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Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

Airin Marks has always wanted to learn to fly. One summer she meets the headstrong young Ry Truman at the skydiving school Ry has opened near Airin's home, and the sparks fly.

A collection of illustrated poems by Rich Michelson that describe the rowdiest kids in class, who are animals.

Mia, a teenager whose father has a heart attack the same year her mother dies of cancer, deals with teenage concerns, such as crushes, friendships, and family embarrassment while observing everyday situations with humor and increasing maturity.

Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents.

After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.

A graphic novel adaptation of the Neil Gaiman story in which Coraline, looking for excitement, ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

In a series of diary entries, British teenager Georgia Nicolson describes her continuing romantic woes as she is pushed toward a decision about the three boys in her life.

A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing German shepherd.

After his anger erupts into violence, fifteen year-old Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.

Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him.

A seemingly average teenage girl named Morgan begins to experience strange powers and feelings, making her crush, Cal, a Wiccan himself, wonder if she could be a blood witch, a member of one of the Seven Great Clans.

The bat's earliest ancestors, "chiropters," face great evolutionary changes, lead by the youngest son of the colony leader, Dusk, who is the only one that has the ability to fly and see during the night using his echo vision.

In 1960s Britain, a young boarding school student breaks rules to maintain a friendship with a reclusive teen who lives in a hut by the sea; but after his friend falls ill, they learn a dark secret that changes both of their lives.

From the Sydney, Australia, home of a grandmother she believes is a witch, fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino is magically transported to New York City, where she discovers that friends and foes can be hard to distinguish.