Donrsquot let the fact that itrsquos summer put you off reading

There will probably be at least at little down time So

have a look at some of our suggestions and make a

trip to the public library or down to the book store or

grab a favourite off of your shelves and dive into a

great book

Nonfiction and Biographies

Grace Gold amp Glory My Leap of Faith by

Gabrielle Douglas

In the 2012 London Olympics US gymnast

Gabby Douglas stole hearts and flew high as

the All-Around Gold Medal winner as well as

acting as a critical member of the US gold-medal-winning wom-

en gymnastics team In this personal autobiography Gabby tells

her story of faith perseverance and determination demonstrat-

ing you can reach your dreams if you let yourself soar

Teen Cuisine by Matthew Locricchio

Renowned chef Matthew Locricchios Teen

Cuisine is a one-of-a-kind cookbook that

introduces adolescents to more than 50

mouth-watering recipes For beginning

cooks and seasoned chefs its step-by-step

instructions feature fresh nutritious ingredients and show-

stopping dishes made from scratch

42 The Jackie Robinson Story by

Aaron Rosenberg

A novel based on the movie 42--a

biopic about Jackie Robinsons his-

tory-making signing with the

Brooklyn Dodgers as the first Afri-

can American Major League Base-

ball player

June 1 2013

SUMMER READING SUGGESTIONS From Ms Fischbuch amp Friends

There are many little ways to enlarge your childs world Love of books is the best of all

mdash Jacqueline Kennedy

Tape it amp Make It 101 Duct tape

activities by Richela Fabian Mor-

gan

For many years a useful item in

every household toolbox duct tape

has now taken on a second life as a

medium for hobbyists of all ages

This fun-filled book offers dozens

of creative ideas and easy-to-follow instructions for using duct

tape to make everything from wallets and coin purses to novel-

ty neckties and household decorations

Where On Earth By DK Publishing

Where are the worlds tallest buildings Where are earthquakes

most likely to occur Where can you

find animals that glow Showcasing

the most fascinating places on the

planet Where on Earth is a collection

of more than 75 3-D maps that show

not only where everything is but also

why its there

Guyku a year of haiku for boys by Bob Raczka

Nature also has a way of making a guy appreciate important stuffmdash

like how many rocks it takes to dam up a stream or how much snow

equals a day off from school

So what kind of poetry best captures these special moments at a

length that lets guys get right back to tree-climbing and kite-flying

Why guyku of course

Some of you may look at the above cartoon scratch

your head and say HUH I donrsquot get it

All of the above are titles of books not just any

books but the classics the ones your going to be told

you should read

I kind of like the drawing interpretation myself

Nonfiction and Biography

Every Day on Earth fun facts that

happen every 24 hours by Steve Mur-

rie

Almost 200 incredible facts

about Earth space technology

pop culture food animals

sports the human body and

more

How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg

Over the course of history men and women have lived and

died Whether someone had a lung

explode was stabbed to death died of

poison or croaked froma really bad

sore throat geeting sick and dying

tended to be a big ugly messndash expe-

cally before modern medical care

From King Tutrsquos ancient autopsy to

Henry VIII explosive demise to Albert Einsteinrsquos great brain

escape these pages contain all the gory details of the awful

ends of nineteen awfully famous people

Rad Rides by Gavin Lucas

Charting the evolution of BMX by focusing on

the bikes that have shaped the sport since its

birth in the late 1960rsquos

Here are some more that you should have a look at

Who knows what yoursquoll end up learning It might

save your life someday

Nonfiction and Biography

Hideout by Gordon Korman

When Griffin Bing and his friends first met

Luthor he was a vicious attack dog work-

ing for the slimy S Wendell Palomino - as

known as Swindle The kids rescued Lu-

thor and never thought theyd see Swin-

dle again

But now Swindles returned And he

wants his dog back

Swindle has manipulated the law so that theres no way for Savan-

nah Drysdale to keep Luthor in her house Before he can be taken

away they decide to made him disappear - away from Swindle Six

kids Three hideouts One extremely large dog

What could possibly go wrong

Almost Home by Joan Bauer

When twelve-year-old Sugars grandfather

dies and her gambling father takes off yet

again Sugar and her mother lose their

home in Missouri They head to Chicago for

a fresh start only to discover that fresh

starts arent so easy to come by for the

homeless Nevertheless Sugars mother

has taught her to be grateful no matter what so Sugar does her

best With the help of a rescue dog Shush a foster family a sup-

portive teacher a love of poetry and her own grace and good hu-

mor Sugar comes to understand that while she cant control the

hand life deals her she can control how she responds

House of Secrets by Chris Columbus and

Ned Vizzini

The Walker kids had it all loving parents a

big house in San Francisco all the latest

video games but everything changed

when their father lost his job as a result of

an inexplicable transgression Now the

family is moving into Kristoff House a mys-

terious place built nearly a century earlier by Denver Kristoff a trou-

bled writer with a penchant for the occult

Suddenly the siblings find themselves launched on an epic journey

into a mash-up world born of Kristoffrsquos dangerous imagination to

retrieve a dark book of untold power uncover the Walker familyrsquos

secret history and save their parents and maybe even the world

Theodore Boone the activist by John Grisham

Theodore Boone is back and hersquos facing his

most dangerous case yet As Strattenburg sits

divided over a hot political and environmental

issue Theo finds himself in the middle of the

battle When he uncovers corruption beneath

the surface Theo will confront bigger risks

than ever to himself and those he loves But even face-to-face with

danger Theodore Boone will do whatever it takes to stand up for

whatrsquos right

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=LZqJMh_gEd0

To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark

mdash Victor Hugo Les Miserables

Fiction

The Apothecary by Maile Meloy

Itrsquos 1952 and the Scott family has just

moved from Los Angeles to London Here

fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysteri-

ous apothecary and his son Benjamin

Burrowsmdasha fascinating boy whorsquos not

afraid to stand up to authority and

dreams of becoming a spy When Benja-

minrsquos father is kidnapped Janie and Ben-

jamin must uncover the secrets of the apothecaryrsquos sacred book the

Pharmacopoeia in order to find him all while keeping it out of the

hands of their enemiesmdashRussian spies in possession of nuclear

weapons Discovering and testing potions they never believed could

exist Janie and Benjamin embark on a dangerous race to save the

apothecary and prevent impending disaster

Behind the Gates by Eva Gray

In a terrifying future world four girls must

depend on each other if they want to sur-

vive

Louisa is nervous about being sent away to

a boarding school -- but shes excited too

And she has her best friend Maddie to

keep her company The girls have to pre-

tend to be twin sisters which Louisa thinks just adds to the adven-

ture Country Manor School isnt all excitement though Louisa isnt

sure how she feels about her new roommates athletic but snobby

Rosie and everythings-a-conspiracy Evelyn Even Maddie seems

different away from home quiet and worried all the time

Still Louisa loves CMS -- the survival skills classes the fresh air She

doesnt even miss not having a TV or the internet or any contact

with home Its for their own safety after all

Or is it

33 Minutes by Todd Hasak-Lowy

The countdown is on and Sam Lewis knows

it Dreads it And reluctantly has to

acknowledge and accept it In exactly 33

minutes his ex-bestfriend Morgan Sturtz is

gonna kick his butt Are there any possible

ways to avoid this Should he take the

advise his friends are giving Should he think about the advise he

teachers are rambling on about Fact the bell is ringing

32 minutes

This Journal Belongs to Ratchet by Nancy J Cavanaugh

A debut middle grade novel about a girl named Ratchet and her

quest to make a friend save a park and find

her own definition of normal Ratchet tells her

story through the assignments in her home-

school journal

If only getting a new life were as easy as

getting a new notebook

But its not Its the first day of school for all

the kids in the neighborhood But not for me Im homeschooled

That means nothing new No new book bag no new clothes and no

friends ndash old or new The best Ive got is this notebook Im supposed

to use it for my writing assignments but my dad never checks

Heres what Im really going to use it for Ratchets Top Secret Plan

Project Goal turn my old recycled freakish friendless motherless

life into something shiny and new

This year Im going make something change

It is our choices Harry that show what we truly are far more than our abilities

mdash J K Rowling

Fiction

Deadly Seas by David Borgenicht

Join one of the youngest crews ever to sail

around the world in this fourth installment

of the Worst-Case Scenario Ultimate Ad-

venture Novel series Faced with fearsome

dangers and difficult decisions your choic-

es will determine your fate on the deadly

seas Will you survive tropical storms high

winds navigation crises and sharks Or will you be forced to return

home early Only the reader can decide how to survive There are 24

endings to this adventure but just ONE will lead to the ultimate

success

Gold Medal Summer by Donna Freitas

Drawing on her real-life experience as a

competitive gymnast acclaimed novelist

Donna Freitas delivers both a terrific gym-

nastics story and a classic novel about

stretching some limits bending the rules

and finding your balance

Ungifted by Gordon Korman

The word gifted has never been applied to a

kid like Donovan Curtis Its usually more like

Dont try this at home So when the trouble-

maker pulls a major prank at his middle

school he thinks hes finally gone too far But

thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators instead of getting in

