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    • By: Marie Lu
    • Narrated by: Mariel Stern, Steven Kaplan
    • Series: Legend, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,405 ratings
    • What was once the Western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, 15-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles....

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    • By: John Green
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 662 ratings
    • When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night - dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows her. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q - until day breaks and she has vanished....

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    • By: Gary Paulsen
    • Narrated by: Luke Daniels
    • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • Fourteen-year-old Terry has parents who never paid him much attention. So when they both disappear after one of their all-too-frequent arguments, Terry isn’t exactly eager for them to come home....

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    • By: Brittany Cavallaro, Emily Henry
    • Narrated by: Julia Whelan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • Thelma and Louise gets remade in this powerful, darkly funny teen novel from acclaimed authors Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry. Two teenage girls who have had enough of the controlling men in their lives take their rage on the road to make a new life for themselves....

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    • By: Joya Goffney
    • Narrated by: Marcella Cox
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • From Joya Goffney of Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry comes a stirring YA coming-of-age, best-friends-to-lovers romance about a girl named Nikki who plans to run away from small-town Texas but ultimately finds that her oldest friend, Mal, just might be the one who’s been there for her all along.

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    • A Modern Tale of Faerie
    • By: Holly Black
    • Narrated by: Renee Raudman
    • Series: Modern Faerie Tales, Book 2
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 621 ratings
    • Holly Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and thoroughly enjoyable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Meg Elison
    • Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Underprivileged and keenly self-aware, SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn't used to being noticed. Except by mean girls who tweet about her ragged appearance. All she wants to do is indulge in her love of science....

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    • By: Sarah Dessen
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Morton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Caitlin can't afford to leave this dreamland, this half-sleeping state where everything and everyone can be kept at arm's length....

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    • A Vow. a Risk. A Dilemma. A Murder. (They All Had a Reason, Book 7)
    • By: Michele Leathers
    • Narrated by: Brogan Werder
    • Series: They All Had a Reason, Book 7
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The stakes have never been higher. The games are do or die. Cory’s life has become one big gamble, and he’s on a path he never intended to take. Cory must decide whether he's willing to risk his life to save his friends and the one he loves, or save himself.

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    • By: Angie Thomas
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Series: Garden Heights, Book 3
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,731 ratings
    • Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri’s got massive shoes to fill....

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    • By: Martine Leavitt
    • Narrated by: Ali Ahn
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • When 16-year-old Angel meets Call at the mall, he buys her meals and says he loves her, and he gives her some candy that makes her feel like she can fly. Soon she's working the streets....

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    • By: Gene Stratton-Porter
    • Narrated by: Mary Starkey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • This is the sequel to Freckles - the moving story of a young girl whose kindness and wholesome philosophy brightens the lives of everyone she meets....

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    • By: Katie McGarry
    • Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Tara Sands
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 08-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 567 ratings
    • No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms....

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    • By: Matt de la Pena
    • Narrated by: Henry Leyva
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • When it happened Miguel was sent to Juvi. The judge only gave him a year in a group home. The judge had no idea that he'd actually done Miguel a favor....

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    • By: Coe Booth
    • Narrated by: Barrie Buckner
    • Series: Tyrell, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • An astonishing new voice in teen literature, writing what is sure to be one of the most talked-about debuts of the year....

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    • Raising Kane
    • By: Darrien Lee
    • Narrated by: Ryan Nikko
    • Series: Denim Diaries Series, Book 5
    • Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Fifteen-year-old Kane Alexander is growing up in a single-parent home after her mother abandons the family. Her father is forced to take on two jobs to support his family, and the responsibility of caring for her two younger siblings is placed on Kane....

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    • By: Carl Deuker
    • Narrated by: Nick Walther
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Lazarus "Laz" Weathers has always been shy, and his issue with stuttering when he speaks hasn't helped. Stuck in a Seattle trailer park, Laz finds baseball helps him escape from the world of poverty and drugs. Then he gets an opportunity to pitch for the rich kids across town....

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    • By: Lauren Myracle
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • When her best guy friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, 16-year-old Cat sets out to discover who in her small town did it....

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    • By: Sharon G. Flake
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • In Sharon Flake's latest and unflinching novel, The Life I'm In, we follow Charlese Jones, who, with her raw, blistering voice speaks the truths many girls face, offering insight to some of the causes and conditions that make a bully....

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