505 Great Books

7/31/2019 505 Great Books

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Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'UrbervillesHawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet LetterHeller, Joseph Catch 22Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to ArmsHomer The Iliad

Homer The OdysseyHugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre DameHurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching GodHuxley, Aldous Brave New WorldIbsen, Henrik A Doll's HouseJames, Henry The Portrait of a LadyJames, Henry The Turn of the ScrewJoyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManKafka, Franz The MetamorphosisKingston, Maxine Hong The Woman WarriorLee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird

Lewis, Sinclair BabbittLondon, Jack The Call of the WildMann, Thomas The Magic MountainMarquez, Gabriel Garca One Hundred Years of SolitudeMelville, Herman Bartleby the ScrivenerMelville, Herman Moby DickMiller, Arthur The CrucibleMorrison, Toni BelovedO'Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to FindO'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into NightOrwell, George Animal FarmPasternak, Boris Doctor ZhivagoPlath, Sylvia The Bell JarPoe, Edgar Allan Selected TalesProust, Marcel Swann's WayPynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western FrontRostand, Edmond Cyrano de BergeracRoth, Henry Call It SleepSalinger, J.D. The Catcher in the RyeShakespeare, William HamletShakespeare, William MacbethShakespeare, William A Midsummer Night's DreamShakespeare, William Romeo and JulietShaw, George Bernard PygmalionShelley, Mary FrankensteinSilko, Leslie Marmon CeremonySolzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichSophocles AntigoneSophocles Oedipus Rex


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Steinbeck, John The Grapes of WrathStevenson, Robert Louis Treasure IslandStowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's CabinSwift, Jonathan Gulliver's TravelsThackeray, William Vanity Fair

Thoreau, Henry David WaldenTolstoy, Leo War and PeaceTurgenev, Ivan Fathers and SonsTwain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnVoltaire CandideVonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-FiveWalker, Alice The Color PurpleWharton, Edith The House of MirthWelty, Eudora Collected StoriesWhitman, Walt Leaves of GrassWilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray

Williams, Tennessee The Glass MenagerieWoolf, Virginia To the LighthouseWright, Richard Native Son

Reading List

Suggested Reading for High School (Grades 912)

The following titles are recommended as summer reading both to maintain fluency andreading level and to encourage independent reading. Students may find these titles atlibraries and bookstores. Note: not all titles listed here are available from Prentice Hall.

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart.Alvarez, Julia. How The Garca Girls Lost Their Accents.Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg,Ohio.Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.Arnett, Peter. Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Bagdad.Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.Baker, Russell. Growing Up.

Blais, Madeleine. In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle.Bront, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.Bront, Emily. Wuthering Heights.Brooks, Polly Schoyer. Queen Eleanor, Independent Spirit of The Medieval World:Biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine.Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth.Cather, Willa. O Pioneers!Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote.


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Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales.Cisneros, Sandra. The House On Mango Street.Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim.Cooper, James Fenimore. Last of the Mohicans.Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War.

Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.Delany, Sarah and Elizabeth. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years.Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield.Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations.Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities.Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment.Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie.Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca.Eliot, George. Silas Marner.Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man.

Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying.Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury.Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.Grealy, Lucy. Autobiography of a Face.Gunther, John. Death Be Not Proud.Haley, Alex. Roots.Hardy, Thomas. Return of the Native.Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of Seven Gables.Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.Heinlein, Robert A. Stranger in a Strange Land.Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms.Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls.Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises.Homer. The Iliad.Homer. The Odyssey.Hugo, Victor. Les Misrables.Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.Joyce, James. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.Knowles, John. A Separate Peace.Kuralt, Charles. Charles Kuralt's America.Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.London, Jack. The Sea Wolf.Malamud, Bernard. The Natural.McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonsong.McCullers, Carson. Member of the Wedding.Melville, Herman. Moby Dick.Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman.


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Miller, Arthur. The Crucible.Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind.Myers, Walter Dean. The Glory Field.O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.Orwell, George. 1984.

Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country.Poe, Edgar Allan. Complete Tales and Poems.Potok, Chaim. My Name is Asher Lev.Potok, Chaim. The Chosen.Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front.Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye.Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe.Shakespeare, William. Macbeth.Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream.Shakespeare, William. Hamlet.Shakespeare, William. King Lear.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.Shepard, Alan and Deke Slayton. Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to theMoon.Shute, Nevil. On the Beach.Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony.Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle.Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.Steinbeck, John. The Pearl.Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony.Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and MenStevenson, Robert Louis. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Stoll, Clifford. Silicon Snake Oil.Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels.Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club.Thoreau, Henry David. Walden.Thurber, James. My Life and Hard Times.Thurber, James. The Thurber Carnival.Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome.Wilder, Thornton. Our Town.Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie.Wright, Richard. Black Boy.Wright, Richard. Native Son.

Allison, Dorothy.Bastard Out of Carolina. 1993. Penguin/Plume.Bone confronts illegitimacy, poverty, the troubled marriage of her mother and stepfather,and the stigma of being considered white trash as she comes of age in South Carolina.


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Roth, Philip.The Plot Against America. 2005. Knopf/Vintage.This is a fascinating alternate history that takes a hard look at one of Americas legendaryheroes, Charles Lindbergh, and at how bigotry and fear can shape politics.

Sebold, Alice.Lucky: A Memoir. 2002. Little Brown/Back Bay.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved. With these words, Sebold recounts the brutalrape that she was lucky to survive. Tragedy and hope combine as she makes her waythrough a survivors maze of emotions.

Stoppard, Tom.Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead. 1994. Grove PressTwo bit players from Shakespeare's Hamlet are thrust into a terrifying and surreal newsituation.

Thompson, Craig. Blankets. 2003. Top Shelf Productions.A young man questions his faith and experiences bittersweet first love in thisautobiographical and groundbreaking graphic novel.

Zusak, Marcus.The Book Thief. 2006. Random House/Knopf.Living in Nazi Germany, young Liesel and her family choose to lie and steal to protect aJewish refugee hiding in their basement. Narrated by Death, this is not your typical WorldWar II story.

Bernier-Grand, Carmen.Frida: Viva la Vida! Long Live Life! 2007. Marshall Cavendish.In twenty-six original, free-verse poems the author depicts the thoughts, feelings, and lifeevents of Mexican self-portraitist Frida Kahlo. The poems are accompanied by twenty-fourfull-color reproductions of Kahlos paintings. Substantial background materials include abiographical sketch, chronology, and glossary.

Blumenthal, Karen.Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed theFuture of Girls in America. 2005. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum.This nonfiction work looks at Title IX, the 1972 legislation mandating that schoolsreceiving federal funds could not discriminate on the basis of gender, ensuring equaltreatment and opportunity for girls in sports and education. Included are period photos, atime line, "then and now" commentary, extensive source notes, and suggested resources forfurther reading.

Bowker, John. World Religions: The Great Faiths Explored and Explained. 2006. DK.This comprehensive work introduces the reader to faiths of the world through religious

artifacts, paintings, architecture, and annotations of sacred texts. It includes a time linecomparing significant events and people.

Bryson, Bill. Shakespeare: The World as Stage. 2007. HarperCollins.Bryson hits the mark with his characteristic wit as he explores the world of Shakespeareand the mystery surrounding the man and his plays.


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Campbell, Joseph and Bill Moyers.The Power of Myth. 1988. BroadwayBooks/Doubleday.A companion to the six part television documentary originally broadcast on PBS, this bookcovers such subjects as the role of mythology in the modern world, the journey inward, thehero's adventure, and tales of love and marriage.

Diamant, Anita. The Red Tent:A Novel. 1998. Picador.This novel recreates the biblical life of Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob, from her birthin Mesopotamia through her death in Egypt.