trouble Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction

(ASD) a special program for gifted and talented students

Fetching by Kiera Stewart

A crew of middle school nobodies secretly

use dog training techniques on their class-

mates to go from eighth-grade underdogs

to leaders of the pack only to discover

being top dog isnrsquot all they expected it to

be

The Grave Robberrsquos Apprentice by

Allan Stratton

Hans doesnt know who he is or where he

came from When he was a baby he washed

ashore in a wooden box and was adopted by

the conniving grave robber Knobbe the Bent

Now fate has thrown him together with Ange-

la von Schwanenberg a young countess fleeing for her life from the

evil Archduke Arnulf and his dreaded necromancer Together these

friends are on a daring quest to discover Hans true identity and to

save Angelas parents from the archduke In this world anything is

possible with luck and imagination - even for a grave robbers ap-

prentice

The Herorsquos Guide to Saving Your

Kingdom by Christopher Healy

Liam Frederic Gustav and Duncan all former

princes who have been rejected by their prin-

cesses and cast out of their castles encounter

trolls witches giants and dragons on their

quest to become heroes

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island

mdash Walt Disney

Fiction

Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony

The year is 2041 Sixteen-year-old Molly

McClure has lived a relatively quiet life

on an isolated farming island in Canada

but when her family fears the worst may

have happened to her grandparents in

the US Molly must brave the dangerous

chaotic world left after global economic

collapse One of massive oil shortages rampant crime and aban-

doned cities Molly is relieved to find her grandparents alive in their

Portland suburb but they are financially ruined and practically

starving What should have been a quick trip turns into a full-fledged

rescue mission And when Molly witnesses something the local crime

bosses wishes she hadnt Mollys only way home may be to beat

them at their own game Luckily theres a handsome stranger whos

willing to help

The Cloak Society by Jeramey

Kraatz

Alex Knight a twelve-year-old in training to

be asupervilliamin the elite ldquoCloak Societyrdquo

becomes frinds with a young superhero and

begins to question where his loyalties lie

Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus

recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named

Espen during World War II After Nazi Germany invades and occupies

Norway Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian re-

sistance movement Espen gets his start by delivering illegal news-

papers then graduates to the role of courier and finally becomes a

spy dodging the Gestapo along the way During five years under the

Nazi regime he gainsmdashand losesmdashfriends falls in love and makes

one small mistake that threatens to

catch up with him as he sets out to

escape on skis over the mountains

to Sweden

The Compound by SA Bodeen

Eli and his family have lived in the

underground Compound for six years The world they knew is gone

and theyrsquove become accustomed to their new life Accustomed but

not happy For Eli no amount of

luxury can stifle the dull routine of

living in the same place with only

his two sisters only his father and

mother doing the t the

Same thing day after day after day

As problems with their carefully

planned existence threaten to

destroy their sanctuarymdashand their

sanitymdashEli canrsquot help but wonder if

hersquod rather take his chances outside Elirsquos father built the Compound

to keep them safe But are they safemdashor sorry

The Boy ProjectNotes and Observations

of Kara McAllister by Kami Kinard

Eight-grader Kara McAllister chronicles

her efforts when she tries to use scientific

method to transform her social blunders

into romantic victories

Oh magic hour when a child first knows she can read printed words

mdash A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943

Fiction

This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel

In this prequel to Mary Shelleyrsquos gothic

classic Frankenstein 16-year-old Victor

Frankenstein begins a dark journey that

will change his life forever Victorrsquos twin

Konrad has fallen ill and no doctor is able

to cure him Unwilling to give up on his

brother Victor enlists his beautiful cousin

Elizabeth and best friend Henry on a treacherous search for the

ingredients to create the forbidden Elixir of Life Impossible odds

dangerous alchemy and a bitter love triangle threaten their quest at

every turn

Escape From Memory by Margaret Peterson Haddix

While playing around with hypnotism at a

party Kira remembers fleeing a war-torn

country with her mother speaking a lan-

guage she cant identify A few days later

her mother disappears and a woman who

calls herself Kiras aunt Memory takes Kira

to Crythe a country that doesnt officially

exist in order to rescue her -- or so she says Kira soon learns that

Aunt Memory is not what she seems and Kira and her mother are

both in terrible danger There are memories locked in Kiras mind

that could get her and her mother killed But those memories are the

only things that might save them

Memory Boy by Will Weaver

Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee

their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in

the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic

volcanic explosions creates dangerous condi-

tions in their city

The Friday Society by Adrenne Kress

Cora Nellie and Michiko teenaged assis-

tants to three powerful men in Edwardian

London meet by chance at a ball that ends

with the discovery of a murdered man

leading the three to work together to solve

this and related crimes without drawing

undue attention to

themselves

Mountain of Bones by Christopher Krovath

During a class trip to the Montana woods Ian

PJ and Kendra are separated from their group

and must rely each other to survive as they

encounter zombies and more

Plunked by Michael Northrop Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves Seraphia by Rachel Hartman Four decades of peace

have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd Folding themselves into human shape dragons attend court as ambassadors and lend their rational mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers As the treatys anniver-sary draws near however tensions are high Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides An unusually gifted musician she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murderedmdashin suspiciously draconian fashion Seraphina is drawn into the investigation partnering with the captain of the Queens Guard the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace Seraphina strug-gles to protect her own secret the secret behind her musical gift one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library

mdash Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction

Matched by Ally Condie

All her life Cassia has never had a choice

The society dictates everything when and

how you play where to work where to

live what to eat and wear when to die

and most importantly to Cassia as she

turns seventeen whom to marry When

she is matched with her best friend Xan-

der things couldnrsquot be more perfect But why did her neighbour Kyrsquos

face show up on her match disk as well

This is the first book in the trilogy follow this up with Crossed and

Reached

Zom-B by Darren Shan

B lsquos father thinks itrsquos a hoaxmdashbut even if it isnrsquot the two of them

joke itrsquos only the Irish right That is until zombies actually attack

the school B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corri-

dors of high school making allegiances

with anyone with enough gall to fight off

their pursuers But when they come face to

face with the ravenous oozing corpeses

all bets are off There are no friends No

allies Just whatever it takes to survive

Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip by

Jordan Sonnenblick

Therersquos nothing Peter Friedman loves more than

baseball Itrsquos his life But Petersquos freshman year

doesnrsquot turn out as planned A pitching accident

over the summer ruins his arm If he canrsquot play

baseball what is he susposed to do If he isnrsquot

the star pitcher then who is he

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant

Ace Detective snappy dresser razor-tongued

wit cracker-jack sorcerer and walking

talking fire-throwing skeleton

--as well as ally protector and mentor of

Stephanie Edgley a very unusual and dark-

ly talented twelve-year-old

These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil

The end of the world

Over his dead body

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder a gifted mechanic is a cyborg Shersquos a

second-class citizen with a mysterious past

reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her

stepsisterrsquos illness But when her life becomes

intertwined with the handsome Prince Kairsquos

she suddenly finds herself at the center of an

intergalactic struggle and a forbidden attraction Caught between

duty and freedom loyalty and betrayal she must uncover secrets

about her past in order to protect her worldrsquos future(

Towering by Alex Flinn

A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told

from the alternating perspectives of three

teens whose fates unknowingly bind them

together to destroy a greater evil

Fans of Beastly AKiss in Time and Bewitch-

ing wonrsquot want to miss this one

Outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend Inside of a dog its too dark to read

mdash Groucho Marx

Fiction

Tape it amp Make It 101 Duct tape

activities by Richela Fabian Mor-

gan

For many years a useful item in

every household toolbox duct tape

has now taken on a second life as a

medium for hobbyists of all ages

This fun-filled book offers dozens

of creative ideas and easy-to-follow instructions for using duct

tape to make everything from wallets and coin purses to novel-

ty neckties and household decorations

Where On Earth By DK Publishing

Where are the worlds tallest buildings Where are earthquakes

most likely to occur Where can you

find animals that glow Showcasing

the most fascinating places on the

planet Where on Earth is a collection

of more than 75 3-D maps that show

not only where everything is but also

why its there

Guyku a year of haiku for boys by Bob Raczka

Nature also has a way of making a guy appreciate important stuffmdash

like how many rocks it takes to dam up a stream or how much snow

equals a day off from school

So what kind of poetry best captures these special moments at a

length that lets guys get right back to tree-climbing and kite-flying

Why guyku of course

Some of you may look at the above cartoon scratch

your head and say HUH I donrsquot get it

All of the above are titles of books not just any

books but the classics the ones your going to be told

you should read

I kind of like the drawing interpretation myself

Nonfiction and Biography

Every Day on Earth fun facts that

happen every 24 hours by Steve Mur-

rie

Almost 200 incredible facts

about Earth space technology

pop culture food animals

sports the human body and

more

How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg

Over the course of history men and women have lived and

died Whether someone had a lung

explode was stabbed to death died of

poison or croaked froma really bad

sore throat geeting sick and dying

tended to be a big ugly messndash expe-

cally before modern medical care

From King Tutrsquos ancient autopsy to

Henry VIII explosive demise to Albert Einsteinrsquos great brain

escape these pages contain all the gory details of the awful

ends of nineteen awfully famous people

Rad Rides by Gavin Lucas

Charting the evolution of BMX by focusing on

the bikes that have shaped the sport since its

birth in the late 1960rsquos

Here are some more that you should have a look at

Who knows what yoursquoll end up learning It might

save your life someday

Nonfiction and Biography

Hideout by Gordon Korman

When Griffin Bing and his friends first met

Luthor he was a vicious attack dog work-

ing for the slimy S Wendell Palomino - as

known as Swindle The kids rescued Lu-

thor and never thought theyd see Swin-

dle again

But now Swindles returned And he

wants his dog back

Swindle has manipulated the law so that theres no way for Savan-

nah Drysdale to keep Luthor in her house Before he can be taken

away they decide to made him disappear - away from Swindle Six

kids Three hideouts One extremely large dog

What could possibly go wrong

Almost Home by Joan Bauer

When twelve-year-old Sugars grandfather

dies and her gambling father takes off yet

again Sugar and her mother lose their

home in Missouri They head to Chicago for

a fresh start only to discover that fresh

starts arent so easy to come by for the

homeless Nevertheless Sugars mother

has taught her to be grateful no matter what so Sugar does her

best With the help of a rescue dog Shush a foster family a sup-

portive teacher a love of poetry and her own grace and good hu-

mor Sugar comes to understand that while she cant control the

hand life deals her she can control how she responds

House of Secrets by Chris Columbus and

Ned Vizzini

The Walker kids had it all loving parents a

big house in San Francisco all the latest

video games but everything changed

when their father lost his job as a result of

an inexplicable transgression Now the

family is moving into Kristoff House a mys-

terious place built nearly a century earlier by Denver Kristoff a trou-

bled writer with a penchant for the occult

Suddenly the siblings find themselves launched on an epic journey

into a mash-up world born of Kristoffrsquos dangerous imagination to

retrieve a dark book of untold power uncover the Walker familyrsquos

secret history and save their parents and maybe even the world

Theodore Boone the activist by John Grisham

Theodore Boone is back and hersquos facing his

most dangerous case yet As Strattenburg sits

divided over a hot political and environmental

issue Theo finds himself in the middle of the

battle When he uncovers corruption beneath

the surface Theo will confront bigger risks

than ever to himself and those he loves But even face-to-face with

danger Theodore Boone will do whatever it takes to stand up for

whatrsquos right

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=LZqJMh_gEd0

To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark

mdash Victor Hugo Les Miserables

Fiction

The Apothecary by Maile Meloy

Itrsquos 1952 and the Scott family has just

moved from Los Angeles to London Here

fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysteri-

ous apothecary and his son Benjamin

Burrowsmdasha fascinating boy whorsquos not

afraid to stand up to authority and

dreams of becoming a spy When Benja-

minrsquos father is kidnapped Janie and Ben-

jamin must uncover the secrets of the apothecaryrsquos sacred book the

Pharmacopoeia in order to find him all while keeping it out of the

hands of their enemiesmdashRussian spies in possession of nuclear

weapons Discovering and testing potions they never believed could

exist Janie and Benjamin embark on a dangerous race to save the

apothecary and prevent impending disaster

Behind the Gates by Eva Gray

In a terrifying future world four girls must

depend on each other if they want to sur-

vive

Louisa is nervous about being sent away to

a boarding school -- but shes excited too

And she has her best friend Maddie to

keep her company The girls have to pre-

tend to be twin sisters which Louisa thinks just adds to the adven-

ture Country Manor School isnt all excitement though Louisa isnt

sure how she feels about her new roommates athletic but snobby

Rosie and everythings-a-conspiracy Evelyn Even Maddie seems

different away from home quiet and worried all the time

Still Louisa loves CMS -- the survival skills classes the fresh air She

doesnt even miss not having a TV or the internet or any contact

with home Its for their own safety after all

Or is it

33 Minutes by Todd Hasak-Lowy

The countdown is on and Sam Lewis knows

it Dreads it And reluctantly has to

acknowledge and accept it In exactly 33

minutes his ex-bestfriend Morgan Sturtz is

gonna kick his butt Are there any possible

ways to avoid this Should he take the

advise his friends are giving Should he think about the advise he

teachers are rambling on about Fact the bell is ringing

32 minutes

This Journal Belongs to Ratchet by Nancy J Cavanaugh

A debut middle grade novel about a girl named Ratchet and her

quest to make a friend save a park and find

her own definition of normal Ratchet tells her

story through the assignments in her home-

school journal

If only getting a new life were as easy as

getting a new notebook

But its not Its the first day of school for all

the kids in the neighborhood But not for me Im homeschooled

That means nothing new No new book bag no new clothes and no

friends ndash old or new The best Ive got is this notebook Im supposed

to use it for my writing assignments but my dad never checks

Heres what Im really going to use it for Ratchets Top Secret Plan

Project Goal turn my old recycled freakish friendless motherless

life into something shiny and new

This year Im going make something change

It is our choices Harry that show what we truly are far more than our abilities

mdash J K Rowling

Fiction

Deadly Seas by David Borgenicht

Join one of the youngest crews ever to sail

around the world in this fourth installment

of the Worst-Case Scenario Ultimate Ad-

venture Novel series Faced with fearsome

dangers and difficult decisions your choic-

es will determine your fate on the deadly

seas Will you survive tropical storms high

winds navigation crises and sharks Or will you be forced to return

home early Only the reader can decide how to survive There are 24

endings to this adventure but just ONE will lead to the ultimate

success

Gold Medal Summer by Donna Freitas

Drawing on her real-life experience as a

competitive gymnast acclaimed novelist

Donna Freitas delivers both a terrific gym-

nastics story and a classic novel about

stretching some limits bending the rules

and finding your balance

Ungifted by Gordon Korman

The word gifted has never been applied to a

kid like Donovan Curtis Its usually more like

Dont try this at home So when the trouble-

maker pulls a major prank at his middle

school he thinks hes finally gone too far But

thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators instead of getting in

