th Summer Read - Books for students entering 9 grade Category Book Cover Author Title Grade Reading Level Summary Awards

After waking up on an operating table with no memory New Jersey Garden of how she got there, Noa must team up with computer Don't Turn Around (or any book State Teen Book Adventure Land Gagnon, Michelle 9 6 - 10 hacker Peter to stop a corrupt corporation with a in the Don't Turn Around trilogy) Award Nominees deadly secret. The story continues in Don't Look Now 2015 and Don't Let Go.

Rory is spending a year at a London boarding school The Name of the Star (or any when she witnesses a murder by a YALSA 2012 Best Adventure Land Johnson, Maureen book in the Shades of London 9 8 - 11 copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual Fiction for Young trilogy) investigation of the murders. The story continues in Adults The Madness Underneath and The Shadow Cabinet.

Seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a natural ability The Naturals (or any book in The to read people, joins an elite group of criminal profilers Adventure Land Barnes, Jennifer 9 8 - 11 Adventure Land Naturals trilogy) at the FBI in order to help solve cold cases. The story continues in Killer instinct and All In.

YALSA for "The President Has Been Shot!": Looks at the assassination of President John F. Excellence in Interesting, Non Fiction Swanson, James L The Assassination of John F. 9 6-10. Kennedy and related events, including his funeral and Nonfiction for YA Kennedy the apprehension of his killer. Finalists - 2014

An inspiring and compelling autobiography of Shyima Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Interesting, Non Fiction Hall, Shyima 9 7 - 10 Hall, who at the age of eight, was sold by her Eygptian Modern-Day Child Slave parents into domestic slavery.

Misty Copeland makes history as the only African American soloist dancing with the prestigious Life in Motion: An Unlikely American Ballet Theatre. A look at the cutthroat world Interesting, Non Fiction Copeland, Misty 9 8 -11 Ballerina of professional ballet, as well as a moving story of passion and grace for anyone who has dared to dream of a different life.

Paige Rawl thinks of herself as many things: a Positive: Surviving my Bullies, daughter, a student, a beauty queen, an athlete, a Interesting, Non Fiction Rawl, Paige Finding Hope, and Living to 9 6-12. friend. This is a memoir of surviving the experiences to Change the World become a force for positive change in this world.

In 1956, at the height of the civil rights era, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was Spies of Mississippi: The True created to counter the movement for racial integration. YALSA Award for Story of Agency that Interesting, Non Fiction Bowers, Rick 9 7 - 10 Bowers, a career journalist, chronicles 10 years of the Excellence in Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights commission's propaganda campaigns, bribery, and its Nonfiction Movement collection of files on 87,000 citizens and organizations including freedom riders and protest marchers.

From the teacup to the jet engine, the silicon chip to the paper clip, the plastic in our appliances to the Stuff Matters: Exploring the Notable Book of the No Joke, Non Fiction elastic in our underpants, our lives are overflowing with Miodownik, Mark Marvelous Materials that Shape 9 6 - 9 Year 2014 – (NON-FICTION) materials. Full of enthralling tales of the miracles of our Manmade World Nonfiction engineering that permeate our lives, Stuff Matters will make you see stuff in a whole new way.

Take a thrilling and lively tour of the world of blood, New Jersey Garden The Book of Blood: From from ancient history to modern science, to dark and No Joke, Non Fiction State Teen Book Newquist, H. P Legends and Leeches to 9 7 - 10 often gruesome legends of vampires and plague, this (NON-FICTION) Award Nominees Vampires and Veins book informs readers about the most important tissue 2015 in the body.

During her unparalleled fifty-year history, Barbie has been the doll that some people love and some people The Good, the Bad, and the love to hate. There's no question she's influenced No Joke, Non Fiction Stone, Tanya Lee Barbie: A Doll's History and Her 9 7 - 10 generations, but to what end? Acclaimed nonfiction (NON-FICTION) Impact on Us author Tanya Lee Stone takes an unbiased look at how Barbie became the icon that she is, and at the impact that she's had on our culture (and vice versa).

