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Falling Out of Place by M. G. Higgins -- Gabby Herrera is not like her perfect sister, Celia-straight-A student, obedient, responsible. Her parents don't get it. They don't get her C-average report card. Her love for basketball. The three of them think anything is possible if you just try hard enough. "Well, I have tried. It's not possible". She can't be who she is unless she's just like them. And if she's not like them, she's not a real person. She's a broken person. A broken Herrera. And that is unacceptable.







Plague Riders by Gabriel Goodman -- After the Dust Settled #3 - Fourteen-year-old Shep Greenfield is a plague rider. He rides his horse between the makeshift colonies along the Wisconsin River, delivering homemade medicine to people infected with nightpox, a deadly, highly communicable disease. While trading meds for much needed grains, Shep finds evidence that suggests his parents -- who disappeared in an attack a year ago -- may be alive in a distant settlement called Dusty Hollow, where the nightpox is most prevalent. When he learns that the disease-ridden settlement is about to be burned down, Shep plots to find his parents.

River Run by Dierdre Black -- After the Dust Settled #4 - On the banks of the frozen Mississippi River, in a post-apocalyptic America, Freya and Finn head south in search of a place called Norlins, but first they must dodge the slavers and avoid starving to death.

Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd -- Dr. Moreau's daughter, Juliet, travels to her estranged father's island, only to encounter murder, medical horrors, and a love triangle.

Whirlwind by Robert Liparulo -- Dreamhouse Kings #5 - To save the world from destruction, rescue their kidnapped mother, and battle the evil Taksidian, the King siblings try to control the mysterious portals in their house that send them to different time periods.






Neferet’s Curse by P.C. Cast -- Beautiful Emily longs for a beau in 1890's Chicago, but her father's strange behavior and forbidding commands rule her life. At last, Emily is able to escape, and begins a new life - and begins a climb to true power - as Neferet!

Pieces by Chris Lynch -- Eighteen-year-old Eric deals with the loss of his older brother Duane by meeting three of the seven recipients of Duane's organs a year after his death, and pondering who they are to him, and he to them.