trouble Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction

(ASD) a special program for gifted and talented students

Fetching by Kiera Stewart

A crew of middle school nobodies secretly

use dog training techniques on their class-

mates to go from eighth-grade underdogs

to leaders of the pack only to discover

being top dog isnrsquot all they expected it to

be

The Grave Robberrsquos Apprentice by

Allan Stratton

Hans doesnt know who he is or where he

came from When he was a baby he washed

ashore in a wooden box and was adopted by

the conniving grave robber Knobbe the Bent

Now fate has thrown him together with Ange-

la von Schwanenberg a young countess fleeing for her life from the

evil Archduke Arnulf and his dreaded necromancer Together these

friends are on a daring quest to discover Hans true identity and to

save Angelas parents from the archduke In this world anything is

possible with luck and imagination - even for a grave robbers ap-

prentice

The Herorsquos Guide to Saving Your

Kingdom by Christopher Healy

Liam Frederic Gustav and Duncan all former

princes who have been rejected by their prin-

cesses and cast out of their castles encounter

trolls witches giants and dragons on their

quest to become heroes

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island

mdash Walt Disney

Fiction

Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony

The year is 2041 Sixteen-year-old Molly

McClure has lived a relatively quiet life

on an isolated farming island in Canada

but when her family fears the worst may

have happened to her grandparents in

the US Molly must brave the dangerous

chaotic world left after global economic

collapse One of massive oil shortages rampant crime and aban-

doned cities Molly is relieved to find her grandparents alive in their

Portland suburb but they are financially ruined and practically

starving What should have been a quick trip turns into a full-fledged

rescue mission And when Molly witnesses something the local crime

bosses wishes she hadnt Mollys only way home may be to beat

them at their own game Luckily theres a handsome stranger whos

willing to help

The Cloak Society by Jeramey

Kraatz

Alex Knight a twelve-year-old in training to

be asupervilliamin the elite ldquoCloak Societyrdquo

becomes frinds with a young superhero and

begins to question where his loyalties lie

Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus

recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named

Espen during World War II After Nazi Germany invades and occupies

Norway Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian re-

sistance movement Espen gets his start by delivering illegal news-

papers then graduates to the role of courier and finally becomes a

spy dodging the Gestapo along the way During five years under the

Nazi regime he gainsmdashand losesmdashfriends falls in love and makes

one small mistake that threatens to

catch up with him as he sets out to

escape on skis over the mountains

to Sweden

The Compound by SA Bodeen

Eli and his family have lived in the

underground Compound for six years The world they knew is gone

and theyrsquove become accustomed to their new life Accustomed but

not happy For Eli no amount of

luxury can stifle the dull routine of

living in the same place with only

his two sisters only his father and

mother doing the t the

Same thing day after day after day

As problems with their carefully

planned existence threaten to

destroy their sanctuarymdashand their

sanitymdashEli canrsquot help but wonder if

hersquod rather take his chances outside Elirsquos father built the Compound

to keep them safe But are they safemdashor sorry

The Boy ProjectNotes and Observations

of Kara McAllister by Kami Kinard

Eight-grader Kara McAllister chronicles

her efforts when she tries to use scientific

method to transform her social blunders

into romantic victories

Oh magic hour when a child first knows she can read printed words

mdash A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943

Fiction

This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel

In this prequel to Mary Shelleyrsquos gothic

classic Frankenstein 16-year-old Victor

Frankenstein begins a dark journey that

will change his life forever Victorrsquos twin

Konrad has fallen ill and no doctor is able

to cure him Unwilling to give up on his

brother Victor enlists his beautiful cousin

Elizabeth and best friend Henry on a treacherous search for the

ingredients to create the forbidden Elixir of Life Impossible odds

dangerous alchemy and a bitter love triangle threaten their quest at

every turn

Escape From Memory by Margaret Peterson Haddix

While playing around with hypnotism at a

party Kira remembers fleeing a war-torn

country with her mother speaking a lan-

guage she cant identify A few days later

her mother disappears and a woman who

calls herself Kiras aunt Memory takes Kira

to Crythe a country that doesnt officially

exist in order to rescue her -- or so she says Kira soon learns that

Aunt Memory is not what she seems and Kira and her mother are

both in terrible danger There are memories locked in Kiras mind

that could get her and her mother killed But those memories are the

only things that might save them

Memory Boy by Will Weaver

Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee

their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in

the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic

volcanic explosions creates dangerous condi-

tions in their city

The Friday Society by Adrenne Kress

Cora Nellie and Michiko teenaged assis-

tants to three powerful men in Edwardian

London meet by chance at a ball that ends

with the discovery of a murdered man

leading the three to work together to solve

this and related crimes without drawing

undue attention to

themselves

Mountain of Bones by Christopher Krovath

During a class trip to the Montana woods Ian

PJ and Kendra are separated from their group

and must rely each other to survive as they

encounter zombies and more

Plunked by Michael Northrop Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves Seraphia by Rachel Hartman Four decades of peace

have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd Folding themselves into human shape dragons attend court as ambassadors and lend their rational mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers As the treatys anniver-sary draws near however tensions are high Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides An unusually gifted musician she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murderedmdashin suspiciously draconian fashion Seraphina is drawn into the investigation partnering with the captain of the Queens Guard the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace Seraphina strug-gles to protect her own secret the secret behind her musical gift one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library

mdash Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction

Matched by Ally Condie

All her life Cassia has never had a choice

The society dictates everything when and

how you play where to work where to

live what to eat and wear when to die

and most importantly to Cassia as she

turns seventeen whom to marry When

she is matched with her best friend Xan-

der things couldnrsquot be more perfect But why did her neighbour Kyrsquos

face show up on her match disk as well

This is the first book in the trilogy follow this up with Crossed and

Reached

Zom-B by Darren Shan

B lsquos father thinks itrsquos a hoaxmdashbut even if it isnrsquot the two of them

joke itrsquos only the Irish right That is until zombies actually attack

the school B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corri-

dors of high school making allegiances

with anyone with enough gall to fight off

their pursuers But when they come face to

face with the ravenous oozing corpeses

all bets are off There are no friends No

allies Just whatever it takes to survive

Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip by

Jordan Sonnenblick

Therersquos nothing Peter Friedman loves more than

baseball Itrsquos his life But Petersquos freshman year

doesnrsquot turn out as planned A pitching accident

over the summer ruins his arm If he canrsquot play

baseball what is he susposed to do If he isnrsquot

the star pitcher then who is he

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant

Ace Detective snappy dresser razor-tongued

wit cracker-jack sorcerer and walking

talking fire-throwing skeleton

--as well as ally protector and mentor of

Stephanie Edgley a very unusual and dark-

ly talented twelve-year-old

These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil

The end of the world

Over his dead body

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder a gifted mechanic is a cyborg Shersquos a

second-class citizen with a mysterious past

reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her

stepsisterrsquos illness But when her life becomes

intertwined with the handsome Prince Kairsquos

she suddenly finds herself at the center of an

intergalactic struggle and a forbidden attraction Caught between

duty and freedom loyalty and betrayal she must uncover secrets

about her past in order to protect her worldrsquos future(

Towering by Alex Flinn

A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told

from the alternating perspectives of three

teens whose fates unknowingly bind them

together to destroy a greater evil

Fans of Beastly AKiss in Time and Bewitch-

ing wonrsquot want to miss this one

Outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend Inside of a dog its too dark to read

