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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Starving for more Hunger Games?

Carbon Diaries: 2015
Lloyd, Staci
In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing in a drastic bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old Laura documents the first year of rationing as her family spirals out of control.
TEEN LLO

The Compound
Bodeen, S. A.
Eli, the teenage son of a billionaire, has spent the last six years with his family in their massive underground compound, believing that a nuclear war has destroyed the outside world. With food supplies running low, Eli becomes both frightened and suspicious of his father, who seems to be hiding something.
TEEN BOD

Epic
Kostick, Conor
On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik persuades his friend to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik’s father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families. Sequal: Saga
TEEN KOS

Gone
Grant, Michael
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have “The Power” and are able to perform supernatural fears and those who do note.  Series: Hunger –Book 2, Lies –Book 3
TEEN GRA

Graceling
Cashore, Kristin
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Kasta struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. Sequel: Fire
TEEN CAS

Heir Apparent
Vanda Velde, Vivian
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself. 
TEEN VAN

The House of the Scorpion
Farmer, Nancy
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 140-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
TEEN FAR

The Hunger Games
Collins, Suzanne
In the future North America, where the rules of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss’ skills are put to the test when she voluntarily take her younger sister’s place.
Catching Fire – Book 2 and Mockingjay – Book 3
TEEN COL

Incarceron
Fisher, Catherine
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prison escape. Sequel: Sapphique
TEEN FIS

The Knife of Never Letting Go
Ness, Patrick
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and a mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony’s true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
Chaos Walking Trilogy: The Ask and the Answer and Monsters of Men
TEEN NES

Little Brother
Doctorow, Cory
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the after math of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
TEEN DOC

The Maze Runner
Dashner, James
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he find himself if he is to escape.
TEEN DAS

Nation
Prachett, Terry
After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have even known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.
TEEN PRA

Rash
Hautman, Pete
In a future society that has decided it would “rather be safe than free” sixteen-year-old Bo’s anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.
TEEN HAU

Salt
Gee, Maurice
Hari, one of the enslaved people from Blood Burrow, and Pearl, a member of the ruling families known as the Company, forge an unusual alliance and become reluctant traveling companions, as they undertake a desperate pilgrimage to save the world from a terror beyond their greatest imaginings.
TEEN GEE

Shade’s Children
Nix, Garth
In a savage post nuclear world, four young fugitives attempt to overthrow the bloodthirsty rule of the Overlords with the help of Share, their mysterious mentor.
TEEN NIX

Ship Breaker
Bacigalupi, Paolo
In a futuristic world, teenaged Mailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers  for a living, but when he find a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
TEEN BAC

The Sky Inside
Dunkle, Clare
Martin live I a “perfect world” under the protective dome of suburb HM1, where every year a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parent. And it’s all about to come crashing down because a stranger has come to take away all the little children, including Martin’s sister, Cassie, and no one wants to talk about where they have gone. Martin has a choice either to remain in the dubious safety of HM1, or to break out of the suburb into the mysterious land outside.
JF DUN

Storm Thief
Wooding, Chris
With the help of golem, two teenaged thieves try to survive on the city island of Orokos, where unpredictable probability storms continually change both the landscape and the inhabitants.
TEEN WOO

The Supernaturalist
Colfer, Eoin
In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that area invisible to most humans.
JF COL 

Taken
Bloor, Edward
In 2036, kidnapping rich children has become an industry, but when thirteen-year-old Charity Meyers is taken and held for ransom, she soon discovers that this particular kidnapping is not what it seems.
TEEN BLO

Tomorrow: When the War Began
Marsden, John
Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.
Book One on the Tomorrow Series
TEEN MAR

Uglies
Westerfeld, Scott
In Tally’s world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from ugly to supermodel gorgeous but with a price. Pretties –Book 2 and Specials –Book 3.
TEEN WES

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