DOrso, Michael.Eagle Blue:A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in

Arctic Alaska. 2006. Bloomsbury.This true story explores the tiny village of Fort Yukon, Alaska, its vanishing culturalheritage, and its relationship with mainstream American culture through its high schoolbasketball team.

Engle, Margarita. The Poet Slave of Cuba:A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano.2006. Henry Holt.Written in verse, this is a Pura Belpre Award winning portrait of Juan Francisco Manzano,the poet who was born a slave in Cuba in 1797.

Follett, Ken.Pillars of the Earth. 2007. Penguin.This best-selling epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the canvasof twelfth-century England depicts fascinating characters and provides a spellbindingintroduction to medieval religion, architecture, politics, and daily life.

Freedman, Russell. The Voice That Challenged a Nation:Marian Anderson and the

Struggle for Equal Rights. 2004. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Clarion.A Newbery Honor book that accounts the life and musical career of the great AfricanAmerican vocalist, Marion Anderson, in the context of the history of civil rights in theUnited States.

Greenberg, Jan.Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century AmericanArt. 2001. Harry N. Abrams.Can a painting speak? This collection of lyrical responses to famous American works of artprovides answers.

Gruen, Sara. Water for Elephants:A Novel. 2007. Algonquin Books.

Gruen creates a story full of enchanting circus lore, mystery, trains, romance, and dangerwith no-holds-barred.

Hemphill, Stephanie. Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath. 2007. RandomHouse/Alfred A. Knopf.Hemphill creates a chronological biography in verse format from the viewpoint of others inPlaths life. This is a worthy homage to Plath as her legend lives on.


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Howe, Peter. Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer. 2002. Artisan.Ten leading combat photographers share their experiences of horror, humor, bravery, anddaring while reporting from war-torn locations such as Vietnam, Haiti, Chechnya, ElSalvador, Sarajevo, and Afghanistan. Over 150 black-and-white and color photographsprovide a powerful and moving look at war and those who risk everything to document it.

Jacobs, A.J. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bibleas Literally as Possible. 2007. Simon & Schuster.A non-judgmental and humorous look at the twelve months Jacobs lived as closely as hecould to literal compliance with biblical rules.

King, Melissa. Shes Got Next: A Story of Getting In, Staying Open, and Taking a Shot.2005. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner Books.Through pick-up basketball games and the people she meets on the streets of Chicago, theauthor learns valuable life lessons.

Landis, Deborah Nadoolman.Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design. 2007.HarperCollins.Landis showcases 100 years of Hollywoods most memorable costumes and the charactersthey helped bring to life as she reveals a behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of thecostume designers art.

Martin, Steve.Born Standing Up:A Comics Life. 2008. Simon & Schuster/Scribner.In a memoir full of humor and candor, Martin shares his personal itinerary as he negotiatesthe maze of honing his profession and the pitfalls he avoided.

McGreevey, Tom and Joanne Yeck.Our Movie Heritage. 1997. Rutgers University

Press.This work provides over one hundred beautiful pictures of top stars, directors, and others inthe film industry, but the focus is on film preservation and the race against time to salvagewhat is left of the large number of films that are currently deteriorating in our nationsvaults, theaters, and private collections.

Partridge, Elizabeth.John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth. 2005. Penguin/Viking.Partridge provides a wide-open view into the work and life of one of the most influentialand complicated persons from the worlds musical heritage.

Partridge, Elizabeth. This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody

Guthrie. 2002. Penguin/Viking.Guthrie was a humbling figure, while at the same time a major catalyst of social change.This work provides insight into one of our most prolific and talented musicians, as well asthe creation of his music.

Polly, Matthew.American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of IronCrotch: An Odyssey in the New China. 2007. Penguin/Gotham Books.


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The author reflects on the childhood dream that led him, as an adult, to take a break fromPrinceton and travel to Chinas famed Shaolin Temple to study martial arts for two years.

