Summer Reading-10Th Grade Reading List
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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. Faking Normal by Courtney Stevens Alex Littrell copes with the pain of a traumatic experience by self-harming, but when mysterious incomplete song lyrics begin to turn up on her desk at school signed only "Captain Lyric," she finds comfort in completing them. Then Bodee, a boy with painful secrets of his own, moves in with the Littrells, and Alex and Bodee find a source of support in one another. Some Boys by Patty Blount When Grace meets Ian she's afraid. Afraid he'll reject her like the rest of the school, like her own family. After she accuses the town golden boy of rape, everyone turns against Grace. They call her a slut and a liar. But...Ian doesn't. He's funny and kind with secrets of his own. But how do you trust the best friend of the boy who raped you? How do you believe in love? Don’t Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout Seventeen-year-old Sam seems to have everything until she and her best friend, Cassie, disappear one night and now Sam has returned with amnesia, striving to be a much better person and aware that her not remembering may be the only thing keeping Cassie alive. Panic by Lauren Oliver In the poor town of Carp, New York, a group of graduating seniors enters a high-stakes game called "Panic" that involves a series of secretive, possibly deadly challenges throughout the summer, with the winner receiving more than $50,000--enough money to start a new life. I Was Here by Gayle Forman Cody can't believe it when her best friend Meg commits suicide. She has absolutely no idea what would have cause smart and confidence Meg to end her life. When Cody is given Meg's laptop she starts reading through her old emails, and realizes there were things about Meg she didn't know. With the help of Meg's ex-boyfriend (who Cody strongly dislikes) they discover a much sadder Meg then they knew. By combing into Meg life they also start to discover that they might just be falling for each other. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey Cassie, sixteen, prepares herself for the fifth wave of aliens, the final takeover, fearing that she may be all that's left of humanity. She's alone until she meets "very good-looking" Evan Walker, and together they must figure out how to fight back against the aliens. Boy Nobody by Allen Zadoff The Program thought they constructed the perfect soldier when they created Boy Nobody, a no-name teen assassin. Using his seemingly innocent outer appearance, he is able to place himself within striking distance of his targets by getting close to their children. But when Boy Nobody is assigned to take down the mayor of New York City, he is flooded with emotions and memories he's never had before. The more he feels like a real boy, relating to both the mayor and his daughter, the more he becomes determined to seek revenge on The Program—and discover the truth about his lost identity. Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese by Daleeb Berry (Nonfiction) After killer Shelia Eddy pled guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison and Rachel Shoaf was sentenced to thirty years for second-degree murder, family, friends, investigators, and other key sources reveal the facts you would have learned if the case had gone to trial. Including specific details drawn from Rachel’s confession, Pretty Little Killers looks at the crime through the eyes of the victim and killers, providing intimate testimony from the pages of Rachel’s personal journal, Skylar’s diary and school papers, and court records. Berry and Fuller examine all this, including previously unreported details about Rachel and Shelia’s rumored lesbian relationship and explain why more than one investigator believes Skylar’s murder was a thrill kill.