Title: Speak
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
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Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780142407325
Summary: Melinda Sordino is starting high school with: a terrible secret, no friends, a family she
can’t talk to, and a bad reputation. At an end of summer party Melinda was raped by a senior;
however, she flees before the police arrive. Everyone at school thinks she did it on purpose
because they do not know what happened that night. She carries the burden of this alone,
confused and inwardly tortured. Once a happy girl, she is now depressed, withdrawn and hardly
ever speaks. Melinda’s parents take note of her “condition” when they receive her report card;
however, only Melinda’s art teacher Mr. Freeman is able to get her to speak.
Title: Looking for JJ
Author: Anne Cassidy
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Publisher: Graphia Books
ISBN: 9780152061906
Summary: Upon first meeting, Alice Tully seems like a normal teenager. She works at a small,
friendly coffee shop (where she gets along with her co-workers), she has a boyfriend whom she
adores, she lives with her guardian Rosie in a safe environment, and she is slated to go to
University next year. With all that, what could possibly be wrong? Alice has a secret. A deep
secret that eats her up inside and is soon to be exposed.
What happens when our true identities are exposed?
Title: The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins
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Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780439023481
Summary: 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. Survival is second nature for
sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by
secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take
the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is
to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
Title: Catching Fire
Author: Suzanne Collins
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Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 781407109367
Summary: This is the second book of the Hunger Games. It picks up six
months after Katniss and Peeta won the Hunger Games. Despite being a national hero and
having the ability to provide a nice house and plenty of food for her family, Katniss still feels
uneasy. Her defiant behaviors that lead to her win is not sitting well with evil President Snow.
She learns that her performance in the Hunger Games arena had far-reaching consequences. In
beating the government at its own game the previous year, Katniss unintentionally demonstrated
that the all-powerful President Snow is not quite so all-powerful. Now President Snow expects
Kat to prove that she is a loyal citizen who doesn't support the anti-government rumblings that
are spreading throughout the country, and if she doesn't succeed to President Snow's
satisfaction, her family and friends will pay the price.
Title: The Book Thief
Author: Marcus Zusak
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
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ISBN: 0375842209 / 978-0375842207
Summary: “It’s just a small story really, about, among other things: A girl
/ Some words / An accordionist / Some fanatical Germans / A Jewish
fist-fighter / And quite a lot of thievery. The girl is nine-year old Liesel,
who is a foster child. Set before and during World War II, and told by a
very interesting narrator. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for
herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist : books. With the help of her
accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with the hidden
Jewish man in her basement and later with her neighbors during bombing
raids.
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Title: Sold
Author: Patricia McCormick
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 0786851724 / 978-0786851720
Summary: Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in the
mountains of Nepal. Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like
raising her black-and-white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of
an oil lamp. When Lakshmi dreams of living luxuriously, she never imagines what is to come….
Title: Airborn
Author: Kenneth Oppel
Publisher: Harpercollins Canada
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ISBN: 1554682819 / 9781554682812
Summary: Enter a past in which airplanes have never been invented, giant
airships rule the skies and the glittering skyscrapers of Lionsgate City,
Canada’s greatest metropolis, rise near the Pacificus Ocean. When Matt
Cruse, cabin boy on the luxury airship Aurora, fearlessly performs a
dramatic rescue to save an old man from his damaged hot air balloon, he doesn’t know what
events he’s setting in motion. Will he and the balloonist’s fiery granddaughter, Kate de
Vries, be able to solve the mystery of impossible flying creatures seen among the clouds? And
will they figure it out before pirates and shipwreck end their voyage forever?
Title: Crazy Man
Author: Pamela Porter
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Publisher: Anansi Press: Groundwood Books
ISBN: 0888996950 /978-0888996954
Summary: In the year 1965, Emaline was an 11-year-old girl who liked to have rides on her
father's tractor. One day she came from school and climbed onto a running tractor. To save her
dog 'prince' for a tragic incident she jumped down only to get her foot badly cut off by the
blade. She was taken to hospital, while her father shot the dog dead and walked out of his
daughter's life. Emaline and her mother had to face difficult situations. 'Angus' known to the
town as a crazy man was brought in from the mental hospital to help with the farm work. He
was stared at and accused of theft...
Title: I am the Messenger
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
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ISBN: 0375836675 / 978-0375836671
Summary: Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a
future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best
friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the
Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he
inadvertently stops a bank robbery.
That's when the first ace arrives in the mail.
That's when Ed becomes the messenger.
Title: Peeps
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Razorbill
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ISBN: 1595140832 / 978-1595140838
Summary: Cal Thompson, a young man who has just arrived in
Manhattan is in for the adventure of a lifetime. Cal, like many others, has
been infected with a parasite; however, he is lucky enough to be a carrier,
so he receives more of the perks than the disadvantages. Mixing fact with
fiction, this novel is an intriguing read – more than you’ll have ever wanted to know about
microscopic organisms!
