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Summer 2011 Recommended Reading Grades 9-12 9th-GraCie Dear Parents and Family Members, • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie (H) The East Baton Rouge Parish School System and • Armageddon Summer, Jane Yolen and Covtlle (S) community must encourage all students to be avid • Backfield Package, Thomas Dygard (Sp) • Bad Boy, Walter Dean Myers (B ) readers. Our goal must be to ensure every student is • A Big, Little Life, Dean Koontz (NF) a capable reader and to develop a love of reading. • Carver: A Life in Poems. Marilyn Nelson (P) Let us encourage every child to read daily, read to • A Child Called "It, ,. Dave Petzer (B) and with them and promote reading activities • Danger Zone, David Klass (Sp) • The Dark Side of Nowhere, Neil Shusterman (SF) throughout our community. • Dreamland, Sarah Dessen (C ) • Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card (S F "Have you read to your child today?" is a question • Fighting Ruben Wolfe, Markus Zusak (Sp) • First Part Last, Angela Johnson (C) we must ask ourselves daily. • Full Tilt, Neil Shusterman (S) John Dilworth, Superintendent • The Girl Wllo Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King (S ) • Goddess of Yesterday, Caroline Cooney (HI) • A Great and Terrible Beauty. Libba Bray (S) East Baton Rouge Parish Public Libraries • High Heat, Carl Deuker (Sp) Main Library Summer 2011 • Homeless Bird, Gloria Whelan (C) 771 1 Goodwood Boulevard (225) 231-3740 • House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (C) http://www.ebr.lib.la.us Recommended Reading • Howl's Moving Castle, Diana W. Jones (F) • I Am Mordred. Nancy Springer (C) Baker Branch (225) 231-3240 • If I Grow Up, Todd Strasser (C) 3501 Groom Road Greenwell Springs Road Grades 9-12 *' (225) 778-5940 • In My Father's House, Ernest Gaines (L) 11300 Greenwell Springs • Lyddie, Katherine Patterson (H I) Bluebonnet Branch (225) 274-4440 • Me Me Me Me Me, M. E. Kerr (B) 9200 Bluebonnet Boulevard Jones Creek Branch • Necessary Roughness, Marie Lee (SP) (225) 763-2240 6222 Jones Creek Road • Th e Pact: How We Beat the Street, Sampson Carver Branch (225) 756-1140 Davi s (C) Library Services Department 720 Terrace Street Prlde·Chaneyville Branch • The Pigman, Paul Zindel (C ) (225) 389-7440 13600 Pride-Port Hudson • Playing For Keeps, Joan Lowery Nixon (M) Central Branch (225) 658-1540 • The Real Question, Adrian Fogelin (C 11260 Joor Road River Center Branch • Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley (B) (225) 262-2640 • Rose Daughter, Robin McKinley (F) 120 St. Louis Street • Ruined, Paula Morris (M / S) *' Delmont Gardens Branch (225) 389-4967 • Spiders in the Hairdo, David Holt (NF) 3351 Lorraine St. Scotlandville Branch (225) 354-7050 • Staying Fat for Sarah Bymes, Chris Crutcher (C) 7373 Scenic Highway • A Step fro m Heaven, An Na (C) Eden Park Branch (225) 354-7540 • The Story of a Girl, Sara Zarr (C) 5131 Greenwell Springs Rd Zachary Branch • The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner (A) • Where Are the Children, Mary Higgins Clark (M) "You Are Here!" • Wllo Killed My Daughter? Lois Duncan (NF) All branches offer Summer Reading Program for teens • Worldweavers : Gift of the Unmage, Alma Alexander with prizes for read and drawings for more rewards. John Dilworth, Superintendent • . ~F) East Baton Rouge Parish School System • The Wreckers, lain Lawrence (A) • Zazoo, Richard Mosher (C) * LA 2012 Teen Reader's Choice book http://www .ebrschools.org • Zel, Donna Jo Napoli (F ) 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade • Aleutian Sparrow, Karen Hesse (P) • Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver (C) • An Abundance of Katherines, John Green (C) • Autobiography ofMiss Jane Pittman, Ernest • An Assembly Such As This, Pamela Aidan (R) • The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton (M) Gaines (l) • Black & White, Paul Volponi (C) • The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver (C) • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver, • Coffee Will Make You Black, April Sinclair (C) (NF) • Beautiful Creatures, Ka mi Garcia and Margaret • Company, Max Barry (C) • Angela's Ashes. Frank McCourt (B) Stohl (F) *" • A Death in the Family, James Agee (C) • Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King (M) • Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya (C) • Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler (C) • The Body of Christopher Creed. Carol Pl um- • Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden (NF) • For the Love of Venice, Donna Jo