Locust Valley High School Library Summer 2020 Reading Suggestions

Are you “booked” for the summer?

In addition to the books suggested for your grade, this is an annotated list of books to enjoy reading during the summer (or any time during the year). We hope you will refer to this list to help you select some terrific books to keep you reading all summer long!

Download Books to Your Own Device! Most of the books on this list are available as ebooks and/or audiobooks through the HS Library’s OverDrive* platform. Click OverDrive ​ Search for the titles you are interested in and download using the Sora app. ​

Your username is your firstinitiallastname (ex: bsmith). If you have the same first initial and last name as a relative who is a student or staff member at Locust Valley, you should both use your first2initialslastname (ex: basmith, besmith). Your password is lvcsd. Download the Sora app through your app store. *Titles highlighted in RED have ebooks available through ​ ​ OverDrive. Audiobooks are indicated by Blue highlighted ebooks may be accessed through ​ Destiny OPAC, our HS online catalog. ​ With a public library card you can also use Nassau Digital ​ Doorway. To apply for a digital public library card click here ​ ​

2 Table of Contents 2020 Award Winners…………………………………………...4 ​ ​ 2019 Award Winners…………………………………………….5 ​ Dignity for All Students……………………………………..6 ​ Book Club Favorites……………………………………………..7 ​ Science Fiction and Fantasy……………………………….8 ​ Mystery and Suspense………………………………………...9 ​ How about a little Romance?...... 10 ​ Dystopian Novels………………………………………………….11 ​ The Real Story: Non-Fiction……………………………..12 ​ Fiction: New Classics & Contemporary Favorites……………………………………………………………….15 ​ Sports Spot…………………………..……………………………..18 ​ Great Books for Science & Math Fans…..……….19 ​ It’s History……..…………………………………………………...20 ​ World Literature.………………………………………………..21 ​ The Classics………………………………………………………….23 ​ Historical Fiction………..……………………………………...25 ​ Biographies and Memoirs…..……………………………...26 ​ Short Story Collections……………………………………..28 ​ Series and Sequels……………………………………………...29 ​

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2020 Award Winners

Dig A.S. King The Field Guide to the ​ ​ Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of North American their family’s tangled secrets. (Printz Award Teenager ​ Winner) (ebook & ) Ben Philippe A hilarious YA Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead contemporary realistic novel about a witty ​ ​ Idealistic Elwood and cynical Turner form an French Canadian teen who moves to Austin, unlikely bond at Nickel Academy, a corrupt Texas, and experiences the joys, clichés, and 1960s reform school, as they endure the abuse awkward humiliations of the American high meted out by the sadistic warden. Their school experience—including falling in love. heart-wrenching story of physical and mental (William C. Morris Award Winner) (ebook) survival is based on the real-life experiences of children at the former Arthur G. Dozier School Torpedoed: The True Story of the World for Boys. (Alex Award Winner & Pulitzer Prize War II Sinking of “The Children’s Ship” Winner) (ebook & ) Deborah Heiligman ​ A true account of the attack and sinking of the Free Lunch Rex Ogle passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was ​ ​ Ogle captures the voice and emotion of his evacuating children from England during WWII. sixth-grade self in this powerful story of trauma (YALSA Excellence in Non-Fiction) (ebook) and resilience. (YALSA Excellence in ​ Non-Fiction Finalist) (ebook) The Black Flamingo Dean Atta Michael, a British boy of Greek Cypriot and Ordinary Hazards Nikki Grimes Jamaican descent, feels caught between Grimes’ verse memoir traces her tumultuous worlds: black and white, masculine and childhood. Told with grace and humor. feminine, straight and gay. His story, told in (Printz Honor Book) (e-book) verse form, allows readers to watch him grow and to experience each of the triumphs and Do You Dream of Terra-Two? Temi Oh tragedies that help him define himself on his ​ ​ A crew of ten astronauts, six of whom are own terms. (Stonewall Award Winner) (ebook) teens, set off on a 23-year journey to begin settling an uninhabited planet known as Frankly in Love David Yoon Terra-Two. (Alex Award Winner) (ebook) Caught between his parents’ expectations and his need to be just a regular guy, Frank Li Genesis Begins Again Alicia D. Williams struggles with his identity as a Korean ​ There are 96 things that Genesis hates about American. (William C. Morris Award Finalist) herself, and her dark skin is at the top of the (ebook & ) list. Genesis tries to hold her family together as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery. (Coretta Scott King Award) (ebook)

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2019 Award Winners The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo Damsel Elana K. Arnold ​ This novel in verse tells the story of Xiomara as Ama has no memory of she struggles to claim her identity as the Poet Prince Emory saving her X. (Printz Award Winner) (ebook & ) from a dragon. She thinks the danger is over The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian until she is faced with life in Refugees Don Brown the kingdom of Harding. Don Brown, the author and illustrator of this (Printz Honor Book) (ebook) graphic non-fiction, explores the struggles of

Syria’s refugee. I, Claudia (YALSA Excellence in Non-Fiction Winner) Mary McCoy (ebook) In this political thriller set in a privileged high Circe Madeline Miller school, Claudia chronicles her “rise to power.” Be swept away by this modern re-imagining of (Printz Honor Book) (ebook) the story of the goddess, Circe. (Alex Award Winner) (ebook & ) The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor Sonia Sotomayor Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Raised without a formal education in rural describes her rise from a difficult childhood in Idaho, the author accomplishes the the South Bronx. (ebook) unexpected: a Ph.D. from Cambridge! This is (YALSA Excellence in Non-Fiction Finalist) the riveting story of how she overcame many hardships to accomplish this achievement. The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and (Alex Award Winner) (ebook & ) the Plot to Kill Hitler John Hendrix Boots on the Ground: America’s War in A true and gripping spy story, this graphic Vietnam Elizabeth Partridge biography chronicles this German Resistance A chronological account of the Vietnam War fighter’s campaign to fight Hitler. Powerful told from a variety of perspectives. Stories of illustrations help convey the story. (ebook) eight young soldiers are highlighted. (YALSA Excellence in Non-Fiction Finalist) (YALSA Excellence in Non-Fiction Finalist) (ebook) Lawn Boy Jonathan Evison Mike Munoz would like to pursue the American A Heart in a Body in the World Deb Caletti dream of happiness and prosperity. But, how? In the aftermath of a terrifying tragedy, (Alex Award Winner) (ebook) Anabelle struggles with PTSD. She decides to run across the country as a means of coping. (Printz Honor Book) (ebook)

