Amos Alonzo Stagg High School Media Center

The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard is the winner!

Forgive Me, Leonard Peac**k - Matthew Quick
In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. I want to say good-bye to them properly. I want to give them each something to remember me by. Today is Leonard Peac**k's birthday. It is also the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather's P-38 pistol. Maybe one day he'll believe that being different is okay, important even.

Fake ID - Lamar Giles
Nick Pearson (not his real name) and his family are on their last lifeline. Stepton, an anonymous Southern town, is their final chance to stay out of trouble and avoid being removed from the witness protection program. In Stepton he befriends high-school journalist Eli Cruz, who is leading a one-man crusade to unearth the truth behind “Whispertown.” But when Eli ends up dead, it throws Nick into an investigation.

Emmy and Oliver - Robin Benway
Emmy and Oliver were the best of friends up until the third grade, when Oliver disappeared, leaving their community forever changed. Emmy lives with the consequences of Oliver's kidnapping, as her parents smother her with rules and restrictions meant to keep her safe. But then one day, Oliver is back. Oliver thought that his mother had abandoned him, when in fact his father kidnapped him. He doesn't know how to bridge the time gap and find a place to belong in this
community.

A Court of Thorn and Roses - Sarah J. Maas

Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a fiery passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever.

Challenger Deep - Neal Shusterman

Caden Bosch lives in two worlds. One is his real life with his family, his friends, and high school. There he is paranoid for no reason, thinks people are trying to kill him, and demonstrates obsessive compulsive behaviors. In his other world, he's part of the crew for a pirate captain on a voyage to the Challenger Deep, the ocean's deepest trench. Slowly, Caden's fantasy and paranoia begin to take over, until his parents have only one choice left.

Caged Warrior - Alan Lawrence Sitamor

In run-down Detroit, 16-year-old McCutcheon Daniels's mother has left, and his druggie, lowlife father is training him to be a champion in a mixed martial arts ring-sometimes dubbed human c**k fighting. The teen is forced to compete in these bloody and dangerous matches for the Mafialike Priests, where his father racks up thousands in gambling dollars. McCutcheon gets a pittance that he uses to lovingly care for his five-year-old sister, Gemma.

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