mdash Groucho Marx

Fiction

Every Day on Earth fun facts that

happen every 24 hours by Steve Mur-

rie

Almost 200 incredible facts

about Earth space technology

pop culture food animals

sports the human body and

more

How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg

Over the course of history men and women have lived and

died Whether someone had a lung

explode was stabbed to death died of

poison or croaked froma really bad

sore throat geeting sick and dying

tended to be a big ugly messndash expe-

cally before modern medical care

From King Tutrsquos ancient autopsy to

Henry VIII explosive demise to Albert Einsteinrsquos great brain

escape these pages contain all the gory details of the awful

ends of nineteen awfully famous people

Rad Rides by Gavin Lucas

Charting the evolution of BMX by focusing on

the bikes that have shaped the sport since its

birth in the late 1960rsquos

Here are some more that you should have a look at

Who knows what yoursquoll end up learning It might

save your life someday

Nonfiction and Biography

Hideout by Gordon Korman

When Griffin Bing and his friends first met

Luthor he was a vicious attack dog work-

ing for the slimy S Wendell Palomino - as

known as Swindle The kids rescued Lu-

thor and never thought theyd see Swin-

dle again

But now Swindles returned And he

wants his dog back

Swindle has manipulated the law so that theres no way for Savan-

nah Drysdale to keep Luthor in her house Before he can be taken

away they decide to made him disappear - away from Swindle Six

kids Three hideouts One extremely large dog

What could possibly go wrong

Almost Home by Joan Bauer

When twelve-year-old Sugars grandfather

dies and her gambling father takes off yet

again Sugar and her mother lose their

home in Missouri They head to Chicago for

a fresh start only to discover that fresh

starts arent so easy to come by for the

homeless Nevertheless Sugars mother

has taught her to be grateful no matter what so Sugar does her

best With the help of a rescue dog Shush a foster family a sup-

portive teacher a love of poetry and her own grace and good hu-

mor Sugar comes to understand that while she cant control the

hand life deals her she can control how she responds

House of Secrets by Chris Columbus and

Ned Vizzini

The Walker kids had it all loving parents a

big house in San Francisco all the latest

video games but everything changed

when their father lost his job as a result of

an inexplicable transgression Now the

family is moving into Kristoff House a mys-

terious place built nearly a century earlier by Denver Kristoff a trou-

bled writer with a penchant for the occult

Suddenly the siblings find themselves launched on an epic journey

into a mash-up world born of Kristoffrsquos dangerous imagination to

retrieve a dark book of untold power uncover the Walker familyrsquos

secret history and save their parents and maybe even the world

Theodore Boone the activist by John Grisham

Theodore Boone is back and hersquos facing his

most dangerous case yet As Strattenburg sits

divided over a hot political and environmental

issue Theo finds himself in the middle of the

battle When he uncovers corruption beneath

the surface Theo will confront bigger risks

than ever to himself and those he loves But even face-to-face with

danger Theodore Boone will do whatever it takes to stand up for

whatrsquos right

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=LZqJMh_gEd0

To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark

mdash Victor Hugo Les Miserables

Fiction

The Apothecary by Maile Meloy

Itrsquos 1952 and the Scott family has just

moved from Los Angeles to London Here

fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysteri-

ous apothecary and his son Benjamin

Burrowsmdasha fascinating boy whorsquos not

afraid to stand up to authority and

dreams of becoming a spy When Benja-

minrsquos father is kidnapped Janie and Ben-

jamin must uncover the secrets of the apothecaryrsquos sacred book the

Pharmacopoeia in order to find him all while keeping it out of the

hands of their enemiesmdashRussian spies in possession of nuclear

weapons Discovering and testing potions they never believed could

exist Janie and Benjamin embark on a dangerous race to save the

apothecary and prevent impending disaster

Behind the Gates by Eva Gray

In a terrifying future world four girls must

depend on each other if they want to sur-

vive

Louisa is nervous about being sent away to

a boarding school -- but shes excited too

And she has her best friend Maddie to

keep her company The girls have to pre-

tend to be twin sisters which Louisa thinks just adds to the adven-

ture Country Manor School isnt all excitement though Louisa isnt

sure how she feels about her new roommates athletic but snobby

Rosie and everythings-a-conspiracy Evelyn Even Maddie seems

different away from home quiet and worried all the time

Still Louisa loves CMS -- the survival skills classes the fresh air She

doesnt even miss not having a TV or the internet or any contact

with home Its for their own safety after all

Or is it

33 Minutes by Todd Hasak-Lowy

The countdown is on and Sam Lewis knows

it Dreads it And reluctantly has to

acknowledge and accept it In exactly 33

minutes his ex-bestfriend Morgan Sturtz is

gonna kick his butt Are there any possible

ways to avoid this Should he take the

advise his friends are giving Should he think about the advise he

teachers are rambling on about Fact the bell is ringing

32 minutes

This Journal Belongs to Ratchet by Nancy J Cavanaugh

A debut middle grade novel about a girl named Ratchet and her

quest to make a friend save a park and find

her own definition of normal Ratchet tells her

story through the assignments in her home-

school journal

If only getting a new life were as easy as

getting a new notebook

But its not Its the first day of school for all

the kids in the neighborhood But not for me Im homeschooled

That means nothing new No new book bag no new clothes and no

friends ndash old or new The best Ive got is this notebook Im supposed

to use it for my writing assignments but my dad never checks

Heres what Im really going to use it for Ratchets Top Secret Plan

Project Goal turn my old recycled freakish friendless motherless

life into something shiny and new

This year Im going make something change

It is our choices Harry that show what we truly are far more than our abilities

mdash J K Rowling

Fiction

Deadly Seas by David Borgenicht

Join one of the youngest crews ever to sail

around the world in this fourth installment

of the Worst-Case Scenario Ultimate Ad-

venture Novel series Faced with fearsome

dangers and difficult decisions your choic-

es will determine your fate on the deadly

seas Will you survive tropical storms high

winds navigation crises and sharks Or will you be forced to return

home early Only the reader can decide how to survive There are 24

endings to this adventure but just ONE will lead to the ultimate

success

Gold Medal Summer by Donna Freitas

Drawing on her real-life experience as a

competitive gymnast acclaimed novelist

Donna Freitas delivers both a terrific gym-

nastics story and a classic novel about

stretching some limits bending the rules

and finding your balance

Ungifted by Gordon Korman

The word gifted has never been applied to a

kid like Donovan Curtis Its usually more like

Dont try this at home So when the trouble-

maker pulls a major prank at his middle

school he thinks hes finally gone too far But

thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators instead of getting in

trouble Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction

(ASD) a special program for gifted and talented students

Fetching by Kiera Stewart

A crew of middle school nobodies secretly

use dog training techniques on their class-

mates to go from eighth-grade underdogs

to leaders of the pack only to discover

being top dog isnrsquot all they expected it to

be

The Grave Robberrsquos Apprentice by

Allan Stratton

Hans doesnt know who he is or where he

came from When he was a baby he washed

ashore in a wooden box and was adopted by

the conniving grave robber Knobbe the Bent

Now fate has thrown him together with Ange-

la von Schwanenberg a young countess fleeing for her life from the

evil Archduke Arnulf and his dreaded necromancer Together these

friends are on a daring quest to discover Hans true identity and to

save Angelas parents from the archduke In this world anything is

possible with luck and imagination - even for a grave robbers ap-

prentice

The Herorsquos Guide to Saving Your

Kingdom by Christopher Healy

Liam Frederic Gustav and Duncan all former

princes who have been rejected by their prin-

cesses and cast out of their castles encounter

trolls witches giants and dragons on their

quest to become heroes

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island

mdash Walt Disney

Fiction

Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony

The year is 2041 Sixteen-year-old Molly

McClure has lived a relatively quiet life

on an isolated farming island in Canada

but when her family fears the worst may

have happened to her grandparents in

the US Molly must brave the dangerous

chaotic world left after global economic

collapse One of massive oil shortages rampant crime and aban-

doned cities Molly is relieved to find her grandparents alive in their

Portland suburb but they are financially ruined and practically

starving What should have been a quick trip turns into a full-fledged

rescue mission And when Molly witnesses something the local crime

bosses wishes she hadnt Mollys only way home may be to beat

them at their own game Luckily theres a handsome stranger whos

willing to help

The Cloak Society by Jeramey

Kraatz

Alex Knight a twelve-year-old in training to

be asupervilliamin the elite ldquoCloak Societyrdquo

becomes frinds with a young superhero and

begins to question where his loyalties lie

Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus

recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named

Espen during World War II After Nazi Germany invades and occupies

Norway Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian re-

sistance movement Espen gets his start by delivering illegal news-

papers then graduates to the role of courier and finally becomes a

spy dodging the Gestapo along the way During five years under the

Nazi regime he gainsmdashand losesmdashfriends falls in love and makes

one small mistake that threatens to

catch up with him as he sets out to

escape on skis over the mountains

to Sweden

The Compound by SA Bodeen

Eli and his family have lived in the

underground Compound for six years The world they knew is gone

and theyrsquove become accustomed to their new life Accustomed but

not happy For Eli no amount of

luxury can stifle the dull routine of

living in the same place with only

his two sisters only his father and

mother doing the t the

Same thing day after day after day

As problems with their carefully

planned existence threaten to

destroy their sanctuarymdashand their

sanitymdashEli canrsquot help but wonder if

hersquod rather take his chances outside Elirsquos father built the Compound

to keep them safe But are they safemdashor sorry

The Boy ProjectNotes and Observations

of Kara McAllister by Kami Kinard

Eight-grader Kara McAllister chronicles

her efforts when she tries to use scientific

method to transform her social blunders

into romantic victories

Oh magic hour when a child first knows she can read printed words

mdash A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943

Fiction

This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel

In this prequel to Mary Shelleyrsquos gothic

classic Frankenstein 16-year-old Victor

Frankenstein begins a dark journey that

will change his life forever Victorrsquos twin

Konrad has fallen ill and no doctor is able

to cure him Unwilling to give up on his

brother Victor enlists his beautiful cousin

Elizabeth and best friend Henry on a treacherous search for the

ingredients to create the forbidden Elixir of Life Impossible odds

dangerous alchemy and a bitter love triangle threaten their quest at

every turn

Escape From Memory by Margaret Peterson Haddix

While playing around with hypnotism at a

party Kira remembers fleeing a war-torn

country with her mother speaking a lan-

guage she cant identify A few days later

her mother disappears and a woman who

calls herself Kiras aunt Memory takes Kira

to Crythe a country that doesnt officially

exist in order to rescue her -- or so she says Kira soon learns that

Aunt Memory is not what she seems and Kira and her mother are

both in terrible danger There are memories locked in Kiras mind

that could get her and her mother killed But those memories are the

only things that might save them

Memory Boy by Will Weaver

Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee

their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in

the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic

volcanic explosions creates dangerous condi-

tions in their city

The Friday Society by Adrenne Kress

Cora Nellie and Michiko teenaged assis-

tants to three powerful men in Edwardian

London meet by chance at a ball that ends

with the discovery of a murdered man

leading the three to work together to solve

this and related crimes without drawing

undue attention to

themselves

Mountain of Bones by Christopher Krovath

During a class trip to the Montana woods Ian

PJ and Kendra are separated from their group

and must rely each other to survive as they

encounter zombies and more

Plunked by Michael Northrop Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves Seraphia by Rachel Hartman Four decades of peace

have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd Folding themselves into human shape dragons attend court as ambassadors and lend their rational mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers As the treatys anniver-sary draws near however tensions are high Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides An unusually gifted musician she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murderedmdashin suspiciously draconian fashion Seraphina is drawn into the investigation partnering with the captain of the Queens Guard the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace Seraphina strug-gles to protect her own secret the secret behind her musical gift one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library

mdash Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction

Matched by Ally Condie

All her life Cassia has never had a choice

The society dictates everything when and

how you play where to work where to

live what to eat and wear when to die

and most importantly to Cassia as she

turns seventeen whom to marry When

she is matched with her best friend Xan-

der things couldnrsquot be more perfect But why did her neighbour Kyrsquos

face show up on her match disk as well

This is the first book in the trilogy follow this up with Crossed and

Reached

Zom-B by Darren Shan

B lsquos father thinks itrsquos a hoaxmdashbut even if it isnrsquot the two of them

joke itrsquos only the Irish right That is until zombies actually attack

the school B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corri-

dors of high school making allegiances

with anyone with enough gall to fight off

their pursuers But when they come face to

face with the ravenous oozing corpeses

all bets are off There are no friends No

allies Just whatever it takes to survive

Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip by

Jordan Sonnenblick

Therersquos nothing Peter Friedman loves more than

baseball Itrsquos his life But Petersquos freshman year

doesnrsquot turn out as planned A pitching accident

over the summer ruins his arm If he canrsquot play

baseball what is he susposed to do If he isnrsquot

the star pitcher then who is he

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant

Ace Detective snappy dresser razor-tongued

wit cracker-jack sorcerer and walking

talking fire-throwing skeleton

--as well as ally protector and mentor of

Stephanie Edgley a very unusual and dark-

ly talented twelve-year-old

These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil

The end of the world

Over his dead body

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder a gifted mechanic is a cyborg Shersquos a

second-class citizen with a mysterious past

reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her

stepsisterrsquos illness But when her life becomes

intertwined with the handsome Prince Kairsquos

she suddenly finds herself at the center of an

intergalactic struggle and a forbidden attraction Caught between

duty and freedom loyalty and betrayal she must uncover secrets

about her past in order to protect her worldrsquos future(

Towering by Alex Flinn

A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told

from the alternating perspectives of three

teens whose fates unknowingly bind them

together to destroy a greater evil

Fans of Beastly AKiss in Time and Bewitch-

ing wonrsquot want to miss this one

Outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend Inside of a dog its too dark to read

