 | Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.69 Orson Scott Card's Masterpiece. My #1 all time favorite book. Plight of the modern day gifted kid, set in the future, in battle school.
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 | Shade's Children by Garth Nix
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 This one is good the first time. And the second and third and eighteenth. Post-apocalyptic, in a world where adults don't exist, these kids fight to save what's left of humanity.
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 | Ella Enchanted (Trophy Newbery) by Gail Carson Levine
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Very different from the movie, and sooo much better. Written for the younger people, but I'm in college and still love it.
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 | Tomorrow, When the War Began (The Tomorrow Series #1) by John Marsden
Buy used from: $0.01 Tomorrow Series, Book 1. One of my personal favorites ever. Australia is invaded while these teens are camping. They are forced into defending their lives and their country.
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 | The Dead Of Night (The Tomorrow Series #2) by John Marsden
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.46 Tomorrow 2.
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 | A Killing Frost (The Tomorrow Series #3) by John Marsden
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.85 Tomorrow 3.
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 | Darkness Be My Friend (The Tomorrow Series #4) by John Marsden
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.91 Tomorrow 4.
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 | Burning for Revenge (The Tomorrow Series #5) by John Marsden
Buy new: $13.26 / Used from: $0.74 Tomorrow 5.
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 | The Night is for Hunting (The Tomorrow Series #6) by John Marsden
Buy new: $16.00 / Used from: $3.90 Tomorrow 6.
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 | The Other Side of Dawn (The Tomorrow Series #7) by John Marsden
Buy new: $12.48 / Used from: $0.07 Tomorrow 7. The last in the series, and a seriously good ending. :)
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 | The White Mountains by John Christopher
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.73 Book 1 in Tripod Trilogy. Trilogy about Will's part in liberating the human race from its futuristic oppressors, who have thrown us back into medieval lifestyles. And oh so good...
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 | The City of Gold and Lead by John Christopher
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $2.00 Book 2 in Tripod Trilogy. Also very good.
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 | The Pool of Fire: The Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher
Buy used from: $0.01 Book 3 in Tripod Trilogy. Mm-mm good! Excellent ending. Not cheesy at all, and true to human nature.
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 | The Giver by Lois Lowry
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.02 Another classic young adult book. A world without variety or beauty gives birth to a unique individual. Follow his awakening.
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 | The Dark is Rising (The Dark is Rising Sequence) by Susan Cooper
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Also better for the slightly younger--middle school and under. It's another kid saving the world book, but it's better than most. Very different. If you like it, it's a series.
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 | The Girl Who Owned A City by O.T. Nelson
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 For the middle school age group, but I'm 20 and still enjoy it. All the adults are dead and the kids have to learn to survive on their own and form their own society.
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 | A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I know, so typically girly. But every now and then, crying is good. It's packed with emotion, which is what really gets me.
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 | Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, Vol. 1) by Tamora Pierce
Buy used from: $0.01 Another of Tamora Pierce's novels. It's a good one too.
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 | First Test (Protector of the Small) by Tamora Pierce
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Book 1, Protector of the Small. In a world where chivalry is anything but dead and magic is simply a reality, Kel strives to be the first female to openly become a knight.
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 | Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness Book 1) by Tamora Pierce
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $0.01 First of Daughter of the Lioness books. The best of Tamora Pierce.
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 | Trickster's Queen (Daughter of the Lioness, Book 2) by Tamora Pierce
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $0.08 Second of Daughter of the Lioness books. The best of Tamora Pierce.
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 | A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy used from: $0.01 A classic. Better when you're still young though. Middle school kids and younger.
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 | Many Waters (The Time Quartet) by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy used from: $0.01 Characters of A Wrinkle in Time. Set just before the time of Noah's Ark. If you know the story, you'll love seeing how L'Engle envisions its details. Plus it's just plain good.
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 | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $0.01 A surprisingly good girl book.
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 | The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Weird book that you'd think wouldn't fit in with these others, but it was actually good. All about seemingly unimportant connections between people.
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