5 Dignity for ALL Students — Books that Celebrate Diversity & Respect *My Thirteenth Winter — Samantha Abeel even a teacher said he would never be successful. Later, ​ ​ ​ A memoir of a young woman who is both gifted and learning he had to disabled. work through injuries that jeopardized his career. In this book, ∗ Shark Girl — Kelly L. Bingham Phelps talks for the first time about how he has overcome these ​ ​ ​ After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, and other challenges. fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms ∗ Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science — ​ ​ with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and Michael White and John Gribbin ​ ​ her plans for the future. (ebook) The story of renowned physicist, Hawking, who did not allow his ∗ Stuck in Neutral — Terry Trueman (Fiction) struggle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) to impede his work as a ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Fourteen-year-old Shawn has a phenomenal memory for everything scientist. he’s ever heard, but nobody knows it because his cerebral palsy has ∗ The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison (Fiction) ​ ​ ​ ​ made him unable to communicate. (ebook) An eleven-year-old African-American girl in Ohio, in the early ∗ Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius — Michael C. Mellor 1940s, prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful. ​ ​ ​ Biography of Louis Braille (1809-1852), a blind Frenchman who (ebook) by age sixteen designed a code of raised dots enabling blind ∗ Bone — Fae Myenne Ng ​ ​ ​ ​ people to read and write easily. The story of two generations of the Leong family living in the heart ∗ The World at Her Fingertips: The Story of San Francisco's Chinatown in an uneasy tension. ​ of Helen Keller -- Joan Dash ∗ Color of Water — James McBride ​ ​ ​ ​ *The Story of My Life — Helen Keller (ebook) An African-American male tells of his mother, a white woman, who ​ ​ ​ ​ ∗ Pablo Picasso — Stuart A. Kallen refused to admit her true identity. (ebook) ​ ​ ​ One of the world’s great artists, Picasso is believed to have overcome ∗ How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents — Julia Alvarez ​ ​ ​ the challenges of dyslexia and ADHD. (Fiction) The story of the Garcia family’s adjustment to life in the ∗ This Is Me: Facing Physical Challenges — Stephanie Watson United States from their native Dominican Republic. (ebook) ​ ​ ​ True-to-life stories of teens who are physically challenged. ∗ Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts — ​ ​ ∗ Owning It: Stories about Teens with Disabilities — Maxine Hong Kingston ​ ​ edited by Donald Gallo A memoir of the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants ​ ∗ Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of who lived within the traditions and fears of the Chinese past as well ​ ​ an Autistic Savant — Daniel Tammet (ebook) as the realities of the alien modern American culture. (e-book) ​ ​ ​ ∗ Thinking in Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life ∗ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian — ​ ​ ​ with Autism — Temple Grandin (ebook) Sherman Alexie ​ ​ ∗ Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s — (Fiction) Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the ​ ​ John Elder Robison Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all white farm town school ∗ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — where the only other Native American is the school mascot. (ebook) ​ ​ Mark Haddon ∗ Hear Us Out! : Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress ​ Novel about Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, and Hope — Nancy Garden ​ ​ autistic fifteen-year-old boy, who decides to investigate the ∗ American Born Chinese — Gene Luen Yang ​ ​ murder of a neighbor's dog. (-book) Award-winning graphic novel that alternates three interrelated stories ∗ Ray Charles and the Birth of Soul — Adam Woog about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate ​ ​ ​ Ray Charles lost his sight at a young age, but went on to become in the popular culture. (ebook) one of the most successful performers of all time. ∗ The Courage to Be Yourself: True Stories by Teens about ​ ∗ The Education of Laura Bridgman : First Deaf and Cliques, Conflicts and Overcoming Peer Pressure — ​ ​ Blind Person to Learn Language — Ernest Freeberg edited by Al Desetta (ebook) ​ ​ ​ ​ ∗ Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me ∗ Please Stop Laughing at Me — Jodee Blanco ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ the Teacher I Never Had — Brad Cohen (ebook) The author, a victim of bullying, provides an account of her ​ ​ ∗ When I Was Puerto Rican — Esmeralda Santiago (ebook) miserable school career, telling how her experiences as an outcast ​ ​ ​ ​ ∗ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings — Maya Angelou (ebook) affected her life, and sharing her perspective on the events as an ​ ​ ​ ​ ∗ Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the adult. (e-book) ​ Cafeteria?: and Other Conversations about Race — Beverly Tatum ∗ The Namesake — Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction) A young man born ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ∗ No Limits: The Will to Succeed — Michael Phelps in America of Indian parents struggles with issues of identity from ​ ​ ​ As a child, Olympic champion Michael Phelps was diagnosed with his teens to his thirties. (ebook) attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder; other kids bullied him;

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HS Book Club Favorites

Check out these recommendations from members of the LVHS Book Club!

❖ In Cold Blood — Truman Capote The first “non-fiction novel” ​ reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial and execution of the killers. (ebook ) ❖ The Story of Edgar Sawtelle -- David Wroblewski A moving story of ​ ​ Edgar and the very special dogs that his family raises. (ebook ) ❖ Little Women — Louisa May Alcott The joys, sorrows, ​ ​ tragedies and triumphs of the four March sisters, as they grow to womanhood in New England during the Civil War years. (ebook) ❖ I Am Malala — Malala Yousafzai An inspiring autobiography that brings ​ out the desire within you to go out and create change! (ebook) ❖ Revolution — Jennifer Donnelly We couldn’t put this book down! ​ It’s full of twists and turns and makes you feel like you’re a part of it all. (ebook) ❖ Lexicon — Max Barry Vivid action thriller with a psychological twist! ​ (ebook) ❖ Pride and Prejudice— Jane Austen The delicate love affairs of the five ​ ​ Bennett sisters. Treat yourself to Austen’s humorous satire!(ebook ) ❖ Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell Gladwell asks the important question about ​ why some people succeed in living impactful lives, while others never reach their potential. (ebook) ❖ The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry — Gabrielle Zevin A touching, quick ​ read about the connection between a father and his daughter. (ebook)

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T he Story of Owen E.K. Johnston Owen is training to be a dragon slayer, a crucial job in a world where dragons bring death and destruction. With help from their friends and family, Owen and his bard Siobhan seek the source of a growing drag- on threat. (ebook) (William C. Morris Award Finalist) 11-22-63 Stephen King ​ ​ What would happen if we could go back in time and change events...like stopping the assassination of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children JFK? (ebook) Ransom Riggs Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card Levitating girls and invisible boys on a remote Welsh Ender is a military genius bred by the world government island? A strangely wonderful and haunting read. Also to fight off aliens, but is he smart enough to save the try the sequels, Hollow City & Library of Souls.(ebook) planet? (ebook ) ​ ​ ​ ​ The Gemma Doyle Trilogy Libba Bray 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke ​ Follow the magic and romance of Gemma’s adventures This novel, which inspired the screenplay of the at Spence Academy in A Great and Terrible Beauty, famous movie, introduces a most unusual ​ ​ Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing. (ebook) computer named Hal. ​ ​ ​ War of the Worlds H.G. Wells Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein ​ In this early science fiction novel, first published in A young man from Mars comes to Earth & must learn to 1898, strange creatures from Mars invade England. “grok” our strange ways. (ebook) (ebook) Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan The Once and Future King T.H. White Clay Johnson loses his web-designer job and begins The retelling of the legends of King Arthur. (ebook) working the night shift in a bookstore with only The Green Mile Stephen King a few customers. This marvelous mashup blends Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, where John mystery, adventure, and romance into a literary and Coffey awaits his turn to walk the green mile to keep a technological tale. (Alex Award Winner) (ebook) date with the electric chair. (ebook) The Seven Kingdoms Trilogy Kristin Cashore Harry Potter and the... J.K. Rowling This “imagined world is brilliantly detailed and ​ Read any or all of the seven adventures of Harry Potter brimming with vibrant and dynamic characters.” Titles & his friends. (e-books ) include Graceling, Fire and Bitterblue. (ebooks) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Thrawn Timothy Zahn A Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire series) ​ A Star Wars epic! George R.R. Martin ​ ​ Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, and all the What makes the students at Hailsham School so very forces of good and evil prepare for trouble in the land special? Kathy, a former student, tries to solve the of Winterfell where summers can last for decades and mystery. (ebook) winters a lifetime. (ebook ) (Mature) The Princess Bride William Goldman Seraphina Rachel Hartman ​ What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world When the death of a royal prince threatens the fragile marries the handsomest prince of all time peace between humans and dragons in Goredd, court and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of musician Seraphina is drawn into the murder investi- her dreams? (ebook) gation. For more great Sci-Fi reading, try Sphere, The Martian Andy Weir ​ ​ Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park, Astronaut Mark Watney is stranded on Mars. Can he ​ ​ ​ all by Michael Crichton. (ebooks) survive until help arrives from earth? (ebook)

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“A” is for Alibi Sue Grafton Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children ​ ​ Out on parole after being convicted for murdering her Ransom Riggs husband, Niki Fife hires private investigator, Kinsey 16-year-old Jacob discovers an abandoned orphanage, Millhone, to follow a trail leading to the real killer. First and, after some investigating, he learns the children who in the series. (ebook) lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive. Also try the sequels, Hollow Something Wicked This Way Comes ​ City & Library of Souls. (ebooks) Ray Bradbury ​ ​ ​

