Books I Read This Summer

Books I read this summer Blackberry Crumble 9/6 1. Enduring Light By Josi Kilpack 366 pages 2. Venom 3. Ammon Sadie is asked to look into the death of Jim 4. Daughters of Jared Sanderson. Jim’s daughter, May, thinks that he was 5. My Lucky Stars murdered. As Sadie starts to dig deeper into the 6. Rearview Mirror family’s past, she starts to learn some alarming 7. Of Grace and Chocolate details. Many people have a motive for murder, so 8. Reality Check who really killed Jim? 9. Blink of an Eye 10. Passage on the Titanic The Hearth in Candlewood 9/10 11. Dangerous Connections By Delia Parr Kindle Version 12. Butterfly Dust 13. Heaven is Here Emma is a widow who runs Hill House, an inn 14. Amaryllis Lillies outside the city. People who are running from 15. Jenna’s Cowboy problems seek refuge at her inn. Can she help them 16. Royal Target solve their problems before her own problems force them to leave the inn? Royal Secrets 8/25 By Traci Hunter Abramson 288 pages False Memory 9/13 By Dan Krokos 327 pages Stefano is the heir to the throne of Meridia. A bomb goes off at the naval base, and he must figure Miranda is at the mall, and she doesn’t know how out who is trying to destroy his country. He also she got there. She looks at herself in the mirror, but gets some alarming news about his own health after she doesn’t recognize the image she sees. She asks being in a car accident. Will he be able to figure the mall cop for help, and instead, she ends up out who is trying to ruin his chance to have a family killing people with waves emanating from her brain. and rule a peaceful country? What is going on? Miranda wants answers, but who will help her? Not Your Average Fairy Tale 8/29 By Chantele Sedgwick 220 pages Pumpkin Roll 9/19 By Josi Kilpack 360 pages Ash is a very popular by at the Academy of Magic. He must complete one more assignment in order to Sadie is helping her boyfriend, Pete, babysit his graduate. When he opens the paper and reads his three grandsons while their parents are out of town. assignment, he is not pleased to see that he has been Strange things start happening: doors opening by apprenticed to a Fairy. He is now sporting wings themselves, plates and cups on the floor in patterns, and carrying a wand. Can he get his assignment to ghostly visitors, etc. The boys think it is the witch make her three wishes really quickly so he can across the street, but is it something more? Sadie return back to normal? must find out what is going on before anyone gets hurt or worse: killed? Chomp 9/2 By Carl Hiaasen 290 pages Tiger’s Destiny 9/24 By Colleen Houck 445 pages Mickey Cray is a wild animal handler. When he is asked to help on the TV set for Expedition Survival, Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan must finish what they Mickey is hesitant to help. He needs the money, so started. They must fulfill the last two prophecies in he decides to go to the Everglades and act as a order to turn the tigers mortal. They face dangerous guide/animal handler for the show. Derek, the star challenges like they have never seen before. Will of the show, is a complete imbecile who runs off they survive? Will they find their true destiny? and gets lost in the Everglades. Will the find him before he gets hurt or dies? Rush for the Gold 9/27 Deadly 10/11 By John Feinstein 314 pages By Julie Chibbaro 287 pages

