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The Young World
By Chris Weitz (YA Weit)
Jefferson, with his childhood friend Donna, leads a tribe of teenagers in New York City on a dangerous quest to find an antidote for a mysterious illness that wiped out all adults and children.

Lexile: N/A, F&P: N/A, HS
Unraveling
By Elizabeth Norris (YA Norr)
If Janelle Tenner wants to avenge her father's death and stop the end of the world, she's going to need to uncover Ben's secrets--and keep from falling in love with him in the process.

Lexile: 840L, F&P: N/A, HS
This Dark Endeavor
By Kenneth Oppel (YA Oppe)
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.

Lexile: 690L, F&P: Z, HS
There Will Be Lies
By Nick Lake (YA Lake)
Shelby Cooper, nearly eighteen, has been overprotected by her single mother all her life, but after a car accident, Shelby's mother steals her away from the hospital, revealing that Shelby's father is not dead, but rather a violent man who promised to hunt them down.

Lexile: N/A, F&P: N/A, HS
Shelter
By Harlan Coben (YA Cobe)
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.

Lexile: HL530L, F&P: Z, MS/HS
Runner
By Carl Deuker (YA Deuk)
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.

Lexile: 670L, F&P: N/A, HS
Monument 14
By Emmy Laybourne (YA Layb)
Six high school kids (some popular, some not), two eighth graders (one a tech genius), and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside, while outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill, seems to be tearing the world--as they know it--apart.

Lexile: HL590L, F&P: N/A, HS
The Masked Truth
By Kelly Armstrong (YA Arms)
Riley is haunted by the brutal murder of the couple she was babysitting for. Max is suffering under the shadow of a life-altering diagnosis he doesn't dare reveal. The thing either of them wants is to spend a weekend away at a therapy camp alongside five other teens with "issues". But that's exactly where they are when three masked men burst in to take the group hostage.

Lexile: N/A, F&P: N/A, HS
How Angel Peterson Got His Name
By Gary Paulsen (YA B Paul)
Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel.

Lexile: 1180L, F&P: Z, MS/HS
Crash Into You
By Katie McGarry (YA Mcga)
Hiding secrets from her family that expects her to be perfect, Rachel Young falls in love with Isaiah Walker, a foster youth who hides his own secrets until their shared love for street racing puts their lives in jeopardy. Lexile: N/A, F&P: N/A, HS
Choker
By Elizabeth Emma Woods (YA Wood)
Teenaged Cara, solitary and bullied in high school, is delighted to reconnect with her childhood best friend Zoe whose support and friendship helps Cara gain self-confidence, as her classmates start dying. Lexile: HL670L, F&P: N/A, HS
Breaking Beautiful
By Jennifer Shaw Wolf (YA Wolf)
Allie is overwhelmed when her boyfriend, Trip, dies in a car accident, leaving her scarred and unable to recall what happened that night, but she feels she must uncover the truth, if it could hurt the people who tried to save her from Trip's abuse. Lexile: HL650L, F&P: N/A, HS
Boy Nobody (AKA, I Am the Weapon)
By Allen Zadoff (YA Zado)
Sixteen-year-old Boy Nobody, an assassin controlled by a shadowy government organization, The Program, considers sabotaging his latest mission because his target reminds him of the normal life he craves. Lexile: HL450L, F&P: N/A, HS
After the Woods
By Kim Savage (YA Sava)
When a paroled predator attacked her best friend, Liv, in the woods, Julia fought back and got caught. Liv ran, leaving Julia in the woods for a terrifying 48 hours that she remembers only in flashbacks. And after the woods is just the beginning. Lexile: N/A, F&P: N/A, HS