A masterpiece of modern Gothic literature and a Peeps Scott Westerfeld memorable story of two boys and the evil that grips their Cal fights vampires in NYC! small midwestern town with the arrival of a “dark Also by Westerfeld: Uglies, Pretties, carnival” one autumn midnight. (ebook) ​ ​ ​ ​ Extras. ​ People of Darkness Tony Hillerman ​ Set in the Southwest, this mystery features Navajo police And Then There Were None Agatha Christie detective Jim Chee and gives rich background One of the earliest (1939) and best of this prolific information about the culture of these Native Ameri- writer’s mysteries. (ebook ) cans. (ebook) We Were Liars E. Lockhart Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth They are a group of four friends—the Liars—whose The Jackal is a man whose mission is so secretive not friendship turns destructive. An accident. A secret. Lies even his employers know his name. As the minutes upon lies. True love. The truth. (ebook count down to his act of terrorism, can any power on earth stop the Jackal? (ebook) Code Name: Verity Elizabeth Wein ​ The Cat Who Sang for the Birds In this multifaceted tale of intrigue and loyalties, two Lilian Jackson Braun young women find their friendship tested while fighting Two cats help their owner solve the murder of an elderly to save themselves and their secrets when caught behind neighbor and deal with other mysterious happenings in enemy lines in occupied France during World War II. Moose County. (ebook) (ebook)

Lexicon Max Barry The Butterfly Clues Kate Ellison ​ A brilliant thriller that explores language, power, Lo Marin is a girl whose obsessive- compulsive identity, and our capacity to love-- whatever the cost. collecting leads her down a dangerous path of secrets, (ebook) mystery and murder — where every clue she

The Kiki Strike series Kirsten Miller uncovers could be her last. ​ ​ Follow the adventures of Ananka Fischbein and her friends as they solve mysteries in Inside the Shadow ​ City (Book 1), The Empress Tomb (Book 2) and ​ ​ ​ ​ The Darkness Dwellers (book 3). (ebook) ​

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How about a little Romance? The Selection Series Kiera Cass When Dimple Met Rishi Sandhya Menon ​ ​ Follow America Singer as she competes When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford for the heart of Prince Maxon in The University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her ​ Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir and The parents' obsession with "marriage prospects," but Rishi ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Crown. (ebooks) hopes to woo her into an arranged marriage with him. ​ Eleanor and Park Rainbow Rowell (ebook) Unlikely love blossoms on the bus when two If I Stay Gayle Forman unique, exceptional souls find strength in A heartachingly beautiful book about the each other’s differences. power of love, the true meaning of family, (Printz Honor Book) (ebook ) and the choices we all make. Read the sequel, Circle of Friends Maeve Binchy Where She Went. (ebooks) ​ Best friends from a small town share all the A Walk to Remember Nicholas Sparks secrets of their hometown and head off to Landon gets roped into acting the lead in the college in the sophisticated world of Dublin. Christmas play opposite the most renowned (ebook) goody two-shoes in town, Jamie Sullivan. Why We Broke Up Against his best intentions, Landon finds himself Daniel Handler & Maira Kalman falling for Jamie and learning some life Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, lessons. (ebook) so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a Brooklyn Colm Toibin box. Inside the box is why they broke up. In the early 1950s, Eilis, an Irish immigrant, (Printz Honor Book) (ebook) finds work in a department store on Fulton Time and Again Jack Finney Street, and when she least expects it, finds Romance, science fiction and mystery blend love with Tony. Will bad news from Ireland with a detailed history of “Old New York” in jeopardize their relationship? (ebook) this spellbinding story of a young man enlisted Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte in a secret government experiment. If you The love between Heathcliff & Cathy that enjoy this, read the sequel titled From Time even death cannot destroy! (ebook) ​ to Time. (ebook) An Abundance of Katherines John Green ​ Everything, Everything Nicola Yoon When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s Maddy is certainly going to fall in love with type happens to be girls named Katherine. Colin is on a Olly, but how will she keep her secret? (ebook) mission to prove “The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability,” which will predict the future of all his If You Come Softly Jacqueline Woodson relationships. Also from John Green, Looking for ​ The tragic romance of Miah and Ellie. Alaska, Paper Towns and The Fault in Our Stars. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (ebook) (ebooks) Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Second Chance Summer Morgan Matson The heroine, a plain and penniless governess, When Taylor and her family return to their falls in love with the brooding, melancholy summerhouse, Taylor runs into her first crush, Henry. master of Thornfield. Also, try The Flight of Gemma Will their relationship ​ Hardy by Margot Livesey, a modern-day version of this rekindle? (ebook) ​ classic story. (e-books) The Sun Is also a Star Nicola Yoon Will the universe bring Natasha and Daniel Together? (ebook )

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The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments ​ ​ Margaret Atwood Ship Breaker Paolo Bacigalupi In the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United In this Printz Award-winning dystopian novel, States, women are strictly controlled, unable to have Nailer and his friend Pima find a young girl among jobs or money and assigned to various classes the wreckage they are scavenging. She promises including the reproductive Handmaids, who turn them a world of wealth if they help her...but, can their offspring over to the "morally fit" Wives. they trust her? (ebook) (ebooks) Pirate Cinema Cory Doctorow Brave New World Aldous Huxley Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and A classic set in a future when science controls the obsessed with one thing: making movies life of mankind. (ebook ) on his computer by reassembling footage from The Hunger Games series Suzanne Collins ​ popular films he downloads from the Internet. In the Follow Katniss Everdeen as she tries to dystopian near-future Britain where Trent is survive the games in a bleak world of growing up, this is more illegal than ever; the the not-so-distant future! (ebooks ) punishment for being caught three times is that your Anthem Ayn Rand entire household’s access to the internet is cut off Examines a frightening future in which for a year, with no appeal. Trent's too clever individuals have no name, no independence for that too happen. Except it does, and it nearly and no values. (ebook) destroys his family. (ebook) The Divergent Trilogy Veronica Roth The Legend Trilogy Marie Lu In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society The adventures of June and Day as they attempt to is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the survive in the “Republic,” a nation perpetually at cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the war with its neighbors. (Legend, Prodigy and honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless ​ ​ ​ ​ Champion). (ebooks) (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the ​ The Gone series Michael Grant intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all In the blink of an eye, all of the adults disappear! 16-year-olds must select the faction to which No teachers, no police, no doctors, no parents. Just they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, as suddenly, there are no phones, no Internet, no the decision is between staying with her family and television. No way to get help. And no way to being who she really is--she can't have both. So she figure out what's happened! Books 1-6 are available makes a choice that surprises everyone, including as ebooks. herself. Follow-up with the next two books in the Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury series, Insurgent and Allegiant . (ebooks) ​ ​ ​ ​ In this frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books! Dystopia: an imaginary place which is

depressingly wretched and whose people lead a

fearful existence.