Susan Carol and her boyfriend, Steve, are teen Prudence lives in New York City in 1906. She goes reporters for the Washington Post. Susan Carol is to a finishing school and helps her mother who is a also an amazing swimmer who qualifies to be in the midwife. Prudence loves science, so when it is time London Olympics. Her agent is starting to act to look for a job, she gets a job with the Department weird. The Russian swimmer is acting weir also. Is of Sanitation. She helps look for the causes of something fishy going on? Everyone is willing to epidemics specifically that of typhoid fever. Can pay millions of dollars for an advertising contract she find the cause before more people die? with the Gold medalist. Who will win? Lines of Fire 10/14 The Selection 9/29 By Rachel Ann Nunes 297 pages By Kiera Cass 327 pages Autum goes to Hayesville to meet her biological America is a five, but she is in love with a six. father and to determine if he is involved in the Aspen doesn’t want to marry America because he disappearance of a local teen. Her investigation will have a hard time providing for her, and she will puts her right in the middle of a drug trafficking be marrying down instead of up. Aspen convinces ring. She gets shot at, beat up, and kidnapped. Will America to enter the selection, a drawing to choose she figure out who is behind the crimes before she 35 women for Prince Maxon to date. America is killed? enters and is chosen as one of the 35 women, so she moves to the palace to compete for a chance to Between Shades of Gray 10/19 marry Maxon. When Aspen arrives as a palace By Ruta Sepetys 338 pages guard, America must make a choice. Which man will she choose? Lina and her family are rounded up and put on a train. All Lithuanians are being sent to Siberia by My Loving Vigil Keeping 10/6 Stalin. After a 6 week train ride, they work for By Carla Kelly 438 Pages hours on end in order to get a meager ration of bread. Filth and sickness abound, but they fight to When Della’s father is killed in a mining accident, survive. she is sent to live with her relatives in Salt Lake. As she grows, she learns to depend only on herself Banana Split 10/24 because her aunt makes sure Della gets no help. By Josi Kilpack 360 pages After one year of college, Della decides to go teach in a mining town near Schofield. Will she be able Sadie is in Hawaii trying to get over her horrible to come to terms with her past in order to create her experiences in Boston. She is so filled with anxiety future? that she can hardly function. She decides to go snorkeling with her friends, but she ends up finding Final Call 10/9 a dead body instead of fish. She gets sucked into By Rachel Ann Nunes 262 pages another murder mystery, but she does everything in her power to not help. Charlie wants to know what Autumn is asked to use her ability of reading happened to his mom, so he comes to Sadie for imprints to help find Liam’s missing sister. Her help. Can she resist his plea? search takes her to a playhouse where Autumn must figure out what is real and what is part of the play. When another actress turns up dead, Autumn realizes that she must act quickly in order to save a life. Will she figure out what is going on it time? The Summer of Cotton Candy 10/27 Code Word 12/3 By Debbie Viquie 209 pages By Traci Hunter Abramson 247 pages

Candace is told by her father that she must have a Carina is trying to protect her younger sisters from summer job or else she will not have any spending “the family.” However, when she is found, she money because he won’t provide it. She applies for must figure out the truth about her family before she a job at The Zone, the local amusement park. She or one of her sisters is killed. While running from gets a job as a cotton candy maker. When she gets the Chicago mafia, Carina meets Jay. She refuses her uniform, he name tag says, “Candy” instead of to allow anyone to help, but will Jay be able to Candace. She spends the rest of the summer as break down her barriers enough to help her survive? Cotton Candy. Will she learn to like her job and the people she works with? Will she loose her best Discovering Wes Moore 12/5 friend in the process? By Wes Moore 149 pages

Tres Leches Cupcakes 11/13 This book tells the true stories of two people with By Josi Kilpack 328 pages the same name: Wes Moore. They both grew up in the Bronx during the 1980s. They were both eye Sadie goes undercover for the Bureau of Land witnesses to the growth of drugs, hip hop, and Management. She is working at an archeological shooting. Each boy makes different choices; one site in Santa Fe as an informant. While digging, ends up successful (through a lot of effort) and the the bodies of two murder victims are found. Who other ends up in prison for life. I loved this book! buried the bodies at this ancient site and why? The choices we make can change our lives and Sadie must find out what is going on before she too futures; make good ones! loses her life. An Unlikely Match 12/8 A Nation Divided 11/23 By Sarah M Eden 171 pages By Robert Marcum Kindle edition Nickolas has lived a nomadic life as his parents died Rand and his sister, Lizzy, are running a very when he was quite young. He was sent from successful shipping business in St. Louis, Missouri. relative to relative depending on who wants to The nation is on the brink of civil war, and Rand house and feed him. Now as an adult, he has must protect his ships from the Southern rebels. He suddenly inherited an estate. When he arrives to has hidden compartments in his ships, so he can claim his fortune, he finds out that the estate has a smuggle slaves and weapons to the north. He must resident ghost. At first, he doesn’t believe it, but protect himself and his family at all costs. when Gwen makes her first appearance, he has no choice but to believe. Gwen and Nickolas strike up City of Orphans 12/1 a friendship and learn to get along as they share the By Avi 350 pages same space.

