RISING 7th GRADE : READ 3 BOOKS TOTAL
(1 required text, 1 from Theme List "Looking Outside Ourselves", and 1 from any series)
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***REMEMBER:***
Each student is required to read three (3) books.
1. Every student must read Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
2. Each incoming 7th grader must read any one (1) book from the "Looking Outside Ourselves" list before school begins. It would be helpful for you to have three key quotations or passages marked in each book or written down in notes for each.
3. Your third summer reading (choice) book can be any book you choose (with parent approval), but MUST be a book in a series. Your can start with the first book in a series, or continue reading a series you already love.
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GUIDING QUESTIONS: What responsibilities do we have to each other? To what degree does an individual choose her own life path?
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***REMEMBER:***
Each student is required to read three (3) books.
1. Every student must read Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
2. Each incoming 7th grader must read any one (1) book from the "Looking Outside Ourselves" list before school begins. It would be helpful for you to have three key quotations or passages marked in each book or written down in notes for each.
3. Your third summer reading (choice) book can be any book you choose (with parent approval), but MUST be a book in a series. Your can start with the first book in a series, or continue reading a series you already love.
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GUIDING QUESTIONS: What responsibilities do we have to each other? To what degree does an individual choose her own life path?
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***REQUIRED TEXT:***
Catherine, Called Birdy
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***THEME "LOOKING OUTSIDE OURSELVES": CHOOSE 1 OR MORE:***
Faceless
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Uprising
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The Green Glass Sea
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The Names they Gave U
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***CHOOSE 1 FROM THESE SERIES OR ANY BOOK IN A SERIES:***
Any Book in the Percy Jackson Series
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Any Book in the Kane Chronicles
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Recommendations for Rising 7th Grade Choice Series Book
See List in Destiny for Reviews!
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Chains. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008.
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
Aveyard, Victoria, author. Red queen. First edition.
In a world divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities--seventeen-year-old Mare, a Red, discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. But Mare risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard --a growing Red rebellion--even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction.
Bardugo, Leigh. Shadow and bone. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2012.
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
Bingham, Kelly L., 1967-. Shark girl. 1st ed. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007.
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
Calonita, Jen. Belles. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2012 ;.
Fifteen-year-old Isabelle loves her impoverished North Carolina beach community, but when her grandmother must enter a nursing home, Izzie is placed with distant relatives she never knew--a state senator and his preppy wife and children.
Calonita, Jen. Sleepaway girls. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2010, c2009 ;.
When the exceptionally people-pleasing Sam spends a summer as a counselor-in-training, she learns how to say no, to stand up for herself, and what it feels like to have a crush on a great guy.
Carter, Ally. Heist society. 1st ed. New York : Disney/Hyperion, c2010.
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
Carter, Ally. I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you. 1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed. New York : Hyperion Paperbacks, 2007, c2006.
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.
Carter, Ally. All fall down. 1st ed., February 2015. New York : Scholastic Press, 2015.
"There are many powerful people along Embassy Row who want Grace to block out all her unpretty thoughts. But Grace will not stop until she finds out who killed her mother and make the killer pay"--OCLC.
Cass, Kiera. The Selection. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2012.
"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection-- a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince-- but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her"--.
Cass, Kiera. The siren. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016].
A member of the sisterhood of sirens deadly to humans, Kahlen must live a lonely life following the rules that prohibit her forming close bonds with humans and though she has lived by these rules for years now, patiently waiting for the life she can call her own, when Akinli, a human, enters her world, she can not bring herself to live by the rules anymore.
Charbonneau, Joelle. The testing. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2013.
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
Condie, Allyson Braithwaite. Matched. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Books, c2010.
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice: The Society dictates everything, including when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, whom to marry. When she's matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect, but why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?.
Dashner, James, 1972-. The maze runner. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Elkeles, Simone. How to ruin a summer vacation. Woodbury, Minn. : Flux, c2006.
When sixteen-year-old Amy, a spoiled American, goes to Israel for a three-month summer vacation with a father she barely knows, she is not prepared for his Jewish family and the changes they bring about in her life.
Gagnon, Michelle, 1971-. Don't turn around. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Harper, 2013.