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The Real Story​: Non-Fiction

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Invention of Modern Photojournalism Hunt in History Robert Edsel & Brett Witter Marc Aronson & Marina Budhos This fascinating account follows six Monuments Men Capa and Taro were young refugees who documented and their impossible mission to save the world's great art the savagery of the 1930s Spanish Civil War through from the Nazis. (ebook) their photography. They became pioneers in the An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks evolution of photojournalism. (ebook) The author relates stories of seven individuals suffering (YALSA Excellence in Non-Fiction Finalist) neurological disorders that have caused not only Tuesdays with Morrie: an Old Man, a Young Man and suffering, but also unexpected growth and creativity. Life’s Greatest Lesson Mitch Albom ​ Fascinating and uplifting! (ebook) The acclaimed sports columnist tells the story of his Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law that reunion with his former college professor, Changed the Future of Girls in America Morrie Schwartz, and how Morrie becomes his true Karen Blumenthal mentor. Inspiring and touching! (ebook) A fascinating look at the legislation that gave girls and The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer women equal access to physical-education classes, Siddhartha Mukherjee gymnasiums, universities and graduate schools. An absorbing account of the history of cancer, it’s Concussion Jeanne Marie Laskas treatment and impact on society. (ebook) ​ The story of Dr. Bennet Omalu’s quest to convince the NFL to acknowledge the devastation of players’ head The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of trauma from concussions. (ebook) Trust Diana B. Henriques Seabiscuit: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand The inside story of Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion ​ The spellbinding story of a champion horse. Fascinating Ponzi scheme. (ebook) and memorable! (ebook) A Whole New Mind Daniel Pink ​ Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Do you rely on your right or left brain? Find out why Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of WW II (e-book) “right-brainers will rule the future.” (ebook) ​ ​ Mitchell Zuckoff ​ The Boys Who Challenged Hitler Phillip Hoose Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look without ​ The astounding story of teenage war heroes who sparked Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds and Are Pretty Sure the Danish resistance against Hitler. (e-book) We Are Way above Average Joseph T. Hallinan ​ ​ Courage Has No Color : The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s First Black Paratroopers Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of Tanya Lee Stone How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate ​ A moving, thoughtful history of the United States Rick Bowers ​ military's first black paratrooper unit during The radio superhero fights bigotry! (e-book) World War II . (ebook) My Brief History Stephen Hawking ​ The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked and The life of the world-renowned physicist in his own Found Martin W. Sandler words. (ebook) Artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Wydah off The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Cape Cod provide an exciting look at the golden age of against Hitler’s U-Boats William Geroux piracy in the American colonies. (ebook) The Merchant Marines’ life and death struggles during (YALSA Excellence in Non-Fiction Finalist) World War II. (ebook)

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More Great Non-Fiction

The Reason I Jump Naoki Higashida Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo ​ ​ The life of a 13-year-old boy with autism in The dramatic and heartbreaking story of families striving his own words. Enlightening! toward a better life in the slums of Mumbai, India. (ebook) (-book) Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness The World Is Flat Thomas L. Friedman at the Fair that Changed America Erik Larson The groundbreaking book describing our “brave new ​ ​ A serial killer stalks the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. world” ..we really are “all connected!” (ebook) (-book) Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell Mary Roach Why is it that fashion trends change the way we dress? A compelling and often hilarious forensic exploration of Why do various TV shows, movies and books become the strange lives of human bodies postmortem. (ebook) so popular? Gladwell describes the personality types that Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the create trends and those that influence others by Emmett Till Case Chris Crowe “spreading the word.” (ebook) The brutal 1954 murder of a black 14- year-old and the Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur co urt’s failure to convict the murderers proved powerful Michael Dyson catalysts for the Civil Rights Movement. (-book) The author explores the enduring influence of rapper, Fast Food Nation and Chew on This Eric Schlosser ​ ​ activist, poet, actor Tupac Shakur. (ebook) Are we what we eat? The author looks at what In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle Madeleine Blais “McDonaldization” has done to our health, economy, All the cheers, tears and glory of the championship and culture. (ebook) season of a girls’ high school basketball team! (ebook) In Cold Blood Truman Capote A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson The first “non-fiction novel” reconstructs the 1959 ​ ​ “…how we went from there being nothing at all to there murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation being something, and then how a little of that something that led to the capture, trial and execution of the killers. turned into us, and also what happened in between (ebook ) and since.” (ebook) Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife Mary Roach Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Ectoplasm? Afterlife? Ghosts? Reincarnation? The Void Mary Roach author goes searching for scientific evidence for these & Explore the strange universe of life without gravity. other pheno mena. (e-book) (ebook) Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Bomb: The Race to Build...and Steal...the World’s Mathematical Marvel Jason Padgett Most Dangerous Weapon Steve Sheinkin Fascinating! (ebook) In this suspenseful combination of science and history, Lone Survivor Marcus Luttrell Sheinkin masterfully exposes the international race to The eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the develop an atomic weapon and bring an end to World lost heroes of Seal Team 10. (ebook) War II. (ebook) The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What Adventure to Antarctica Laurie Gwen Shapiro We Eat Gail Jarrow A true adventure more amazing than fiction! (ebook) Chronicling the pellagra epidemic of the early 20th century. (ebook)

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...and still more Non-Fiction The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Oliver Sacks Bryan Stevenson In his most extraordinary book, "one of the The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a ​ Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, ​ bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in disorders. (ebook) American justice. (ebook) The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two to Decode Animal Behavior Temple Grandin ​ ​ Cultures Anne Fadiman Animal scientist Temple Grandin argues that people with The true story of the clash between a small county autism think the way animals think and draws from her hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos experiences with autism to discuss how animals think, over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with act and feel. (ebook) severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both The Double Helix James Watson wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of In his 1968 memoir, young scientist James Watson understanding between them led to tragedy. (ebook) chronicled the drama of the race to identify the structure Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal of DNA, a discovery that would usher in the era of Mary Roach “America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) modern molecular biology. (ebook) ​ ​ takes us ”down the hatch” on an unforgettable tour. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot ​ (ebook) Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” teasing of classmates. In this candid memoir, Grealy tells human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, her story with honesty and humor. (ebook) though she has been dead for more than sixty years. The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli ​ (ebook) Machiavelli explores the true nature of power. (ebook) How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the The Art of War Sun Tzu Modern World Steven Johnson Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's Johnson investigates the secret history behind the classic The Art of War is the first known study of the everyday objects of contemporary life. (ebook) planning and conduct of military operations. (-book) Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor E. Lab Girl Hope Jahren Frankl A memoir by the acclaimed scientist who has built 3 labs A young adult edition of the best-selling classic about to study trees, flowers, seeds and soil. (ebook) the Holocaust and finding meaning in suffering. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals (ebook ) Are? Frans de Waal What separates the human mind from that of an animal? The author opens our minds to the idea that animal minds are far more intricate and complex than we have assumed. (ebook)

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Fiction: The New Classics & Contemporary Favorites Turtles All the Way Down John Green Life of Pi Yann Martel Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the Pi Patel, a young man from India, tells how he was mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but shipwrecked and stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger there’s a $100,000 reward and Pickett’s son, Davis, is a for 227 days. This outlandish story is only the core of a schoolmate. Why not give it a try? (ebook ) deceptively complex three-part novel about memory as a The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski narrative and about how we choose truths. (ebook) ​ In this take-off on the Hamlet story, Edgar Sawtelle is It’s Kind of a Funny Story Ned Vizzini mute, but his world, populated by the dogs his family Determined to succeed at life — getting into the right high breeds, is anything but silent. (ebook ) school to get into the right college to get the right job — Craig Gilner studies night and day to ace the entrance exam The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold to a special school, and does. That’s when This “savagely beautiful” novel for mature readers things start to get crazy. (ebook) explores the aftermath of a 14-year-old’s murder from Snow in August Pete Hamill her perspective in heaven. (ebook) In 1947, an 11-year-old Irish-American boy forges an Crank Ellen Hopkins extraordinary bond with a rabbi as they unite against a In free verse, the author chronicles the struggles of common enemy. addict Kristina in this Go Ask Alice for the 21st century. ​ ​ The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini (ebook) A gripping story of friendship, betrayal and personal Song of Solomon Toni Morrison redemption set in Afghanistan before the Russian inva- When a young black man decides to leave his home to sion. Also by Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns, ​ ​ find his freedom, his family history is gradually And the Mountains Echoed (ebooks) ​ revealed. (ebook) Confessions of a High School Disaster Emma ​ ​ The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri Chastain Chloe Snow chronicles her life as ​ ​ The story of Gogol Ganguli illuminates the struggles of she navigates the highs and lows of family, friendship, an immigrant Indian family trying to reconcile school, and love in a diary that sparkles with traditional values with contemporary life. (ebook) humor and warmth. ​ Code Name: Verity Elizabeth Wein My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult In this multifaceted tale of intrigue and loyalties, two young Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. She was women find their friendship tested while fighting to save conceived as a bone marrow match for her sister Kate — themselves and their secrets when caught a life and a role that she has never challenged...until behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War now. (ebook ) II. (Printz Honor Book 2013) (ebook) Love Jodi Picoult? Try A Spark of Light and Small ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Long Way Down Jason Reynolds Great Things (ebooks) This fiercely stunning novel takes place in sixty potent ​ seconds—the time it takes Will to decide whether or not Price of Duty Todd Strasser he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. (Printz Having returned to a hero’s welcome, Jake Liddell asks Honor Book) (ebook) himself if it was worth it. And if he’s really a hero. And Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens why our country is fighting a “forever war.” And Kya has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls whether the kids like himself who sign up have any idea home.When two young men from town become intrigued what they’re getting into. (ebook) by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life--until the unthinkable happens. (ebook)

