Request #498 From Anna

I read this book around 2011, and it is sort of a sci fi dystopian YA book. I believe it was a series, but is only remember plot points from the first 1-2 books. It revolves around a boy whose sister (possibly his twin) went missing when they were younger and he’s never seen her since. The city they live in separates the have and have nots. The rich life in high rises closer to the sun, and the poorer people live near the ground and eat genetically modified food that has all of their nutrients inside. They do not eat real food unlike the rich people above. The main boy enters a contest at an arcade (I think?) in the poor part of the city and the contest is a flying and shooting game. One person is the pilot and the other is the gunner in a spaceship like device. He teams up with a female character to win the high score (he is the pilot, she is the gunner). They both get sent off to the upper city and he runs into his missing sister there! The children also all have genetic mutations like webbed toes and I remember distinctly one child looks like a Lion. The genetic mutations are how they are so good at the arcade game. I think they find out that they are all being trained to fight in the military and the arcade game was a test to see who would be best for the positions. 

Request #493 From Wren

So there was this book i read a while ago that i just cant find. The book was about a bunch of girls who form a group, and it’s revealed that a bunch of them were assaulted in some way. There’s a plotline with the central character about writing on her closet wall from the girl who had the room before her, and another one of the main girls was autistic and was really into Star Trek. It followed a bunch of different point of views each chapter. I read it around 2018ish, and the book was recently published at the time.

Request #489 From variate_future.0s

I read this book one time that was set during (I think) segregation, and a black girl was new to the town or neighborhood which was predominantly white. There were trains that went through the town or just at the edge and one day a baby or small child was on the tracks and the girl ran and grabbed the baby before the train hit. I think there was also a part in the book about one of the guys in the town jumping off the bridge to kill himself? I also  remember it was a shorter book.

Request #488 From Kylee

I read this book as a kid, around 2010. The cover ripped off so I don’t remember what it looked like at all, but it was about this stray dog (p sure it was a mutt) who either gets hit by a car or almost does, and gets taken in by this kid who I think has red hair? And this kid is trying to build a rocketship to leave him home. It’s from the POV of the dog and he teaches you Spanish throughout the book. They eventually build the rocketship and landed on an island, where the dog writes “HELP” in the sand and discovers he can write. It’s revealed at the end that he wrote the whole book. A little silly but I loved it as a kid and I miss it.