SCHS Approved Summer Reading List for 2017-18 School Year KY
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SCHS Approved Summer Reading List for 2017-18 School Year KY Bluegrass Awards Books Use your MAP test reading score to determine your LEXILE reading level, then match up your reading level to the reading level on the books listed below. Above / Isla Morley. First Gallery Books, 2014. (2015-16) Lexile: NOT LISTED Blythe Hallowell is sixteen when she is abducted by a survivalist and locked away in an abandoned missile silo in Eudora, Kansas. She focuses frantically on finding a way out until the harrowing truth of her new existence settles in. All American Boys / Jason Reynolds. A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015. (2016-17) Lexile: HL770L When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. All the Bright Places / Jennifer Niven. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. (2016-17) Lexile: 830L Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, both teetering on the edge, it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another. The Beginning of Everything / Robyn Schneider. Catherine Tegan Books, 2013. (2014-15) Lexile: 930L The way Ezra Faulkner sees it, everyone gets one great tragedy, after which life should roll on predictably. Star athlete and prom king, his life is irreparably transformed by a tragic accident and the arrival of eccentric new girl Cassidy Thorpe. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / April Genevieve Tucholke. Dial, 2013. (2014-15) Lexile: HL670L Violet is in love with River, a mysterious seventeen-year-old stranger renting the guest house behind the rotting seaside mansion where Violet lives. When eerie, grim events begin to happen, Violet recall her grandmother's frequent warnings about the devil and wonders if River is evil. Boy Nobody (I Am the Weapon) / Allen Zadoff. Little Brown, 2013. (2014-15) Lexile: HL450L Boy Nobody is a coldly dispassionate teenage assassin working for a mysterious organization called the Program. When it assigns him his next mission—to assassinate the mayor of New York—it seems at first like business as usual. But then he meets Sam, the mayor’s beautiful daughter. The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible…on Schindler’s List / Leon Leyson, with Marilyn J. Harran and Elisabeth B. Leyson. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2013. (2014-15) Lexile: 1000L Leon Leyson describes growing up in Poland, being forced from home to ghetto to concentration camps by the Nazis, and being saved by Oskar Schindler. A powerful work of literary nonfiction. Brown Girl Dreaming / Jacqueline Woodson. Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2014. (2015-16) Lexile: 990L The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South. Complicit / Stephanie Kuehn. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014. (2015-16) Lexile: HL660L Two years ago, fifteen-year-old Jamie Henry breathed a sigh of relief when a judge sentenced his older sister to juvenile detention for burning down their neighbor’s fancy horse barn. The whole town did. But today Cate got out. And now she’s coming back. Counting by 7s / Holly Goldberg Sloan. Dial Books for Young Readers, 2013. (2014-15) Lexile: 770L Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident. The Crossover / Kwame Alexander. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. (2015-16) Lexile: 750L Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health. Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii / Vicky Alvear Schecter. Arthur A. Levine Books, and imprint of Scholastic, Inc., 2014. (2015-16) Lexile: 720L Tagus is a medical slave who wants be a gladiator, Lucia is the daughter of Tag's owner and betrothed to an older man, and the two teenagers are in love with each other--but it is the year 79 and soon Vesuvius will alter their lives forever. Desert Dark / Sonja Stone. Holiday House, 2017. (2017-18) Lexile: HL540L Sixteen-year-old Nadia Riley is delighted to earn a spot at an elite, government-funded boarding school. Nothing sounds better than leaving behind her fraught relationship with her ex-boyfriend and moving to faraway Arizona for a spot at Desert Mountain Academy. But the Academy is more than Nadia bargained for: it’s a covert CIA program training high-achieving students for the Black-Ops. Nadia struggles to keep up in her new classes while gaining the trust of her assigned teammates. Things get worse when news leaks that there is a double agent on campus, and someone is framing Nadia. Nadia discovers dark secrets about her fellow teammates and learns one of them is the deserter. 1 SCHS Approved Summer Reading List for 2017-18 School Year KY Bluegrass Awards Books The Distance From Me to You / Marina Gessner. G.P. Putnman’s Sons Books for Young Readers, 2015. (2017-18) Lexile: 840L McKenna Berney is a lucky girl. She has a loving family and has been accepted to college for the fall. But McKenna has a different goal in mind: much to the chagrin of her parents, she defers her college acceptance to hike the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia with her best friend. And when her friend backs out, McKenna is determined to go through with the dangerous trip on her own. While on the Trail, she meets Sam. Having skipped out on an abusive dad and quit school, Sam has found a brief respite on the Trail, where everyone’s a drifter, at least temporarily. Despite lives headed in opposite directions, McKenna and Sam fall in love on an emotionally charged journey of dizzying highs and devastating lows. When their punch-drunk love leads them off the trail, McKenna has to persevere in a way she never thought possible to beat the odds or risk both their lives. Doll Bones / Holly Black. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2013. (2014-15) Lexile: 840L Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl. Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans / Don Brown. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. (2016-17) Lexile: GN920L On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. The riveting tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage- -and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality. Echo / Pam Munoz Ryan; Dinara Mirtalipova, ill. Scholastic Press, 2015. (2016-17) Lexile: 680L Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica. Faking Normal / Courtney Stevens. Harper Teen, 2014. (2015-16) Lexile: HL610L Alexi Littrell hasn’t told anyone what happened to her over the summer by her backyard pool. Instead, she hides in her closet, counts the slats in the air vent, and compulsively scratches the back of her neck, trying to make the outside hurt more than the inside does. The Forgetting / Sharon Cameron. Scholastic Press, 2016. (2017-18) Lexile: 740L Canaan is a quiet city, but every 12 years the town breaks out in chaos. All the people undergo the Forgetting and are left without memories of themselves, their families, or their lives. Somehow 17-year-old Nadia has never forgotten and is determined to put a stop to The Forgetting forever. Foul Trouble / John Feinstein. Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. (2014-15) Lexile: 770L College recruiters are clamoring to sign up Terrell Jamerson, the #1 high school basketball player in the country. But not all of these recruiters are straight shooters, and Terrell will have to think fast if he wants to stay in the game. The Geography of You and Me / Jennifer Smith. Poppy, Little Brown and Company, 2014. (2015-16) Lexile: 1030L Sparks fly when sixteen-year-old Lucy and seventeen-year-old Owen meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout. Soon after, the two teens leave the city, but as they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally. Ghost / Jason Reynolds. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016. (2017-18) Lexile: 730L Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential. Goodbye Stranger / Rebecca Stead. Wendy Lamb Books, 2015. (2016-17) Lexile: 560L Bridge, survivor of a childhood accident, wonders why she’s still alive. As she makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvaceous Em, crusader Tab, and new friend, Sherm, she finds the answers she has been seeking.