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"Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha's Vineyard. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Now, in 1805, over a hundred years later, many people there -- including Mary -- are deaf, and nearly everyone can communicate in sign language. Mary has never felt isolated. She is proud of her lineage. But recent events have delivered winds of change. Mary's brother died,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Serenity has a recurring nightmare, but things get real when her parents take her brother, Peace, to Duppy Island for "treatment" and Serenity is confronted by the creepy Dr. Whisper and the faceless douens -- children who are trapped between the living and the dead. --
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Sleepwakers ; 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Chronic sleepwalker Samantha "Sam" Fife, thirteen, discovers a whole world of disembodied SleepWakers after undergoing an experimental treatment.--
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2020.
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English
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"Project Apogee had one mission: to create biologically engineered perfect teenagers. The teenagers were supposed to be expressions of a perfect genetic mapping of traits, an example of the New Human. But when the teens go before the project committee, they are found to be utterly normal and unremarkable - a disappointment. Then there's Alex, the lost teen who failed years ago, who might just be the most remarkable of them all." --
5) Evolution
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Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Shay, her manipulative father, Xander, and the other survivors are hiding out at the secret Multiverse compound in Scotland, where Shay still hopes to find some trace of the real Callie, her boyfriend's missing sister, and heal the breach between herself and Kai--who remains her best chance to escape her father's clutches and stop the deadly contagion."--
6) Never rest
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Publisher
Lethe Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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After five years, nineteen-year-old Jake Margate is ready to give in to his terminal leukemia, but his mother finds a rogue doctor persuing radical treatments that have startling consequences.
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"When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his sort-of girlfriend Grace thinks they can use his new found brilliance to save their middle school from the new principal, who is conspiring to get it shut down." --
9) Remember me
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Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"When Blue Owens wakes up with the overwhelming feeling that something is wrong with her memory, she meets Adam Mendoza, who explains that she paid to have her unpleasant memories erased in order to "start over"--and that begins Blue's journey to recover her memories and understand the truth of why she felt the need to lose them in the first place."--
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Giselle and Ingrid are the twin daughters of Doctor Victor Frankenstein, but they are very different people, and when they inherit his castle in the Orkney Islands, Giselle dreams of holding parties and inviting society--but Ingrid is fascinated by her father's forbidden experiments.
11) The grief keeper
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English
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"After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador." --
Marisol and Gabi Morales are detainees of the United States government, caught crossing the U.S. border to escape the gang violence in their country after their brother was murdered. When Marisol learns that they are going to be sent...
12) Outrage
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Singular menace ; 2
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English
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"Shay Remby and her gang of renegades have struck a blow to the Singular Corporation by rescuing Shay's brother and Fenfang, a girl who literally knows too much. Can the knowledge brought by these ex-captives help Shay and her friends expose the crimes of this corrupt corporation?" --
13) The secret deep
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Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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When Aster wakes alone on a tropical island, she has no idea what's happened, why she's there, or where to find her younger sister, Poppy. Her last memories are blurred. All she can remember is being on a boat with her aunt and other members of the ecovillage where she was sent to live after the death of her mother. But Sam, who once met the sisters on a plane, makes links between the mystery of their disappearance and suspicious happenings in his...
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Hollow Fields ; 1
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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"Lucy Snow was hoping to attend the elementary school in town; however, she somehow found herself enrolled in Miss Weaver's Academy of the Scientifically Gifted and Ethically Unfettered, where students are turned into mad scientists and evil geniuses."--
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Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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""Believing that she is a carrier of the deadly disease they are calling the "Aberdeen flu," Shay has surrendered herself to the authorities and along with other survivors becomes an unwilling test subject in the effort to find a cure; but when the lab is attacked she and a few of the others with the strongest supernatural abilities escape, and her boyfriend Kai is determined to find her, while ghostly Callie, the true carrier, will atone for her...
16) Neverwake
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Series
Dreamfall ; 2
Publisher
Harper Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"For most people, nightmares always come to an end. But for Cata, Ant, and the others, there may be no escape from theirs. After an experimental treatment meant to cure their insomnia went horribly wrong, the teens were dragged into a shared dreamworld where their most terrifying fears became reality. The six of them have no way of waking up. And they're beginning to realize that if they die here, they might actually die in the real world. One of...
17) Dream fall
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Series
Dreamfall ; 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Cata Cordova suffers from such debilitating insomnia that she agreed to take part in an experimental new procedure. She thought things couldn't get any worse... but she was terribly wrong. Soon after the experiment begins, there's a malfunction with the lab equipment, and Cata and six other teen patients are plunged into a shared dreamworld with no memory of how they got there. Even worse, they come to the chilling realization that they are trapped...
18) Orphan eleven
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English
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"In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her." --
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Lion Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"For their forty-fifth anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure--Upgrade Cell--but the results are not at all what they'd hoped: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original Hank and Molly coexist in the same world as their clones? In Upgrade Soul, McDuffie Award-winning creator Ezra Claytan Daniels asks probing questions about what shapes...
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Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"The second amazing volume of the SCIENCE, BAD book of the new millennium. The battle for global supremacy is underway and the bad men of the Manhattan Projects will only accept one outcome: World domination" -- from publisher's web site.