Sandler, Martin.Photography: An Illustrated History. 2002. Oxford University Press.This work looks at photography as it evolved from daguerreotypes in the 1800s to the

respected art form that it is today. Numerous compelling black-and-white and colorphotographs document technological developments, the contributions of pioneers in thefield, as well as the impact photography has had upon all aspects of society.

Strickland, Carol. The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History fromPrehistoric to Post-Modern. 2007. Andrews McMeel Publishing.In an accessible format, this unique work provides a basic working knowledge of art andart history through short essays, sidebars, and photographs.

Weller, Sheila. Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly SimonAnd the Journeyof a Generation. 2008. Simon & Schuster/Atria.

In three interwoven biographies, Weller chronicles the life and times of three tradition-breaking women singer-songwriters who came of age in the late 1960s.

Bowman, Robin.It's Complicated: The American Teenager. Umbrage Editions. 2007.978-1-884167-69-0 $40.00

Conner, Leslie. Waiting for Normal. HarperTeen/HarperCollins. 2008. 978-0-06-089088-9 $16.99

de la Pena, Matt. Mexican WhiteBoy. Delacorte. 2008. 978-0-385-73310-6 $15.00

Dowd, Siobhan. Bog Child. Random House/David Fickling Books. 2008. 978-0-385-75169-8$16.99

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. Scholastic. 2008. 978-0-439-02348-1 $17.99

Fletcher, Christine. Ten Cents a Dance. Bloomsbury. 2008. 978-1-59990-164-0$16.95

Monninger, Joseph. Baby. Front Street/Boyd Mills Press. 2007. 978-1-59078-502-7$16.95

Pratchett, Terry. Nation. HarperCollins. 2008. 978-0-06-143302-3 $17.89

Tamaki, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki. Skim. House of Anansi Press / GroundwoodBooks. 2008. 978-0-88899-753-1 $18.95

Voorhees, Coert. The Brothers Torres. Disney/Hyperion. 2008. 978-1-4231-0304-2$16.99


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Almond, David.The Savage. Candlewick. 2008. 978-0-7636-3932-7 $17.99Blue Baker is writing a story about a wild savage living in the woodsat least he thinksits a story. When realities shift, the reader must discern what really happened.

Anderson, Laurie Halse.Chains. Simon & Schuster. 2008. 978-1-4169-0585-1 $16.99

Slaves Isabel and younger sister Ruthie are sold to harsh Loyalists at the beginning of theRevolutionary War. Isabel must decide to be loyal or spy for the American patriots.

Anderson, M.T.The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Vol. II:The Kingdom on the Waves. Candlewick. 2008. 978-0-7636-2950-2 $22.99 Having escapedfrom his captors, Octavian joins the Royal Ethiopian Regiment of the British Army in 1775Boston when they promise freedom to any slave who fights the rebel forces.

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.The Boy Who Dared. Scholastic. 2008. 978-0-439-68013-4$16.99Told through flashbacks, this is a fictionalized biography of German teenager Helmuth

Hubener, who was imprisoned and executed in 1942 for openly resisting the Nazis.

Bell, Hilari.The Last Knight. HarperTeen/HarperCollins. 2007. 978-0-06-082503-4 $16.99An anachronistic knight errant takes a criminal as squire, mistakenly frees a womancharged with murdering her husband (brother to his father's liege), and becomes captive inher keep.

Benway, Robin.Audrey, Wait! Penguin/Razorbill. 2008. 978-1-59514-191-0 $16.99Audrey's ex-boyfriend records a hit song about their breakup, and suddenly all eyes (andcameras) are on Audrey. Fans, Facebook, and tabloids - it's all too much for Audrey.

Blundell, Judy.What I Saw and How I Lied. Scholastic. 2008. 978-0-439-90346-2 $16.99When Evies father returns from the war, she expects life to return to normal but amysterious trip to Florida, secrets, deceptions, and a first forbidden love complicatesthings.

