2010
Level 9-12
Acceleration
by Graham McNamee
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Duncan's summer job is a nightmare.
He's working in the subway's lost and
found, in a room he calls the Dungeon,
far, far below the city streets. He's bored
out of his skull, until he finds the little
brown book. The book is a diary filled
with the dark and dirty secrets of an
anonymous serial killer stalking his
prey. Duncan can't stop reading, can't
stop thinking. Somewhere in the city, the
writer of this diary is hunting. Duncan
has to stop him before it's too late. He
has to anticipate the killer's next move.
Stalk the stalker. Duncan knows – it's up
to him.
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Wicked Lovely
by Melissa Marr
Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries. Aislinn has
always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they
walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their
cruelty—especially if they learn of her Sight — and
wishes she were blind to their presence.
Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.
Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan,
who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to
talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to
answer.
Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention.
But it's too late. Keenan is the Summer King who
has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without
her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that
Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any
cost—regardless of her plans or desires.
Fantasy
Suddenly none of the rules are working anymore,
and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best
friend, Seth; her life; everything.
Dreamland
By Sarah Dessen
Ever since she started going out with
Rogerson Biscoe, Caitlin seems to
have fallen into a semiconscious
dreamland where nothing is quite real.
Rogerson is different from anyone has
ever known. He’s magnetic. He’s
compelling. He’s dangerous. Being
with him makes Caitlin forget about
everything else — her missing sister,
her withdrawn mother, her lackluster
life. But what happens when being
with Rogerson becomes a larger
problem than being without him?
Realistic Fiction
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By Lewis Carroll
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In this Wonderland adventure,
Alice attempts to make sense of a
nonsensical world, along the way
meeting some of the most intriguing
characters, including the White
Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the
Cheshire Cat, and Tweedledee
and Tweedledum.
Life as
We Knew It
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a
split second when a meteor knocks
the moon closer to the earth. How
should her family prepare for the
future when worldwide tsunamis
wipe out the coasts, earthquakes
rock the continents, and volcanic
ash blocks out the sun? As summer
turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her
two brothers, and their mother
retreat to the unexpected safe
haven of their sunroom, where they
subsist on stockpiled food and
limited water in the warmth of a
wood-burning stove.
Science Fiction
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusack
Historical Fiction
Germany 1939: Liesel, a German
girl, is sent by her mother to live with
foster parents in a small town near
Munich. As she learns to cope with
her new environment, all the pains
she has endured, and the
unhappiness of pre-war and wartime
Germany, she yearns to escape via
reading. Her foster father helps her
learn to read, and Liesel finds books
here and there — in a snowy
graveyard, in a Nazi book-burning,
and inside the local mayor's house.
She has a few friends; first her
neighbor and classmate, Rudy, and
later the son of a soldier, a Jew
whom her new family must hide in
their basement.
A Long Way Gone
By Ismael Beah
My high school friends have begun to
suspect I haven’t told them the full story
of my life.
“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”
“Because there is a war.”
“Did you witness some of the fighting?”
“Everyone in the country did.”
“You mean you saw people running
around with guns and shooting
each other?”
“Yes, all the time.”
“Cool.”
I smile a little.
“You should tell us about it sometime.”
“Yes, sometime.”
Non-fiction/Memoir
Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a
powerfully gripping story of a young boy
trained to be a soldier.
Boy’s Life
by Robert McCammon
Mystery/Fantasy
The year is 1964. On a cold spring
morning before the sun, Cory
Mackenson is with his father on his milk
delivery route. Without warning a car
appears in the road before them and
plunges into a lake some say is
bottomless. Cory's father makes a
desperate attempt to save the driver,
but instead comes face-to-face with a
vision that will haunt and torment him: a
dead man handcuffed to the steering
wheel, naked and savagely beaten, a
copper wire knotted around his neck.
The lake's depths claim the car and the
corpse, but the murderer's work is
unfinished as, from that moment, both
Cory and his father begin searching for
the truth.