Maks is a Newsie who is earning money to help his Within the Dark Hills 12/12 family pay their bills. Bruno is the leader of the By Sian Ann Bessey 197 pages Plug Uglies who is trying to prevent the Newsies from selling their papers. When Bruno attacks When the Master makes unwanted advances Maks in a dark alley, Willa is there to save Maks. towards Annie, she flees the manor to find a This is the beginning of Maks’s and Willa’s journey sanctuary. She finds her self seeking shelter at the to save themselves from the Plug Uglies and Emma Reverend’s house. Before she can get help, she from being imprisoned for life for a crime she did finds herself helping to nurse miners who were not commit. badly injured in a mine fire. She meets Evan who is in need of someone to care for his daughter. Thus, a very practical, business relationship begins. Will it become anything more? Finding Mercie 12/24 Endangered 1/18 By Blaine Yorgason 406 pages By Eliot Schrefer 250 pages

Hector is out for his morning walk when he hears a Sophie is visiting the Congo for the summer. Her whimper. He checks it out and realizes that a little mother runs a sanctuary for the endangered girl has been hurt. He picks her up and runs to the bonobos. Sophie runs across a bonobo that is being nearest clinic. Once examined, the doctors realize mistreated, so she buys it and now must care for it that the little girl has been shot. The prime suspect like she is his mother. Civil war breaks out and is Hector. Hector is also trying to keep his family Sophie must protect not only herself but the from learning the truth about his life. Can he clear bonobos as well. This is an amazing story about his name without telling his family his secret? survival and making the world better.

Cut, Crop, and Die 12/31 Nevermore 1/20 Joanna Campbell Slan Kindle Edition By James Patterson 344 pages

This book was so lame. It is a scrapbooking murder This is the final book in the Maximum Ride series. mystery. Will Max and her flock survive the end of the world? Will they fulfill their destiny? This was a Accidental Private Eye 1/9 great ending to a great series. By Clair Poulsen Kindle Edition Power Play 1/26 Dallas just returned from serving in Afghanistan. By Ridley Pearson 433 pages He has found himself the victim of identity theft, so he has nothing left. He is loitering outside when an Finn and the other Kingdom Keepers must continue elderly lady gives him $1,200 and asks him to help to protect the Disney parks from the Overtakers let her. He accepts her offer, and now he finds himself by Malificent. The Overtakers are trying to gain in the middle of a murder mystery where he is the control of the power that runs all things Disney. If target. Will he figure out who is behind the murder they control the power, they can trap the Kingdom before he too is murdered? Keepers, thus, no one will be able to stop them from ruling! Ripper 1/17 By Stefan Petrucha 417 pages Shell Game 2/1 By Ridley Pearson 544 pages Carver has grown up in a New York City orphanage. The orphanage is moving out to the Finn and the other Kingdom Keepers are on the country, so any child over age 13 must be adopted Dream, the new Disney cruise ship. Of course, they or they will be put out on the street. Carver is taken are joined by the Overakers who are trying to by Mr. Hawking, a famous detective. Mr. Hawking advance their plot to rule all things Disney. Can wants Carver to be his apprentice. Carver learns Finn and his friends keep the ship afloat? many new skills as he hunts for the infamous Jack the Ripper. Will the serial killer be found before he Wonder 2/6 can claim another victim? By R. J. Palacio 310 pages

I loved this book!!!! August was born with severe facial deformities. Because of his many surgeries, he was home schooled. Now, it is time to start fifth grade, so August must face his biggest challenge. How will he fit in when no one will look beyond his appearance? How will the kids treat him at school? Will anyone be his friend? True Believer 2/12 Mrs. Drew Plays her Hand 2/28 By Nicholas Sparks 334 pages By Carla Kelly 353 pages

