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The Young Adult Library Services Association recently released its annual list of "Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults." Find these on the second floor of the Duke Street Library, and ask a librarian for the complete list.

1 THE DIVINERS, by Libba Bray. Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when occult-based murders thrust her and her uncle, curator of the Museum of American Folklore, Superstition and the Occult, into the investigation.

2THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, by John Green. Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel's cancer is terminal. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

3 SON, by Lois Lowry. Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby and feels a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.

4WONDER, by R.J. Palacio. Auggie Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school -- until now. He's nervous about being the new kid in fifth grade at Beecher Prep.

5THE FIRE CHRONICLE, by John Stephens. Michael and Emma must track down the magical Chronicle of Life, while sister Kate must find a way back to the present from 1899.