After waking up on an operating table with no memory of how she got there, Noa must team up with computer hacker Peter to stop a corrupt corporation with a deadly secret.
Garcia, Kami. Beautiful creatures. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
Gidwitz, Adam. A tale dark & Grimm. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2010.
Faithful Johannes -- Hansel and Gretel -- The seven swallows -- Brother and sister -- A smile as red as blood -- The three golden hairs -- Hansel and Gretel and the broken kingdom -- Hansel and Gretel and the dragon -- Hansel and Gretel and their parents. Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and his three golden hairs.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Among the hidden. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2000, c1998.
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Found. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008.
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
Han, Jenny. Burn for burn. 1st ed,. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, c2012.
"Three teenaged girls living on Jar Island band together to enact revenge on the people that have hurt them"--Provided by publisher.
Han, Jenny. The summer I turned pretty. 1st Simon & Schuster BFYR pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2010, c2009.
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different as she finds herself falling for a boy she has known since childhood.
Han, Jenny. To all the boys I've loved before. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2014].
"Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent"--Provided by publisher.
Hawkins, Rachel, 1979-. Hex Hall. 1st Hyperion pbk. ed. New York : Hyperion, 2011, c2010.
Witch Sophie Mercer, having been sent to a reform school by her father after a prom night spell went horribly wrong, learns her roommate, who is the only vampire on campus, is the suspect in a series of attacks on students and sets out to find the real culprit.
Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf :, c2002.
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
Jones, Carrie. Need. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.
Depressed after the death of her stepfather, high school junior Zara goes to live with her grandmother in a small Maine town, where new friends tell Zara the strange man she keeps seeing may be a pixie king, and that only "were" creatures can stop him from taking souls.
Jones, Jenny B., 1975-. The big picture. Colorado Springs, Colo. : NavPress, 2008.
Dumped by her possible boyfriend at a drive-in theater, Katie returns home to find that her mother, a former convict and current addict, wants to take her away from her foster family, friends, and church, and Katie must make important decisions as she considers what family and home really mean.
Jones, Jenny B., 1975-. Save the date. Nashville : Thomas Nelson, c2011.
Lucy Sinclair realizes the only way she can save her non-profit organization is to accept former football player Alex Sinclair's insane proposal that she pose as his fianceé in exchange for a large donation that will keep her home for struggling girls open, but as she learns more about Alex, she realizes he is not the playboy she thought he was and finds herself falling for him.
Jones, Jenny B., 1975-. So not happening. Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2009.
Forced to move from Manhattan to an Oklahoma farm when her mother remarries, sixteen-year-old Bella relies on her faith while investigating a deadly, secret organization for the school newspaper, as she slowly realizes how shallow and spoiled she has been.
Kade, Stacey. The ghost and the goth. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2010.
Homecoming queen Alona Dare is killed by a bus and realizes the only person who can see her ghost is Will Killian, an outcast who does not like her, and together they must figure out how to get along to prevent Alona from fading away and a evil spirit from killing Will.
antor, Melissa. The Darlings are forever. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2011.
Best friends Jane, Victoria, and Natalya, who call themselves the Darlings, find their relationship tested when they start their freshman year at three very different high schools.
Lore, Pittacus. I am number four. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2010.
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
Lowry, Lois. The giver. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Lu, Marie, 1984-. Legend. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2011.
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
McGee, Krista, 1975-. First date. Nashville : Thomas Nelson, c2012.
McGee, Krista, 1975-. Right where I belong. Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2012.
After her father's third divorce, seventeen-year-old Natalia decides to move with her stepmother, Maureen, from Spain to Florida to learn more of Maureen's faith and to discover who she is away from her father's expectations.
McGee, Krista, 1975-. Starring me. Nashville, TN : Thomas Nelson, c2012.
Will seventeen-year-old Kara have to give up her acting dream when she learns that her audition for a television variety show starring a big-time teen celebrity hinges on her relationship with God?.
Meloy, Maile. The apothecary. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2011.
Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott, newly arrived in London from Los Angeles in 1952, becomes friends with a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows, and is drawn into a dangerous adventure with Benjamin when his father is kidnapped and Russian spies try to steal his book of secrets.