Jeremy believes in science. He thinks everything Roxanna is mourning the death of her husband who can be proven if you dig deep enough into the facts. was the local pastor. Her funds are slowly running He travels from NYC to Boone Creek, North out, and she can no longer live in the Parish house Carolina to investigate mysterious lights in the because the new pastor needs to move in. She has cemetery. He eventually figures out the cause, but two young daughters to care for, so what will she while there, he learns that everything in life can’t be do? predicted or explained. He meets Lexie. Will his life change forever? Dark Memories 3/3 By Jeffrey S. Savage 358 pages At First Sight 2/14 By Nicholas Sparks 277 pages In 1977, six school children got lost in a mine while on an end of the year picnic. When the children Jeremy and Lexie are living a very happy life were rescued, one was missing. Now it is 2011, and waiting for the arrival of their first baby. During someone is murdering the five children who the pregnancy, a problem arises. Will Lexie and the survived the ordeal in the mine. Who could be baby survive? doing this and why?

Dead End in Norvelt 2/17 Perfect Scoundrels 3/5 By Jack Gantos 341 pages By Ally Carter 328 pages

Jack is grounded for the whole summer. The only This is the third book in the Heist Society series, time he can leave his room is if he is helping his dad and it was fantastic! Kat and her friends must pull dig a bomb shelter by hand or if he is helping Miss off the biggest con yet. They must save Hale and Volker write obituaries. Jack has a summer filled his business. Will they be able to do it in time? with crazy experiences that will totally make you laugh. Chocolate Roses 3/7 By Joan Sowards 225 pages The Last Song 2/20 By Nicholas Sparks 405 pages Janie is 27 and unmarried, but she has fallen in love with a man who enters her chocolate shop each Ronnie is very angry when she learns that she has to Tuesday morning. Janie thinks Roger is beautiful, leave NYC and spend the summer with her father in but he never gives her the time of day. Suddenly, North Carolina. She hasn’t spoken to her father in Roger moves in across the way; Janie can’t believe three years, and she certainly doesn’t want to spend her good fortune. But, Roger is married! What will the summer with him. Upon arrival, she runs into happen to Janie? Blaze. Blaze introduces her to Marcus which starts a very big conflict. Ronnie also meets Will. Bloodborne 3/14 Ronnie definitely experiences a summer to By Gregg Luke 325 pages remember. Erin is a very talented scientist who thinks she has developed a vaccine for Malaria. One of her lab The Girl in the Glass 2/24 partners takes her research and turns it into a By Susan Meissner 328 pages bioweapon, a deadly virus that would kill millions of people in a very short time. The killer disease Meg has wanted to visit Florence since she was a would be spread by mosquitos. Erin is now being child. Her father promises to take her, but now she chased by men she doesn’t know because they want is an adult and still not gone. Her father steals to stop her from figuring out the truth. Will she be money and sends her to Florence alone. This is an able to stop the evil chaos in time? amazing book! Drops of Gold 3/18 Slammed 4/5 By Sarah M. Eden 191 pages By Colleen Hoover 317 pages

