Dodger by Terry Pratchett: A storm. Rain-lashed city streets. A flash of lightning. A scruffy lad sees a
girl leap desperately from a horse-drawn carriage in a vain attempt to escape
her captors. Can the lad stand by and let her be caught again? Of course not,
because he's . . . Dodger. Seventeen-year-old Dodger may be a street urchin, but he gleans a living from
London's sewers, and he knows a jewel when he sees one. He's not about to let
anything happen to the unknown girl—not even if her fate impacts some of the
most powerful people in England. From Dodger's encounter with the mad barber Sweeney Todd to his meetings with
the great writer Charles Dickens and the calculating politician Benjamin
Disraeli, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking account of adventure
and mystery. 
Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger: It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn
to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing
School. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia
is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper
manners--and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious
curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady.
So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young
Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite
what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies
learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance,
dress, and etiquette, but the also learn to deal out death, diversion, and
espionage--in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends
are in for a rousing first year's education. 
The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand: Victoria hates nonsense. There is no need for it when your life is perfect.
The only smudge on her pristine life is her best friend Lawrence. He is a
disaster—lazy and dreamy, shirt always untucked, obsessed with his silly piano.
Victoria often wonders why she ever bothered being his friend. (Lawrence does
too.)
But then Lawrence goes missing. And he’s not the only one. Victoria soon
discovers that the Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls is not what it appears to
be. Kids go in but come out…different. Or they don’t come out at all.
If anyone can sort this out, it’s Victoria—even if it means getting a
little messy.
Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi: Since she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a
knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered. This was worse. Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of
surviving in the outer wasteland—known as The Death Shop—are slim. If the
cannibals don’t get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She’s been
taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider
named Perry. He’s wild—a savage—and her only hope of staying alive. A hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as
sheltered and fragile—everything he would expect from a Dweller. But he needs
Aria’s help too; she alone holds the key to his redemption. Opposites in nearly
every way, Aria and Perry must accept each other to survive. Their unlikely
alliance forges a bond that will determine the fate of all who live under the
never sky. 
Pure by Julianna Baggott: Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the
Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she
lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost--how the world went
from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . .
. to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now,
at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to
either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used
as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the
run. There are
those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked: Pures. They are tucked safely inside
the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose
father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and
lonely. Different. He thinks about loss--maybe just because his family is
broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his
mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his
feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when
a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his
life to leave the Dome to find her. When Pressia meets Partridge, their
worlds shatter all over again.
Every Day by David Levithan: Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love
with the same girl. There’s never any warning about where it will be or
who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which
to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere. It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and
meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has
been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be
with—day in, day out, day after day. 
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth: When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first
thought is relief. Relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been
kissing a girl. But that relief doesn’t last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her
conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned
grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be
different. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well
enough alone (as her grandmother might say), and Cam becomes an expert at both.
Then Coley Taylor moves to town. Beautiful, pickup-driving Coley is a perfect
cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. She and Cam forge an unexpected and
intense friendship—one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge.
But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, ultrareligious Aunt
Ruth takes drastic action to “fix” her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the
cost of denying her true self—even if she’s not exactly sure who that is. 
Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith by Gabrielle Douglas: In the 2012 London Olympics, US gymnast Gabrielle Douglas stole hearts and flew high as the All-Around Gold Medal winner, as well as acting as a critical member of the US gold-medal-winning women gymnastics team. In this personal autobiography, Gabrielle tells her story of faith, perseverance, and determination, demonstrating you can reach your dreams if you let yourself soar.
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