another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to The Sky is Everywhere the test when she voluntarily takes her younger In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year- High School’s sister's place. old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a Monster by Walter Dean Myers musician. While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his **The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Read to experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the By Robert Louis Stevenson form of a film script as he tries to come to terms Dr. Henry Jekyll has developed a potion to with the course his life has taken. separate the good mind from the evil one, but experimenting on himself, he finds he can no Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz longer control his transformations as his evil mind Win Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, his soul takes over and Dr. Jekyll becomes a hideous fiend mate Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies known as Mr. Hyde. make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide Through My Eyes: A Quarterback’s Journey 2012 as they try to avert a cataclysm. by Tim Tebow According to New York Jets quarterback, Tim Tebow, The Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughn this memoir tells a story of “faith, family, and Inspired by true events, a graphic novel examines football,” and encourages others to “fulfill their presents life on the streets of war-torn Iraq, raising dreams.” questions about the meaning of liberation through **To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee the experiences of four lions who escaped from the Scout's father defends a black man accused of Baghdad Zoo during a raid. raping a white woman in a small Alabama town during the 1930s. Room by Emma Donoghue A 5-year-old narrates a story about his life growing ** titles appear on college bound and/or AP reading up in a single room where his mother aims to lists protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager. All annotations for fiction titles taken from NoveList, (2012 Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner for powered by EBSCO (KYVL) Grades 9-12)
Montgomery County sheet for your book (to be turned in fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar to your English teacher), and plan to on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note. (2013 KBA nominee) attend our “Read to Win!” “Read to Win!” is a voluntary summer Celebration (tentatively scheduled for City of Bones by Cassandra Clare th reading opportunity available to all September 6 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm). Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own students at Montgomery County High You will meet with other students and dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into School, including our incoming 9th graders. at least one teacher, who read the this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster. The main goal of this program is to same book that you read, and you’ll encourage students to read for the fun enjoy discussion, food, and fun! There Divergent by Veronica Roth will also be drawings for prizes In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior of it! must choose among five predetermined factions to Why Should I Read throughout the evening. It’s a win-win define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision proposition! made more difficult when she discovers that she is in the Summer? an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, Research shows that: and that the society she lives in is not perfect after How will I Choose a Book? all. (2013 KBA nominee) 1. “the number of books read during the summer is consistently You’ll need to choose one book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green related to academic gains.” from the list provided to read over Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything 2. “people who read more, write the summer. Books representing a but terminal, but when Augustus Waters suddenly better.” wide range of interests, abilities, and appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's maturity/grade levels have been story is about to be rewritten. (2013 KBA 3. “reading as a leisure activity is nominee) the best predictor of included on the list to accommodate the diverse interests, abilities, and The Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler comprehension, vocabulary, and Receiving her first computer and an America reading speed.” maturity/grade levels of our student Online CD-ROM in 1996, student Emma and her “ body. Using the annotated list, select best friend, Josh, log on and discover themselves 4. outstanding high school writers on Facebook, fifteen years in the future, and learn reported extensive summer a book that appeals to your interests astonishing things about their adult selves. reading” (Krashen). and your philosophies. Involve your The Help by Kathryn Stockett *from “Highlights of Research on Summer Reading and parents. Ask your friends what Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Effects on Student Achievement.” 10 May, 2010. they’re reading. Ask a teacher or Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an http://www.nysed.gov/libdev/summer/research.htm librarian to help you select a book if African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white How Can I Participate? you’re still not sure what to choose. woman, team up for a clandestine project. Above all, choose a book that you think you’ll enjoy! How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr First, choose a book from the list Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old 2012 Selections: Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, provided; then, sign up with Mrs. nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but Haydon in the library media center. In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and nothing turns out as they had anticipated. Read the book over the summer, fill brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins out a reading response/reflection is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one