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//In the After and//

//The Fifth Wave// The aliens are coming and it's worth reading about. I//n the After// is about two girls, one a teenager and one a child who have survived the attack of man eating aliens by remaining silent in their secluded apartment for years. When they are rescued they think their problems are over, but the utopian society they join isn't what it seemed. In //The Fifth Wave//, the aliens have unleashed wave after wave of destruction on Earth. The Fifth Wave has started: aliens that look just like humans, but have only one goal- to kill the few humans left alive. Is there anyone left to trust?



Conor is having a very bad time. His father is long gone, and now that his dad has a new wife and baby, Conor is gradually losing contact with him. His mother is undergoing yet another round of chemotherapy and she is always sick and tired. Even more disturbing, is the nightmare that haunts him almost every night. In his nightmare the large yew tree in the cemetery behind his house is turning into a monster and coming to speak to him each night. Through three, strange stories the monster helps Conor to understand what is happening in his life and what the nightmare means. This beautifully written story combines fairy tale, horror story and fable. This is a story that stays with you a very long time.



It's Berlin, Germany in the early 1930s and Hitler has just come to power. Even though everything the Nazis stand for frightens all Jews living in Germany, for 14 year old Karl the political situation only makes number six on the things that worry him. His father's business, his school and the beautiful Greta who lives in the same apartment building all concern Karl far more. Karl doesn't even think of himself as a Jew; he doesn't look anything like the picture of a "typical" Jew that the Nazis hate, and his family has never been religious. When his life begins to crumble under the Nazi regime he isn't prepared. Rescue comes from an unlikely person.Max Schmerling, a boxing champion and national hero makes a deal with Karl's father to give Karl boxing lessons. Karl learns to protect himself and, as the violence against Jews escalates, to protect his family. When Karl has to ask his mentor and hero for help, he is left to wonder how far friendship goes when the world has gone insane.

Jacob knew his family had secrets, especially his grandfather, but when he travels back to the island his grandfather fled to during World War II he discovers the secrets are more than even he expected. One of the best horror, time travel, science fiction titles I've ever read. The Keystone, State, the Coal State, the Quaker State : all nick names for Pennsylvania but who would think it was the Weird State? This strange travel guide directs travelers to the sites of unexplained phenomena throughout Pennsylvania. We all know the story of our founding fathers and how they worked to create our country, but do you know anything about their wives, sisters and daughters? What were the women doing while the men were off establishing a new country? Find out about the remarkable women who raised a nation. No one knew why Hannah had killed herself. Then Clay got a box filled with cassette tapes made by Hannah before her death to explain why she took her own life and he finds out he is one of the thirteen reason Hannah made this devastating choice. Katniss has always been a survivor. When her father is killed in the mines and her family is starving, she learns to hunt with a bow and arrow to feed them. When her mother can't deal with their hard life Katniss learns to care for her and her little sister. Katniss knows what to do to stay alive. When the drawing is held for the next participant in the annual Hunger Games and Katniss' s little sister is selected, she knows she can't let her go and be killed. Katniss offers to take her place. Katniss's sacrifice is almost certain suicide. Twenty-four teenagers from across the Panem are sent into the arena and they must kill or be killed- only one person can survive. It's a fight to the death. Can Katniss survive this? When Tommy wakes up all he can remember is his name, age and nothing else. When the doors to his cell slip open he joins other 16 year olds who have no memory of the past either All they know is that each day they must attempt to get through the maze that encircles the Glades. The maze is full of danger and not everyone who enters comes out. Can Tommy survive? Why was he sent there? Who was he before he was //The Maze Runner?//

//I//n futuristic Chicago, society is divided into five factions, Dauntless, Abnegation, Erudite, Amity and Candor. Beatrice must choose the faction she will spend the rest of life with. Should she choose Abnegation and stay with her family or should she follow her heart? She doesn't know what to do, but she does know she must keep one fact hidden - she doesn't truly fit in any faction because she is //Divergent.// Two best friends in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. When only one is left behind, she must choose. Should Cassie follow Lia into death or learn to live without her friend? Can you ever stop once you are a //Wintergirl//?

Written by a 13 year old Japanese boy who is autistic, this books gives us a look into what makes these special people tick. It is moving and touching and will open your eyes to what every day is like for some of the people around us.

Mary lives in a small village surrounded by fences. Outside the fence, zombies roam, searching for the living. The Sisters, who run the village, say this village is all that is left of human civilization and no one knows if that is true. No one has gone outside of the fence and ever returned, at least not as a living human. Mary doesn't know if what the Sisters tell them is true, but she longs to go and see if the stories her mother told her about the outside world could be real. Is there anything but death beyond the fence? This is the first book in the best zombie trilogy out there right now!