faction, sixteen-year-old Ivy is tasked to kill her fiancé Bishop, although when she finally meets him, he is not the monster she has been led to believe.
12) The one
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"As her Selection approaches its finish, America must decide where her heart truly lies--and Prince Maxon must pick one winner to wear the crown"--
Author
Series
Keeping the castle volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In the early 1800s, in a remote corner of England with almost no eligible young men, the eight students at the Winthrop Hopkins Female Academy uncover a mystery while learning all the skills necessary to become a good wife.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg's life changes when her big sister elopes following the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, and she's forced to grapple with both her family's prejudice and the antisemitism she experiences, as she defines her own beliefs. Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves the party. Her family's Jewish bakery runs into financial trouble, and her older sister has eloped with a young...
Author
Language
English
Description
Meet Prince Maxon before he fell in love with America, and a girl named Amberly before she became queen. See the Selection through the eyes of a guard who watched his first love drift away and a girl who fell for a boy who wasn't the prince. Features four novellas from the world of Kiera Cass's Selection series, two of which appear here in print for the first time. Additional content includes new scenes from The Selection, The Elite, and The One;...
17) Requiem
Author
Series
Delirium trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
"While Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous Wilds, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland."--
Author
Series
Miss Malarkey volume 7
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Miss Malarkey is behaving very strangely, giggling in the halls and teaching lessons about marriage customs, as her students worry that she is quitting teaching.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Betsy and the great world: twenty-one-year-old Betsy Ray goes on a solo tour of Europe and meets handsome Italian Marco, but can't help thinking about her ex-boyfriend Joe.
Betsy's wedding: when Betsy returns from Europe, Joe proposes, but the young woman soon learns that married life isn't always romantic.
20) Pregnant pause
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Married, pregnant, and living at a "fat camp" in Maine, sixteen-year-old Eleanor has many questions about her future, especially whether the marriage will last and if she should keep the baby.
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