Booth, Coe.Kendra. Scholastic/Push. 2008. 978-0-439-92536-5 $16.99Kendra is thrilled her mom, Renee, has completed her Ph.D. programnow they canfinally be a real family. But is Renee excited for their future together, too?

Bradbury, Jennifer.Shift. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 2008. 978-1-4169-4732-5 $16.99Chris and Win take a bicycle trip across America after graduation, but only one returns and

that person is pressured to reveal what happened.

Brothers, Meagan.Debbie Harry Sings in French. Henry Holt. 2008. 978-0-8050-8080-3$16.95After Johnnys dad dies in a car accident and an unintentional drug overdose lands him inthe hospital, he moves in with an uncle, gets a girlfriend, and starts to explore his interest incross-dressing.


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Bunce, Elizabeth.A Curse Dark as Gold. Scholastic. 2008. 978-0-439-89576-7 $17.99When young Charlotte Miller takes over the family's woolen mill after her father's death,she is faced with unexpected debts, catastrophes, and a hidden curse that threatens herfamily's future.

Caletti, Deb.The Fortunes of Indigo Skye. Simon & Schuster. 2008. 978-1-1469-1007-7$15.99At 18, Indigo wants no more out of life than to be a waitress and give people food, until acustomer gives her $2,500,000. Can she stand the changes?

Cashore, Kristin.Graceling. Harcourt. 2008. 978-0-15-206396-2 $17.00Katsa was born with ability to kill men with her bare hands but can she find moral courageto stand up to evil rulers and fight for what is right?

Colfer, Eoin.Airman. Hyperion. 2008. 978-1-4231-0750-7 $17.99Conor Broekhart spends his days dreaming of flying hot air balloons and inventing flying

machines until murder and court intrigue sends him to prison and labor in the diamondmines.

Collins, Suzanne.The Hunger Games. Scholastic. 2008. 978-0-439-02348-1 $17.99Katniss has been providing for her family since her father died, but is she strong enough towin the Hunger Games, a deadly competition that can have only one winner?

Conner, Leslie.Waiting for Normal. Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins. 2008. 978-0-06-089088-9 $16.99Left to live in an old trailer under the overhead train track with Mommers, Addie is thechild that has to learn to take care of herself. She almost succeeds.

de la Pena, Matt.Mexican WhiteBoy. Delacorte. 2008. 978-0-385-73310-6 $15.00Half white, half Mexican and 100% confused, Danny struggles with baseball, his absentfather and first love while spending the summer with his familia in San Diego.

Doctorow, Cory.Little Brother. Tom Doherty. 2008. 978-0-7653-1985-2 $17.95There's been another major terrorist attack and the Department of Homeland Security hasclamped down big time. It's up to Marcus, computer geek, to save everyone from thispolice state.

Dowd, Siobhan. Bog Child. Random House/David Fickling Books. 2008. 978-0-385-

75169-8$16.99When Fergus and his uncle find the body of a girl buried in the peat bog near their home,all sorts of troubles comes to light.

Dowd, Siobhan.The London Eye Mystery. David Fickling/Random House. 2008. 978-0-375-84976-3 $15.99


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When their cousin Salim disappears into thin air during a ride on the London Eye ferriswheel, Ted and his sister Kat try to solve.

Fleischman, Sid.The Entertainer and the Dybbuk. HarperTeen/HarperCollins. 2007. 978-0-06-134445-9 $16.99

The Great Freddie, a second-rate ventriloquist, is inhabited by the spirit of a 12-year-oldJewish boy killed in the Holocaust.

Fletcher, Christine.Ten Cents a Dance. Bloomsbury. 2008. 978-1-59990-164-0 $16.95Ruby wants to support her family, but when her taxi dancing causes problems she could nothave anticipated, it will take all of her strength to come out on top.

Gaiman, Neil.The Graveyard Book. HarperCollins. 2008. 978-0-06-053092-1 $17.99This often chilling story describes the life of a boy growing up in a graveyard as he islooked after by ghosts and a mysterious guardian.