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MORE New Classics & Favorites Radiance of Tomorrow Ishmael Beah We Are Okay Nina LaCour This novel, by the author of A Long Way Gone, tells the A grieving Marin plans to spend winter break in her empty ​ ​ dorm room in upstate N.Y. When her best friend Mabel story of two friends who return to their home village ​ ​ after it has been devastated by civil war. (ebooks) arrives, Marin must confront her sadness. The Color Purple Alice Walker (Printz Award Winner) (ebook) For mature readers, the candid story of Celie, her abuse The Stars Beneath Our Feet David Barclay Moore and eventual triumph. (ebook) Lolly’s always loved Legos, and he prides himself on The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Time Indian following the kit instructions exactly. Now, faced with a Sherman Alexie pile of building blocks and no instructions, Lolly must Read about what happens when Arnold Spirit, a guy find his own way forward. (Steptoe Award Winner) with a decent jumpshot living on the Spokane Indian (ebook) The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B Teresa Toten reservation, switches to a rich white school and becomes ​ as much an outcast in his own community as he is a Adam is trying to understand his OCD, while falling in curiosity in his new one. (ebook ) love with Robyn. Will she even notice him? (e-book) The Book Thief Markus Zusak All the Bright Places Jennifer Niven 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. The love story and struggles of Theodore Finch and Death has never been busier. (ebook ) Violet Markey. (ebook & ) Looking for Alaska John Green The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan “Pudge” Halter heads off to Culver Creek Boarding Fleeing from China to America in the 1940s, four School, and his room down the hall from Alaska women form the Joy Luck Club and meet weekly to play Young...the gorgeous, clever and utterly fascinating Mah Jongg, tell stories and keep alive their culture and Alaska Young. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches their memories. (ebook) Also by Amy Tan: The Hundred Secret Senses and The him into the “Great Perhaps” & steals his heart. Then ​ ​ ​ Kitchen God’s Wife. nothing is ever the same! ​ Also by John Green: Will Grayson, Will Grayson Dead line Chris Crutcher ​ (ebooks) Ben Wolf elects to forego treatment for a fatal disease My Name is Asher Lev Chaim Potok and keep his illness secret from his family and friends in Traces the conflict that a sensitive Jewish boy order to have a “normal” senior year. (ebook) Love Chris Crutcher? Try Ironman, Staying Fat for experiences with his strict Orthodox beliefs. (e-books) ​ ​ ​ Also by Chaim Potok: The Chosen and The Promise. Sarah Byrnes & Stotan. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ And We Stay Jenny Hubbard All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Reeling from her boyfriend’s dramatic suicide, Emily A blind Parisian girl and an orphaned German boy hides her anguish at a new boarding school, where she conscripted by the Nazis for his radio skills meet in the finds healing through poetry. (Printz Honor Book) chaos of the American bombing of a French coastal (ebook) resort. Engrossing! (ebook) The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline A novel about the mental illness of a brilliant Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the 19-year-old girl and her course of self- destruction. Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose (ebook) fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a kind and loving family, or would they face a childhood and adolescence of hard labor and servitude?

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...and still MORE New Classics & Favorites

The Fault in Our Stars John Green 16-year -old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a teens-with-cancer support group and, as they fall in love, they both wonder how they will be remembered. Another terrific story from John Green! (ebook) The Persian Pickle Club Sandra Dallas Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers This Depression-era story finds Queenie Bean and her In this haunting Vietnam War story, the author reaches quilting circle uncovering some long hidden town into the hearts and minds of young soldiers. (ebook) secrets. (ebook) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd Mark Haddon It’s the 1960s in the South and 14-year- old Lily Owens This hilarious novel’s hero,15-year-old Christopher is haunted by the accidental death of her mother ten Boone, is an autistic math genius who has just years earlier. Lily runs away from her violent father to discovered the dead body of his neighbor’s poodle, follow a trail that just might lead to her mother’s Wellington. Wellington was killed with a garden rake, long-lost family. (ebook) and Christopher decides that, like his idol Sherlock Monster Walter Dean Myers Holmes, he’s going to find the killer. (ebook) Was Steve really the lookout who gave the “all clear” to Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston ​ the murderer, or was he in the wrong place at the wrong True story of one spirited Japanese-American family’s time? (ebook) attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention . . . Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and of a native-born American child who discovered Jonathan Safran Foer what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the Meet Oskar Schell, a nine-year-old on an urgent search USA. (ebook) through New York City. His mission is to find the lock Between Shades of Gray Ruta Sepetys that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who In 1941, teenage Lina is forced by Stalin’s soldiers to died on 9/11. (ebook) make a long and harrowing journey to a Siberian prison The Hate U Give Angie Thomas camp. She is an artist at heart and documents the events After witnessing the murder of her unarmed friend, Starr of her journey through her drawings. (ebook) Carter must decide what risks she is willing to take to The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver ​ pursue justice. (ebook & The moving story of the Price sisters, who experience (William C. Morris Award Winner & Printz Honor) the revolution in the Belgian Congo in the 1960s. I’ll Give You the Sun Jandy Nelson (ebook) Once inseparable, twins Noah and Jude are torn apart by The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Aimee Bender a family tragedy that transforms their intense love for ​ ​ ​ Rose Edelstein can taste the emotions of whoever each other into intense anger. Timelines twist and turn prepares food for her...yes, literally TASTE how they around each other in beautifully orchestrated stories of were feeling when they prepared the food! (ebook) love and longing. (Printz Award Winner) (ebook) I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Catch 22 Joseph Heller Erika L. Sanchez A wildly surreal novel about a group of American Julia dreams of going away to college. When her older servicemen in the Mediterranean area during WWII. sister dies suddenly, she embarks on a mission to (ebook) discover her sister’s secret...and finds herself! (ebook)

