iBLURB for Teens 2
Quote: You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime! John P. Grier
Divergent by Veronica Roth
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| The First of a Bestselling Trilogy |
In
Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five
factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue — Candor
(the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the
peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year,
all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the
rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her
family and being who she really is — she can't have both. So she makes a choice
that surprises everyone, including herself. During the
highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and
struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made.
Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense
psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. Soon she
discovers unrest and growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly
perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she
loves ... or it might destroy her. (You'll
be up all night with Divergent, a brainy thrill-ride of a novel.)
Under Wildwood by Colin Meloy & Carson Ellis
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| Book 2 of the Chronicles |
Ever since Prue McKeel returned home from the Impassable Wilderness
after rescuing her brother from the malevolent Dowager Governess, life has been
pretty dull. School holds no interest for her, and her new science teacher
keeps getting on her case about her dismal test scores and daydreaming in
class. Her mind is constantly returning to the verdant groves and sky-tall
trees of Wildwood #1, where her friend Curtis still remains as a
bandit-in-training.
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| Book 1 of the Chronicles |
But all is not well in that world. A hard winter has come and discord
reigns in the wake of the so-called Bicycle Coup. Dark assassins with
mysterious motives conspire to settle the scores of an unknown client. A titan
of industry employs inmates from his orphanage to work in his machine shop, all
the while obsessing over the exploitation of the Impassable Wilderness. Under a
growing threat, Prue is drawn back into Wildwood, where she and Curtis will
face their greatest challenge yet: to save themselves and the lives of their
friends, and to bring unity to a divided country. But in order to do that, they
must go under Wildwood. (A
breathtaking journey
under the Impassable Forest!)
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| A Master Storyteller |
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being
raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither
the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy — an ancient Indigo
Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of
ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.
But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man
Jack — who has already killed Bod's family... The
Graveyard Book
is a thinly disguised parody of, and a tribute to, The Jungle Book. Only, the
Indian Jungle here has been translated to an English graveyard. (Time to be spellbound)
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