Mary is left with nothing after the passing of her Layken is very angry because her mother is forcing father and brother. Rather than be a ward of her her to move from Texas to Michigan – she wants to distant relative, she fabricates a recommendation finish her senior year before moving, but her mother and gets hired as a governess. She and Caroline are has other plans. Upon her arrival in Michigan, instant friends, but what will happen when Mary Layken meets Will. They realize that they really falls for Caroline’s father? like each other and want to create a relationship. On the first day of her senior year, Layken gets the Do Over 3/20 surprise of her life! Will she survive it? This book By Shannon Guymon 182 pages has a great story; however, it does have some rather colorful language. Don’t read this book if that Trey has decided to be a “woman” free. He is tired would offend you. of getting dumped! When Iris moves to town, will Trey change his mind? Iris is a beautiful biker chick Mended Hearts 4/11 with red-tipped, jagged hair. Disaster is about to By Connie Angeline 214 pages happen. Will Trey survive? Sydney loses the man she loves in a sailing accident While the World Watched 3/23 when she is 19 years old. She has been running By Carolyn Maull McKinstry and Denise George Kindle away ever since. She doesn’t want to face her memories or her friends. After college she returns Carolyn was present the day a church was bombed home, will she be able to come to terms with her in Birmingham, Alabama – 1963. Four of her past? friends were killed in the church that day. This is a powerful story about a young girl growing up in the Prisoner B-3087 4/18 hotbed of segregation. The people in her town By Alan Gratz 260 pages refused to desegregate, and many ugly things happened as a result. Yanek is 10 years old and living in Krakow, Poland. When the Nazis take over Poland, Yanek’s life Blind Sided 3/31 changes forever. He survives 10 different By Cheryl Leigh Kindle Version concentration camps! His story is amazing and very moving! He is a true survivor! I loved reading this Jenna was in a car accident that left her blind and book! her mother dead. She can no longer take care of herself, so she moves from Texas to Baltimore, Origin 4/24 Maryland to live with her two cousins. They help By Jessica Khoury 392 pages her as she adjusts to life without vision. Pia is perfect! A group of scientists have created The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had 4/3 her, and she is immortal. She is being taught what By Kristin Levine 264 pages she needs to know to be the leader of the Immortis team. They are going to create a race of immortal Dit is so excited for the new postmaster to arrive people. What happens when Pia figures out there is with his 13 year old son. It will be the greatest more to the world than science and her small summer ever. But, when the postmaster arrives, he compound? Will she fulfill her destiny or find doesn’t have a son, he has a daughter, and they are something better? black. Dit is so disappointed, but he doesn’t realize that Emma will soon be the best friend he was looking for. This is a fantastic book about race relations, and how the unlikeliest of people can become great friends. I’ll Be There 4/28 Lincoln’s Grave Robbers 5/8 By Holly Goldberg Sloan 400 pages By Steve Sheinkin 198 pages

Sam has lived a very rough life. When he was in This true story that tells about the men who decided second grade, his parents got into an argument. His to steal Lincoln’s body and hold it for ransom. It is dad was so angry that he took the boys and left. very informative. I really liked the end because I Ever since, they have been traveling across the didn’t realize they had moved Lincoln’s body so country. Sam cares for his autistic little brother many times to try and protect it. They also cut open while his schizophrenic father lives the life of a the metal liner to make sure the body was still thief. Sam and Riddle do their best to stay out of Lincoln. Gross! their dad’s way and to stay honest. Sam meets Emily and suddenly their whole lives change. This The Wishing Garden 5/10 was an amazing book to read! By Anita Stansfield 227 pages

The Elite 5/1 When Mary’s husband is killed in an accident, she By Kiera Cass 323 pages takes her daughter and moves back home to live with her dad. Her dad is a bigot, and Mary’s America is very confused. She loves Aspen, but daughter is part Mexican. Mary keeps Adrienne she has very strong feelings for Prince Maxon. away from her grandfather as much as possible. Throughout the story, Lady America makes some Mary decides to hire a gardener to repair years of choices that put her standing in the Elite precarious. neglect in the back yard. Whit is an amazing man, Will she stay and fight for the change to be a but he is also part Mexican. Can they keep his Princess who can change the lives of others? Will identity a secret? Will Walter’s horrible attitude she go home and live her old life even though she change all of their lives? has changes so much? I loved this book! Whisper Hollow 5/16 By Carol Warburton 222 pages The Rent Collector 5/5 By Cameron Wright 264 pages Tally and her mother are working so hard to keep the farm running while the Civil War is raging all Wow! This book was very eye-opening. It is about around. They endure many struggles, but they are Sang and Ki who live in Stung Meanchey, able to remain positive until some bushwhackers Cambodia. This place is a huge garbage dump. attack. Will they survive the attack? Who will The people make money by picking through the help? trash to find things to recycle, thus, making money to feed their families. They live off of .50 per day! Sang convinces Sopeap Sin to teach her how to read. This is a life changing story for the both the characters and the reader!

Shadowed 5/7 By Stephanie Black 273 pages

Catherine moves to Riley, NY to open a music studio that will be free to all students. She is hoping to fill a void left by the cutting of school music programs. What Catherine doesn’t know is she is walking right into the middle of a murder mystery. She wants to try and find the killer, but will she put herself at risk in the process?