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In the post-apocalyptic city of New 2, Ari Selkirk, who has discovered that she is a descendant of Medusa, is trying to keep at bay the evil growing inside her, but the goddess Athena will stop at nothing to possess Ari's power, provoking a monumental battle between good and evil.
In small-town Ohio, fifteen-year-old Jay Baker's popular new blog helps him navigate high school as he faces off against his mortal enemy, meets the girl of his dreams, and watches his parents' relationship implode.
Wary of romance following her mother's second divorce and resistering her friends' attempts to fix her up with the hottest guy in school, Piper's life gets complicated when she receives a series of Valentines from a secret admirer.
Felicita fakes her own suicide to escape from the strict confines of her aristocratic family and an arranged marriage, only to be confronted with the harsh realities of living in the slums and the ultimate discovery that the boy she has fallen in love with is plotting a rebellion to destroy her family.
Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her heavy responsibility and the futility of relying on advisors who surround her with lies as she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities.

 

 

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A delinquent sixteen-year-old girl is sent to live with her uncle for the summer, only to learn that he is a Grim Reaper who wants to teach her the family business.
When rogue Gypsy boy Freedom Smith runs into trouble with the law, he strikes a deal with the police: Instead of going to prison for a crime he didn't commit, he'll go undercover -- and underground -- using his incredible strength and boxing skills to infiltrate an evil, high-tech fight club known as The Bear Pit and save other street kids from the drug-manipulated death matches the Pit has in store for them.
When talented, dedicated fourteen-year-old Georgia Slade becomes a student in an elite Toronto ballet academy, her confusing feelings toward one of her teachers lead to disaster.
Four teenagers from two families--sisters Katie and Julie and brothers Alex and Kyle--meet every summer at a lakeside community in upstate New York, where they escape their everyday lives and hide disturbing secrets.
Wounded in Iraq while his Army unit is on convoy and treated for many months for traumatic brain injury, the first person Ben remembers from his earlier life is his autistic brother.

 

 

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 Batavia High School - 2012

Freshman

 

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Children of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Car by Gary Paulsen    

 

Sophomore

 

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Maze Runner by James Dashner

Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

  

Junior

 

Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson

Photo by Brady by Jennifer Armstrong

Mr. Lincoln's High-Tech War by Thomas B. Allen

 

Senior

 

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

The Gatekeepers by Jacques Steinberg