Fiction Classic Fiction Mystery & Suspense Speak...... Anderson Go Ask Alice...... Anonymous The Naturals...... Barnes Compromised...... Ayarbe Emma...... Austen Something Wicked This Way Comes...... Bradbury Year of the Hangman...... Blackwood Forever...... Blume Kissed by an Angel...... Chandler Shift...... Bradbury Annie on My Mind...... Garden Murder on the Orient Express...... Christie Going Bovine...... Bray Not Without the Laughter...... Hughes The Face on the Milk Carton (series)...... Cooney All That Remains: 3 Stories...... Brooks The Heart is a Lonely Hunter...... McCullers A Study in Scarlet...... Doyle Hate List...... Brown Frankenstein ...... Shelley Burning Blue...... Griffin The Perks of Being a Wallflower...... Chbosky The Hobbit...... Tolkien Skeleton Crew...... King Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares...... Cohn and Levithan Slaughterhouse Five: A Novel...... Vonnegut The Prodigal Son (Frankenstein series)...... Koontz Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes...... Crutcher War of the Worlds...... Wells The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride series)...... Patterson Mare’s War...... Davis We Were Here...... De la Pena Non-Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Little Brother...... Doctorow Romiette and Julio...... Draper Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy...... Adams Keesha’s House...... Frost Slavery, Freedom, and Science...... Aronson The Foundation Trilogy...... Asimov Fat Kid Rules the World...... Going Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network The Martian Chronicles...... Bradbury Will Grayson, Will Grayson...... Green and Levithan that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement...... Bowers Ready Player One...... Cline Bronx Masquerade...... Grimes Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916...... Capuzzo The Libriomancer...... Hines Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow...... Guene Faces from the Past: Forgotten People of North America...... Deem Magic’s Pawn (Last Herald Mage trilogy)...... Lackey Things Left Unsaid: A Novel in Poems...... Hemphill Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny...... Harper Redwall (series)...... Jacques Girl, Stolen...... Henry Rocket Boys...... Hickam Cinder (Lunar Chronicles series)...... Meyer The First Part Last...... Johnson We Turned Back To See Where We Came From...... Hinojosa The Night Circus...... Morgenstern Real Time...... Kass Steal Like An Artist...... Kleon Delirium (series)...... Oliver Please Ignore Vera Dietz...... King Young Men and Fire...... Maclean Divergent (series)...... Roth Strays...... Koertge Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire The Alchemyst (series)...... Scott Girl in Translation...... Kwok and Its Legacy...... Marrin The Crystal Cave...... Stewart The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl...... Lyga The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates...... Moore Shiver (trilogy)...... Stiefvater Zenzele: A Letter to My Daughter...... Maraire Juvenile in Justice...... Ross . Jellicoe Road...... Marchetta Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans Poetry A Mango-Shaped Space...... Mass During World War II...... Sandler Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young Cut...... McCormick Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem...... Schanzer and Latino in the United States...... Carlson Shooter...... Myers Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know The Best American Poetry (multiple years)...... Doty The Other Side of Truth...... Naidoo about Fast Food...... Schlosser You Don’t Even Know Me...... Flake The Adoration of Jenna Fox...... Pearson The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks...... Skloot Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials...... Hemphill Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe...... Saenz I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir...... Su Burned / Smoke...... Hopkins Getting It...... Sanchez “The President Has Been Shot!”: The Assassination of The Realm of Possibility...... Levithan The Lovely Bones...... Sebold John F. Kennedy...... Swanson Sold...... McCormick One Good Punch...... Wallace Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of Kidnapping Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems About Love...... Mora So Yesterday...... Westerfeld of Emmett Till...... Wright Street Love...... Myers Emako Blue...... Woods Quiet Storm: Voices of Young Black Poets...... Okutoro Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from WritersCorps.....WritersCorps Biography & Autobiography Boston Public Library 2014 Summer Reading Frederick Douglass: A Noble Life...... Adler A Girl Named Faithful Plum...... Bernstien Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in the Sudan...... Dau Zeitoun...... Eggers Imagine Your Future The Speckled People...... Hamilton Boston Public Library’s 2014 summer programs feature books and 2014 Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves...... Moon activities that focus on exposing teens to future career opportunities. Summer Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s...... 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Nam West Roxbury: 1961 Centre St...... 617-325-3147 encouragement of families to help us reach the goal of every Growing Up in Slavery: Stories of Young Slaves as www.bpl.org student becoming an excellent reader. Told by Themselves...... Taylor Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction: An Anthology This book list was compiled by librarians from the Boston Public Library and Happy reading! of Japan Teen Stories...... Thompson the Boston Public Schools (BPS). It was prepared and distributed by the BPS Sincerely, Office of Instructional and Information Technology (OIIT) – Plays Library and Media Services Department. Boston Public Schools | 26 Court Street | Boston, MA 02108 A Raisin in the Sun...... Hansberry 617-635-9000 | www.bostonpublicschools.org John P. McDonough Amy E. Ryan A Doll’s House...... Ibsen InterimSuperintendent President All My Sons...... Miller Boston Public Schools Boston Public Library Twelfth Night...... Shakespeare Brighton Beach Memoirs...... 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