A couple of suggestions from Brandy in Wilmington:
Blood Red RoadBlood Red Road, by Moira Young, for another battle-ready young woman. Saba's searching for her kidnapped brother, and she makes no apologies for the kinds of things she has to go to find him.
DivergentDivergent, by Veronica Roth, for fast-paced action/adventure with a teen girl leading the action--even though it means abandoning her family and everything she was raised to believe in, as long as she can make it through the brutal initiation.
Blood Red RoadBlood Red Road, by Moira Young, for another battle-ready young woman. Saba's searching for her kidnapped brother, and she makes no apologies for the kinds of things she has to go to find him.
DivergentDivergent, by Veronica Roth, for fast-paced action/adventure with a teen girl leading the action--even though it means abandoning her family and everything she was raised to believe in, as long as she can make it through the brutal initiation.