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Sports Spot

A selection of sports fiction and non-fiction

Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, a Dream G oing for the Record Julie Swanson H.G. Bissinger Called “obsessed with soccer” by her mom, Leah isn’t Chronicles the dramatic 1988 season of the Permian interested in parties, shopping, or hanging out with Panthers-the “winningest” high school football team in friends. Her only focus is to play on the Olympic soccer Texas history. (NF) (ebook) team. (F) Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir Doris Kearns Goodwin Whale Talk Chris Crutcher A young girl growing up in suburbia in the ‘50s sees There’s bad news and good news about the Cutter High three NY baseball teams compete for the World Series School swim team. The bad news is that they don’t have every year. (NF) (ebook) a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle Madeleine Blais anyway! (F) (ebook) ​ ​ Close-up look at the championship season of a girls’ Ball Don’t Lie Matt de la Pena high school basketball team. (NF) (ebook) “I think God put me here to play ball,” says 17-year-old Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Sticky. Shuffled between foster homes since childhood, Series Eliot Asinof Sticky struggles to secure a college basketball The story of the famous scandal that shook baseball! scholarship and deepen his relationship with his (NF) (ebook) girlfriend. (F) (ebook) Seabiscuit: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand Heat Mike Lupica ​ ​ The electrifying story of the little horse who shouldn’t Michael Arroyo lives in the shadow of Yankee and couldn’t…and did! (NF) (ebook) Stadium. He has a dream: to pitch in the Little League Offsides Erick Esckilsen World Series. The championship is to be played in— ​ Fast-paced game scenes highlight this novel about high you guessed it—Yankee Stadium! (F) (ebook) school soccer player Tom Gray. (F) (ebook) Roughnecks Thomas Cochran The Comeback Season Jennifer E. Smith Rival high-school football teams square off for the state ​ Baseball and romance! (F) (ebook) championship. (F) Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the that Changed a Town Warren St. John American Heartland Mark Kreidler The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team Each a three-time state champion, Jay Borschel and Dan and the transformation of a small American town. (NF) LeClere have a chance in their senior year to join the (ebook) sport's most elite group: the "four- timers," wrestlers Courage to Soar Simone Biles who win four consecutive state titles. (NF) (ebook) Simone takes you through the events, challenges, and Dust Bowl Girls Lydia Reeder trials that carried her from an early childhood in foster The inspiring story of the team that barnstormed its way care to a coveted spot on the 2016 Olympic team. to basketball glory. (NF) (ebook) (NF) (ebook)

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Great Books for Science and Math Fans

The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger The six-man crew on the Andrea Gail had no idea A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking ​ what they were in for when their fishing boat set out From the time of the ancient Greeks through the in October 1991. They encountered the perfect present time, this historical overview of cosmology storm! (ebook) is told by one of the most famous and fascinating Astrophysics for People in a Hurry scientists of our era. (-book) Neil DeGrasse Tyson The universe brought down to earth! Funny and Letters to a Young Scientist Edward O. Wilson ​ fascinating! (ebook) The Pulitzer Prize winner offers inspirational advice to all who question and search for answers. The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea (ebook) Callum Roberts On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural For anyone who loves the ocean! Selection Charles Darwin Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions Classic Darwin. (ebook) Edwin Abbott What Einstein Told His Barber (e-book) OR What ​ ​ This fictionalized “mathematical romance” explores Einstein Told His Cook Robert Wolke ​ the world of dimensions. (ebook) Answers to everyday science questions. Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly The Rise of the Rocket Girls Nathalia Holt “The American Dream and the Untold Story of the About the women mathematicians who transformed Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win rocket design and propelled us to Mars! (ebook) the Space Race.” (ebook) Your Inner Fish Neil Shubin The Elegant Universe Brian Greene A scientific adventure story of evolutionary Superstrings, hidden dimensions and the quest for biology. the ultimate theory. (ebook) The Beak of the Finch Jonathan Weiner One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers Studying nature on the Galapagos Islands. Andrew Hodges ​ Moneyball: the Art of Winning an Unfair Game The title says it all! Michael Lewis ​ Examines the mathematical strategies by which One Richard Bach ​ manager Billy Beane handled the financially Bach & his wife fall under the spell of quantum strapped Oakland Athletics' 2002 draft and led the physics. baseball team to success despite its lack of high profile players. (ebook)

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It’s History... A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness and a Trove of Letters Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression Ted Gup Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that What the author discovers about his father’s Changed America Forever Bill O’Reilly ​ ​ generosity makes for a moving read! (ebook) A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Edward Gibbon (ebook) Lincoln. (ebook) ​ The classic work on the classic empire. Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny and the American Internment Experience Fight for Civil Rights Steve Sheinkin Edited by Lawson Fusao Inada ​ The story of a little-known episode in the fight for First-hand accounts of the Japanese internment Civil Rights by African American sailors during experience. World War II. (YALSA Excellence in Non-Fiction) The Family Romanov Candace Fleming (ebook) Murder, rebellion and the fall of the last Russian The Witches: Salem, 1692 Stacy Schiff Tsar. (ebook) A riveting account of a horrifying episode in Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile American history! (ebook) Crisis Robert F. Kennedy Our Mothers’ War Emily Yellin The former Attorney General’s insights and American women’s contribution on the front and at first-hand account of those thirteen terrifying days. home during WW II. (ebook) (ebook) Almost a Revolution Shen Tong Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown ​ ​ The story of a Chinese student’s journey from The searing and heartbreaking Indian history of the boyhood to leadership in Tiananmen Square. American West. (ebook) Flags of Our Fathers James D. Bradley The Boys in the Boat : Nine Americans and Their ​ The true story behind the immortal photograph Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics taken at Iwo Jima. (ebook) Daniel James Brown (ebook) When Everything Changed: the Amazing Journey Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham of American Women from 1960 to the Present Lincoln Doris Kearns Goodwin ​ Gail Collins Pulitzer Prize winning author’s brilliant discussion The title says it all! (ebook) of Lincoln’s political genius. (ebook) Hiroshima John Hersey Black Hawk Down Mark Bowden First-hand accounts of people who survived the The harrowing story of the showdown in dropping of the atomic bomb. (ebook) Mogadishu, Somalia. (ebook) Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate Rick Bowers The radio superhero fights racism! (ebook)

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World

Candide Francois Voltaire Literature Social satire about a young man who believes, despite much Demian evidence to the contrary, that “all is Hermann Hesse for the best in the best of all possible worlds.” Docile Emil Sinclair is led by precocious classmate Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Max Demian into a dangerous world of petty crime this is Voltaire’s most celebrated work. (ebook) and revolt against convention. (ebook) Novel Without a Name Duong Thu Huong The Flanders Panel Arturo Perez-Reverte Vietnamese novelist Huong, imprisoned for her When an art restorer sets out to solve the riddle of a political beliefs, presents the story of a disillusioned 15th-century masterpiece, she finds that one murder soldier in a book that was banned in her native begets another. country. (ebook) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Caramelo Sandra Cisneros ​ Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Through Lala’s eyes, the Reyes family saga twists A harrowing novel about life in a Stalinist labor and turns over three generations of truths, camp in Siberia. (ebook) half-truths and outright lies. The story of this 20th-century Mexican family is timeless. (ebook) Beasts of No Nation Uzodinma Iweala Fictional account of the life of a child soldier in an The Name of the Rose unnamed West African country in civil war. Umberto Eco The year is 1327. Franciscan monks ​ (ebook) in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville’s investigation is Waiting Ha Jin ​ suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. This quiet, absorbing novel captures the (ebook) poignant dilemma of an ordinary man trying to do his duty as defined by his traditional Chinese If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler Italo Calvino parents and later by the Communist Party. (ebook) Italo Calvino intersperses ten different stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition with Mr. Ives’ Christmas Oscar Hijuelos explorations of how and why we read, make This is a beautifully written, tender and passionate meanings and get our bearings in life. story of a man trying to put his life in perspective.

