J Wonder by R. J. Palacio TEEN Vampire kisses PAL Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, FICTION by Ellen Schreiber who was born with extreme SCHREIBER Sixteen-year-old Raven, an The Votes facial abnormalities and was outcast who always wears black not expected to survive, goes and hopes to become a vam- from being home-schooled to pire some day, falls in love with Are In! entering fifth grade at a the mysterious new boy in private middle school in town, eager to find out if he Manhattan, which entails can make her dreams come enduring the taunting and true. fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just FICTION Safe Haven another student. SPARKS by Nicholas Sparks When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in YA The Westing game the small North Carolina town RAS by Ellen Raskin of Southport, her sudden The mysterious death of an arrival raises questions about eccentric millionaire brings her past. Beautiful yet self- together an unlikely effacing, Katie seems assortment of heirs who must determined to avoid forming uncover the circumstances of personal ties until a series of his death before they can events draws her into two claim their inheritance. reluctant relationships. YA Divergent by Veronica Roth FICTION A walk to remember ROT In a future Chicago, sixteen- SPARKS by Nicholas Sparks year-old Beatrice Prior must 57-year-old Landon Carter choose among five predeter- spirits himself bask to his mined factions to define her fateful senior year in high identity for the rest of her school in Beaufort, N.C., when life, a decision made more he was an archetypal difficult when she discovers troublemaking teenager of the that she is an anomaly who 1950s, changed forever by an does not fit into any one unexpected first love. group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect af- Compiled by W. Roe and TAG ter all. October, 2013 Sequels: Insurgent Youth Services Department Teen Picks for Allegiant Alsip-Merrionette Park Public Library Teen Read Week 11960 S Pulaski Road, Alsip, IL 60803 2013! 708-371-5666 www.alsiplibrary.info YA Fairy Tale TEEN Clockwork Prince TEEN To kill a mockingbird BAL by Cyn Balog FICTION by Cassandra Clare FICTION by Harper Lee Just before their shared CLARE Sequel to Clockwork Angel LEE Tells the story of six-year-old sixteenth birthday Cam As the Council attempts to strip Scout Finch, her older brother confesses to his girlfriend, Charlotte of her power, 16-year- Jem, and their father, Atticus, a Morgan, that he is a fairy who old orphaned shapechanger small-town Alabama lawyer was switched at birth with a Tessa Gray works with the assigned to defend human child. Now the fairies London Shadowhunters to find Tom Robinson, a black man want to switch them back! the Magister and destroy his falsely accused of rape. The clockwork army, learning the reaction of the town, the dignity TEEN The Frenzy secret of her own identity while of Robinson, and the character FICTION by Francesca Lia Block investigating his past . of their father affect both BLOCK When she was thirteen, Sequel: children as they navigate the something terrifying and Clockwork Princess path from childhood to adult mysterious happened to Liv understanding. that she still does not J Out of my mind understand, and now, four DRA by Sharon M. Draper YA Silent to the bone years later, her dark secret Considered by many to be men- KON by E. L. Konigsburg threatens to tear her apart tally retarded, a brilliant, impa- When he is wrongly accused of from her family and her true tient fifth-grader with cerebral gravely injuring his baby half- love. palsy discovers a technological sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell device that will allow her to loses his power of speech and YA The boy in the striped speak for the first time. only his friend Connor is able to BOY Pajamas: a fable reach him and uncover the truth by John Boyne YA The fighter about what really happened. Bored and lonely after his GRE by Jean-Jacques Greif family moves from Berlin to a Moshe Wisniak, a poor Polish TEEN The host SODFHFDOOHG³RXW-:LWK´LQ Jew, uses his physical strength FICTION by Stephenine Meyer 1942, Bruno, the son of a and cleverness, plus luck, to MEYER The earth has been invaded by a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in help him survive the horrors he species that take over the minds striped pajamas who lives is subjected to in the of their human hosts while leav- behind a fence. concentration camps of ing their bodies intact, and most World War II. Based on the life of humanity has succumbed. But YA Marked: of Moshe Garbarz. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade CAS a house of night novel away. Wanderer, the invading by P. C. Cast YA The outsiders by S. E. Hinton ³VRXO´ZKRKDVEHHQJLYHQ The House of Night series is HIN the struggle of three brothers to 0HODQLH¶VERG\NQHZDERXWWKH set in a world very mush like VWD\WRJHWKHUDIWHUWKHLUSDUHQW¶V challenges if living inside a our own, except in 16-year- death and their quest for human: the overwhelming ROG=RH\5HGELUG¶VZRUOG identity among the conflicting Emotions, the too vivid vampires have always existed. values of their adolescent Memories. But there was one In this first book, Zoey enters society. GLIILFXOW\:DQGHUHUGLGQ¶W a school where, having under- expect: the former tenant of her gone the Change, she will body refusing to relinquish train to become an adult vam- possession of her mind. pire²if she makes it through the Change! .