Neal Shusterman
1) Scythe
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Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 1
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Description
In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (gleaned) by professional reapers (scythes). Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythe's apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation they must learn the art of killing and come to understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe's apprentice. And when it becomes clear that the...
2) Thunderhead
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Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 2
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Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
4) The toll
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Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 3
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"Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder"--
7) Game changer
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Transported into other dimensions by a seemingly random hit, a young football player visits alternate worlds that evolved differently in accordance with respective belief systems.
8) Unwind
Author
Series
Unwind dystology volume 1
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Description
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.
10) Dry
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years humans lived in a world without hunger, disease, or death, with Scythes as the living instruments of population control. These stories travel the timeline as the Arc of a Scythe goes on-- meeting new heroes, new foes, and some figures in-between. -- adapted from jacket
12) Everlost
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Description
After Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash they end up in Everlost, a limbo between live and death. Nick feels that he has found a home, but Allie will stop at nothing, even skinjacking, to break free.
14) UnDivided
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Series
Unwind dystology volume 4
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Description
Three teens band together in order to sway the government to repeal all rulings in support of a procedure in which unwanted teenagers are captured and are unwound into parts that can be reused for transplantation.
15) UnWholly
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not...
17) Everwild
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Description
Nick, known as the dreaded "Chocolate Ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
Nick, known as the dreaded "Chocolate Ogre," is trying to find and rescue all of the children in Everlost, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are making dangerous...
18) Dread locks
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Series
Darkfusion volume 1
Description
Accustomed to a carefree existence, fifteen-year-old Parker Baer meets the girl next door and finds his life taking a menacing turn as he begins to absorb some of her terrible powers.
19) Roxy
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Two siblings get caught up in a wager between two manufactured gods, Roxicodone and Adderall, in this new thriller inspired by the opioid crisis"--
Author
Series
Unwind dystology volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Description
After the destruction of the Graveyard, Connor and Lev are on the run, seeking a woman who may be the key to bringing down unwinding forever while Cam, the rewound boy, tries to prove his love for Risa by bringing Proactive Citizenry to its knees.