Shenandoah High School

Dragon Quest
By Donita Paul

I just got put in charge of a child because of Bardon aka the snitch. We get sent on a quest to find my mother. Dar gets attacked and almost killed, and now we have to travel in disguise to help a meech under Risto’s control. I think they know we’re coming. We keep getting attacked and they seem to be targeting me for some reason. And on top of all that I have two mothers?
One is beautiful but very cold and mean. The other isn’t as beautiful but she is kind and powerful. Which one is my real mother? Why doesn’t the meech just leave? Are we going to save everyone before it’s too late?.

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The Inheritance Games
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes

All I wanted was to survive, not to stand out, just to
get by after mom passed. Tobias Hawthorne added me in
his will. I never thought a girl like me would be put into a
stranger's will. The Hawthornes’ have to be the most
interesting people I have ever met. To get everything while
this family gets nothing in comparison. Why? Why would he
do that? I never even met the guy yet, here I am in Texas
trying to figure out why. Will I find out or will I die trying? I
guess I’ll have to wait and see.

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Light of Day
By Allison Van Deipen

Gabby:

The minute I talked to him. I knew he was the one. The one I wanted to be with forever. He has saved me from something extremely dangerous. Every time we fight, all I can think about is, should I text him and apologize, should I wait until he texts me? I finally found out his name. It is X. But is that really his name? Are there things he is hiding from me? Will our relationship last? When Bree goes missing, Gabby wants to find her, but she cannot do that without the help of X. Who is safe?

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DragonKnight
By Donita Paul

I finally left the castle to go on sabbatical for six months. Six months of glorious peace and quiet, away from the nobles and take the oath to be a knight. But instead I find a granny, a child who has no idea of the real world and a small woman who looks like a mouse. We keep picking up people and getting attacked by monsters that shouldn’t even be here. We are running out of time. The second the Wizard’s plume gets to the other side the knights will sleep forever. We have to get there in time. Why can’t I just have a peaceful trip?

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The Beauty of Darkness
By Mary Pearson

Lia
Darkness is soothing, and the moments that you get in darkness can sometimes mean the most. Those stolen moments before battle with someone you need, are what make you more eager to fight. I want to reveal the people who my kingdom thinks they can trust and make them
see that people aren’t who they say they are. The promise of death is on everyone's fingertips, especially my own. I must fight for what I believe, not what anyone thinks that I should believe. But during battle, who will I reach for? Rafe, or Kaden?

The Walls
The walls hear everything, we hear the fighting, the lies, the betrayals. And yet, even the walls come tumbling down at some point. Everyone has their breaking point, and these people here had reached it long before coming here and are still trying to hide it. But I fear that
something worse is coming. There is a darkness within the walls that we cannot recognize, it is unfamiliar paint to us. The darkness grows as the days go on, and when things come down to the clash of a sword or the voice of reason, which will be chosen? Who will come out victorious, the
darkness, or the light?

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Fear Street: The Beginning
By R.L. Stine

Cory Brooks: I fall for perfect, incredible Anna only to find out she is missing.

Meg Dalton: My friend Evan dies mysteriously and I am trying to discover how I can uncover the truth with terrifying threats behind the death.

Della: I go to fear island and learn the terrifying threats to confront about the past and the incident between me and a stranger.

Mark: my friend Cara Burroughs who came home to find out both of our parents have disappeared, plunging them into a nightmare of chaos that neither of us predicted.

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The Art of Breaking Things
By Laura Sibson

My name is Skye. I'm 17 years old and I'm going to college to be an artist. But I have a secret. A secret so great that I'm scared of what might happen if I ever tell. My mother has gotten back together with Dan, her ex-boyfriend, and what I thought to be my step father. Or at least that's what he was supposed to be. Now that he is back I'm afraid to leave home and follow my dreams. Emma, my little sister is about to turn 12, the age that I was when it happened. I don't want to leave her here with that man, that monster, who betrayed my trust. What am I going to do? Read "The Art of Breaking Things" to find out!

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The You I've Never Known
By Ellen Hopkins

I've always hated that my dad can't stay in one place for very long. After mom left us, he doesn't want to plant roots anywhere. I know he always tells me that he's the only family I'll ever need, but I want to meet people my age and have friends my age. That's why when we bought a house in a small California town I was over the moon. Finally a chance at a normal life. I get to be a normal teenager in a normal high school who has normal friends, but maybe things aren't so normal after all. Is it possible that dad isn't who i always thought he was... even worse is it possible that I'm not who I thought I was?

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Speak: The Graphic Novel
By Laurie Halse Anderson

High school is the worst. It's even more horrible when you are the most hated person in the entire school. My name is Melinda Sordino, and the week before school started I was invited to this big senior party by my best friend Rachel Bruin. While I was at the party something very bad happened to me, and I freaked and called the cops. I didn't know what to do! Everyone evacuated the party and the ones that weren't so lucky lost scholarships to colleges and basically had their lives ruined, and it's all because of me. That's why everyone hates me at my school. I've just got to survive the ninth grade, hopefully.

