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1) The toll
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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English
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Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder. -- from Amazon.
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Denton Little volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
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Living in an alternate world where everyone knows the day they will die, Denton Little survives his death date and finds himself separated from his family and chased by a ruthless Death Investigation Agency.
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Darkening volume 1
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English
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"Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught by the queen's soldiers, they gave her a choice: death by the hangman's axe, or death by the Storm that surrounds the city and curses anyone it touches. She chose the Storm. And when the queen's soldiers--led by a paranoid prince--catch up to Vesper's father after twelve years on the run, Vesper will do whatever it takes to save him from sharing that...
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Series
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Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Between the time the Thunderhead came to sentience and Scythe Goddard decided something needed to change, there were hundreds of years when humans lived in a world without hunger, disease, or death and Scythes acted as the living instruments of population control.
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Hazel Wood series volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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With Finch's help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother's dark legacy. Now she and the rest of the dregs of the fairy tale world have washed up in New York City, where Alice is trying to make a new, unmagical life. But something is stalking the Hinterland's survivors-and she suspects their deaths may have a darker purpose. Meanwhile, in the winking out world of the Hinterland, Finch seeks his own adventure, and-if he can find...
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Grimrose girls volume 2
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English
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"At Grimrose Académie, the fairy-tale deaths continue. And unless the curse is broken, one of the girls could be next. Nani, Yuki, Ella, and Rory have discovered the truth about the curse that's left a trail of dead bodies at Grimrose. But the four still know nothing of its origins, or how to stop the cycle of doomed fates. And each girl harbors her own secret. One is learning why she was brought to the school. One struggles to keep her new and deadly...
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Twisted tales (Liz Braswell) volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death. But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not willing to give Shang up easily. With the help of Shang's great lion guardian ShiShi, Mulan must traverse Diyu to find Shang's spirit, face harrowing obstacles, and leave by sunrise--or become King Yama's prisoner forever. Moreover, Mulan is still disguised as the...
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Sisters of the salt volume 1
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English
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In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last -- the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge -- and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed...
9) Scorpion
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Mayfly volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jemma, Lady, and Pico all left the Holy Wood to seek answers to the End, and when they find the Old Guys—the only adults to have survived the original wipeout of everyone over the age of seventeen—they think they've found help at last. But there's a lot the Old Guys aren't telling them. In fact, some of them don't seem interested in solving the End at all and just want Jemma and her friends to leave. Meanwhile, war is brewing among the...
10) Mayfly
Author
Series
Mayfly volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Jemma has spent her life scavenging tools and supplies in her tribe's small enclave outside what used to be a big city. Now she's a teen, and old enough to become a Mama. Making babies is how her people survive-in Jemma's world, life ends at age seventeen. Survival has eclipsed love ever since the Parents died of a mysterious plague. But Jemma's connection to a boy named Apple is stronger than her duty as a Mama. Forced to leave, Jemma and Apple...
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These violent delights volume 1
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English
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In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.--
12) Early departures
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2020.
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English
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What if you could bring your best friend back to life--but only for a short time? Jamal's best friend, Q, doesn't know that he died, and that he's about to die again. He doesn't know that Jamal tried to save him. And that the reason they haven't been friends for two years is because Jamal blames Q for the accident that killed his parents. But what if Jamal could have a second chance? A new technology allows Q to be reanimated for a few weeks before...
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Series
Denton Little volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"In a world where everyone knows the day they will die, a teenage boy is determined to outlive his upcoming expiration date"--
14) Woven
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A princess and a ghost set out on a journey to find a magic needle that can sew the ghost back to his life.
Author
Publisher
Interlude Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ari Wyndham lost her best friend in the sea. Everybody told her it was an accident, but Ari can’t forgive herself. Her own life is cut short when a tiger-snake delivers a deathly bite, and a beautiful, ghostly and strangely familiar young woman appears, summoning Ari's soul to the underworld. Ari, however, refuses to go. Though she knows there will be a terrible price to pay for her transgression, the mysterious guide chooses to...
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Grimrose girls volume 1
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English
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After the mysterious death of their best friend, Ella, Yuki, and Rory are the talk of their elite school, Grimrose Académie. The police ruled it a suicide, but the trio are determined to find out what really happened. When Nani Eszes arrives as their newest roommate, it sets into motion a series of events they couldn't have imagined. As the girls retrace their friend's last steps, they uncover dark secrets about themselves and their destinies, discovering...
17) Scythe
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Series
Arc of a scythe volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Science Fiction [Middle School Readers]
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"In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
18) The Remedy
Author
Series
The Program. Prequels volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Quinn provides closure to grieving families by taking on the short-term role of a deceased loved one, until huge secrets come to the surface about Quinn's own past.
19) Skin of the sea
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English
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Transformed by the goddess Yemoja into a Mami Wati, an African mermaid charged with collecting the souls of those who die at sea, Simi goes against the gods to save a living boy, Kola, from drowning.
20) Uncanny
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Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Cora awakens with no memory of her stepsister Hannah's death despite witnessing it the night before, she is forced to work with an AI counselor, who determines that Hannah's death was no accident.
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