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Summer Reading-10Th Grade Reading List Summer Reading-10th Grade Reading List I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world. Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick Brit Pheiffer has trained to backpack the Teton Range, but she isn't prepared when her ex-boyfriend, who still haunts her every thought, wants to join her. Before Britt can explore her feelings for Calvin, an unexpected blizzard forces her to seek shelter in a remote cabin, accepting the hospitality of its two very handsome occupants; but these men are fugitives, and they take her hostage. Britt is forced to guide the men off the mountain, and knows she must stay alive long enough for Calvin to find her. The task is made even more complicated when Britt finds chilling evidence of a series of murders that have taken place there and in uncovering this; she may become the killer's next target. But nothing is as it seems, and everyone is keeping secrets, including Mason, one of her kidnappers. His kindness is confusing Britt. Is he an enemy? Or an ally? We Were Liars by E. Lockhart In her fifteenth summer at her family's place on an island off the coast of Massachusetts, Cadence Sinclair suffers a head injury that leaves her with migraines and memory loss. Two year later she and her cousins Mirren and Johnny, as well as Gat Patil, a family friend, try to piece together her memories from the last two years in order to solve a family mystery dealing with the Sinclair family fortune. Welcome to the Dark House by Laurie Faria Stolarz For Ivy Jensen, it’s the eyes of a killer that haunt her nights. For Parker Bradley, it’s bloodthirsty sea serpents that slither in his dreams. For seven essay contestants, it’s their worst nightmares that win them an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at director Justin Blake’s latest, confidential project. Ivy doesn’t even like scary movies, but she’s ready to face her real-world fears, but will she be able to live though facing them. Half Bad by Sally Green Sixteen-year-old Nathan is the son of the most terrifying and violent witch of the twenty-first century. For this reason he has been kept in a cage all his life by the other witches, used as an assassin, and eventually they will kill him. Nathan's only chance at survival is to escape and find his father and get from him the three gifts that every witch is given when he or she turns sixteen. Leverage by Joshua C. Cohen * Divided We Fall by Trent Reedy National Guard Private First Class Daniel Christopher Wright had everything he could reasonably want--a good girlfriend, a loving mother, great friends. Then the governor of Idaho ordered him to attack the president of the United States, and the president of the United States ordered him to attack the governor of Idaho. Daniel's first shot may very well end America as we know it. Phoenix Island by John Dixon When a tough sixteen-year-old boxing champ sentenced to an isolated boot camp discovers it is actually a mercenary training facility turning "throwaway children" into scientifically enhanced killers, he risks everything to save his friends and stop a madman bent on global destruction. Call Me By Name by John E. Bradley Growing up in Louisiana in the late 1960s, where segregation and prejudice still thrive, two high school football players, one white, one black, become friends, but some changes are too difficult to accept. Caged Warrior by Alan Lawrence Sitomer From age three, McCutcheon Daniels, now sixteen, has been trained in Mixed Martial Arts and must keep winning to feed his five-year-old sister and father, but chance presents an opportunity to get out of the Detroit slums using his brain instead of his fighting skills. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jennifer Han Lara Jean has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. One day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister's ex-boyfriend, Josh. As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that something good may come out of these letters after all. Tease by Amanda Maciel Emma Putnam is dead, and it's all Sara Wharton's fault. At least, that's what everyone seems to think. Sara, along with her best friend and three other classmates, has been criminally charged for the bullying and harassment that led to Emma's shocking suicide. 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