mdash Groucho Marx

Fiction

Hideout by Gordon Korman

When Griffin Bing and his friends first met

Luthor he was a vicious attack dog work-

ing for the slimy S Wendell Palomino - as

known as Swindle The kids rescued Lu-

thor and never thought theyd see Swin-

dle again

But now Swindles returned And he

wants his dog back

Swindle has manipulated the law so that theres no way for Savan-

nah Drysdale to keep Luthor in her house Before he can be taken

away they decide to made him disappear - away from Swindle Six

kids Three hideouts One extremely large dog

What could possibly go wrong

Almost Home by Joan Bauer

When twelve-year-old Sugars grandfather

dies and her gambling father takes off yet

again Sugar and her mother lose their

home in Missouri They head to Chicago for

a fresh start only to discover that fresh

starts arent so easy to come by for the

homeless Nevertheless Sugars mother

has taught her to be grateful no matter what so Sugar does her

best With the help of a rescue dog Shush a foster family a sup-

portive teacher a love of poetry and her own grace and good hu-

mor Sugar comes to understand that while she cant control the

hand life deals her she can control how she responds

House of Secrets by Chris Columbus and

Ned Vizzini

The Walker kids had it all loving parents a

big house in San Francisco all the latest

video games but everything changed

when their father lost his job as a result of

an inexplicable transgression Now the

family is moving into Kristoff House a mys-

terious place built nearly a century earlier by Denver Kristoff a trou-

bled writer with a penchant for the occult

Suddenly the siblings find themselves launched on an epic journey

into a mash-up world born of Kristoffrsquos dangerous imagination to

retrieve a dark book of untold power uncover the Walker familyrsquos

secret history and save their parents and maybe even the world

Theodore Boone the activist by John Grisham

Theodore Boone is back and hersquos facing his

most dangerous case yet As Strattenburg sits

divided over a hot political and environmental

issue Theo finds himself in the middle of the

battle When he uncovers corruption beneath

the surface Theo will confront bigger risks

than ever to himself and those he loves But even face-to-face with

danger Theodore Boone will do whatever it takes to stand up for

whatrsquos right

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=LZqJMh_gEd0

To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark

mdash Victor Hugo Les Miserables

Fiction

The Apothecary by Maile Meloy

Itrsquos 1952 and the Scott family has just

moved from Los Angeles to London Here

fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysteri-

ous apothecary and his son Benjamin

Burrowsmdasha fascinating boy whorsquos not

afraid to stand up to authority and

dreams of becoming a spy When Benja-

minrsquos father is kidnapped Janie and Ben-

jamin must uncover the secrets of the apothecaryrsquos sacred book the

Pharmacopoeia in order to find him all while keeping it out of the

hands of their enemiesmdashRussian spies in possession of nuclear

weapons Discovering and testing potions they never believed could

exist Janie and Benjamin embark on a dangerous race to save the

apothecary and prevent impending disaster

Behind the Gates by Eva Gray

In a terrifying future world four girls must

depend on each other if they want to sur-

vive

Louisa is nervous about being sent away to

a boarding school -- but shes excited too

And she has her best friend Maddie to

keep her company The girls have to pre-

tend to be twin sisters which Louisa thinks just adds to the adven-

ture Country Manor School isnt all excitement though Louisa isnt

sure how she feels about her new roommates athletic but snobby

Rosie and everythings-a-conspiracy Evelyn Even Maddie seems

different away from home quiet and worried all the time

Still Louisa loves CMS -- the survival skills classes the fresh air She

doesnt even miss not having a TV or the internet or any contact

with home Its for their own safety after all

Or is it

33 Minutes by Todd Hasak-Lowy

The countdown is on and Sam Lewis knows

it Dreads it And reluctantly has to

acknowledge and accept it In exactly 33

minutes his ex-bestfriend Morgan Sturtz is

gonna kick his butt Are there any possible

ways to avoid this Should he take the

advise his friends are giving Should he think about the advise he

teachers are rambling on about Fact the bell is ringing

32 minutes

This Journal Belongs to Ratchet by Nancy J Cavanaugh

A debut middle grade novel about a girl named Ratchet and her

quest to make a friend save a park and find

her own definition of normal Ratchet tells her

story through the assignments in her home-

school journal

If only getting a new life were as easy as

getting a new notebook

But its not Its the first day of school for all

the kids in the neighborhood But not for me Im homeschooled

That means nothing new No new book bag no new clothes and no

friends ndash old or new The best Ive got is this notebook Im supposed

to use it for my writing assignments but my dad never checks

Heres what Im really going to use it for Ratchets Top Secret Plan

Project Goal turn my old recycled freakish friendless motherless

life into something shiny and new

This year Im going make something change

It is our choices Harry that show what we truly are far more than our abilities

mdash J K Rowling

Fiction

Deadly Seas by David Borgenicht

Join one of the youngest crews ever to sail

around the world in this fourth installment

of the Worst-Case Scenario Ultimate Ad-

venture Novel series Faced with fearsome

dangers and difficult decisions your choic-

es will determine your fate on the deadly

seas Will you survive tropical storms high

winds navigation crises and sharks Or will you be forced to return

home early Only the reader can decide how to survive There are 24

endings to this adventure but just ONE will lead to the ultimate

success

Gold Medal Summer by Donna Freitas

Drawing on her real-life experience as a

competitive gymnast acclaimed novelist

Donna Freitas delivers both a terrific gym-

nastics story and a classic novel about

stretching some limits bending the rules

and finding your balance

Ungifted by Gordon Korman

The word gifted has never been applied to a

kid like Donovan Curtis Its usually more like

Dont try this at home So when the trouble-

maker pulls a major prank at his middle

school he thinks hes finally gone too far But

thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators instead of getting in

trouble Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction

(ASD) a special program for gifted and talented students

Fetching by Kiera Stewart

A crew of middle school nobodies secretly

use dog training techniques on their class-

mates to go from eighth-grade underdogs

to leaders of the pack only to discover

being top dog isnrsquot all they expected it to

be

The Grave Robberrsquos Apprentice by

Allan Stratton

Hans doesnt know who he is or where he

came from When he was a baby he washed

ashore in a wooden box and was adopted by

the conniving grave robber Knobbe the Bent

Now fate has thrown him together with Ange-

la von Schwanenberg a young countess fleeing for her life from the

evil Archduke Arnulf and his dreaded necromancer Together these

friends are on a daring quest to discover Hans true identity and to

save Angelas parents from the archduke In this world anything is

possible with luck and imagination - even for a grave robbers ap-

prentice

The Herorsquos Guide to Saving Your

Kingdom by Christopher Healy

Liam Frederic Gustav and Duncan all former

princes who have been rejected by their prin-

cesses and cast out of their castles encounter

trolls witches giants and dragons on their

quest to become heroes

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island

mdash Walt Disney

Fiction

Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony

The year is 2041 Sixteen-year-old Molly

McClure has lived a relatively quiet life

on an isolated farming island in Canada

but when her family fears the worst may

have happened to her grandparents in

the US Molly must brave the dangerous

chaotic world left after global economic

collapse One of massive oil shortages rampant crime and aban-

doned cities Molly is relieved to find her grandparents alive in their

Portland suburb but they are financially ruined and practically

starving What should have been a quick trip turns into a full-fledged

rescue mission And when Molly witnesses something the local crime

bosses wishes she hadnt Mollys only way home may be to beat

them at their own game Luckily theres a handsome stranger whos

willing to help

The Cloak Society by Jeramey

Kraatz

Alex Knight a twelve-year-old in training to

be asupervilliamin the elite ldquoCloak Societyrdquo

becomes frinds with a young superhero and

begins to question where his loyalties lie

Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus

recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named

Espen during World War II After Nazi Germany invades and occupies

Norway Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian re-

sistance movement Espen gets his start by delivering illegal news-

papers then graduates to the role of courier and finally becomes a

spy dodging the Gestapo along the way During five years under the

Nazi regime he gainsmdashand losesmdashfriends falls in love and makes

one small mistake that threatens to

catch up with him as he sets out to

escape on skis over the mountains

to Sweden

The Compound by SA Bodeen

Eli and his family have lived in the

underground Compound for six years The world they knew is gone

and theyrsquove become accustomed to their new life Accustomed but

not happy For Eli no amount of

luxury can stifle the dull routine of

living in the same place with only

his two sisters only his father and

mother doing the t the

Same thing day after day after day

As problems with their carefully

planned existence threaten to

destroy their sanctuarymdashand their

sanitymdashEli canrsquot help but wonder if

hersquod rather take his chances outside Elirsquos father built the Compound

to keep them safe But are they safemdashor sorry

The Boy ProjectNotes and Observations

of Kara McAllister by Kami Kinard

Eight-grader Kara McAllister chronicles

her efforts when she tries to use scientific

method to transform her social blunders

into romantic victories

Oh magic hour when a child first knows she can read printed words

mdash A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943

Fiction

This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel

In this prequel to Mary Shelleyrsquos gothic

classic Frankenstein 16-year-old Victor

Frankenstein begins a dark journey that

will change his life forever Victorrsquos twin

Konrad has fallen ill and no doctor is able

to cure him Unwilling to give up on his

brother Victor enlists his beautiful cousin

Elizabeth and best friend Henry on a treacherous search for the

ingredients to create the forbidden Elixir of Life Impossible odds

dangerous alchemy and a bitter love triangle threaten their quest at

every turn

Escape From Memory by Margaret Peterson Haddix

While playing around with hypnotism at a

party Kira remembers fleeing a war-torn

country with her mother speaking a lan-

guage she cant identify A few days later

her mother disappears and a woman who

calls herself Kiras aunt Memory takes Kira

to Crythe a country that doesnt officially

exist in order to rescue her -- or so she says Kira soon learns that

Aunt Memory is not what she seems and Kira and her mother are

both in terrible danger There are memories locked in Kiras mind

that could get her and her mother killed But those memories are the

only things that might save them

Memory Boy by Will Weaver

Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee

their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in

the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic

volcanic explosions creates dangerous condi-

tions in their city

The Friday Society by Adrenne Kress

Cora Nellie and Michiko teenaged assis-

tants to three powerful men in Edwardian

London meet by chance at a ball that ends

with the discovery of a murdered man

leading the three to work together to solve

this and related crimes without drawing

undue attention to

themselves

Mountain of Bones by Christopher Krovath

During a class trip to the Montana woods Ian

PJ and Kendra are separated from their group

and must rely each other to survive as they

encounter zombies and more

Plunked by Michael Northrop Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves Seraphia by Rachel Hartman Four decades of peace

have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd Folding themselves into human shape dragons attend court as ambassadors and lend their rational mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers As the treatys anniver-sary draws near however tensions are high Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides An unusually gifted musician she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murderedmdashin suspiciously draconian fashion Seraphina is drawn into the investigation partnering with the captain of the Queens Guard the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace Seraphina strug-gles to protect her own secret the secret behind her musical gift one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library

mdash Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction

Matched by Ally Condie

All her life Cassia has never had a choice

The society dictates everything when and

how you play where to work where to

live what to eat and wear when to die

and most importantly to Cassia as she

turns seventeen whom to marry When

she is matched with her best friend Xan-

der things couldnrsquot be more perfect But why did her neighbour Kyrsquos

face show up on her match disk as well

This is the first book in the trilogy follow this up with Crossed and

Reached

Zom-B by Darren Shan

B lsquos father thinks itrsquos a hoaxmdashbut even if it isnrsquot the two of them

joke itrsquos only the Irish right That is until zombies actually attack

the school B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corri-

dors of high school making allegiances

with anyone with enough gall to fight off

their pursuers But when they come face to

face with the ravenous oozing corpeses

all bets are off There are no friends No

allies Just whatever it takes to survive

Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip by

Jordan Sonnenblick

Therersquos nothing Peter Friedman loves more than

baseball Itrsquos his life But Petersquos freshman year

doesnrsquot turn out as planned A pitching accident

over the summer ruins his arm If he canrsquot play

baseball what is he susposed to do If he isnrsquot

the star pitcher then who is he

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant

Ace Detective snappy dresser razor-tongued

wit cracker-jack sorcerer and walking

talking fire-throwing skeleton

--as well as ally protector and mentor of

Stephanie Edgley a very unusual and dark-

ly talented twelve-year-old

These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil

The end of the world

Over his dead body

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder a gifted mechanic is a cyborg Shersquos a

second-class citizen with a mysterious past

reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her

stepsisterrsquos illness But when her life becomes

intertwined with the handsome Prince Kairsquos

she suddenly finds herself at the center of an

intergalactic struggle and a forbidden attraction Caught between

duty and freedom loyalty and betrayal she must uncover secrets

about her past in order to protect her worldrsquos future(

Towering by Alex Flinn

A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told

from the alternating perspectives of three

teens whose fates unknowingly bind them

together to destroy a greater evil

Fans of Beastly AKiss in Time and Bewitch-

ing wonrsquot want to miss this one

Outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend Inside of a dog its too dark to read