Gardner, Sally.The Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution. Penguin/Dial. 2008.978-0-8037-3100-4 $16.99During the French Revolution, Yann a 14-year-old magician's assistant, witnesses the deathof his employer and the evil that ensues.

Geerling, Marjetta.Fancy White Trash. Penguin/Viking. 2008. 978-0-670-01082-0$16.99Abby Savage is determined not to be like her mother and sisters-each became pregnant asteens-but her only confidant is Cody who has his own sexual issues.

George, Jessica Day. Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow. Bloomsbury. 2008. 978-1-59990-109-

1 $16.95A woodcutter's daughter agrees to live with a great white bear after he promises herimpoverished family fabulous wealth. When he disappears, she begins an arduous quest forhim.

George, Madeleine.Looks. Viking. 2008. 978-0-670-06167-9 $16.99Meghan, the invisible fat girl, and Aimee, overlooked and anorexic, form an uneasyalliance to get revenge on a mutual enemy.

Green, John.Paper Towns. Penguin/Dutton. 2008. 978-0-25-47818-8 $17.99Quentin idolizes next door neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman. When she includes him in a

wild night of revenge and then disappears, Q must follow the clues to find her.

Harmon, Michael.The Last Exit to Normal. Alfred A. Knopf. 2008. 978-0-375-94098-9$18.99To get him on the right track, Ben Campbell's dad and stepdad accompany him to Montana,where he encounters small town life, homophobia, an abused boy, and a special girl.


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Hernandez, David. Suckerpunch. HarpterTeen/HarperCollins. 2008. 978-0-06-117330-1$16.99The guilt that Marcus feels because he couldn't keep his father from beating his brotherEnrique compels him to go along when Enrique seeks answers - and maybe revenge.

Hijuelos, Oscar.Dark Dude. Simon & Schuster. 2008. 978-1-4169-4804-9 $16.99Tired of taking abuse for being a light-skinned Cuban in his drug-infested Harlemneighborhood, Rico follows a friend to rural Wisconsin, where he struggles with his Latinoidentity.

Jenkins, A.M.Night Road. Bowen Press/HarperCollins. 2008. 978-0-06-054604-5 $16.99Eighteen-year-old Gordon, a heme or blood feeder, must learn the rules of his new lifewhile on a road trip with Cole and Sandor.

Johnson, Maureen. Suite Scarlett. Scholastic/Point. 2008. 978-0-439-89927-7 $16.99The keys to a hotel suite and the responsibility to care for the room and its occupantthe

wealthy and eccentric Amy Ambersonturn Scarlett's summer into a major challenge.

Juby, Susan.Another Kind of Cowboy. HarperTeen/HarperCollins. 2007. 978-0-06-076518-7 $16.99When horse-crazy Alex finally gets a chance to switch from western pleasure to dressage,he feels more in tune with both his riding and his overall identity.

Katcher, Brian. Playing With Matches. Random House/Delacorte. 2008. 978-0-385-73544-5 $15.99Leon Sanders is a loser until an extremely disfigured girl makes him feel special. Should hestay with her or be lured away by the girl of his dreams?

Kibuishi, Kazu.Amulet:Book 1:The Stone Keeper. Scholastic/Graphix. 2008. 978-0-439-84680-6 $21.99 Emily and her brother Navin descend into a dark and dangerous worldbelow their great grandfather's mansion hoping to save their mother, who's been kidnappedby a large creature with tentacles.

Lanagan, Margo.Tender Morsels. Random House/Alfred A. Knopf. 2008.978-0-375-84811-7 $16.99Liga has suffered unspeakable assaults and creates a magic, safe haven for herself and hertwo daughters, but the real world intrudes and they cope with beauty mixed with brutality.