Fahrenheit 451
By Ray Bradbury
This classic science fiction tale
is told through Guy Montag, a
fireman who burns books for a
living. It takes place in the 24th
century in an overpopulated
world in which the media
controls the masses, censorship
prevails over intellect, and books
are considered evil because they
make people
question and think.
Science Fiction/Classic
Farewell
to Manzanar
by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of
a Japanese-American family's
confinement in an internment camp
during World War II. Jeanne WakatsukiHouston was 7 years old when Japan
attacked Pearl Harbor and created the
hysteria that forced 110,000 Japanese
Americans from their homes. She
remembers the stress of camp life—the
stripping away of dignity and privacy, the
withering of parental authority, and the
divisive pressure to sign loyalty oaths.
She also recalls what she took away from
Manzanar after it closed—an odd sense
of shame and a fierce determination
to be accepted as American.
Non Fiction/ Autobiography
The Gospel
According
to Larry
by Janet Tashjiian
Josh Swensen isn't your average
teenager - when he observes America, he
sees a powerhouse of consumerism and
waste. He's even tried to do something
about it, with his start-up controversial
website. But when Josh rises to messiah
status of the internet world, he discovers
that greed and superficiality are not easily
escaped. Trapped inside his own
creation, Josh feels his only way out is to
stage his death and be free of his internet
alter-ego, "Larry." But this plan comes
with danger, and soon Josh finds himself
cut off from the world, with no one to
turn to for help.
Realistic Fiction
American Born
Chinese
By Gene Luen Yang
This graphic novel follows three
story lines that converge
unexpectedly. The first story is that
of a monkey king who thinks he is
better than the gods.
The second story is that of a
second-generation Chinese
immigrant who has adventures with
his best friend and his first crush
who is all- American girl. The final
story is that of a white boy who is
humiliated when his stereotypical
Chinese cousin comes to visit every
year.
Fantasy/GraphicNovel
The
Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
Twenty- four are forced to enter.
Only the winner survives.
In the ruins of a place once known as
North America lies the nation of
Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded
by twelve outlying districts. Each year,
the districts are forced by the Capitol
to send one boy and one girl between
the ages of twelve and eighteen to
participate in the Hunger Games, a
brutal and terrifying fight to the death
– televised for all of Panem to see.
Adventure
Survival
Science Fiction
Death
Nineteen Minutes
By Jodi Picoult
In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17year-old high school student Peter
Houghton has endured years of
verbal and physical abuse at the
hands of classmates. His best
friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed
to peer pressure and now hangs
out with the popular crowd that
often instigates the harassment.
Realistic Fiction
One final incident of bullying sends
Peter over the edge and leads him
to commit an act of violence that
forever changes the lives of
Sterling’s residents.
Deathwatch
Adventure/Survival
by Robb White
Imagine you've been hired to be a
hunting guide in the desert when you're
the guy that is being hunted. Your
customer accidentally shot an old
prospector whom nobody knows and
doesn't want to go to jail for it. So he
makes you take off all your clothes and
tells you to try to walk to town, which
happens to be 60 miles from where you
are. With no food and no water you are
forced to walk or do what you need to do,
to try to stay alive. So you wander in the
desert mountains trying to find water
while being watched through a ten-power
scope of a .358 caliber Winchester
Magnum. . .
Well, this is what Ben has to face
when he’s hired to be a hunting guide.
The
Book
of Fred
by Abby Bardi
Realistic Fiction
Mary Fred Anderson, raised in an
isolated fundamentalist sect whose
primary obsessions seem to involve
an imminent Apocalypse and the
propagation of the name “Fred,” is
hardly your average fifteen-year-old.
She’s never watched TV, been to a
supermarket, or even read much of
anything beyond the inscrutable
dogma laid out by the prophet Fred.
But this is all before Mary Fred’s whole
world tilts irrevocably on its axis:
before her 2 brothers get sick and
pass on to “the World Beyond”; before
Mama and Papa are escorted from the
Fredian Outpost in police vans; and
Mary Fred herself is uprooted and
placed in foster care.