Meyer, Marissa. Cinder. 1st ed. New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2012.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Dairy queen : a novel. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
Paolini, Christopher. Eragon. New York : Alfred A. Knopf :, 2003.
In AlagaÃ)Sʿ)!Esia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
Patterson, James, 1947-. Maximum Ride : the angel experiment. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, c2005.
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids, " who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
Reichs, Kathy. Virals. New York : Razorbill, 2011.
The niece of famed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, fourteen-year-old Tory and her three friends are exposed to a rare strain of canine parvovirus that gives them special powers which they use to try to solve a murder.
Riggs, Ransom. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. 1st ed. Philadelphia : Quirk Books, c2011.
A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous--and who may still be alive. Illustrated with vintage found photographs.
Riordan, Rick. The lightning thief. 1st Disney/Hyperion pbk. ed. with film art. New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, 2010, c2005.
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Riordan, Rick. The lost hero. 1st ed. New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, c2010.
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
Roth, Veronica. Divergent. 1st ed. New York : Katherine Tegen Books, c2011.
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Rutkoski, Marie. The winner's curse. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.
Scott, Kieran, 1974-. I was a non-blonde cheerleader. New York : Speak, 2006, c2005.
As a brunette on the all-blonde cheerleading squad at her new Florida high school, sophomore Annisa Gobrowski tries to fit in with her popular teammates without losing the friendship of Bethany, the only other non-blonde at the school.
Stanley, Diane. The silver bowl. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2011.
From the age of seven when she became scullery maid in a castle, Molly has seen visions of the future which, years later, lead her and friend Tobias on an adventure to keep Alaric, the heir to the throne, safe from a curse.
Stephens, John. The emerald atlas. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers--and a fearsome enemy--and embark on a prophesied quest to find a magical book.
Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-. The Raven Boys. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2012.
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.
Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-. The Scorpio Races. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2011.
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.
Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-. Shiver. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2009.
In all the years she's watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
Tahir, Sabaa. An ember in the ashes. New York, N.Y. : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2015].
"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--Provided by publisher.
Tucholke, April Genevieve. Between the devil and the deep blue sea. New York : Dial Books, c2013.
Violet is in love with River, a mysterious seventeen-year-old stranger renting the guest house behind the rotting seaside mansion where Violet lives, but when eerie, grim events begin to happen, Violet recalls her grandmother's frequent warnings about the devil and wonders if River is evil.
Turetsky, Bianca. The time-traveling fashionista : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Poppy, 2011.
Twelve-year-old Louise Lambert accepts an invitation to a private sale of vintage clothing but upon donning an evening gown, she finds herself in 1912 aboard the Titanic as the gown's original owner, silent film star Alice Baxter.
Van Draanen, Wendelin. The running dream. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2011.
When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.
Vance, Talia. Spies and prejudice. New York : Egmont USA, c2013.
"Berry Fields's life working for her dad's investigation firm and searching for clues to her mother's death unravels when gorgeous Tanner arrives in town and changes everything"--.
Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2005.
In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time.
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
Aveyard, Victoria, author. Red queen. First edition.
In a world divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities--seventeen-year-old Mare, a Red, discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. But Mare risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard --a growing Red rebellion--even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction.
Bardugo, Leigh. Shadow and bone. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2012.
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
Bingham, Kelly L., 1967-. Shark girl. 1st ed. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007.
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
Calonita, Jen. Belles. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2012 ;.
Fifteen-year-old Isabelle loves her impoverished North Carolina beach community, but when her grandmother must enter a nursing home, Izzie is placed with distant relatives she never knew--a state senator and his preppy wife and children.
Calonita, Jen. Sleepaway girls. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2010, c2009 ;.
When the exceptionally people-pleasing Sam spends a summer as a counselor-in-training, she learns how to say no, to stand up for herself, and what it feels like to have a crush on a great guy.
Carter, Ally. Heist society. 1st ed. New York : Disney/Hyperion, c2010.
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
Carter, Ally. I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you. 1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed. New York : Hyperion Paperbacks, 2007, c2006.
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.
Carter, Ally. All fall down. 1st ed., February 2015. New York : Scholastic Press, 2015.