Napoli (R) • Cane River, lallta Tademy (l) Ucci (M • Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (Sp) • Breathing Underwater, Alex Flinn (C) • Company by Max Barry (C) • Gifted Hands, Ben Carson (B) • Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros (C) • Cooked, Jeff Henderson (B) • Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin (HI) • The Christopher Killer, Alane Fergerson (M) • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the • Going Bovine, Libba Bray (HI) Night-Time, Mark Haddon (C) • Game, Walter Dean Myers (C) • Hanging on to Max, Margaret Bechard © • Gentlehands. M.E. Kerr (C) • Discworld series, Terry Pratchett (FJ • Hang a Th ousand Trees with Ribbons: The • Hate List, Jennifer Brown (C) * • Double Helix, Nancy Werlin (S) Phillis Wheatley Story, Ann Rinaldi (HI) • Heart and Bones, Margaret lawrence (HI/M) • Eva, Peter Dickinson (SF) • Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (NF) • Half Caste and Other Stories, John Agard (P) • How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff (F) • A Gathering of Old Men, Ernest Gaines (l) • Hole in My Life , Jack Gantos (B) • Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (F/A) • Graceling, Kristin Cashore (F) • House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer (S) • Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back • Grendel, John Gardner (H) • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya from the Dead, Brian Boyle (B) * Angelou (B) • Jubilee, Margaret Walker (HI) • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (SF) • If I Stay: A Novel, Gayle Forman (C) • King of the Mild Frontier, Chris Crutcher (B) *" • If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin (C) • If You Come Softly, Jacqueline Woodson (R) • A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines (l) • Interstellar Pig, William Sleator (SF) • Imani All Mine, Connie Porter (C) • Leviathan, Scott Westerfield (A) • Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (C) • Incantation, Alice Hoffman (H) • Locked Inside, Nancy Werlin (M) • The Lightkeeper's Daughter, lain lawrence (C) • It's Not about the Bike, lance Armstrong (B) • The Lord ofthe Flies, William Golding (SF) • Maze Runner, James Dashner (F) • Ka ffir Boy, Mark Mathabane (B) • Love in the Driest Season, Neely Tucker (C) *" • Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve (SF) • The Keeper's Son, Homer Hickam (A) • Mama Day, Gloria Naylor (C) • Paper Towns, John Green (C) • Maximum Ride series, James Patterson, (SF/A) • The Man Who Was Poe, Avi (M) • The Queen's Man, Sharon K. Penman (HI) • Navajo Code Talkers, Nathan Aaseng (NF) • Marcelo in the Real World, Francisco Storck (C) • Roots, The Saga ofan American Family, Alex • The Omnivore'S Dilemma: the Secrets Behind • Mare's War, Tanita Davis (C / H) * Haley (HI) What You Eat, Michelle Pollan (NF) • A Northern Light, Jennifer Donnelly (M) • Ruby in the Smoke, Philip Pullman (M) • Ophelia, a Novel, Lisa Klein (A) • Peeps, Scott Westerfeld (F) • The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (M) • Phoning a Dead Man, Gillian Cross (M ) • Persepolis 1 and 2, Ma~ane Satrapi (B) • Shiver, Maggie Stiefvater (F) • Running Loose, Chris Crutcher (C) * • The Pigman and Me, Paul Zindel (B) • Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison (C) • The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (C) • Rocket Boys. Homer Hickam (NF) • Twilight, Stephanie Meyer (S) or New Moon • Slam, Walter Dean Myers (C) • Son of the Mob, Gordon Korman (C) • Wait for Me, An Na (C) • Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella (Sp) • The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (H ) • World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie • So Yesterday, Scott Westerfeld (M) • True Confessions of a Heartless Girl, Martha War, Max Brooks (SF) • St. Iggy, L. l. Going (C) Brooks (C) • Tiffany Aching Adventures series, Terry Prac­ • Waiting for June, Joyce Sweeney (C) * Indicates LA 201 2 Teen Readers Ch oice book ,_. thett (F / H) • The Water Is Wide, Pat Conroy (C) • A Time for Dancing. Davida Hurwin (C) • What Happened to Cass McBride, Gail Giles (S) A=Adventure; B=Biogra phy ~ C=Contemporary; F=Fantasy; • Who Am I without Him, Sharon Flake (SS/C) • When I Was a Soldier. Valerie Zenatti H=Humor; HI=Historical; L=Louisiana; M=Mystery; • Wintergirls, laurie Halse Anderson (C) *" • Wolf by the Ears, Ann Rinaldi (HI) NF=Non-Fiction; P=Poetry; R=Romance; S-Suspense; • Wrestling Sturbridge, Rich Wallace (Sp) SF= Science Fiction; Sp=Sports; SS=Short Stories .
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