| Adventure Books: |
Book title |
Author |
Description |
| The Recruit |
Muchamore, Robert |
CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy on terrorists and international drug dealers. |
| The Thief Lord |
Funke, Cornelia |
A group of kids are living in an abandoned movie theater in Venice. The leader of this group is a boy, Scipio, who calls himself the "Thief Lord. " |
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| Biographies: |
Book title |
Author |
Description |
| The Glass Castle |
Walls, Jeannette |
Walls, who spent years trying to hide her childhood experiences, allows the story to spill out in this remarkable recollection of growing up. |
| Obama-From Promise to Power |
Mendell, David |
The biography of America's hottest political superstar, Barack Obama-a man poised on the threshold of greatness. |
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| General Books: |
Book title |
Author |
Description |
| Black Tuesday |
Colebank, Susan |
Everything is going just the way superachiever Jayne Thompkins planned. But her life changes when she crashes into another car—and a little girl dies as a result. |
| The Book of Michael |
Choyce, Lesley |
Michael Grove was sixteen years old when he was convicted for the murder of Lisa Conroy, the girlfriend he loved very much. Six months into his imprisonment, the true murderer confesses. Michael is released but quickly finds that the stigma of imprisonment and the (wrongful) rap for murder is not an easy thing to escape out on the streets. |
| A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life |
Reinhardt, Dana |
Simone has always known she was adopted, but she never wanted to know anything about it. She’s happy with her family just as it is. Then she learns who her birth mother was–-a 16-year-old girl named Rivka. |
| Catch |
Leitch, Will |
During the summer between his high school graduation and leaving for state college, Tim Temples discovers that he is not alone at the center of his own universe. In the course of about 15 weeks, he watches his older brother–a former baseball star like their father–degenerate socially and physically for no obvious (to Tim) reason. It's during this same time that he is smitten for the first time in his young womanizing life. |
| Dairy Queen |
Murdock, Catherine |
When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. Welcome to the summer that fifteen-year-old D. J. Schwenk of Red Bend, Wisconsin, learns to talk, and ends up having an awful lot of stuff to say. |
| Gym Candy |
Deuker, Carl |
Having grown up in the shadow of his father's failed NFL career, high-school football player Mick Johnson is determined not to make the same mistakes. But when he's tackled just short of the goal in a pivotal game, he decides that vitamin supplements aren't enough and begins purchasing "gym candy," or steroids, from the trainer at his local gym. |
| Hit and run |
McDaniel, Lurlene |
It was an accident. But when the people involved don't come forward, doesn't it become a crime?
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| Inexcusable |
Lynch, Chris |
Keir Sarafian may not know much, but he knows himself. And the one thing he knows about himself is that he is a good guy. And maybe most important of all, a guy who understands that when a girl says no, she means it. |
| The Last Chance Texaco |
Hartinger, Brent |
Lucy Pitt is 15 when she is sent to Kindle Home, a group home and her last chance at a semi-normal life. If she makes any errors, she'll be sent to the high-security facility known as Eat-Their-Young Island. |
| nick & norah's infinite playlist |
Cohn, Rachel |
It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who’s just walked in to his band’s show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York City—and smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a first date. |
| Playing in Traffic |
Giles, Gail |
I was the ghost of the school corridors. Skye was the devil - and I was doomed from the day she spoke to me. |
| Runner |
Deuker, Carl |
High-school senior Chance is a "ghost-walker" at school--barely talking, just passing, finding escape only in long, solitary, after-school runs. |
| Saint Iggy |
Going, K.L. |
Iggy Corso lives in the projects with a stoned father and an addict mother who is AWOL again, but, amazingly, he uses no drugs, has no self-pity, and lives on hope. |
| Samurai Shortstop |
Gratz, Alan |
It is 1890, and 16-year-old Toyo Shimada is uniquely poised to witness the clash of old and new ways in his native Tokyo. |
| Skin |
Vrettos, Adrienne Maria |
As Donnie's older sister, Karen, slowly slips away in the grip of an eating disorder, Donnie finds himself alone in facing the trauma of his parents' faltering marriage and his new life as an outcast at school. |
| Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie |
Lubar, David |
Scott decides high school would be a lot less overwhelming if it came with a survival manual, so he begins to write down tips for his new sibling. |
| A Step From Heaven |
Na, An |
Young Ju emigrates from Korea with her parents when she is four. |
| 13 Little Blue Envelopes |
Johnson, Maureen |
Because of envelope 4, Ginny and a playwright/thief/ bloke–about–town called Keith go to Scotland together, with somewhat disastrous–though utterly romantic–results. But will she ever see him again? |
| This Lullaby |
Dessen, Sarah |
Remy doesn't believe in love. And why should she? Her romance novelist mother is working on her fifth marriage, and her father, a '70s hippie singer, left her with only a one-hit wonder song to remember him by. |
| a Thousand Splendid Suns |
Hosseini, Khaled |
A devastating tragedy brings Laila to the house of Rasheed and Mariam, where she is forced to make a horrific choice to secure her future. |
| Willow |
Hoban, Julia |
