Norman Loves the Lake: An ABC Book
by Debbie Hoven

Norman Loves the Lake takes young readers on a journey through the year and the alphabet with Norman, the lake loving lab. I was charmed by Hoven's illustrations and rhyming verse.

5 To 1
by Holly Bodger 

In India in the year 2052, there is a ratio of 5 boys to every 1 girl. This has caused games where boys compete to win a wife. This book is written from the perspectives of Sudasa (in free verse) and Kiran (in prose.) Sudasa is a free-willed teen who does not want to take a husband; Kiran would like to escape the city and search for his mother. Kiran is forced to take part in the games. While he plots his escape, Sudasa must decide whether to marry or flee.

Atlantia
by Ally Condie    

The world has become so polluted that an underwater city was built. Two teen twin sisters, Rio and Bay, live in this mecca. The sisters’ mother, who was a powerful leader, has recently died. At a certain age, all teens must decide whether to go above or stay below. One person must stay below as a successor to carry on the family lineage. Rio has always longed to see “above,” but has made a pact to stay below with her sister. When Bay unexpectedly chooses to go above, Rio is stranded below with no explanation. She decides that she must find some way to get above to reunite with her sister.

Beta
by Rachel Cohn

I liked this book so much in 2012 that I read it again so I could read the sequel, Emergent, with all the details of the original story in my brain again. Elysia wakes up and finds out she is a clone. (In her society, people who have the right aesthetic are cloned after they die and subsequently sold to be workers.) Elysia is one of the first teens to be cloned due to their volatile emotions. She is quickly sold on Demesne (a bioengineered island) to a wealthy woman.  Her job in this woman’s house is to help her son train for the military and take the place of the woman’s recently graduated daughter. She quickly discovers that she has emotions and a sense of taste (clones are supposed to be emotionless and ageusic). Elysia must hide these discoveries or risk being declared a defect and disposed of.