Lester, Julius. Guardian. HarperCollins/HarperTeen/Amistad. 2008. 978-0-06-155890-0$16.99Ansels world set in the 1946 deep South disintegrates from the hatred and injusticeconsuming his family and community following a brutal murder and an innocent manbeing lynched.


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Fifteen-year-old Baby leaves the middle-aged Potters, her last chance at foster care, to bewith her old boyfriend while she figures out her own needs and wants.

Murphy, Pat. The Wild Girls. Viking/Penguin. 2007. 978-0-670-06226-3 $16.99Twelve year old Joan hates her new life in California until she meets the Queen of the

Foxes and becomes one of the Wild Girls.

Napoli, Donna Jo.Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale.Simon Pulse. 2007. 978-0-689-86176-5$16.99Melkorka, a 10th century Irish princess, must adapt to a harsh new life after she is stolenfrom her home by Russian slavers.

Ness, Patrick.The Knife of Never Letting Go. Chaos Walking. Book One. Candlewick.2008. $18.99Todd Hewitt is the last boy in a town of all men. In a town where everyone can hear eachothers thoughts what kind of secrets can be kept?

Padian, Maria.Brett McCarthy: Work in Progress. Alfred A. Knopf. 2008.978-0-375-94675-2 $15.99Eighth-grader Brett McCarthy--once good student and best-friend-to-Diane, nowsuspended and friendless--faces school and family troubles as she grapples with herredefined life.

Pearson, Mary E.The Adoration of Jenna Fox. Henry Holt. 2008. 978-0-8050-7668-4$16.95Jenna Fox wakes from a year-long coma. As her memory begins to return, she has morequestions than answers about who she was, and who she is now.

Pratchett, Terry.Nation. HarperCollins. 2008. 978-0-06-143302-3 $17.89Mau is caught in the tidal wave that destroyed his island and Daphne is the only survivorfrom her ship. Together on the devastated island they form a new Nation.

Reeve, Philip.Here Lies Arthur. Scholastic. 2008. 978-0-545-09334-1 $17.99A fresh look at the Arthur legend told through the eyes of a young girl who pretends to be aboy to survive.

Reinhardt, Dana.How to Build a House. Random House/Wendy Lamb. 2008. 978-0-375-84453-9 $15.99

Devastated by her parent's divorce Harper Evans spends the summer with 11 other studentsbuilding a house for a family in Tennessee and finds herself healing while making newfriends.

Schmidt, Gary D.Trouble. Clarion. 2008. 978-0-618-92766-1 $16.00Henrys father said Trouble would not find this family. But it did one horrific night, settingoff tensions in Blythbury-by-the-Sea. Maybe it had it been there always, just waiting.


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Schumacher, Julie.Black Box. Random House / Delacorte. 2008. 978-0-385-73542-1$15.99Fourteen-year-old Elena struggles to hold steady ground and help her sister Dora, who hasbeen admitted to a psychiatric ward after swallowing an entire bottle of antidepressants.

Scott, Elizabeth.Living Dead Girl. Simon and Schuster/Simon Pulse. 2008.978-1-4169-6059-1 $16.99Abducted at the age of ten, Alice has lived as a live-in rape victim for Ray for 5 years untilhe informs her that shes "too old" for his love.

Scott, Elizabeth.Stealing Heaven. HarperTeen/HarperCollins. 2008. 978-0-06-112280-4$16.99Living by burglarizing expensive homes with her mother, Danis friendship with anothergirl stalls when it becomes clear she lives in the house they are planning to rob next.

Sheth, Kashmira.Keeping Corner. Hyperion. 2007. 978-0-7868-3859-2 $15.99

In India during World War I, twelve-year-old Leela's husband dies, and she is forced toshave her head and keep corner, staying inside her family's house for a year.

Shusterman, Neal.Antsy Does Time. Penguin/Dutton. 2008. 978-0-525-47825-6 $16.99One simple act offering dying classmate Gunnar Umlaut a month of his life takes holdwith the entire student body and turns Anthony Antsy Bonanos life upside down.