Seven months ago, on a rainy March night, sixteen year old Willow's parents died in a horrible car accident. Willow was driving. Now her older brother barely speaks to her, her new classmates know her as the killer orphan girl, and Willow is blocking the pain by secretly cutting herself. |
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| Non-fiction Books: |
Book title |
Author |
Description |
| the burn journals |
Runyon, Brent |
For fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon, life has become a blur of small failures. There seems to be no choice but to do something that will make up for all the bad things he’s done. So, in a failed suicide attempt, he sets himself on fire. |
| Marley & Me |
Grogan, John |
John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. |
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| Mystery/Suspense |
Book title |
Author |
Description |
| The Death collector |
Richards, Justin |
George Archer toils in the back offices of the British Museum as the youngest member of the Department of Unclassified Artifacts. When thieves burst in and kill his co-worker, George attempts to uncover why a scrap of paper from an obscure scientist's diary would be worth a man's life. |
| For Mike |
Sykes, Shelley |
Jeff is devastated when his best friend, Mike, disappears. Did he die? Did he run away? Was he kidnapped? So far, even the police haven't turned up any clues. Then Jeff begins to have eerie, vivid dreams in which Mike says, "Come get me." |
| Freeze Frame |
Ayarbe, Heidi |
No matter how many times Kyle rewrites the scene, he can't get it right. He tries it in the style of Hitchcock, Tarantino, Eastwood, all of his favorite directors—but regardless of the style, he can't remember what happened that day in the shed. The day Jason died. And until he can, there is one question that keeps haunting Kyle: Did he kill his best friend on purpose? |
| Genesis Alpha |
Michales, Rune |
Josh worships his older brother, Max. They look alike, they talk alike, and they both have the same interests, including their favorite massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Genesis Alpha. But Josh and Max have an even deeper connection. Because Josh was born for a reason. It was Josh's stem cells, harvested when Josh was newly born, that saved his dying older brother's life. |
| The Killer's Cousin |
Werlin, Nancy |
How would you deal with life if you knew you had accidentally killed your girlfriend? |
| My Father's Son |
Fields, Terri |
Kevin has to face the worst imaginable possibility: that his father may be the man responsible for a series of vicious killings. How much does he really know about his father? |
| Reality Check |
Abrahams, Peter |
Cody sees a newspaper heading: "Local Girl Missing." Clea, now his ex, has disappeared from her boarding school in Vermont, and the only clue is a letter she sent to Cody the morning of her disappearance. With that as his guide, Cody sets out to find out what happened. |
| Silent to the Bone |
Konigsburg, E. L. |
What if your best friend were to stop talking one day after a terrible accident? |
| Streams of Babel |
Plum-Ucci, Carol |
In a New Jersey suburb, two women die of brain aneurysms within twenty-four hours--events that cause the government to suspect that a terrorist cell has unleashed a deadly biochemical agent. |
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| Novels in verse: |
Book title |
Author |
Description |
| The Braid |
Frost, Helen |
When their family is evicted from the Western Isles of Scotland in 1850, teenage sisters Jeannie and Sarah are torn apart. Jeannie goes with her parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada. Her older sister, Sarah, hides so she can stay behind with Grandma. |
| Shark Girl |
Bingham, Kelly |
On a sunny day in June, at the beach with her mom and brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And then everything — absolutely everything — changed. |
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| Supernatural/Fantasy Books/Science Fiction: |
Book title |
Author |
Description |
| Eragon |
Paolini, Christopher |
When a dragon, Saphira, hatches from the blue stone, the beast and Eragon connect and face danger together. |
| Graceling |
Cashore, Kristin |
If you had the power to kill with your bare hands, what would you do with it?
Graceling takes readers inside the world of Katsa, a warrior-girl in her late teens with one blue eye and one green eye. This gives her haunting beauty, but also marks her as a Graceling. |
| The Graveyard Book |
Gaiman, Neil |
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. |
| Just After Sunset |
King, Stephen |
Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-a-San into a slimy birth canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating-and then terrifying-journey. |
| the pack |
Pow, Tom |
Three children--Bradley, Victor, and Floris--and three dogs live a hardscrabble existence in the basement of an old warehouse, where the Old Woman tells them stories that can help them survive. |
| Maximum Ride, School's Out Forever |
Patterson, James |
Max's heart-stopping quest to protect her "family" and investigate the mystery continues in this scary, strange, and funny thriller. |
| Tomorrow, When the War Began |
Marsden, John |
Ellie and six of her friends return from a winter break camping trip to find their homes burned or deserted, their families imprisoned, and their country occupied by a foreign military force in league with a band of disaffected Australians. As their shock wears off, the seven decide they must stick together if they are to survive. |
| Twilight |
Meyer, Stephenie |
Can vampires successfully go to school with regular kids? |
| Unwind |
Shusterman, Neal |
Brought together by chance, and kept together by desperation, these three unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing their lives hang in the balance. |
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