FICTION The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian By Sherman Alexie Budding cartoonist ...

14 Pages·2016·0.47 MB·English

FICTION

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian By Sherman Alexie
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation
to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school
mascot.

The Compound -Book 2: The Fallout By S.A. Bodeen
Eli and his family have lived in the underground Compound for six years. As problems with
their carefully planned existence threaten to destroy their sanctuary—and their sanity—Eli
can't help but wonder if he'd rather take his chances outside. Eli's father built the Compound
to keep them safe. But are they safe—or sorry?

Etiquette and Espionage By Gail Carriger
14 year old Saphronia is a trouble-maker. Sent off to finishing school to polish her
rough edges, Saphronia realizes that everything is not as it seems.

The Impossible Knife of Memory By Laurie Halse Anderson
Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a "normal" life, but
the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children-Book 2: Hollow City
By Ransom Riggs
Sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy,
discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the
children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still
be alive.
Purple Heart By Patricia McCormick
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during
the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to
him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.

Sorta Like a Rock Star By Matthew Quick
Although Amber Appleton lives in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless
optimist who helps everyone, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she
can bear.

Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher
When high school student, Clay Jenkins, receives a box in the mail containing thirteen
cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah and spends a bewildering and
heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice
recounting the events leading up to her death.

True Legend By Mike Lupica
Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in
high school basketball but learns the consequences of fame through a former player as
well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA.

Why we took the CarBy Wolfgang Herrndorf, Tim Mohr (Translator)

Mike Klingenberg is never invited to parties. Andre Tschichatschow, aka Tschick is new in
school, and a whole different kind of unpopular. One day Tschick shows up at Mike's house
out of the blue and together they head out on a road trip. Will they get hopelessly lost in the
middle of nowhere, meet crazy people and get into serious trouble? Definitely.
NON-FICTION

Bomb: the race to build and steal the world’s most dangerous weapon
By Steve Sheinkin
A dramatic introduction to the international competition to create the first atomic bomb
and the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence
operations that occurred in rival countries and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at
Los Alamos.
Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls
The second child of an alcoholic father and eccentric artist mother discusses her family’s
nomadic upbringing from Arizona to Las Vegas to an Appalachian mining town where
her siblings and she fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill
collectors and the authorities.

His name was Raoul Wallenberg By Louise Borden
An amazing and inspirational World War II story about how one man saved the lives of
many.
Trinity: a graphic history of the first atomic bomb By Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
An account of the race to construct and decision to drop the first atomic bomb
traces its early research, its rapid acceleration and the heated debates it inspired,
sharing vivid explanations of the process of a nuclear chain reaction and profiles of
forefront Manhattan Project contributors. In graphic novel format.

Titanic: voices from the disaster By Deborah Hopkinson
This gripping drama is packed with heart stopping action, fascinating history, loads of
archival photographs, and quotes from primary sources. It follows the TITANIC and its
passengers from the ship's celebrated launch at Belfast to her cataclysmic icy end.
FICTION

Between Shades of Gray By Ruta Sepetys
Soviet troops invade her home and Lina is separated from her father and forced onto
a crowded train to a Siberian work camp with her mother and young brother. Lina finds
solace in her art, documenting these events by drawing. But will she and her family
survive?

The Boy Who Dared By Susan Campbell
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-
Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth
about Hitler and the war to the German people.

The Declaration By Gemma Malley
In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal,
teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers
that her birth parents are trying to find her.

Divergent, -Book2: Insurgent, Book 3: Allegiant By Veronica Roth
In a future-era Chicago, 16-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 uncovers powerful secrets and truths about her identity, her
family and the order of her society.

Every Day By David Levitan
Waking up in the body of a different person every day and struggling to pass through
without raising alarm, "A" endures his existence before falling in love.
Fangirl By Rainbow Rowell
Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Being a fan is her life--and she's really good at it. She and her
twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just
kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving.

Girl in Translation By Jean Kwok
Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly begins a double life
as a schoolgirl by day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by her
first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty.

Hoops of Steel By John Foley
Passionate about basketball, troubled teenager Jackson O'Connell chronicles the ways
the game colors the events of his senior year in high school.