Smith, Andrew.Ghost Medicine. Feiwel & Friends. 2008. 978-0-312-37557-7 $17.95The summer that cowboy Troy Stotts turns 17, he and his two best friends band together tofight the trouble that surrounds them by creating a medicine all their own.

Smith, Roland.Elephant Run. Hyperion. 2007. 978-1-4231-0402-5 $15.99Thirteen-year-old Nick is trapped on his father's teak plantation during the Japaneseinvasion of Burma during 1941 and must find a way to save his father as well as himself.

Tamaki, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki. Skim. House of Anansi Press / Groundwood Books.2008. 978-0-88899-753-1 $18.95Friendship, love, identity, and a general feeling of isolation in an all-girls private schoolcontribute to Kim Cameron (Skim)'s growing depression.

Tharp, Tim. The Spectacular Now. Random House / Alfred A. Knopf. 2008. 978-0-375-95179-4 $16.99

Sutter Keely glides through his senior years final days soaked with heavy amounts ofbooze but his joy ride is detracted by love issues and an unclear future.

Valentine, Jenny.Me, the Missing, and the Dead. HarperCollins/HarperTeen. 2008. 978-0-06-085068-5 $16.99Five years after his dads disappearance, Lucas senses that a dead woman is trying tocommunicate with him and he is driven to listen and respond.


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Venkatraman, Padma.Climbing the Stairs. Penguin. 2008. 978-0-399-24746-0 $16.99When Vidyas father is seriously injured, her family moves from their progressive home tothe household of her conservative relatives, where she must adjust to a new set ofexpectations.

Voorhees, Coert.The Brothers Torres. Hyperion. 2008. 978-1-4231-0304-2 $16.99Frankie Torres (or Towers depending which side his heritage is viewed) narrates hiscoming-of-age story of falling for a girl as his idolized brother runs with a group of cholos.

Werlin, Nancy.Impossible. Penguin/Dial. 2008. 978-0-8037-3002-1 $17.99Lucy, 17, discovers the women of her family have been cursed with madness unless theycomplete three impossible tasks. All have failed. Will Zach's help and her resolve save her?

Wood, Don. Into the Volcano. Scholastic. 2008. 978-0-439-72671-9 $18.99Duffy and Sumo set off on an adventure into the belly of an ancient volcano withoutknowing exactly what theyre looking for. Their discoveries shock and then nearly kill

them.

Woodson, Jacqueline.After Tupac and D Foster.G.P. Putnams Sons. 2008.978-0-399-24654-8 $15.99The friendship of three girls from very different families fills the emptiness of uncertaintyas they struggle with Tupac Shakur's troubles as well as their own.

Zarr, Sara.Sweethearts. Little, Brown. 2008. 978-0-316-01455-7 $16.99High school senior Jenna has successfully remade her life, but has to confront long-suppressed memories of a traumatic childhood when her only friend from childhood,Cameron, suddenly reappears.

Nonfiction

Aronson, Marcand Campbell, Patty.War Is...Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers TalkAbout War. Candlewick. 2008. 978-0-7636-3625-8 $17.99A balanced collection of contemporary and historical writings including interviews, stories,memoirs, and a miliblog addresses the experience of enlisting, serving, and surviving warfrom a variety of perspectives.

Barry, Lynda.What It Is. Drawn and Quarterly. 2008. 978-1-897299-35-7 $24.95Questions, images, story, comic illustrations and workbook pages guide and push readers

to break down barriers, experiment and grow through writing or drawing.

Bowman, Robin.It's Complicated: The American Teenager. Umbrage Editions. 2007.978-1-884167-69-0 $40.00 This random collection of black and white photographs ofteenagers from across the country includes short testimonials about their lives.

Engle, Margarita. The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom. HenryHolt. 2008. 978-0-8050-8674-4 $16.95


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The rich history of Latino baseball players is presented along with a feel of growing up inLatino communities passionate for the game.

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