mdash Groucho Marx

Fiction

The Apothecary by Maile Meloy

Itrsquos 1952 and the Scott family has just

moved from Los Angeles to London Here

fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysteri-

ous apothecary and his son Benjamin

Burrowsmdasha fascinating boy whorsquos not

afraid to stand up to authority and

dreams of becoming a spy When Benja-

minrsquos father is kidnapped Janie and Ben-

jamin must uncover the secrets of the apothecaryrsquos sacred book the

Pharmacopoeia in order to find him all while keeping it out of the

hands of their enemiesmdashRussian spies in possession of nuclear

weapons Discovering and testing potions they never believed could

exist Janie and Benjamin embark on a dangerous race to save the

apothecary and prevent impending disaster

Behind the Gates by Eva Gray

In a terrifying future world four girls must

depend on each other if they want to sur-

vive

Louisa is nervous about being sent away to

a boarding school -- but shes excited too

And she has her best friend Maddie to

keep her company The girls have to pre-

tend to be twin sisters which Louisa thinks just adds to the adven-

ture Country Manor School isnt all excitement though Louisa isnt

sure how she feels about her new roommates athletic but snobby

Rosie and everythings-a-conspiracy Evelyn Even Maddie seems

different away from home quiet and worried all the time

Still Louisa loves CMS -- the survival skills classes the fresh air She

doesnt even miss not having a TV or the internet or any contact

with home Its for their own safety after all

Or is it

33 Minutes by Todd Hasak-Lowy

The countdown is on and Sam Lewis knows

it Dreads it And reluctantly has to

acknowledge and accept it In exactly 33

minutes his ex-bestfriend Morgan Sturtz is

gonna kick his butt Are there any possible

ways to avoid this Should he take the

advise his friends are giving Should he think about the advise he

teachers are rambling on about Fact the bell is ringing

32 minutes

This Journal Belongs to Ratchet by Nancy J Cavanaugh

A debut middle grade novel about a girl named Ratchet and her

quest to make a friend save a park and find

her own definition of normal Ratchet tells her

story through the assignments in her home-

school journal

If only getting a new life were as easy as

getting a new notebook

But its not Its the first day of school for all

the kids in the neighborhood But not for me Im homeschooled

That means nothing new No new book bag no new clothes and no

friends ndash old or new The best Ive got is this notebook Im supposed

to use it for my writing assignments but my dad never checks

Heres what Im really going to use it for Ratchets Top Secret Plan

Project Goal turn my old recycled freakish friendless motherless

life into something shiny and new

This year Im going make something change

It is our choices Harry that show what we truly are far more than our abilities

mdash J K Rowling

Fiction

Deadly Seas by David Borgenicht

Join one of the youngest crews ever to sail

around the world in this fourth installment

of the Worst-Case Scenario Ultimate Ad-

venture Novel series Faced with fearsome

dangers and difficult decisions your choic-

es will determine your fate on the deadly

seas Will you survive tropical storms high

winds navigation crises and sharks Or will you be forced to return

home early Only the reader can decide how to survive There are 24

endings to this adventure but just ONE will lead to the ultimate

success

Gold Medal Summer by Donna Freitas

Drawing on her real-life experience as a

competitive gymnast acclaimed novelist

Donna Freitas delivers both a terrific gym-

nastics story and a classic novel about

stretching some limits bending the rules

and finding your balance

Ungifted by Gordon Korman

The word gifted has never been applied to a

kid like Donovan Curtis Its usually more like

Dont try this at home So when the trouble-

maker pulls a major prank at his middle

school he thinks hes finally gone too far But

thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators instead of getting in

trouble Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction

(ASD) a special program for gifted and talented students

Fetching by Kiera Stewart

A crew of middle school nobodies secretly

use dog training techniques on their class-

mates to go from eighth-grade underdogs

to leaders of the pack only to discover

being top dog isnrsquot all they expected it to

be

The Grave Robberrsquos Apprentice by

Allan Stratton

Hans doesnt know who he is or where he

came from When he was a baby he washed

ashore in a wooden box and was adopted by

the conniving grave robber Knobbe the Bent

Now fate has thrown him together with Ange-

la von Schwanenberg a young countess fleeing for her life from the

evil Archduke Arnulf and his dreaded necromancer Together these

friends are on a daring quest to discover Hans true identity and to

save Angelas parents from the archduke In this world anything is

possible with luck and imagination - even for a grave robbers ap-

prentice

The Herorsquos Guide to Saving Your

Kingdom by Christopher Healy

Liam Frederic Gustav and Duncan all former

princes who have been rejected by their prin-

cesses and cast out of their castles encounter

trolls witches giants and dragons on their

quest to become heroes

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island

mdash Walt Disney

Fiction

Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony

The year is 2041 Sixteen-year-old Molly

McClure has lived a relatively quiet life

on an isolated farming island in Canada

but when her family fears the worst may

have happened to her grandparents in

the US Molly must brave the dangerous

chaotic world left after global economic

collapse One of massive oil shortages rampant crime and aban-

doned cities Molly is relieved to find her grandparents alive in their

Portland suburb but they are financially ruined and practically

starving What should have been a quick trip turns into a full-fledged

rescue mission And when Molly witnesses something the local crime

bosses wishes she hadnt Mollys only way home may be to beat

them at their own game Luckily theres a handsome stranger whos

willing to help

The Cloak Society by Jeramey

Kraatz

Alex Knight a twelve-year-old in training to

be asupervilliamin the elite ldquoCloak Societyrdquo

becomes frinds with a young superhero and

begins to question where his loyalties lie

Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus

recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named

Espen during World War II After Nazi Germany invades and occupies

Norway Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian re-

sistance movement Espen gets his start by delivering illegal news-

papers then graduates to the role of courier and finally becomes a

spy dodging the Gestapo along the way During five years under the

Nazi regime he gainsmdashand losesmdashfriends falls in love and makes

one small mistake that threatens to

catch up with him as he sets out to

escape on skis over the mountains

to Sweden

The Compound by SA Bodeen

Eli and his family have lived in the

underground Compound for six years The world they knew is gone

and theyrsquove become accustomed to their new life Accustomed but

not happy For Eli no amount of

luxury can stifle the dull routine of

living in the same place with only

his two sisters only his father and

mother doing the t the

Same thing day after day after day

As problems with their carefully

planned existence threaten to

destroy their sanctuarymdashand their

sanitymdashEli canrsquot help but wonder if

hersquod rather take his chances outside Elirsquos father built the Compound

to keep them safe But are they safemdashor sorry

The Boy ProjectNotes and Observations

of Kara McAllister by Kami Kinard

Eight-grader Kara McAllister chronicles

her efforts when she tries to use scientific

method to transform her social blunders

into romantic victories

Oh magic hour when a child first knows she can read printed words

mdash A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943

Fiction

This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel

In this prequel to Mary Shelleyrsquos gothic

classic Frankenstein 16-year-old Victor

Frankenstein begins a dark journey that

will change his life forever Victorrsquos twin

Konrad has fallen ill and no doctor is able

to cure him Unwilling to give up on his

brother Victor enlists his beautiful cousin

Elizabeth and best friend Henry on a treacherous search for the

ingredients to create the forbidden Elixir of Life Impossible odds

dangerous alchemy and a bitter love triangle threaten their quest at

every turn

Escape From Memory by Margaret Peterson Haddix

While playing around with hypnotism at a

party Kira remembers fleeing a war-torn

country with her mother speaking a lan-

guage she cant identify A few days later

her mother disappears and a woman who

calls herself Kiras aunt Memory takes Kira

to Crythe a country that doesnt officially

exist in order to rescue her -- or so she says Kira soon learns that

Aunt Memory is not what she seems and Kira and her mother are

both in terrible danger There are memories locked in Kiras mind

that could get her and her mother killed But those memories are the

only things that might save them

Memory Boy by Will Weaver

Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee

their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in

the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic

volcanic explosions creates dangerous condi-

tions in their city

The Friday Society by Adrenne Kress

Cora Nellie and Michiko teenaged assis-

tants to three powerful men in Edwardian

London meet by chance at a ball that ends

with the discovery of a murdered man

leading the three to work together to solve

this and related crimes without drawing

undue attention to

themselves

Mountain of Bones by Christopher Krovath

During a class trip to the Montana woods Ian

PJ and Kendra are separated from their group

and must rely each other to survive as they

encounter zombies and more

Plunked by Michael Northrop Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves Seraphia by Rachel Hartman Four decades of peace

have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd Folding themselves into human shape dragons attend court as ambassadors and lend their rational mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers As the treatys anniver-sary draws near however tensions are high Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides An unusually gifted musician she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murderedmdashin suspiciously draconian fashion Seraphina is drawn into the investigation partnering with the captain of the Queens Guard the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace Seraphina strug-gles to protect her own secret the secret behind her musical gift one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library

mdash Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction

Matched by Ally Condie

All her life Cassia has never had a choice

The society dictates everything when and

how you play where to work where to

live what to eat and wear when to die

and most importantly to Cassia as she

turns seventeen whom to marry When

she is matched with her best friend Xan-

der things couldnrsquot be more perfect But why did her neighbour Kyrsquos

face show up on her match disk as well

This is the first book in the trilogy follow this up with Crossed and

Reached

Zom-B by Darren Shan

B lsquos father thinks itrsquos a hoaxmdashbut even if it isnrsquot the two of them

joke itrsquos only the Irish right That is until zombies actually attack

the school B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corri-

dors of high school making allegiances

with anyone with enough gall to fight off

their pursuers But when they come face to

face with the ravenous oozing corpeses

all bets are off There are no friends No

allies Just whatever it takes to survive

Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip by

Jordan Sonnenblick

Therersquos nothing Peter Friedman loves more than

baseball Itrsquos his life But Petersquos freshman year

doesnrsquot turn out as planned A pitching accident

over the summer ruins his arm If he canrsquot play

baseball what is he susposed to do If he isnrsquot

the star pitcher then who is he

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant

Ace Detective snappy dresser razor-tongued

wit cracker-jack sorcerer and walking

talking fire-throwing skeleton

--as well as ally protector and mentor of

Stephanie Edgley a very unusual and dark-

ly talented twelve-year-old

These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil

The end of the world

Over his dead body

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder a gifted mechanic is a cyborg Shersquos a

second-class citizen with a mysterious past

reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her

stepsisterrsquos illness But when her life becomes

intertwined with the handsome Prince Kairsquos

she suddenly finds herself at the center of an

intergalactic struggle and a forbidden attraction Caught between

duty and freedom loyalty and betrayal she must uncover secrets

about her past in order to protect her worldrsquos future(

Towering by Alex Flinn

A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told

from the alternating perspectives of three

teens whose fates unknowingly bind them

together to destroy a greater evil

Fans of Beastly AKiss in Time and Bewitch-

ing wonrsquot want to miss this one

Outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend Inside of a dog its too dark to read

mdash Groucho Marx

Fiction

Deadly Seas by David Borgenicht

Join one of the youngest crews ever to sail

around the world in this fourth installment

of the Worst-Case Scenario Ultimate Ad-

venture Novel series Faced with fearsome

dangers and difficult decisions your choic-

es will determine your fate on the deadly

seas Will you survive tropical storms high

winds navigation crises and sharks Or will you be forced to return

home early Only the reader can decide how to survive There are 24

endings to this adventure but just ONE will lead to the ultimate

success

Gold Medal Summer by Donna Freitas

Drawing on her real-life experience as a

competitive gymnast acclaimed novelist

Donna Freitas delivers both a terrific gym-

nastics story and a classic novel about

stretching some limits bending the rules

and finding your balance

Ungifted by Gordon Korman

The word gifted has never been applied to a

kid like Donovan Curtis Its usually more like

Dont try this at home So when the trouble-

maker pulls a major prank at his middle

school he thinks hes finally gone too far But

thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators instead of getting in

