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• The Grandest Game

  Barnes, Jennifer Lynn,

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  A group of seven prize-seekers—including billionaire heiress Avery Grambs and Grayson Hawthorne—compete on a secluded island in a high-stakes, puzzle-driven contest where secrets, alliances, and rule-breaking could make or break the game.

• Not If I Save You First

  Carter, Ally

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  An exciting novel, about a girl stranded in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness with the boy who wronged her . . . as an assassin moves in.

• Ready Player One

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  Cline, Ernest

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  In a dystopian future where people escape reality through a vast virtual world called the OASIS, teenager Wade Watts enters a high-stakes competition to find a hidden Easter egg left by the game's creator—racing against powerful enemies for fortune,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Maze Runner Trilogy. Book 01, The Maze Runner

  Dashner, James, 1972-

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  When Thomas wakes up with no memory in a mysterious maze populated by other boys, he must navigate deadly creatures and unravel the secrets of the labyrinth to escape and uncover the truth about their captivity.

• Ranger's Apprentice. Book 01, The Ruins of Gorlan

  Flanagan, John, (John Anthony),

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  Young orphan Will is chosen as an apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and together they must uncover and confront a rising threat that could plunge the kingdom into war.

• Gone. Book 01, Gone

  Grant, Michael, 1954-

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  Everyone over the age of fifteen suddenly vanishes from a small California town, leaving the remaining kids trapped in a supernatural dome where new powers emerge, chaos reigns, and survival becomes a brutal struggle.

• Wolf by Wolf

  Graudin, Ryan

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  A racecar‑enthusiast Yael—a supernaturally altered survivor of Nazi experiments—enters a deadly cross‑continental motorcycle race to impersonate the former champion and assassinate Hitler at the finish line.

• Above the Black. Book 01, Sky's End

  Gregson, Marc J

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  Sixteen-year-old Conrad, exiled to the lowest caste after his mother's death by monstrous sky-serpents, enters a brutal, kill-or-be-killed competition among the ruling Trades to rescue his sister—only to uncover dark conspiracies and rebellion…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Alex Rider Adventure. Book 01, Stormbreaker

  Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-

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  In Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz, teenage spy Alex Rider is thrust into a deadly mission to uncover the truth behind a mysterious billionaire’s death and stop a catastrophic plan that threatens millions.

• Thieves' Gambit

  Lewis, Kayvion

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  Seventeen-year-old master thief Ross Quest enters a high-stakes global heist competition—where betrayal, deadly rivalries, and a potential romantic spark among elite teenage thieves—become the only way to save her kidnapped mother with one wish as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Grace Year

  Liggett, Kim

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  Every seventeen-year-old girl in a small Puritan community must survive a year exiled into the wilderness—a “grace year”—where hidden magic and dark rituals emerge, friendships splinter, and one girl's defiance threatens everything.

• Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves

  a Novel

  Long, Meg

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  On a frozen, ice-wracked planet, teenage pickpocket Sena Korhosen crash‑lands in a deadly 1,000‑mile sled race when she flees with a brutal fighting wolf—and must forge a bond with her reluctant companion to survive savage storms, monstrous beasts,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Am Number Four. Book 1

  Lore, Pittacus

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  A runaway alien teenager John Smith and his guardian evade deadly enemies on Earth as he discovers his emerging superpowers, forges unexpected alliances, and prepares to stand against the ruthless Loric assassins hunting him and his fellow Garde.

• I Am Still Alive

  Marshall, Kate Alice,

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  After her survivalist father is murdered and their cabin destroyed in the remote Canadian wilderness, 16-year-old Jess must rely on her wits—and the loyalty of her father’s dog—to endure brutal elements, hunt for food, and hunt down the man…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Graces

  McCauley, Kyrie

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  A troubled foster teen Liv poses as her perfect sister to land a luxury yacht trip with celebrity peers—only to be shipwrecked on a remote island where a mysterious predator and strange bodily mutations force them into a harrowing fight for survival…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Be Not Far From Me

  McGinnis, Mindy

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  Seventeen-year-old wilderness-savvy Ashley flees a college party after catching her boyfriend cheating, only to fall into a ravine deep in the Smoky Mountains—injured, alone, and fighting infection as she struggles for survival and self-discovery in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cherub. Book 01, The Recruit

  Muchamore, Robert

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  Twelve-year-old James Choke is recruited into the elite CHERUB spy agency after surviving his parents' murder, undergoing intense training, and embarking on undercover missions that test his courage, loyalty, and innocence.

• At the End of Everything

  Nijkamp, Marieke

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  A group of troubled teens at the Hope Juvenile Treatment Center are suddenly abandoned as a deadly plague locks down the world, forcing them to band together, ration dwindling supplies, and learn to trust each other in a desperate fight for survival.

• The Island

  Preston, Natasha

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  A group of social‑media teen influencers are invited to preview a lavish, gothic-themed amusement park on a man-made island—but when a violent storm cuts off escape and one of them vanishes, true-crime podcaster Paisley must untangle deadly secrets…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wilde Trials

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  Reed, Mackenzie

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  At Wilde Academy, Chloe Gatti, the only scholarship student, enters the elite Wilde Trials—a high-stakes competition offering a $600,000 prize—to fund her sister’s cancer treatments, but when she’s blackmailed and forced into an alliance with her…Read moreRead more of this annotation