Title: Uglies
Author: Scott Westerfeld
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Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: 0689865384 / 978-0689865381
Summary: The first in a four book series, projects a future world in
which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences
and makes everyone pretty. Tally Youngblood, the protagonist of the
novel, is one of the most daring of the Uglies. Her imaginative tricks get her in trouble with the
menacing department of Special Circumstances, and this leads to a whole other world for her.
Promises are broken, secrets are revealed, and life for Tally Youngblood will never be the same.
Title: Pretties
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
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ISBN: 0439891612 / 978-0689865398
Summary: The second book in a series of four, the look into a
dystopian future leaves more to be desired. Tally Youngblood, the
protagonist of the first book, has forgotten all that she did as an Ugly
and has completely embraced the mindless life of a New Pretty – she is
going to parties, drinking heavily, and thinking of nothing more than the next bit of
entertainment. It is not until one of the Uglies from New Smoke comes and delivers a message
for her that leads her to two pills, that she begins to remember the real reason she is Pretty: to
see if the cure will work.
Title: Specials
Author: Scott Westerfeld
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Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: 0439025664 / 978-1416947950
Summary: The Third Book in the series - set some time in the future,
after a human-made bacteria destroyed the modern world. Tally
Youngblood overcomes many things in this novel, and becomes an elite-fighting machine. She is
fully enhanced with nanotechnology and has super-fast reflexes – what else to do but work for
Special Circumstances?
Title: Extras
Author: Scott Westerfeld
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Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: 1416971211 / 978-1416971214
Summary: This is an extension of the Uglies series, but the protagonist
here is fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse – but don’t worry, Tally plays a part in
this book as well! What happens when society is not forced to be
compliant anymore? City’s take control of their citizens – there’s new pressure on the city’s
resources, and in Japan, they have chosen to live in a “reputation economy.” Citizens are
rewarded for helping the city, they are given a face rank and popularity becomes a major point
of contention! Everyone wants fame, but at what cost?
Title: Waiting for Normal
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Author: Leslie Connor
Publisher: Katherine Tegen
ISBN: 0060890886 / 978-0060890889
Summary: Twelve-year-old Addison is just waiting for normal. Addie’s life seems to be
anything but perfect, and although the odds seemed to be stacked against her, she is forever
optimistic. With her Mommers, it’s all or nothing, and when it’s all or nothing, you can’t have
normal. Addie misses Dwight and the Littles, and she seems to goes through tumultuous times
all on her own, but what gets her through it all is the hope of finding normal.
Title: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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ISBN: 0316013692 / 9780316013697
Summary: Told in first person, Arnold Spirit Jr. has had nothing but
trouble since he threw a textbook at his Geometry teacher, Mr. P. As he
soon discovers his life is less than desirable, he branches out and does
what no other youth on the Spokane reserve has done before; he goes to
an all-white High School. Junior’s life has some ups, but is mostly filled
with downs, as he struggles to find his destiny.
Title: The Life of Pie
Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Vintage Canada
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ISBN: 0676973779 / 978-0676973778
Summary: Pi Patel, a God-loving boy and the son of a zookeeper, has a
fervent love of stories and practices not only his native Hinduism, but
also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo
animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo
ship. Alas, the ship sinks-and Pi finds himself in a lifeboat, his only
companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and a 450-pound
Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi. Can Pi and the tiger find their way to
land? Can Pi's fear, knowledge, and cunning keep him alive until they
do?
Title: Egghead
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Author: Caroline Pignat
Publisher: Red Deer Press
ISBN: 0889953996 / 978-0889953994
Summary: Grade Nine life is hard – especially when your friend is a bully or a victim. Ninthgrader Will Reid is obsessed with ants – and believes he has every chance of winning the science
fair with Katie’s help this year. Awkward and strange, Will becomes the target of bullies. Shane
and his crew think it’s fun to pick on him, and Katie doesn’t know what to do. As incidents
escalate, one event changes Will’s life forever.
Title: Chains
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
ISBN: 1416905855 / 978-1416905851
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Summary: As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for
freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a
cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons,
who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When
Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her
owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the
unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can
provide her with freedom.
Title: Wintergirls
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Speak
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ISBN: 014241557X / 978-0142415573
Summary: "Dead girl walking," the boys say in the halls. "Tell us your
secret," the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I am that girl. I am the
space between my thighs, daylight shining through. I am the bones they
want, wired on a porcelain frame.
Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly
contest to see who can be the skinniest. But what comes after size zero and size double-zero?
When Cassie succumbs to the demons within, Lia feels she is being haunted by her friend's
restless spirit.
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