"There are many powerful people along Embassy Row who want Grace to block out all her unpretty thoughts. But Grace will not stop until she finds out who killed her mother and make the killer pay"--OCLC.
Cass, Kiera. The Selection. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2012.
"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection-- a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince-- but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her"--.
Cass, Kiera. The siren. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016].
A member of the sisterhood of sirens deadly to humans, Kahlen must live a lonely life following the rules that prohibit her forming close bonds with humans and though she has lived by these rules for years now, patiently waiting for the life she can call her own, when Akinli, a human, enters her world, she can not bring herself to live by the rules anymore.
Charbonneau, Joelle. The testing. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2013.
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
Condie, Allyson Braithwaite. Matched. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Books, c2010.
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice: The Society dictates everything, including when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, whom to marry. When she's matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect, but why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?.
Dashner, James, 1972-. The maze runner. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Elkeles, Simone. How to ruin a summer vacation. Woodbury, Minn. : Flux, c2006.
When sixteen-year-old Amy, a spoiled American, goes to Israel for a three-month summer vacation with a father she barely knows, she is not prepared for his Jewish family and the changes they bring about in her life.
Gagnon, Michelle, 1971-. Don't turn around. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Harper, 2013.
After waking up on an operating table with no memory of how she got there, Noa must team up with computer hacker Peter to stop a corrupt corporation with a deadly secret.
Garcia, Kami. Beautiful creatures. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
Gidwitz, Adam. A tale dark & Grimm. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2010.
Faithful Johannes -- Hansel and Gretel -- The seven swallows -- Brother and sister -- A smile as red as blood -- The three golden hairs -- Hansel and Gretel and the broken kingdom -- Hansel and Gretel and the dragon -- Hansel and Gretel and their parents. Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and his three golden hairs.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Among the hidden. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2000, c1998.
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Found. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008.
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
Han, Jenny. Burn for burn. 1st ed,. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, c2012.
"Three teenaged girls living on Jar Island band together to enact revenge on the people that have hurt them"--Provided by publisher.
Han, Jenny. The summer I turned pretty. 1st Simon & Schuster BFYR pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2010, c2009.
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different as she finds herself falling for a boy she has known since childhood.
Han, Jenny. To all the boys I've loved before. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2014].
"Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent"--Provided by publisher.
Hawkins, Rachel, 1979-. Hex Hall. 1st Hyperion pbk. ed. New York : Hyperion, 2011, c2010.
Witch Sophie Mercer, having been sent to a reform school by her father after a prom night spell went horribly wrong, learns her roommate, who is the only vampire on campus, is the suspect in a series of attacks on students and sets out to find the real culprit.
Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf :, c2002.
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
Jones, Carrie. Need. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.
Depressed after the death of her stepfather, high school junior Zara goes to live with her grandmother in a small Maine town, where new friends tell Zara the strange man she keeps seeing may be a pixie king, and that only "were" creatures can stop him from taking souls.
Jones, Jenny B., 1975-. The big picture. Colorado Springs, Colo. : NavPress, 2008.
Dumped by her possible boyfriend at a drive-in theater, Katie returns home to find that her mother, a former convict and current addict, wants to take her away from her foster family, friends, and church, and Katie must make important decisions as she considers what family and home really mean.
Jones, Jenny B., 1975-. Save the date. Nashville : Thomas Nelson, c2011.
Lucy Sinclair realizes the only way she can save her non-profit organization is to accept former football player Alex Sinclair's insane proposal that she pose as his fianceé in exchange for a large donation that will keep her home for struggling girls open, but as she learns more about Alex, she realizes he is not the playboy she thought he was and finds herself falling for him.
Jones, Jenny B., 1975-. So not happening. Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2009.
Forced to move from Manhattan to an Oklahoma farm when her mother remarries, sixteen-year-old Bella relies on her faith while investigating a deadly, secret organization for the school newspaper, as she slowly realizes how shallow and spoiled she has been.
Kade, Stacey. The ghost and the goth. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2010.
Homecoming queen Alona Dare is killed by a bus and realizes the only person who can see her ghost is Will Killian, an outcast who does not like her, and together they must figure out how to get along to prevent Alona from fading away and a evil spirit from killing Will.
antor, Melissa. The Darlings are forever. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2011.