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Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev

A masterpiece about the generation gap. Literature

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Goethe Classic story of one young man’s unrequited love. In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez Napoleon carried this book with him during his A tale of courage and sisterhood inspired by the campaign in Egypt. lives of the four Mirabal sisters, who become revolutionaries against the dictatorship in their All Quiet on the Western Front native Dominican Republic. (ebook) Erich Maria Remarque ​ The moving story of four young German boys & The Stranger Albert Camus their army life during World War I. (ebook) In this novel for mature readers, a once successful Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke lawyer tells of his descent into despair. (ebook) Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a Chanda’s Secrets Allan Stratton young would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as HIV/AIDS in southern Africa finds a human face in a sensitive observer in a harsh world. A must read this story of one teenager, Chanda Kabele, who sees for aspiring writers. (ebook) the disease threaten her family and community. The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, (ebook) Sugar Street Naguib Mahfouz ​ The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini The Nobel Prize winner’s masterwork is the ​ A gripping story of friendship, betrayal and engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during personal redemption set in Afghanistan before the Britain’s occupation of Egypt in the early decades Russian invasion. Also by Hosseini: A Thousand of the 20th century. ​ Splendid Suns, And the Mountains Echoed ​ ​ Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (ebooks) Azar Nafisi The Gulag Archipelago This luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ​ the Iran-Iraq War viewed from Tehran and gives us Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well a rare, insider’s glimpse of women’s lives in as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners revolutionary Iran. (ebook) and Soviet archives, Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression. The Bride Price Buchi Emecheta ​ Siddhartha Hermann Hesse In a poignant love story set in Nigeria, Akunna and ​ The story of a young man’s journey of Chike defy tribal traditions to be together. (ebook) self-discovery. (ebook)

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The Classics

1984 George Orwell All the King’s Men Robert Penn Warren ​ This prophetic novel, published in 1945, tells of a A novel about the rise and fall of a Southern future world where complete mind control is political despot. (ebook) practiced. Also by Orwell: Animal Farm (ebooks) ​ ​ Dracula Bram Stoker Brave New World Aldous Huxley ​ The original vampire saga! (ebook) A science fiction classic set in a future when science controls the life of mankind. (ebook ) Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott ​ As knights battle to the death, the fate of England Long Day’s Journey Into Night Eugene O’Neill ​ ​ hangs in the balance and the Saxon knight, A largely autobiographical play about the tormented Ivanhoe, begins a tumultuous romance with the Tyrone family. sublime Rowena. (ebook)

Frankenstein Mary Shelley Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger The classic novel about a scientific experiment to ​ For mature readers, the saga of Holden Caulfield create a man-made human. (ebook) and his three days in New York City.

Hamlet William Shakespeare The classic about the melancholy prince of Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy Denmark and his obsession with avenging his Jude Fawley, a country craftsman, is obsessed with father’s murder. (ebook) becoming a university student. Two women feature in this quest: Arabella Donn, who tricks him into Ethan Frome Edith Wharton marriage, and Sue Bridehead, his emancipated Set against the bleak winter landscape of New cousin. Jude finds himself up against a rigid social England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poverty- order that will not permit his advancement. Also by ​ ​ Thomas Hardy: Far From the Madding Crowd, stricken Massachusetts farmer caught in a loveless ​ ​ The Return of the Native and Tess of the marriage. An emerging love for his young cousin ​ ​ D’Urbervilles. (ebooks) leads to one day of explosive emotions with tragic ​ Consequences. (ebook) The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck ​ Rebecca Daphne du Maurier ​ This 1939 classic tells of the odyssey of the Joad This novel of mystery and passion is a dark family from windswept Oklahoma to California psychological tale of secrets and betrayal, dead during the Great Depression. (ebook) loves and an estate called Manderley, that is as much a presence as the humans who inhabit it. (ebook)

23 More Classics --- Books every literate person should read!

Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen The tragic story of Dick Diver whose genius is Mrs. Bennett’s fondest wish is to marry off her undeveloped because of his marriage to wealthy daughters, but Elizabeth won’t cooperate. Nicole. (ebook) (ebook & Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Sense & Sensibility Jane Austen The story of a black man whose life is on a path This novel tells the story about two very different toward the complete loss of identity. (ebook) sisters. (ebook) Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte ​ ​ A journey up river in the Belgian Congo is also a Jane finds terror and romance when she becomes a journey into the darkest part of a man’s soul. governess for Mr. Rochester’s children. (ebook) (ebook) A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines ​ A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country ​ “It was the best of times and it was the worst of to teach, visits a black youth on death row for a times...” (e-book & crime he didn’t commit. Together they come to The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur C. Doyle understand the heroism of resisting. (ebook) ​ A Sherlock Holmes mystery about strange deaths Death Be Not Proud John Gunther on the moors close to the Baskerville estate. The moving tribute to the author’s son, who died at (ebook) age 17 of a brain tumor. (ebook) Little Women Louisa May Alcott The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk ​ The joys, sorrows, tragedies and triumphs of the The story of the men aboard the minesweeper, four March sisters, as they grow to womanhood in Caine, and of her psychotic captain named Queeg. New England during the Civil War years. (e-book) (e-book) The Natural Bernard Malamud A Death in the Family James Agee An allegory about the strange career of an A loving family must come to terms with the exceptional baseball pitcher who has been called sudden death of the father “a natural.” (ebook) The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien ​ A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Bilbo Baggins, embarks upon a dangerous journey Hemingway’s story about the tenuous nature of love with thirteen dwarfs and the wizard Gandalf, in a time of war. (e-book) eventually coming into possession of a very magical Also by Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises, For ring. (ebook & ​ ​ ​ Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and The Follow up with Tolkien’s Lord of the Ring series: ​ ​ ​ ​ Sea (ebooks) The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and ​ ​ ​ The Jungle Upton Sinclair The Return of the King. (ebooks) ​ This frequently brutal novel describes life in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the century. (ebook)

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Historical Fiction Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier ​ Imagines the life of a young servant girl working in Sarah’s Key Tatiana de Rosnay the home of the Dutch painter, Vermeer. A must In the summer of 1942, the French police arrested for art lovers! (ebook) thousands of Jewish families and held them outside In the Time of the Butterflies Julia of Paris before shipping them off to Auschwitz. On Alvarez the 60th anniversary of the roundups, an American The story of the Mirabal sisters, who fought for journalist discovers a personal connection—her freedom against the dictator, Trujillo, in the apartment was formerly occupied by one such Dominican republic. (ebook) family. She resolves to find out what happened to The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Books Sarah, the ten-year-old daughter, who was the only 1 and 2 M.T. Anderson family member to survive. (ebook) ​ Re-imagines Revolutionary Boston and the life of The Great Train Robbery Michael Crichton slaves fighting against the British. (ebooks) The exciting crime of the 19th century in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas John Boyne Victorian London. (ebook) Views the Holocaust through the eyes of a young Revolver Marcus Sedgwick German boy whose father is commandant of This riveting historical mystery, set in the Arctic Auschwitz. (ebook & Circle in 1899 and 1910, will have you on the Shanghai Girls Lisa See edge of your seat waiting to discover if Sig can ​ In 1937 Shanghai—the Paris of Asia—21-year-old escape his captor. (Printz Honor Book) (ebook) Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having Master and Commander series Patrick O’Brian ​ ​ the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, Follow Captain Jack Aubrey’s swashbuckling and carefree—until the day their father tells them adventures on the high seas. that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his Ashes of Roses Mary Jane Auch ​ debts, he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who 16-year-old Rose Nolan experiences life as an Irish have traveled from Los Angeles to find Chinese immigrant in NYC and the effects of the 1911 brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on her family. city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a (ebook) lifetime, from the Chinese countryside to the shores Ragtime E. L. Doctorow ​ of America. (for mature readers) (ebook) Combining real persons and fictional characters, Shogun James Clavell Doctorow captures the experience of living in the The exciting story of John Blackthorne, British U.S. between the turn of the century and World sailor, washed ashore in Japan, his adversarial War I. (ebook) relationship with Lord Toranaga and his love for Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley ​ Mariko. (ebook) The Arthurian legend from the point of view of the The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien important women of the time. (ebook) They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, illustrated bibles, each other. And if they made it home alive, they carried unrelenting images of a nightmarish war that history is only beginning to absorb. (ebook)

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Biographies & Memoirs Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah ​ ​ Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a Gripping story of the horrors faced by 12-year classroom. She chronicles her compelling journey to -old Ishmael as he is torn from his family and Cambridge and Harvard. (ebook & ) conscripted into the army during Sierra Leone’s This Star Won’t Go Out Esther Earl civil war. (ebook) The journals, letters and sketches of teen Esther as she fought a valiant battle against cancer. John Green’s The Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer ​ Fault in Our Stars was dedicated to Esther. (ebooks) Krakauer’s riveting account of a disastrous climb up ​ Mount Everest. (ebook) Hole in My Life Jack Gantos

