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Click on the links below to find out if these books are available at your local County Library. If not, place them on hold, and they'll be delivered to your Library where you can pick them up.

Pretties

by Scott Westerfeld

After being surgically transformed into a "Pretty", vain Tally realizes she wants more and is troubled by confused memories of her past. Grades 9+

Among the Hidden

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. Grades 4-8

The Plain Janes

by Cecil Castellucci

When Jane moves to the suburbs, she thinks her life is over, but she meets three friends who form a club P.L.A.I.N.E. Can art really save a group of misfits from high school? Grades 7-10

Enders Game

by Orson Scott Card

An expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth's complete destruction. Grades 9+

Hope Was Here

by Joan Bauer

Crackerjack waitress Hope and her aunt Addie, diner cook extraordinaire, organize the school and the town to campaign for their boss G. T. Stoop who runs for mayor against wicked and corrupt Eli Millstone. Grades 6+

The Power of One

By Bryce Courtenay

Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, endures an abusive boarding school with the help of a boxer, a chicken, a pianist, and a group of African prisoners. Grades 6+

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. Grades 9+

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

by E.L. Konigsburg

Upon leaving an oppressive summer camp, twelve-year-old Margaret Rose Kane spearheads a campaign to preserve three unique towers her great-uncles have been building in their backyard for more than forty years. Grades 5+

Hoot

by Carl Hiaasen

Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site. Grades 5+

Wide Awake

by David Levithan

In the not-too-distant future, when a gay Jewish man is elected president of the United States, sixteen-year-old Duncan examines his feelings for his boyfriend, his political and religious beliefs, and tries to determine his rightful place in the world. Grades 9+