Icecore: a Carl Hobbes thriller By Matt Whyman
When Carl Hobbes hacks Fort Knox he finds out it is no joke. Carl finds himself in an
Arctic military prison next to notorious terrorists and has to start thinking like a criminal
mastermind to escape his subzero prison.

The List By Siobhan Vivian
Enduring a cruel annual ritual through which an anonymous list is posted naming each
grade’s prettiest and ugliest girl, eight selected high school girls explore how they see
themselves and each other.
Looking for Alaska By John Green
Miles Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent. He heads off to Culver Creek
Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Down the hall is Alaska Young,
the gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who
is an event unto herself.

Matched -Book 2: Crossed, Book 3: Reached By Ally Condie
In the society, officials decide who you love, where you work and when you die. Cassia
has always trusted their choices. It's hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect
job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia
knows with complete certainty that he is the one, until she sees another face flash for an
instant before the screen fades to black.

The Maze Runner By James Dashner
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.

Raven Boys By Maggie Stiefvater
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.

Sarah’s Key By Tatiana de Rosnay
American journalist Julia Jarmond researches the brutal 1942 Nazi roundup in Paris and
stumbles upon a connection between her family and one of the victims, which compels
Julia to learn more about the girl’s life.
NON-FICTION

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game By Michael Lewis
This story follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-
addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one
of the most successful, highly-paid players in the NFL.
Chinese Cinderella: the true story of an unwanted daughter
By Adeline Yen Mah
Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth
to her. She and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her
stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled. Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they are not
enough to compensate for what she really yearns for -- the love and understanding of her
family.
Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with
his Mother By Sonia Nazario
Enrique a Honduran boy searching for his mother after she is forced to leave her starving
family to find work in the United States. Braving unimaginable peril, often clinging to the
sides and tops of freight trains, Enrique travels through hostile worlds full of thugs, bandits,
and corrupt cops.
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors
Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi By Neal Bascomb
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the
Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view.
Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and
smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials.

A long way gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier By Ishmael Beach
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s.
Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide,
it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of
them.
FICTION

Before I Fall By Lauren Oliver
Samantha Kingston has it all, a boyfriend, three amazing best friends, and first pick of
everything at Thomas Jefferson High from the best table in the cafeteria to the choicest
parking spot. Friday, February 12, should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead,
it turns out to be her last.

Cinder By Marissa Meyer
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past,
reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. Caught between duty and
freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her
world’s future.

Code Name Verity By Elizabeth Wein
A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best
friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's
barely begun. It’s a tale of friendship, war, espionage and great courage.

The Diviners By Libba Bray
Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in
1926, even when a rash of murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum
of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.

Eleanor and Park By Rainbow Rowell
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed
misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and
desperate enough to try.
Hate List By Jennifer Brown
After her boyfriend goes on a shooting rampage at school, Valerie is implicated because
of her involvement in writing the list of names and now must come to terms with what
happened and the part she played that resulted in such tragic events.

The Moon and More By Sarah Dessen
During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind
romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a
movie.

Paper Towns By John Green
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q"
Jacobsen basks in his predictable life until his beautiful and exciting neighbor and
classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

The Storyteller By Jodi Picoult
Sage Singer is a baker and works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and
pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her
mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group,
begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship.

We Were Liars By E. Lockheart
Four friends turn against each other in the wake of trauma, differing political views and a
devastating secret.

Winger By Andrew Smith
Two years younger than his classmates at boarding school, 14-year-old
Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers. He falls for his
female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and is playing wing on the
Rugby team with his new dorm mates.

NON-FICTION
Defiance: The Bielski Partisans By Nechama Tec
A forest community in western Belorussia with more than 1,200 Jews by 1944, risking
their lives against overwhelming odds for the slimmest chance of survival, or a glimpse
of freedom, the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
By Eric Schlosser
Fast food has widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and
propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but
Schlosser makes them stick with careful reasoning.
How Music Works By David Byrne
The Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame inductee and co-founder of Talking Heads remarkable
celebration of a subject he has spent his lifetime thinking about. How music is shaped by
its time and place, and it explains how recording technology in the twentieth century.
Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in
Jazz Age New York By Deborah Blum
Highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic
scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when
untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime.
Warriors Don’t Cry By Melba Pattillo Beals
In 1957, Melba turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the
frontlines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark Supreme Court decision,
Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School.