trouble Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction

(ASD) a special program for gifted and talented students

Fetching by Kiera Stewart

A crew of middle school nobodies secretly

use dog training techniques on their class-

mates to go from eighth-grade underdogs

to leaders of the pack only to discover

being top dog isnrsquot all they expected it to

be

The Grave Robberrsquos Apprentice by

Allan Stratton

Hans doesnt know who he is or where he

came from When he was a baby he washed

ashore in a wooden box and was adopted by

the conniving grave robber Knobbe the Bent

Now fate has thrown him together with Ange-

la von Schwanenberg a young countess fleeing for her life from the

evil Archduke Arnulf and his dreaded necromancer Together these

friends are on a daring quest to discover Hans true identity and to

save Angelas parents from the archduke In this world anything is

possible with luck and imagination - even for a grave robbers ap-

prentice

The Herorsquos Guide to Saving Your

Kingdom by Christopher Healy

Liam Frederic Gustav and Duncan all former

princes who have been rejected by their prin-

cesses and cast out of their castles encounter

trolls witches giants and dragons on their

quest to become heroes

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island

mdash Walt Disney

Fiction

Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony

The year is 2041 Sixteen-year-old Molly

McClure has lived a relatively quiet life

on an isolated farming island in Canada

but when her family fears the worst may

have happened to her grandparents in

the US Molly must brave the dangerous

chaotic world left after global economic

collapse One of massive oil shortages rampant crime and aban-

doned cities Molly is relieved to find her grandparents alive in their

Portland suburb but they are financially ruined and practically

starving What should have been a quick trip turns into a full-fledged

rescue mission And when Molly witnesses something the local crime

bosses wishes she hadnt Mollys only way home may be to beat

them at their own game Luckily theres a handsome stranger whos

willing to help

The Cloak Society by Jeramey

Kraatz

Alex Knight a twelve-year-old in training to

be asupervilliamin the elite ldquoCloak Societyrdquo

becomes frinds with a young superhero and

begins to question where his loyalties lie

Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus

recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named

Espen during World War II After Nazi Germany invades and occupies

Norway Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian re-

sistance movement Espen gets his start by delivering illegal news-

papers then graduates to the role of courier and finally becomes a

spy dodging the Gestapo along the way During five years under the

Nazi regime he gainsmdashand losesmdashfriends falls in love and makes

one small mistake that threatens to

catch up with him as he sets out to

escape on skis over the mountains

to Sweden

The Compound by SA Bodeen

Eli and his family have lived in the

underground Compound for six years The world they knew is gone

and theyrsquove become accustomed to their new life Accustomed but

not happy For Eli no amount of

luxury can stifle the dull routine of

living in the same place with only

his two sisters only his father and

mother doing the t the

Same thing day after day after day

As problems with their carefully

planned existence threaten to

destroy their sanctuarymdashand their

sanitymdashEli canrsquot help but wonder if

hersquod rather take his chances outside Elirsquos father built the Compound

to keep them safe But are they safemdashor sorry

The Boy ProjectNotes and Observations

of Kara McAllister by Kami Kinard

Eight-grader Kara McAllister chronicles

her efforts when she tries to use scientific

method to transform her social blunders

into romantic victories

Oh magic hour when a child first knows she can read printed words

mdash A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943

Fiction

This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel

In this prequel to Mary Shelleyrsquos gothic

classic Frankenstein 16-year-old Victor

Frankenstein begins a dark journey that

will change his life forever Victorrsquos twin

Konrad has fallen ill and no doctor is able

to cure him Unwilling to give up on his

brother Victor enlists his beautiful cousin

Elizabeth and best friend Henry on a treacherous search for the

ingredients to create the forbidden Elixir of Life Impossible odds

dangerous alchemy and a bitter love triangle threaten their quest at

every turn

Escape From Memory by Margaret Peterson Haddix

While playing around with hypnotism at a

party Kira remembers fleeing a war-torn

country with her mother speaking a lan-

guage she cant identify A few days later

her mother disappears and a woman who

calls herself Kiras aunt Memory takes Kira

to Crythe a country that doesnt officially

exist in order to rescue her -- or so she says Kira soon learns that

Aunt Memory is not what she seems and Kira and her mother are

both in terrible danger There are memories locked in Kiras mind

that could get her and her mother killed But those memories are the

only things that might save them

Memory Boy by Will Weaver

Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee

their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in

the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic

volcanic explosions creates dangerous condi-

tions in their city

The Friday Society by Adrenne Kress

Cora Nellie and Michiko teenaged assis-

tants to three powerful men in Edwardian

London meet by chance at a ball that ends

with the discovery of a murdered man

leading the three to work together to solve

this and related crimes without drawing

undue attention to

themselves

Mountain of Bones by Christopher Krovath

During a class trip to the Montana woods Ian

PJ and Kendra are separated from their group

and must rely each other to survive as they

encounter zombies and more

Plunked by Michael Northrop Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves Seraphia by Rachel Hartman Four decades of peace

have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd Folding themselves into human shape dragons attend court as ambassadors and lend their rational mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers As the treatys anniver-sary draws near however tensions are high Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides An unusually gifted musician she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murderedmdashin suspiciously draconian fashion Seraphina is drawn into the investigation partnering with the captain of the Queens Guard the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace Seraphina strug-gles to protect her own secret the secret behind her musical gift one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library

mdash Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction

Matched by Ally Condie

All her life Cassia has never had a choice

The society dictates everything when and

how you play where to work where to

live what to eat and wear when to die

and most importantly to Cassia as she

turns seventeen whom to marry When

she is matched with her best friend Xan-

der things couldnrsquot be more perfect But why did her neighbour Kyrsquos

face show up on her match disk as well

This is the first book in the trilogy follow this up with Crossed and

Reached

Zom-B by Darren Shan

B lsquos father thinks itrsquos a hoaxmdashbut even if it isnrsquot the two of them

joke itrsquos only the Irish right That is until zombies actually attack

the school B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corri-

dors of high school making allegiances

with anyone with enough gall to fight off

their pursuers But when they come face to

face with the ravenous oozing corpeses

all bets are off There are no friends No

allies Just whatever it takes to survive

Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip by

Jordan Sonnenblick

Therersquos nothing Peter Friedman loves more than

baseball Itrsquos his life But Petersquos freshman year

doesnrsquot turn out as planned A pitching accident

over the summer ruins his arm If he canrsquot play

baseball what is he susposed to do If he isnrsquot

the star pitcher then who is he

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant

Ace Detective snappy dresser razor-tongued

wit cracker-jack sorcerer and walking

talking fire-throwing skeleton

--as well as ally protector and mentor of

Stephanie Edgley a very unusual and dark-

ly talented twelve-year-old

These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil

The end of the world

Over his dead body

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder a gifted mechanic is a cyborg Shersquos a

second-class citizen with a mysterious past

reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her

stepsisterrsquos illness But when her life becomes

intertwined with the handsome Prince Kairsquos

she suddenly finds herself at the center of an

intergalactic struggle and a forbidden attraction Caught between

duty and freedom loyalty and betrayal she must uncover secrets

about her past in order to protect her worldrsquos future(

Towering by Alex Flinn

A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told

from the alternating perspectives of three

teens whose fates unknowingly bind them

together to destroy a greater evil

Fans of Beastly AKiss in Time and Bewitch-

ing wonrsquot want to miss this one

Outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend Inside of a dog its too dark to read

mdash Groucho Marx

Fiction

Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony

The year is 2041 Sixteen-year-old Molly

McClure has lived a relatively quiet life

on an isolated farming island in Canada

but when her family fears the worst may

have happened to her grandparents in

the US Molly must brave the dangerous

chaotic world left after global economic

collapse One of massive oil shortages rampant crime and aban-

doned cities Molly is relieved to find her grandparents alive in their

Portland suburb but they are financially ruined and practically

starving What should have been a quick trip turns into a full-fledged

rescue mission And when Molly witnesses something the local crime

bosses wishes she hadnt Mollys only way home may be to beat

them at their own game Luckily theres a handsome stranger whos

willing to help

The Cloak Society by Jeramey

Kraatz

Alex Knight a twelve-year-old in training to

be asupervilliamin the elite ldquoCloak Societyrdquo

becomes frinds with a young superhero and

begins to question where his loyalties lie

Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus

recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named

Espen during World War II After Nazi Germany invades and occupies

Norway Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian re-

sistance movement Espen gets his start by delivering illegal news-

papers then graduates to the role of courier and finally becomes a

spy dodging the Gestapo along the way During five years under the

Nazi regime he gainsmdashand losesmdashfriends falls in love and makes

one small mistake that threatens to

catch up with him as he sets out to

escape on skis over the mountains

to Sweden

The Compound by SA Bodeen

Eli and his family have lived in the

underground Compound for six years The world they knew is gone

and theyrsquove become accustomed to their new life Accustomed but

not happy For Eli no amount of

luxury can stifle the dull routine of

living in the same place with only

his two sisters only his father and

mother doing the t the

Same thing day after day after day

As problems with their carefully

planned existence threaten to

destroy their sanctuarymdashand their

sanitymdashEli canrsquot help but wonder if

hersquod rather take his chances outside Elirsquos father built the Compound

to keep them safe But are they safemdashor sorry

The Boy ProjectNotes and Observations

of Kara McAllister by Kami Kinard

Eight-grader Kara McAllister chronicles

her efforts when she tries to use scientific

method to transform her social blunders

into romantic victories

Oh magic hour when a child first knows she can read printed words

mdash A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943

Fiction

This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel

In this prequel to Mary Shelleyrsquos gothic

classic Frankenstein 16-year-old Victor

Frankenstein begins a dark journey that

will change his life forever Victorrsquos twin

Konrad has fallen ill and no doctor is able

to cure him Unwilling to give up on his

brother Victor enlists his beautiful cousin

Elizabeth and best friend Henry on a treacherous search for the

ingredients to create the forbidden Elixir of Life Impossible odds

dangerous alchemy and a bitter love triangle threaten their quest at

every turn

Escape From Memory by Margaret Peterson Haddix

While playing around with hypnotism at a

party Kira remembers fleeing a war-torn

country with her mother speaking a lan-

guage she cant identify A few days later

her mother disappears and a woman who

calls herself Kiras aunt Memory takes Kira

to Crythe a country that doesnt officially

exist in order to rescue her -- or so she says Kira soon learns that

Aunt Memory is not what she seems and Kira and her mother are

both in terrible danger There are memories locked in Kiras mind

that could get her and her mother killed But those memories are the

only things that might save them

Memory Boy by Will Weaver

Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee

their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in

the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic

volcanic explosions creates dangerous condi-

tions in their city

The Friday Society by Adrenne Kress

Cora Nellie and Michiko teenaged assis-

tants to three powerful men in Edwardian

London meet by chance at a ball that ends

with the discovery of a murdered man

leading the three to work together to solve

this and related crimes without drawing

undue attention to

themselves

Mountain of Bones by Christopher Krovath

During a class trip to the Montana woods Ian

PJ and Kendra are separated from their group

and must rely each other to survive as they

encounter zombies and more

Plunked by Michael Northrop Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves Seraphia by Rachel Hartman Four decades of peace

have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd Folding themselves into human shape dragons attend court as ambassadors and lend their rational mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers As the treatys anniver-sary draws near however tensions are high Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides An unusually gifted musician she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murderedmdashin suspiciously draconian fashion Seraphina is drawn into the investigation partnering with the captain of the Queens Guard the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace Seraphina strug-gles to protect her own secret the secret behind her musical gift one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library

mdash Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction

Matched by Ally Condie

All her life Cassia has never had a choice

The society dictates everything when and

how you play where to work where to

live what to eat and wear when to die

and most importantly to Cassia as she

turns seventeen whom to marry When

she is matched with her best friend Xan-

der things couldnrsquot be more perfect But why did her neighbour Kyrsquos

face show up on her match disk as well

This is the first book in the trilogy follow this up with Crossed and

Reached

Zom-B by Darren Shan

B lsquos father thinks itrsquos a hoaxmdashbut even if it isnrsquot the two of them

joke itrsquos only the Irish right That is until zombies actually attack

the school B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corri-

dors of high school making allegiances

with anyone with enough gall to fight off

their pursuers But when they come face to

face with the ravenous oozing corpeses

all bets are off There are no friends No

allies Just whatever it takes to survive

Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip by

Jordan Sonnenblick

Therersquos nothing Peter Friedman loves more than

baseball Itrsquos his life But Petersquos freshman year

doesnrsquot turn out as planned A pitching accident

over the summer ruins his arm If he canrsquot play

baseball what is he susposed to do If he isnrsquot

the star pitcher then who is he

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant

Ace Detective snappy dresser razor-tongued

wit cracker-jack sorcerer and walking

talking fire-throwing skeleton

--as well as ally protector and mentor of

Stephanie Edgley a very unusual and dark-

ly talented twelve-year-old

These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil

The end of the world

Over his dead body

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder a gifted mechanic is a cyborg Shersquos a

second-class citizen with a mysterious past

reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her

stepsisterrsquos illness But when her life becomes

intertwined with the handsome Prince Kairsquos

she suddenly finds herself at the center of an

intergalactic struggle and a forbidden attraction Caught between

duty and freedom loyalty and betrayal she must uncover secrets

about her past in order to protect her worldrsquos future(

Towering by Alex Flinn

A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told

from the alternating perspectives of three

teens whose fates unknowingly bind them

together to destroy a greater evil

Fans of Beastly AKiss in Time and Bewitch-

ing wonrsquot want to miss this one

Outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend Inside of a dog its too dark to read

