41 Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke, is given upfor dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce, nomadicpeople, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny. 42 In a remote corner of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, ayoung witch-to-be named Tiffany Aching teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clanof rowdy, 6-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off asinister invasion from Fairyland. 43 Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for herleukemia-stricken sister, teenage Anna begins to question her moral obligationsin light of countless medical procedures, and decides to fight for the right tomake decisions about her own body. 44 Five novels steeped in British and Welsh mythology followthe story of 11-year old Will Stanton, seventh son of a seventh son and last ofthe Old Ones, in his quest to vanquish the powers of the Dark. 45 In the Graceling realms, rare people are Graced with aspecial skill — cooking, fighting, singing, building, lying — and all theGraced are marked with eyes of two different colors. Katsa, niece of thetyrannical king, is graced with fighting — or so she thinks. 46 Katherine and Michael, along with various friends andacquaintances in suburban New Jersey,discover the possibilities and limitations of love and personal commitment —and some interesting names for body parts. 47 Yearning for knowledge and power, Sparrowhawk, a youngstudent at the School for Wizards, becomes overanxious and tries his dangerouspowers too soon, unleashing a terrible evil throughout the land, as he preparesfor his destiny as the greatest sorcerer in the history of Earthsea. 48 The series that began with Eragon follows poor farm boy Eragon as he growsinto a master swordsman who fights alongside his dragon, Saphira, to help savethe Empire from evil and darkness. 49 Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normallife as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is thePrince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princessand the heir to the throne. 50 Eleven-year-old Alanna wants to be a knight. Her brotherThom wants to be a wizard. So she disguises herself as a boy and the two switchplaces, leading Alanna to a lifetime of adventure as the Kingdom of Tortall'sfirst Lady Knight. 51 While going through the possessions of a deceased guestwho owed them money, an innkeeper and her son find a treasure map that leadsthem across the Spanish Main to a notoriouspirate's treasure. This classic novel introduced the world to the dreaded LongJohn Silver. 52 In a dystopian near future America, the government hasclassified love as a disease. All citizens, once they turn 18, receive agovernment operation to cure the unwanted emotion. Lenalooks forward to her operation and a safe, predictable and happy life — until,just a few months before her 18th birthday, she meets the mysterious Alex andfalls in love. 53 When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an eliteAmerican boarding school in Parisfor her senior year of high school, she goes reluctantly — and meets theamazing Etienne St. Clair. Will their year of near-misses lead to love? 54 In the first volume of the "Hush, Hush" saga,high school sophomore Nora Grey must deal with her feelings for Patch, aclassmate — and biology partner — who turns out to be a fallen angel. 55 When 17-year-old Ginny receives a bequest — a packet ofmysterious envelopes — from her favorite aunt Peg, she leaves New Jersey tocrisscross Europe on a whirlwind tour and scavenger hunt that transforms herlife. 56 An ambitious new student at Manhattan'sprestigious Executive Pre-Professional High School, Craig Gilner suddenlydiscovers that he has become an average kid among a group of brilliantstudents, a discovery that leads to increasing anxiety and a battle withclinical depression, during which he encounters a motley crew of fellowpatients battling their own problems. 57 After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895,16-year-old Gemma returns to England,after many years in India,to attend a finishing school. There, she becomes aware of her magical powersand ability to see into the spirit world. But what will she find in thatstrange world? 58 After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explorean abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering thatthe children once kept there — including his own grandfather — may have beendangerous, and may be still alive. 59 For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanicquarter of Chicago,life is an endless landscape of concrete and rundown tenements. She tells herstory in a series of vignettes, as she tries to rise above the hopelessness ofher surroundings and come into her own power. 60 When a sinister carnival comes to town just beforeHalloween, two boys unearth the terrifying and horrible secrets that lurkwithin Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show — and learn the consequencesof wishes, as an evil force is at work in Green Town, Ill.
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