This is the compelling story of the author’s final Into The Wild Jon Krakauer year in high school, his brushes with crime and his Krakauer probes the life and death of Chris subsequent incarceration. McCandless, who gave away all he had and ventured on Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir Frank McCourt a one-man trek across Alaska. (ebook) ​ Cheerfulness keeps breaking into this tale of Frank Dangerous Minds Lou Ann Johnson McCourt’s childhood marked by incredible ​ poverty. (ebook) A fiesty female ex-Marine teaches a class of inner-city high school students about self- respect, courage and Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson ​ success. The inspiring biography of da Vinci. (ebook)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big ​ Business and Won! Emily Arnold McCully The story of Malcolm X’s evolution from Black ​ separatist to unifier offers a compelling lesson The story of the journalist who took on John for modern-day race relations. (ebook) D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil. (ebook)

Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah ​ Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different Mah tells the story of her childhood in 1940s China, in Karen Blumenthal ​ which, like the fairy tale Cinderella, her life was ruled by The author presents an intimate and fully dimensional a cruel stepmother. (ebook) portrait of a complex American icon. (YALSA

Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Excellence in Non-Fiction 2013) (ebook) ​ This book is Coates’ attempt to answer difficult Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything Aly Raisman questions about race in a letter to his adolescent son that ​ discusses Coates’ own life growing up as an African One of the most decorated American gymnasts tells her American man in America. (ebook) inspiring and heartfelt story of overcoming difficult obstacles to become a champion at the Olympics and in I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai ​ life. (ebook) The courageous story of the girl who stood up for Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers education and was shot by the Taliban. (ebook) Deborah Heiligman Drawing on their lifelong correspondence, the author Becoming Michelle Obama recounts the close bond between the Van Gogh brothers, The inspiring life story of America’s first African one a successful businessman, the other a volatile artist. American First Lady. (ebook & ) (ebook &

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Biographies & Memoirs

Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in WW II. Compelling! A merican Sniper Chris Kyle (ebook ) Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL, recounts his life and military experiences, discusses his record for the Pele: A Biography Lew Freedman most career sniper kills in United States military history ​ The story of Brazil’s most famous soccer player! and the bounty placed on his head by Iraqi insurgents, provides an eyewitness account of war in Iraq, shares the Warrior’s Heart Eric Greitens strains of war on his marriage and family, and honors his Eric Greitens shares his life journey from being an fellow soldiers. (ebook) average kid to working to make a difference in the world's trouble spots and joining the Navy SEALS Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge Booton Herndon ​ to protect the weak, and encourages readers to reflect on The unofficial biography of Desmond Doss, who saved the power of choice and acts of courage. (ebook) 75 soldiers in the Battle of Okinawa without ever touching a weapon! Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina Misty Copeland ​ ​ Chronicles Cheryl’s experiences after she made the The story of how she defied the odds to become the only impulsive decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from African American soloist dancing with the prestigious the Mojave Desert all the way into Washington State. American Ballet Theatre. (ebook) Inspiring! (e-book ) Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter Needles: A Memoir of Growing Up with Diabetes James S. Hirsch ​ Andie Dominick Wrongly accused and imprisoned for a triple-murder he ​ A classic account of a young life irreversibly altered by did not commit, boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter fights illness. for his freedom. (ebook)

The Burn Journals Brent Runyon My Life in France Julia Child ​ A searing coming-of-age memoir of the author’s Julia Child chronicles the years she spent in France, recovery from a suicide attempt and his triumph over where she discovered a passion for French cuisine and depression. found her life's calling as a chef.

Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Rocket Boys Homer Hickam ​ Maxine Hong Kingston A NASA engineer, A memoir of the American-born daughter of Chinese recounts his dreams immigrants who lived within the traditions and fears of of launching the Chinese past as well as the realities of the alien rockets into outer modern American culture. (ebook) space, and how he made those dreams come true. (ebook)

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Short Story Collections ...and now, for something a little different, try a collection of short stories.

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Different Seasons Stephen King Leo Tolstoy These riveting stories include “Rita Hayworth and The master Russian storyteller! the Shawshank Redemption,” “Apt Pupil,” and “The Body.” (ebook) The Nick Adams Stories Ernest Hemingway Follow Nick Adams as he grows to adulthood in a 18 Best Stories of Edgar Allan Poe life closely paralleling that of Hemingway. (ebook) edited by Vincent Price & Chandler Brossard ​ ​ ​ Some of the most eerie stories ever written! Dubliners James Joyce (ebook) Joyce takes the reader deeply into the city of his birth, vividly depicting “dirty, dirty Dublin” and its Eight Men Richard Wright ​ populace at the turn of the century. (ebook) These stories reflect Wright’s views about racism in society. Masterpieces in Miniature Agatha Christie ​ 39 short stories by the consummate mystery writer. The Doctor Stories William Carlos Williams Stunning short stories from the poet and Gorilla, My Love Toni Cade Bambara pediatrician. ​ These stories portray the African American experience from uptown NYC to rural North Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri Carolina. These stories explore the gulf between Bengali immigrants and their American-raised children. The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales Also try Interpreter of Maladies. (ebooks) ​ ​ of Horror and the Macabre H.P. Lovecraft Fragile Things Neil Gaiman ​ How can you resist these classic horror tales? By turns horrifying and fanciful, these stories will (ebook) keep the reader riveted. (ebook)

Five Great Short Stories Jack London ​ Includes stories from The Son of the Wolf. (ebook) ​ ​

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Series and Sequels These books keep the characters and adventures going volume after volume!

Kiera Cass: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir, The Crown ​ Veronica Roth: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant ​ Elizabeth George: Edge of Nowhere, Edge of Water, Edge of Shadows, Edge of Light ​ Victoria Aveyard: Red Queen , Glass Sword, King’s Cage ​ Laini Taylor: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Days of Blood and Starlight, ​ Dreams of Gods and Monsters John Flanagan: The Ranger’s Apprentice series: all ten books (books 1, 2, 3 available ​ ​ in ebook format) Anthony Horowitz: Gatekeepers series: Raven’s Gate, Evil Star, Nightrise, Necropolis, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Oblivion ​ Marie Lu: Legend, Prodigy, Champion and The Young Elites series: The Young Elites, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ The Rose Society, The Midnight Star Garth Nix: Keys to the Kingdom series: Mister Monday, Grim Tuesday, Drowned Wednesday, ​ ​ ​ Sir Thursday, Lady Friday, Superior Saturday, Lord Sunday James Patterson: Maximum Ride series: The Angel Experiment, School’s Out Forever, Saving ​ ​ ​ the World and Other Extreme Sports, The Final Warning, Max, Fang, ​ ​ ​ Angel, Nevermore Philip Reeve: Predator Cities series: Mortal Engines, Predator’s Gold, ​ ​ ​ ​ Infernal Devices, A Darkling Plain Darren Shan: The Demonata: Lord Loss, Demon Thief, Slawter, Bec and 6 more ​ ​ ​ ​ Eleanor Updale: Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman, Montmorency on the Rocks, ​ Montmorency and the Assassins, Montmorency’s Revenge, Montmorency Returns Nancy Springer: Enola Holmes Mysteries: The Case of the Missing Marquess, The Case of ​ ​ ​ the Left-Handed Lady, The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye, The Case of the Peculiar ​ ​ ​ ​ Pink Fan, The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets, ​

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Locust Valley High School Mr. Patrick DiClemente, Principal Ms. Barbara Mierlak, Library Department Coordinator Ms. Lisa Czerniecki, Assistant Principal and English Department Leader, grades 6-12

List compiled by Barbara Mierlak, May 2020

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