Scott Westerfeld
1) Uglies
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Uglies volume 1
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English
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Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
2) Impostors
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Series
Impostors (Scott Westerfeld) volume 1
Language
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...
3) Horizon
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Horizon (Scholastic) volume 1
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English
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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.
4) Specials
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Uglies volume 3
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English
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When she is turned into a super-modelesque super-fighting machine, Tally, a former ugly, is ordered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid in a carefully engineered world of perfection where she refuses to play by the rules.
5) Behemoth
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Leviathan trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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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.
7) Swarm
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Series
Zeroes volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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As they celebrate the opening of their underground nightclub, the Zeroes, six teenagers with unique abilities, learn about the sinister power of Swarm, who uses a crowd's rage to kill--and who loves killing Zeroes.
8) Leviathan
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Leviathan trilogy volume 1
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English
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In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
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Succession volume 1
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In this space opera of the 21st century, Zai and pacifist senator Nara Oxham must face the challenge of the of a new race of humans who want to overthrow the powerful, undead Emperor of the empire.
10) Peeps
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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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Midnighters volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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This is the first book in New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld's Midnighters series.
A few nights after Jessica Day arrives in Bixby, Oklahoma, she wakes up at midnight to find the entire world frozen. For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. And only a small group of people—Jessica included—is free to move about then. They are The Midnighters.
...12) Goliath
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Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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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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Series
Succession volume 2
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The immortal Emperor can grant a form of eternal life-after-death, creating an elite known as the Risen, and so has ruled the eighty worlds unchallenged for sixteen hundred years. The only thing he fears are the Rix, machine-augmented humans who worship AI compound minds. They are dedicated to replacing his prolonged rule with an eternal cybernetic dynasty of their own. Brilliant tactician Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx faces a suicide...
14) Shatter city
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Series
Impostors (Scott Westerfeld) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When the world sees Frey, they think they see her twin sister Rafi. Frey was raised to be Rafi's double, and now she's taken on the role--without anyone else knowing. Her goal? To destroy the forces that created her. But with the world watching and a rebellion rising, Frey is forced into a detour. Suddenly she is stranded on her own in Paz, a city where many of the citizens attempt to regulate their emotions through an interface on their arms. Paz...
15) Nexus
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Series
Zeroes volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After the shocking conclusion to Swarm, the Zeroes are scattered, on the run, and desperate. They're up against challenges from within and from the world around them, and one thing is certain-- an epic showdown is guaranteed.
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Series
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English
Description
This is the first book in New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld's Midnighters series.
A few nights after Jessica Day arrives in Bixby, Oklahoma, she wakes up at midnight to find the entire world frozen. For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. And only a small group of people-Jessica included-is free to move about then. They are The Midnighters.
The Secret Hour is the first book...
17) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
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English
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The New York Times best-selling author of Uglies discusses his latest series - which takes readers on a fantastical adventure around the world, set in an alternate-history World War I, complete with living airships - with Matthew Cody (Powerless) and middle graders and teens ages 12 and up. The event includes a conversation with the audience. Performance playlist: reading by Scott Westerfeld; conversation between Scott Westerfeld and Matthew Cody:...
19) Mirror's Edge
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English
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Rafi's return to the city of her birth isn't going to be an easy one. She and her love Col must surge on new faces and bodies in order to infiltrate Shreve by dropping from the sky and landing undetected. Rafi's sister Frey — no longer a twin in features, but still a twin by birth — is waiting with a rebel army outside.
Are the sisters on the same side ... or are they playing to their own agendas? If their father is deposed from Shreve, who will...
20) Zeroes
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Series
Zeroes volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Told from separate viewpoints, this book tells the tale of teens Scam, Crash, Flicker, Anonymous, Bellwether, and Kelsie--all born in the year 2000 and living in Cambria, California--who have superhuman abilities that give them interesting but not heroic lives until they must work as a community to respond to a high stakes crisis.