Read Speak the graphic novel by Laurie Halse Anderson

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The Loop
By Ben Oliver

I've been sentenced to execution for a murder I did not commit. I did it for my sister- I couldn't let her live the rest of her life in a place like this. Some day, I will be deleted; my molecules will be dismantled and there will be no trace of me left. But lately, the grueling daily routine has been broken. The government-issued rain didn't come last night. There are rumors around the courtyard about a revolution, or a war of some kind. And Wren, the warden, received an odd message from the government that, frankly, she wasn't supposed to see. Will this war finally be our chance to be free? What will become of the outside world and our families? And what happens if Tyco Roth is freed- the inmate who's very expressive about his desire to see me dead?

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The Mary Shelly Club
By Goldy Moldabsky

I’m with Matthew when he enters her house. He creeps around making precise and determinate noises to scare her.

I hear her come down the stairs. I’m with Matthew when there is a kerfuffle in the kitchen.

I see the knife glinting, and going into Matthew.
I see him dead.
Who am I?
I’m the mask worn by Matthew when he broke into Rachel's house and was killed.

A year later, Rachel joins the Mary Shelly Club. A club or horror movie enthusiasts who pull fancy, well thought out pranks, called fear tests.
But I keep showing up to all of the fear tests.
I’m not supposed to, I’m not in the plan.
Who is using me to try and scare Rachel?
Why?

Read The Mary Shelly Club by Goldy Moldabsky.

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For One More Day
By Mitch Albom

My name is Chick Benetto, and I have decided to commit suicide. I have lost everything. My daughter will not talk to me anymore- she didn't even invite me to her wedding. My mother passed away several years ago, and I never got the chance to apologize for all of my wrongdoing to her. My job is unfulfilling; I used to be a baseball prodigy, but it all fell apart and now I work a grueling office job. So here I am, on top of the water tower of my childhood home town, and I plan to jump. Will I get the chance to see my mother again? Can I right my wrongs? Does my past as a professional baseball player, as a son, or as a father hold any significance anymore? The only way to find out is to jump.

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Rules of Attraction
By Simone Elkeles

I know, I know. I fled Mexico to come to America. I know that If I did I would come live with Alex. Of course when I get there Alex is all goody goody with his girlfriend. I expected him to go out with me, but should of known he changed. I start school tomorrow for the rich. That's going to be real "fun" besides the fact Alex got me a helper named Kiaria. I'm really going to bug her.

Later on after a couple weeks I start getting feelings, but I'm the type of guy to get feelings. Every time I would pull a prank or do something to Kiaria she would come back 2 times harder. No one has ever done that to me. Maybe she will change me, I hope not.

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Graceling
By Kristin Cashore

Nothing is going right. Grandfather is still missing,
and my grace keeps getting stronger and changing; it's
starting to give me a headache. Who would take him, and
what was the Lady Katsa doing in Murgon court, so far from
Randa? Why didn’t she want to kill me? Murgon was very
suspicious holding me for being Lienid. And not for what
people know of my grace. I’ll just have to go to Randa’s City
next in my search. She might know some news of where Grandfather
is, and maybe she will spar with me.

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The Companion
By Katie Alender

Mom tells me that she brought a companion to live with me, Margot. She is supposed to help take care of me while I’m sick. My name is Aggie, and I’m suffering from this rare illness that has left me almost zombie-like. Margot seems nice, she’s an orphan, her family just died in a terrible accident. She’s adjusting to life here well. But things at Coperland Hall start getting weird. What is going on? Who is behind it? Will Margot help me recover from my puzzling illness? Read The Companion to find out.

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The Future of Us
by Carolyn Mackler and Jay Asher

My name is Josh and the year is 1996 and my best friend, well old best friend, just got the internet. But when we set it up, we see a website called Facebook. After scrolling through we see our future selves, our future lives on this website. I am happy with my future and want to make it happen, but my friend Emma doesn't like what she sees and wants to change it no matter what. I want to stay friends with her, but she is going too far to change her future. I just want us to be friends; again will this future website bring us together or push us apart for good?

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Twilight
By Stephanie Meyer

In Washington State a small town named Forks exists under a near constant cover of rain. It is to this town and its omnipresent shade I now exile myself. I detest Forks.... It is here though at Forks High school that i meet him, Edward Cullen. And about three things I am absolutely positive. First, Edward is a vampire. Secondly, there is a part of him, and I don't know how dominant that part might be, that thirsts for my blood. And third, I am unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

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Twilight
By Stephenie Meyer

I moved back to Forks to be closer to my dad, but little did I know what kind of impact that would have on me. He was mysterious. He was almost... dark. He would change his mood, his eye color. His skin is icy cold. He doesn't eat or drink anything. He doesn't go out in the sunlight. Is it possible? No. There's no such thing...right? I keep thinking and wanting to know if he and his family are normal. They don't do normal things. They just seem like they're not...human.

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