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A good young adult title is a promise. It tells curious readers what magic awaits, what wonders are in store. Leave your ordinary world behind, they say—come visit A Court of Thorns and Roses, join the Children of Blood and Bone, kneel to the King of Scars.
We put our own twist on some of our favorite YA books in this title generator. To play along, match your shirt color and date of birth to the chart below. Then reveal your glorious young adult title in the comments!
We put our own twist on some of our favorite YA books in this title generator. To play along, match your shirt color and date of birth to the chart below. Then reveal your glorious young adult title in the comments!

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A Nation of Fickle Thieves
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Sounds like a book about a dystopic nation-state where a weak, quasi-anarchic government is incapable of preventing justice from being taken out by individual violence to resolve grudges. The protagonist, I presume a female teenager, is left with no family after her father is killed due to a minor spat with a local warlord. In her own effort to seek vengeance against this warlord she manages to find a mentor who is only somewhat older, but also wants revenge on the warlord. However, she later discovers that her mentor, who she has fallen in love with, is the warlord's son who despises his father for the honor killing of his twin sister (who the protagonist reminds him of vaguely). In a confrontation with this warlord, our protagonist has him defeated and at the end of the sword, but he informs her that he was not, in fact, the one who killed her father. Rather, a group of people more powerful than him ordered his death, and furthermore, they were the ones who had her mother killed when she was a child.
Armed with this knowledge, our protagonist with the help of her lover is on a mission to find vengeance, but in the book's two sequels she discovers that the impotent government actually exercises much more power over the regional warlords than believed and use them to ensure their own version of lawless order so that they may maintain power. With her own innate sense of fairness she takes on the government, realizing that revenge is ultimately an unjust method of absolving society of its evils and her aim becomes a more equitable society rather than simply justice for her father.