Book+Trailers

=** __Coming of Age/Peer Pressure/Relationships__ **= //My Sister’s Keeper//, Jodi Picoult. Examines the difficult choices a family must make when one of the children is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. media type="custom" key="6223319" // Running Out of Time //, Margaret Peterson Haddix. Jessica, who thinks it is 1840, is more than surprised to find out it is really 2006. // Gossip Girls // series, Cecily von Ziegesar. Life inside a New York City jet-set private school. //Just Listen//, Sarah Dessen. An incident at a high school party has far-reaching consequences. Author's WebsiteRead an excerpt media type="youtube" key="F0fR0Hisafk" height="225" width="287"

//Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac//, Gabrielle Zevin. A teenager loses her memory after a bad fall. //Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie//, Davis Lubar. Scott Hudson hopes to survive his freshman year. //Snitch//, Allison van Diepen. A teen tries to navigate between rival gangs. //I am the Messenger//, Markus Zusak. A botched bank robbery changes a nineteen-year-old’s life. //Twisted. Laurie Halse Anderson.// Tyler, busted for tagging, tries to find his way through his senior year. read an excerpt of the book Author's Website //The Truth About Forever//, Sarah Dessen. A teen has to cope with her father’s death. Author's Website

//A Certain Slant of Light//, Laura Whitcomb. Helen died 130 years ago, but she’s still around. //Cirque du Freak// series, Darren Shan. There is more to a traveling freak show than meets the eye. //Elsewhere//, Gabrielle Zevin. Liz is getting younger, not older, every day. //How I Live Now//, Meg Rosoff.. A world war breaks out in the 21st century. //Life as We Knew It//, Susan Beth Pfeffer. A meteor collides with the moon, with disastrous results for Earthlings. //Mother’s Helper//, A. Bates. A most unusual babysitting experience. //Wheel of Time// series, Robert Jordan. The world has been broken by a phenomenal power in this series that is reminiscent of Tolkien. //Twilight// series, Stephenie Meyer. A modern day Romeo and Juliet! media type="custom" key="6226831"
 * __Fantasy/Science Fiction/Vampire__ **

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//The Hunger Games,// Suzanne Collins. media type="custom" key="6224273"

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//Fallen,// Kate Lauren. Star-crossed romance supernatural thriller. media type="custom" key="6223107"

//The Maze Runner//, James Dashner. A dark and gripping tale of survival. media type="custom" key="6223225"

//Come Back: a Mother and Daughter Journey to Hell and Back//, Claire and Mia Fontaine. A riveting account of a mother’s fight to rescue her daughter from drugs. //Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence//, Paul Feig. A series of stories about the rigors of high school survival. //Girl, Interrupted//, Susanna Kaysen. A sixteen-year-old is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital. //Running With Scissors//, Augusten Burroughs. An account of growing up in an eccentric, dysfunctional family. //The Glass Castle//, Jeanette Walls. Another account of growing up in an eccentric, dysfunctional family. //True Notebooks//, Mark Salzman. The author tries to reach convicts through the formation of a writing group. //A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier//, Ishmael Beah. The author recounts his experiences as a child soldier. [] media type="custom" key="6224357"
 * __Memoir and Non-Fiction__ **

//A Rose that Grew from Concrete//, Tupac Shakur. The poetry of the late rapper. //Burned//, Ellen Hopkins. Growing up in an abusive household, told in verse. Author's website //Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from WritersCorps//, Bill Aquado. Poems written by disadvantaged youth. //Tears for Water//, Alicia Keys. Poems that recall the singer’s childhood. CBS News video of Alicia Keys talking about her book
 * __Poetry__**

//Crackback//, John Coy. The trials and tribulations of teenage life, woven through the lense of a high school football team. //Gym Candy//, Carl Deuker. Mick Johnson, high school football star, considers steroids use. //Knights of the Hill Country//, Tim Tharp. Readers who liked //Friday Night Lights// will like this football drama. Books by Mike Lupica media type="custom" key="6237201"
 * __Sports__**

//Crazy Little Things,// Adam P. Knave. Twelve very strange tales. //Fake ID//, Walter Sorrells. Chase, 16, only has six days to figure out why his mother disappeared. //Falling//, Christopher Pike. FBI agent, Kelly Feinman, is on the trail of the “Acid Killer.” //The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time//, Mark Haddon. A poodle, Wellington, has been murdered. Christopher, who is autistic, is on the case. //The Lovely Bones,// Alice Sebold. media type="custom" key="6226683"
 * __Mystery__ **

//The Perfect Shot//, Elaine Marie Alphin. A triple homicide is not what it seems.

//The Book Thief,// Markus Zusak. Story of the Holocaust told from the perspective of Death. media type="custom" key="6226749"
 * Historical Fiction **

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 * Reading Olympics 2010-2011 List: **
 * Book Title || Author ||
 * After the Dancing Days || Rostkowski, Margaret ||
 * All But My Life || Klein, Gerda ||
 * Bite of Mango || McClelland, Susan ||
 * Bound || Napoli, Donna Jo ||
 * Bucking the Sarge || Curtis, Christopher Paul ||
 * Dope Sick || Myers, Walter Dean ||
 * Dragon's Blood || Yolen, Jane ||
 * Dreamland || Dessen, Sarah ||
 * Ellen Foster || Gibbons, Kaye ||
 * Enchantment || Card, Orson Scott ||
 * Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close || Foer, Jonathan Safran ||
 * Fly Girl || Smith, Sherri ||
 * Friday Night Lights || Bissinger, H. G. ||
 * Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, The || King, Stephen ||
 * Girl with a Pearl Earring || Chevalier, Tracy ||
 * Give a Boy a Gun || Strasser, Todd ||
 * Going Bovine || Bray, Libba ||
 * Hiroshima || Hersey, John ||
 * I am the Messenger || Zusak, Markus ||
 * IceFire || D'Lacey, Chris ||
 * In Country || Mason, Bobbie Ann ||
 * Into Thin Air || Krakauer, Jon ||
 * Leviathan || Westerfeld, Scott ||
 * Liar || Larbalestier, Justine ||
 * Looking for Alaska || Green, John ||
 * Make Lemonade || Wolff, Virginia Euwer ||
 * My Most Excellent Year || Kluger, Steve ||
 * Neverwhere || Gaiman, Neil ||
 * On Fortune's Wheel || Voigt, Cynthia ||
 * Once and Future King, The || White, T. H. ||
 * Physick Book of Deliverance of Dane || Howe, Katherine ||
 * Rag and Bone Shop, The || Cormier, Robert ||
 * Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation || Hamilton, Tim ||
 * Ropemaker, The || Dickinson, Peter ||
 * Swift Pure Cry || Dowd, Siobhan ||
 * The Chosen One || Williams, Carol Lynch ||
 * The Help || Stockett, Kathryn ||
 * The Land || Taylor, Mildred ||
 * The Maze Runner || Drashner, James ||
 * The Road || McCarthy, Cormac ||
 * The Thirteenth Tale || Setterfield, Diane ||
 * Their Eyes Were Watching God || Hurston, Zora Neale ||
 * Three Cups of Tea || Mortenson, Greg ||
 * Wintergirls
 * Yellow Raft in Blue Water, The || Dorris, Michael ||


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