Fiction Classic Fiction Mystery & Suspense Does My Head Look Big in This?...... Abdel-Fattah Watership Down...... Adams The Face on the Milk Carton (series)...... Cooney The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-time Indian...... Alexie Go Ask Alice...... Anonymous Croak...... Damico Speak...... Anderson Persuasion...... Austen Burning Blue...... Griffin Tyrell / Kendra / Bronxwood...... Booth The Three Musketeers...... Dumas The Lock Artist...... Hamilton Beauty Queens...... Bray Annie on My Mind...... Garden The Blessing Way (series)...... Hillerman Hate List ...... Brown The Princess Bride...... Goldman Liar...... Larbalestier Fat Angie...... Charlton-Trujillo Frankenstein...... Shelley Devil in a Blue Dress (series)...... Mosley The Perks of Being a Wallflower...... Chbosky Slaughterhouse Five: A Novel...... Vonnegut Bel Canto...... Patchett Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist...... Cohn and Levithan War of the Worlds...... Wells Tokyo Heist...... Renn Beautiful Music for Ugly Children...... Cronn-Mills The Swiss Family Robinson ...... Wyss Hunt for the Bamboo Rat...... Salisbury Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes...... Crutcher The Miseducation of Cameron Post...... Danforth Mare's War...... Davis Non-Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy The Living...... De la Pena Small Things Can Grow Tall...... Alexie The Wrath and the Dawn...... Ahdieh Born Confused...... Desai Hidier Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Ship Breaker / The Drowned Cities...... Bacigalupi For the Win...... Doctorow Slavery, Freedom, and Science...... Aronson White Cat / Red Glove / Black Heart...... Black Romiette and Julio...... Draper Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network Kindred...... Butler Perfect Chemistry (series...... Elkeles that Tried to Destory the Civil Rights Movement...... Bowers Ready Player One...... Cline Keesha's House...... Frost 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens...... 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Kwok Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny...... Harper The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks...... Lockhart We Turned Back To See Where We Came From...... Hinojosa Poetry How It Went Down...... Magoon Marvel Comics: An Untold Story...... Howe . Zenzele: A Letter to My Daughter...... Maraire Steal Like an Artist...... Kleon The Best American Poetry (multiple years)...... Doty Jellicoe Road...... Marchetta Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out...... Kuklin You Don't Even Know Me...... Flake Cut...... McCormick Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy...Marrin Burned/Smoke...... Hopkins Say What You Will...... McGovern The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates...... Moore Please Excuse This Poem...... Lauer, ed. 47 ...... Mosley Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans The Realm of Possibility...... Levithan Monster...... Myers During World War II...... Sandler Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems About Love...... Mora The Other Side of Truth...... Naidoo Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know Street Love...... Myers Gabi, A Girl In Pieces...... Quintero about Fast Food...... Schlosser A Wreath for Emmett Till...... Nelson Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe...... Saenz Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History Quiet Storm: Voices of Young Black Poets...... Okutoro Jumped in...... Flores-Scott of the Vietnam War...... Sheinkin A Fire in My Hands...... Soto Grasshopper Jungle...... Smith Port 50 Chicago: Disaster, Mutiny and the Fight Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from WritersCorps.....WritersCorps Buried Onions...... Soto for Civil Rights...... Skeinkin Marcelo in the Real World...... Stork Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of Kidnapping This Side of Home...... Watson of Emmett Till...... Wright Biography & Autobiography Boston Public Library 2016 Summer Reading Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan...... Dau The Speckled People...... Hamilton Unbroken...... Hillenbrand The Short and Tragic Life of Rober Peace...... Hobbs On Your Mark, Get Set, Orange is the New Black...... Kerman 2016 Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to Their Younger Selves...... Moon READ! Summer I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced...... Nujood Boston Public Library’s 2016 summer program features books and Persepolis (series)...... Satrapi activities about all kinds of sports enjoyed by all kinds of people. Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves & For more information, contact or visit any BPL location. Book List Other Female Villains...... Yolen and Stemple I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education Allston: 300 N. Harvard St...... 617-787-6313 Grades 9–12 and Was Shot by the Taliban...... 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