Virginia Readers’ Choice2013-14

Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol

741.5 BRO

Anya, embarrassed by her family

and lacking confidence in her body

and her social skills, finally finds a

friend after falling down a well, but

quickly learns there are drawbacks

to having a ghost for a friend.

Between Shades of Gray

by Ruta SepetysF SEP

In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their

Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is

sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to

honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on

Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.

Choker by Elizabeth Woods

F WOO

Sixteen-year-old Cara has trouble fitting in when she moves away from her best

and only friend, Zoe. After a humiliating experience in the school cafeteria,

Cara earns a new nickname from her peers. Then, Zoe makes a surprise return

into her life and Cara's popularity begins to rise, until a girl goes missing and

Zoe begins to act strangely.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone

by Laini TaylorF TAY

Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student

in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of

hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form

the only family she has ever known.

The Fault in Our Stars

by John GreenF GRE

Having been diagnosed as a terminal cancer patient,

Hazel is running out of time. When she meets

Augustus Waters at the Cancer Kid Support Group,

her life takes an unexpected turn.

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

by Lish McBrideF MCB

Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker

and college dropout, discovers that he

is a necromancer, part of a world of

harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one

particular necromancer who sees Sam

as a threat to his lucrative business of

raising the dead.

Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love

by Larry Levin636.7 LEV

The author describes how he and his adopted twin sons,

Dan and Noah, came to own and love a dog who was

rescued after its owners used it as bait for fighting dogs

and then left it in a cage to die.

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

F STI

Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick

competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to

ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep

hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to

make it to the finish line.

Something Like Hope

by Shawn Goodman

F GOO

Shavonne, a fierce, desperate seventeen-year-old in

juvenile lockup, wants to turn her life around before

her eighteenth birthday, but corrupt guards, out-of-

control girls, and shadows from her past make her

task seem impossible.

This Dark Endeavor

by Kenneth OppelF OPP

You know the end. Now read the beginning. When his

twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the

independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century,

sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a

dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden

Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's

secret Biblioteka Obscura.