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Chasing Orion Chasing Orion Kathryn Lasky In 1952, when Georgie is eleven years old, her family moves to a new Indiana neighborhood where her teenaged neighbor has polio and is in an iron lung. OL121816W
Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation Matt Myklusch Twelve-year-old Jack, freed from a dismal orphanage, makes his way to the elusive and impossible Imagine Nation, where a mentor saves him from dissection and trains him to use his superpower, despite… OL13837070W
The pirate of kindergarten The pirate of kindergarten George Ella Lyon Ginny's eyes play tricks on her, making her see everything double, but when she goes to vision screening at school and discovers that not everyone sees this way, she learns that her double vision can… OL15041439W
Epitaph Road Epitaph Road David Patneaude In 2097, men are a small and controlled minority in a utopian world ruled by women, and fourteen-year-old Kellen must fight to save his father from an outbreak of the virus that killed ninety-seven p… OL15451696W
Quaranteen Quaranteen Lex Thomas When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers David and Will and the other students soon break into gangs that fight each other for survival and the hope of escaping their quarant… OL16318145W
Partials Partials Dan Wells The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials--engineered organic beings identical to humans--has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus t… OL16361041W
Paradox Paradox Ammi-Joan Paquette When Ava finds herself on a desolate alien planet with no memory of her past, she must survive and discover her mission to save the Earth from a fearsome virus. OL16572000W
Sparkers Sparkers Eleanor Glewwe Marah Levi, skilled in music and languages but consigned to the lower class of a magician-run society, teams up with wealthy magician boy Azariah to discover a cure for a tragic disease sweeping thro… OL17068093W
Wasteland Wasteland Susan Kim Welcome to the Wasteland. Where all the adults are long gone, and now no one lives past the age of nineteen. Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan’s post-apocalyptic debut is the first of a trilogy in which … OL17643718W
Inhuman (Fetch #1) Inhuman (Fetch #1) Kat Falls America has been ravaged by a war that has left the eastern half of the country riddled with mutation. Many of the people there exhibit varying degrees of animal traits. Even the plantlife has gone f… OL17766175W
A death-struck year A death-struck year Makiia Lucier When the Spanish influenza epidemic reaches Portland, Oregon, in 1918, seventeen-year-old Cleo leaves behind the comfort of her boarding school to work for the Red Cross. OL17836493W
My cold went on vacation My cold went on vacation Molly Rausch A little boy wonders about all the places his cold might have traveled once it went away. OL18618231W
The Blazing Star The Blazing Star Erin Hunter,Wayne McLoughlin,Allen Douglas To survive, you must grow and spread like the Blazing Star. In the aftermath of the first great battle, the grounds of the four trees have been stained with blood and every cat has lost denmates … OL19671358W
Triple pet trouble Triple pet trouble Megan McDonald,Erwin Madrid Fans of Judy Moody and Stink will thrill when they recognize the secondary pet characters from the series: Toady (T.P. club mascot), Mouse (family cat), and Jaws (Venus fly trap) taking center stage,… OL20011969W
The giant The giant Lex Thomas "Gonzalo, now released from the high school quarantine, travels across a ravaged America looking for his beloved girlfriend Sasha"-- In the violent early days of the quarantine Gonzalo joined a gang… OL20037193W
Holding Up the Universe Holding Up the Universe Jennifer Niven Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed “America’s Fattest Teen.” But no one’s taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom’s death,… OL20037217W
Spare and found parts Spare and found parts Sarah Maria Griffin Nell Crane has never held a boy's hand. In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts--an arm, a leg, an eye--Nell has always been an outsider. Her father is the famed sc… OL20042201W
The Divide The Divide Elizabeth Kay While hiking on the Continental Divide of Costa Rica, a young boy with a heart condition falls into a magical otherworld full of fantastical creatures. OL5284264W
Because of Anya Because of Anya Margaret Peterson Haddix While ten-year-old Anya faces the difficulties of losing her hair to alopecia, her classmate Keely learns how to stand up for what she knows is right. OL548187W
The year my mother was bald The year my mother was bald Ann Speltz Clare keeps a journal that describes the medical treatments her mother undergoes for breast cancer, her family's experiences, and her own feelings and concerns. Includes a list of resources. OL5955082W
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