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Bibliography: Smith, Andrew.  (2010). The Marbury Lens.  New York:  Feiwel and Friends.  ISBN: 978-0312613426 Plot Summary:  Coming home from a party, Jack is kidnapped by a predator.  He manages to escape telling  no one except his best friend, Connor.  Later when Connor and Jack stumble across the same man, he ends up dead.  Travelling to England [...]

Bibliography:  Bacigalupi, Paola.  (2010).  Ship Breaker.  New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 9780316056212. Plot Summary:  When teenage Nailer and his friend Pima find a luxury clipper ship stranded after a devastating hurricane, they figure this is their “lucky strike.”  They can sell the precious metal and other salvage  and never have to [...]

Bibliography: Ryan, Carrie. (2009). The Forest of Hands and Teeth. New York: Delacorte Books for Young Readers.  ISBN: 978-0385736817 (hardcover) 978-0385736824 (paperback) Plot Summary:  Mary feels trapped–her life is lived within a tall metal fence to keep out the Unconsecrated.  Girls either get married and have babies or join the religious village protectorate called the [...]