Best friends Jane, Victoria, and Natalya, who call themselves the Darlings, find their relationship tested when they start their freshman year at three very different high schools.
Lore, Pittacus. I am number four. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2010.
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
Lowry, Lois. The giver. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Lu, Marie, 1984-. Legend. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2011.
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
McGee, Krista, 1975-. First date. Nashville : Thomas Nelson, c2012.
McGee, Krista, 1975-. Right where I belong. Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2012.
After her father's third divorce, seventeen-year-old Natalia decides to move with her stepmother, Maureen, from Spain to Florida to learn more of Maureen's faith and to discover who she is away from her father's expectations.
McGee, Krista, 1975-. Starring me. Nashville, TN : Thomas Nelson, c2012.
Will seventeen-year-old Kara have to give up her acting dream when she learns that her audition for a television variety show starring a big-time teen celebrity hinges on her relationship with God?.
Meloy, Maile. The apothecary. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2011.
Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott, newly arrived in London from Los Angeles in 1952, becomes friends with a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows, and is drawn into a dangerous adventure with Benjamin when his father is kidnapped and Russian spies try to steal his book of secrets.
Meyer, Marissa. Cinder. 1st ed. New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2012.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Dairy queen : a novel. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
Paolini, Christopher. Eragon. New York : Alfred A. Knopf :, 2003.
In AlagaÃ)Sʿ)!Esia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
Patterson, James, 1947-. Maximum Ride : the angel experiment. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, c2005.
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids, " who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
Reichs, Kathy. Virals. New York : Razorbill, 2011.
The niece of famed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, fourteen-year-old Tory and her three friends are exposed to a rare strain of canine parvovirus that gives them special powers which they use to try to solve a murder.
Riggs, Ransom. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. 1st ed. Philadelphia : Quirk Books, c2011.
A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous--and who may still be alive. Illustrated with vintage found photographs.
Riordan, Rick. The lightning thief. 1st Disney/Hyperion pbk. ed. with film art. New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, 2010, c2005.
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Riordan, Rick. The lost hero. 1st ed. New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, c2010.
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
Roth, Veronica. Divergent. 1st ed. New York : Katherine Tegen Books, c2011.
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Rutkoski, Marie. The winner's curse. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.
Scott, Kieran, 1974-. I was a non-blonde cheerleader. New York : Speak, 2006, c2005.
As a brunette on the all-blonde cheerleading squad at her new Florida high school, sophomore Annisa Gobrowski tries to fit in with her popular teammates without losing the friendship of Bethany, the only other non-blonde at the school.
Stanley, Diane. The silver bowl. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2011.
From the age of seven when she became scullery maid in a castle, Molly has seen visions of the future which, years later, lead her and friend Tobias on an adventure to keep Alaric, the heir to the throne, safe from a curse.
Stephens, John. The emerald atlas. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers--and a fearsome enemy--and embark on a prophesied quest to find a magical book.
Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-. The Raven Boys. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2012.
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.
Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-. The Scorpio Races. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2011.
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.
Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-. Shiver. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2009.
In all the years she's watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
Tahir, Sabaa. An ember in the ashes. New York, N.Y. : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2015].
"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--Provided by publisher.
Tucholke, April Genevieve. Between the devil and the deep blue sea. New York : Dial Books, c2013.
Violet is in love with River, a mysterious seventeen-year-old stranger renting the guest house behind the rotting seaside mansion where Violet lives, but when eerie, grim events begin to happen, Violet recalls her grandmother's frequent warnings about the devil and wonders if River is evil.
Turetsky, Bianca. The time-traveling fashionista : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Poppy, 2011.
Twelve-year-old Louise Lambert accepts an invitation to a private sale of vintage clothing but upon donning an evening gown, she finds herself in 1912 aboard the Titanic as the gown's original owner, silent film star Alice Baxter.
Van Draanen, Wendelin. The running dream. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2011.
When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.
Vance, Talia. Spies and prejudice. New York : Egmont USA, c2013.
"Berry Fields's life working for her dad's investigation firm and searching for clues to her mother's death unravels when gorgeous Tanner arrives in town and changes everything"--.
Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2005.
In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time.