mdash Groucho Marx

Fiction

This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel

In this prequel to Mary Shelleyrsquos gothic

classic Frankenstein 16-year-old Victor

Frankenstein begins a dark journey that

will change his life forever Victorrsquos twin

Konrad has fallen ill and no doctor is able

to cure him Unwilling to give up on his

brother Victor enlists his beautiful cousin

Elizabeth and best friend Henry on a treacherous search for the

ingredients to create the forbidden Elixir of Life Impossible odds

dangerous alchemy and a bitter love triangle threaten their quest at

every turn

Escape From Memory by Margaret Peterson Haddix

While playing around with hypnotism at a

party Kira remembers fleeing a war-torn

country with her mother speaking a lan-

guage she cant identify A few days later

her mother disappears and a woman who

calls herself Kiras aunt Memory takes Kira

to Crythe a country that doesnt officially

exist in order to rescue her -- or so she says Kira soon learns that

Aunt Memory is not what she seems and Kira and her mother are

both in terrible danger There are memories locked in Kiras mind

that could get her and her mother killed But those memories are the

only things that might save them

Memory Boy by Will Weaver

Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee

their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in

the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic

volcanic explosions creates dangerous condi-

tions in their city

The Friday Society by Adrenne Kress

Cora Nellie and Michiko teenaged assis-

tants to three powerful men in Edwardian

London meet by chance at a ball that ends

with the discovery of a murdered man

leading the three to work together to solve

this and related crimes without drawing

undue attention to

themselves

Mountain of Bones by Christopher Krovath

During a class trip to the Montana woods Ian

PJ and Kendra are separated from their group

and must rely each other to survive as they

encounter zombies and more

Plunked by Michael Northrop Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves Seraphia by Rachel Hartman Four decades of peace

have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd Folding themselves into human shape dragons attend court as ambassadors and lend their rational mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers As the treatys anniver-sary draws near however tensions are high Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides An unusually gifted musician she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murderedmdashin suspiciously draconian fashion Seraphina is drawn into the investigation partnering with the captain of the Queens Guard the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace Seraphina strug-gles to protect her own secret the secret behind her musical gift one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library

mdash Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction

Matched by Ally Condie

All her life Cassia has never had a choice

The society dictates everything when and

how you play where to work where to

live what to eat and wear when to die

and most importantly to Cassia as she

turns seventeen whom to marry When

she is matched with her best friend Xan-

der things couldnrsquot be more perfect But why did her neighbour Kyrsquos

face show up on her match disk as well

This is the first book in the trilogy follow this up with Crossed and

Reached

Zom-B by Darren Shan

B lsquos father thinks itrsquos a hoaxmdashbut even if it isnrsquot the two of them

joke itrsquos only the Irish right That is until zombies actually attack

the school B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corri-

dors of high school making allegiances

with anyone with enough gall to fight off

their pursuers But when they come face to

face with the ravenous oozing corpeses

all bets are off There are no friends No

allies Just whatever it takes to survive

Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip by

Jordan Sonnenblick

Therersquos nothing Peter Friedman loves more than

baseball Itrsquos his life But Petersquos freshman year

doesnrsquot turn out as planned A pitching accident

over the summer ruins his arm If he canrsquot play

baseball what is he susposed to do If he isnrsquot

the star pitcher then who is he

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant

Ace Detective snappy dresser razor-tongued

wit cracker-jack sorcerer and walking

talking fire-throwing skeleton

--as well as ally protector and mentor of

Stephanie Edgley a very unusual and dark-

ly talented twelve-year-old

These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil

The end of the world

Over his dead body

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder a gifted mechanic is a cyborg Shersquos a

second-class citizen with a mysterious past

reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her

stepsisterrsquos illness But when her life becomes

intertwined with the handsome Prince Kairsquos

she suddenly finds herself at the center of an

intergalactic struggle and a forbidden attraction Caught between

duty and freedom loyalty and betrayal she must uncover secrets

about her past in order to protect her worldrsquos future(

Towering by Alex Flinn

A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told

from the alternating perspectives of three

teens whose fates unknowingly bind them

together to destroy a greater evil

Fans of Beastly AKiss in Time and Bewitch-

ing wonrsquot want to miss this one

Outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend Inside of a dog its too dark to read

mdash Groucho Marx

Fiction

Matched by Ally Condie

All her life Cassia has never had a choice

The society dictates everything when and

how you play where to work where to

live what to eat and wear when to die

and most importantly to Cassia as she

turns seventeen whom to marry When

she is matched with her best friend Xan-

der things couldnrsquot be more perfect But why did her neighbour Kyrsquos

face show up on her match disk as well

This is the first book in the trilogy follow this up with Crossed and

Reached

Zom-B by Darren Shan

B lsquos father thinks itrsquos a hoaxmdashbut even if it isnrsquot the two of them

joke itrsquos only the Irish right That is until zombies actually attack

the school B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corri-

dors of high school making allegiances

with anyone with enough gall to fight off

their pursuers But when they come face to

face with the ravenous oozing corpeses

all bets are off There are no friends No

allies Just whatever it takes to survive

Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip by

Jordan Sonnenblick

Therersquos nothing Peter Friedman loves more than

baseball Itrsquos his life But Petersquos freshman year

doesnrsquot turn out as planned A pitching accident

over the summer ruins his arm If he canrsquot play

baseball what is he susposed to do If he isnrsquot

the star pitcher then who is he

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant

Ace Detective snappy dresser razor-tongued

wit cracker-jack sorcerer and walking

talking fire-throwing skeleton

--as well as ally protector and mentor of

Stephanie Edgley a very unusual and dark-

ly talented twelve-year-old

These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil

The end of the world

Over his dead body

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder a gifted mechanic is a cyborg Shersquos a

second-class citizen with a mysterious past

reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her

stepsisterrsquos illness But when her life becomes

intertwined with the handsome Prince Kairsquos

she suddenly finds herself at the center of an

intergalactic struggle and a forbidden attraction Caught between

duty and freedom loyalty and betrayal she must uncover secrets

about her past in order to protect her worldrsquos future(

Towering by Alex Flinn

A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told

from the alternating perspectives of three

teens whose fates unknowingly bind them

together to destroy a greater evil

Fans of Beastly AKiss in Time and Bewitch-

ing wonrsquot want to miss this one

Outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend Inside of a dog its too dark to read

mdash Groucho Marx

Fiction

Splintered by AG Howard

A descendant of the inspiration of Alicersquos

Adventures in Wonderland sixteen-year-

old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill

like her mother until she finds that Won-

derland is real and if she passes a series of

tests to fix Alicersquos mistakes she may save

her family from their curse

Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz

As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland Yanek is

at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken

over Everything he has and everyone he

loves have been snatched brutally from

him And then Yanek himself is taken pris-

oner -- his arm tattooed with the words

PRISONER B-3087 Based on an astonishing true story

Unremembered by Jessica Brody

A girl estimated to be sixteen awakens with

amnesia in the wreckage of a plane crash she

should not have survived and taken into

foster care The only clue to her identity is a

mysterious boy who claims she was part of a

top-secret science experiment

The Reluctant Journal of Henry K

Larsen by Susin Nielsen

A young teen rebuilds his life after the

worst-case bully scenario

Divergent by Veronica Roth

In Beatrice Priors dystopian Chicago world

society is divided into five factions each

dedicated to the cultivation of a particular

virtue--Candor (the honest) Abnegation

(the selfless) Dauntless (the brave) Amity

(the peaceful) and Erudite (the intelligent)

On an appointed day of every year all

sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote

the rest of their lives For Beatrice the decision is between staying

with her family and being who she really is--she cant have both So

she makes a choice that surprises everyone including herself

Legend by Marie Lu

What was once the western United States is

now home to the Republic a nation perpetu-

ally at war with its neighbors Born into an

elite family in one of the Republicrsquos wealthi-

est districts fifteen-year-old June is a prodi-

gy being groomed for success in the Repub-

licrsquos highest military circles Born into the slums fifteen-year-old Day

is the countryrsquos most wanted criminal But his motives may not be as

malicious as they seem From very different worlds June and Day

have no reason to cross pathsmdashuntil the day Junersquos brother Metias

is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect

All These Things Irsquo ve Done by Gabrielle Zevin

In a future where chocolate and caffeine are

contraband teenage cellphone use is illegal

and water and paper are carefully rationed

sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself

thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as the

heir apparent to an important New York City

crime family

The ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive

mdash The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1964

Fiction Series - You donrsquot want to miss out on

Chickenhare by Chris Grine

Whats a chickenhare A cross between a

chicken and a rabbit of course And that

makes Chickenhare the rarest animal

around So when he and his turtle friend

Abe are captured and sold to the evil

taxidermist Klaus theyve got to find a

way to escape before Klaus turns them

into stuffed animals With the help of two

other strange creatures Banjo and Meg they might even get away

But with Klaus and his thugs hot on their trail the adventure is only

just beginning for this unlikely quartet of friends

Poseidon Earth Shaker by George OrsquoConnor

In volume 5 of Olympians authorartist

George OConnor turns the spotlight on

that most mysterious and misunderstood of

the Greek gods Poseidon Earth Shaker

Thrill to such famous stories as Theseus

and the Minotaur Odysseus and Polyphe-

mos and the founding of Athensmdashand

learn how the tempestuous Poseidon became the King of the Seas

Cardboard by Doug Tenapel

Cams down-and-out father gives him a

cardboard box for his birthday and he

knows its the worst present ever So to

make the best of a bad situation they bend

the cardboard into a man-and to their

astonishment it comes magically to life

But the neighborhood bully Marcus warps

the powerful cardboard into his own evil creations that threaten to

destroy them all

Smile by Raina Telgemeier

Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader

But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and

falls severely injuring her two front teeth

What follows is a long and frustrating journey

with on-again off-again braces surgery

embarrassing headgear and even a retainer

with fake teeth attached And on top of all

that theres still more to deal with a major earthquake boy confu-

sion and friends who turn out to be not so friendly

The more that you read the more things you will know The more you learn the more places youll go

mdash Dr Seuss I Can Read With My Eyes Shut

Graphic Novels

Chickenhare by Chris Grine

Whats a chickenhare A cross between a

chicken and a rabbit of course And that

makes Chickenhare the rarest animal

around So when he and his turtle friend

Abe are captured and sold to the evil

taxidermist Klaus theyve got to find a

way to escape before Klaus turns them

into stuffed animals With the help of two

other strange creatures Banjo and Meg they might even get away

But with Klaus and his thugs hot on their trail the adventure is only

just beginning for this unlikely quartet of friends

Poseidon Earth Shaker by George OrsquoConnor

In volume 5 of Olympians authorartist

George OConnor turns the spotlight on

that most mysterious and misunderstood of

the Greek gods Poseidon Earth Shaker

Thrill to such famous stories as Theseus

and the Minotaur Odysseus and Polyphe-

mos and the founding of Athensmdashand

learn how the tempestuous Poseidon became the King of the Seas

Cardboard by Doug Tenapel

Cams down-and-out father gives him a

cardboard box for his birthday and he

knows its the worst present ever So to

make the best of a bad situation they bend

the cardboard into a man-and to their

astonishment it comes magically to life

But the neighborhood bully Marcus warps

the powerful cardboard into his own evil creations that threaten to

destroy them all

Smile by Raina Telgemeier

Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader

But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and

falls severely injuring her two front teeth

What follows is a long and frustrating journey

with on-again off-again braces surgery

embarrassing headgear and even a retainer

with fake teeth attached And on top of all

that theres still more to deal with a major earthquake boy confu-

sion and friends who turn out to be not so friendly

The more that you read the more things you will know The more you learn the more places youll go

mdash Dr Seuss I Can Read With My Eyes Shut

Graphic Novels