Avery gave up a competitive ice skating career after her parents divorced when she was fourteen years old and when she gets a chance at a scholarship and Sports Center Ockler, Sarah Bittersweet 9 9 - 12 coaching the boys' hockey team, she realizes that she is not through with ice skating after all and learns there’s a fine line between bitter and sweet....

Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, Sports Center Deuker, Carl Payback Time 9 7 - 10 but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past.

When a race of aliens quickly takes over the earth, leaving most people dead, high-schooler Jesse finds The End of the World Alien Invasion and Other Yansky, Brian 9 9 - 12 himself a slave to an inept alien leader--a situation that as You Know It Inconveniences brightens as Jesse develops telepathic powers and attracts the attention of two beautiful girls.

Sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her struggle to Garden State Teen survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing The End of the World Life as We Knew It (or any book Book Award; ALA Pfeffer, Susan Beth 9 6 - 12 tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. The as You Know It in Life as We Knew It series) Best Books for story continues in The Dead and the Gone, This World Young Adults We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon.

In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Best Fiction for The End of the World Rot & Ruin (or any book in Rot & Maberry, Jonathan 9 9 - 12 Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his Young Adults Top as You Know It Ruin series) older brother's footsteps and become a bounty Ten hunter. The story continues in Dust & Decay, Flesh & Bone, and Fire & Ash.

After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a The Best New This is Not Middle carefully planned road trip from California to Matson, Morgan Amy & Roger's Epic Detour 9 8 - 12 Young Adult Books School Anymore Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Published 2010 Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.

On his way to summer camp, fifteen-year-old Ry discovers that the camp has gone out of business; The Best New This is Not Middle As Easy as Falling off the Face Perkins, Lynne Rae 9 8 - 11 when he hops off the train to call his grandfather, it Young Adult Books School Anymore of the Earth leaves without him, stranding him in the middle of Published 2010 nowhere.

A story about growing up in a world that can be cruel, and finding the strength -- and the support -- to carry This is Not Middle Best Fiction for Giles, Gail Girls Like Us 9 8 - 12 on. Quincy and Biddy are both graduates of their high School Anymore Young Adults - 2015 school's special ed program and are thrown together as roommates as they enter the adult world.

In this contemporary version of West Side Story, This is Not Middle Devorah and Jaxon meet in an elevator and come - Honor Books for LaMarche, Una Like No Other 9 9 - 12 School Anymore away with that love-at-first-sight feeling. It's Teen Reader 2015 complicated; Devorah is a Hasidic Jew, Jaxon is black.

For Emaline, the summer between high school and college is filled with transitions, bringing new This is Not Middle possibilities as well as difficult goodbyes. Working at Dessen, Sarah The Moon and More 9 8 - 12 School Anymore the family business, Colby Beach Rentals, means regular run-ins with her loud but loving sisters, her grandmother, and her parents.

ALA Notable Children's Book; ALA Best Books for After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a Young Adults; Chains (or any book in Seeds of slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the We're At War Anderson, Laurie Halse 9 7 - 10 National Book America trilogy) Revolutionary War. The story continues in Forge and Award Finalist; Ashes. Garden State Teen Book Award Nominee

After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and ALA Notable We're At War Bruchac, Joseph Code Talker 9 6 - 9 other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to Children's Book become Code Talkers, sending messages during Award World War II in their native tongue.

Strasser imagines what might have happened if Young Adult's nuclear war had out during the Cuban Missile Choices 2014 We're At War Todd Strasser Fallout 9 9 - 12 Crisis. When the air raid sirens go off, neighbors force Golden Cowbell their way into Scott's father's bomb shelter. Book Award 2014

Pure Grit chronicles the experiences of American nurses who served in the Philippines during World War Pure Grit: How American World II. It is a story of sisterhood and suffering, of tragedy Bulletin Blue We're At War Farrell, Mary Cronk War II Nurses Survived Battle 9 7 - 10 and betrayal, of death and life. The women cared for Ribbons 2014 - and Prison Camp in the Pacific one another, maintained discipline, and honored their Nonfiction vocation to nurse anyone in need--all 101 coming home alive.