Scott Westerfeld
1) Uglies
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Series
Uglies volume 1
Language
English
Description
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's...
2) Impostors
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English
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In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets close enough to begin to suspect something, and Frey must...
4) Afterworlds
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
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Impostors (Scott Westerfeld) volume 3
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English
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Raised to be her twin sister Rafia's body double and bodyguard, but now with new face and body Frey and her lover Col are determined to return to Shreve to rescue Boss X, a friend and ally in the rebellion of the free cities against people like Frey's father, ruthless ruler of Shreve; but Frey is troubled by things even beyond the dangers of her mission--confusion over her own identity, guilt over having killed her brother (even if he was trying to...
6) Shatter city
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Series
Impostors (Scott Westerfeld) volume 2
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English
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Assuming her twin's identity, Frey works to destroy her father, but when a rebel uprising strands her in a city that comes under attack, Frey must step out of the shadows to find her missing sister and take action against her tyrant father.
7) Behemoth
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Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships
8) Goliath
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Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love
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Midnighters volume 1
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English
Description
Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess.
10) Peeps: a novel
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Series
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English
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Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected
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Series
Midnighters volume 2
Language
English
Description
As they continue to battle evil creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight, Jessica and her new friends learn about Bixby, Oklahoma's shadowy past and uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches beyond the secret hour.
12) Blue noon
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Series
Midnighters volume 3
Language
English
Description
The five midnighters from Bixby discover that the secret hour is starting to invade the daylight world, and if they cannot stop it, the darklings will soon be free to hunt again.
14) Youngbloods
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Series
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Frey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice -- and using it to question everything her family stood for. Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world. But for over a decade, she's kept to the shadows, allowing her myth to grow even as she receded. Now she sees that the revolution she led has not created a stable world. Freedom,...
15) Horizon
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Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle. Horizon is the debut middle grade novel for Scott Westerfeld.
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Series
Succession volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of Fine Prey, Polymorph, and Evolution's Darling, follows T he Risen Empire with the next thrilling space opera in Succession, the Killing of Worlds. Cut off by an Imperial blockade of the planet, a Rix compound mind has guided a lone Rix commando, Herd, a single warrior backed by the intelligence of an entire planet, and pitted her against the Imperial army in a desperate attempt to break the blockade. Ten light-years...
17) Spill zone
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Series
Spill zone volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017-
Language
English
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"Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone's twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre...
19) The risen empire
Author
Series
Succession volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English