TITLE OF BOOK
AUTHOR
GENRE
SYNOPSIS
BELLY UP
Stuart Gibbs
fiction
A 12-year-old boy helps solve a
murder mystery.
BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS, THE
John Boyne
fiction
A German boy befriends a Jewish
boy at a prison camp during WWII.
CAUGHT
Margaret Peterson
science fiction
A boy and girl have to travel back in
time to start time again.
CLOSED FOR THE SEASON
Mary Downing
mystery
A 14-year-old boy and his friend try
to solve a murder.
DIVERGENT
Veronica Roth
fiction
A 16-year-old girl lives in a futuristic
world divided into five factions.
FAULT IN OUR STARS, THE
John Green
fiction
Two teenagers, both with cancer, fall
in love.
HOUSE OF THE SCORPION
Nancy Farmer
science fiction
The story of the life of a clone from
birth to age 14..
HUNGER GAMES, THE
Suzanne Collins
fiction
A 16-year-old is chosen to fight in a
futuristic battle-to-the-death game.
ICE DRIFT
Theodore Taylor
fiction
Two Inuit brothers get stuck on an
ice floe in the Greenland Straight.
INKHEART
Cornelia Funke
fiction
A young girl experiences magical
adventures with characters in a book
JULIE
Jean Craighead George
fiction
A teenage Eskimo girl struggles to
save her wolf pack.
LAND OF STORIES: A GRIMM WARNING
Chris Colfer
fiction
A 12-year-old boy and girl struggle to
Save the world.
MESSENGER
Lois Lowry
fiction
A boy saves the world by healing it
with his powers.
MOCKINGJAY
Suzanne Collins
fiction
A 19-year-old girl tries to overthrow
her evil government.
MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN
Jean Craighead George
fiction
A 15-year-old boy lives alone in the
Catskill Mountains.
OOGY
Larry Levin
non-fiction
An abused dog is taken in by a loving
family.
RED PYRAMID
Rick Riordan
fiction
A brother and sister fight an evil god.
SON OF NEPTUNE
Rick Riordan
fiction
A boy awakens without any memory
and fights monsters.
THE GIVER
Lois Lowry
fiction
A boy is chosen to keep the
memories of the past for his
futuristic society.
TITAN'S CURSE, THE
Rick Riordan
fiction
A boy and his friends battle gods of
Greek mythology.
TREASURE HUNTERS
James Patterson
fiction
Four children search for their
parents who were lost while
treasure hunting,
TWO PRINCESSES OF BAMARRE, THE
Gail Carson Levine
fiction
A shy princess strives the save the
life of her ill sister.
WAR HORSE
Michael Morpurgo
historical fiction A boy's horse is forced to serve
during WW I.
WARRIORS DON'T CRY
Melba Patillo Beals
non-fiction
The true story of a young black
girl chosen to attend an all-white
school during the civil rights era.
WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS
Wilson Rawls
fiction
The story of a 12-year-old boy and
his two dogs.
WHITE FANG
Jack London
realistic fiction
A wolf-dog endures great cruelty
before he encounters human
kindness.
WILD LIFE
Cynthia DeFelice
fiction
A 12-year-old boy runs away with his
dog and lives off the land on the
prairie.
WOLVES OF THE BEYOND: LONE WOLF
Kathryn Lasky
fiction
A gray wolf looks for his own pack.
WONDERFUL WORLD OF OZ, THE
Lyman Frank Baum
fiction
A little girl struggles to find her way
back home from a magical land.