Get your game on!
Get your game on! Good games are all about great stories; whether you follow the creators’ story as you work through the game, or you create the story and world for yourself. Use this booklet to help you choose just the right stories to thrill you this summer. Download eBooks and eAudio books anytime from our eLibrary at rrl.nsw.gov.au/elibrary. Tell us what you like, and we’ll choose some books for you at http://rrl.nsw.gov.au/adults/what-will-i-read-next/
DVDs The library has lots of DVDs to choose from. Television series, new and old movies and you can borrow them for two weeks, for free!
Which books to read There are some great websites to help you find more awesome books to read.
www.goodreads.com/list/tag/teen
www.insideadog.com.au
rrl.nsw.gov.au/youth/read-watch-play/recaps/
www.gnooks.com
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk
Gaming
Ready player one by Ernest Cline
Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator. This book is funny and super fun! The movie is coming in 2018, get ahead of the game!
Insignia by S. J. Kincaid
Feed by M.T. Anderson
The Maximus Black files (trilogy) by Paul Collins
The eye of minds by James Dashner
Michael is a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyberterrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out .
Bluescreen by Dan Wells
Ender’s game by Orson Scott Card
The galaxy game by Karen Lord
Rafi, a student at a school for super-human psychic abilities, travels the universe with an intergalactic sports team, encountering strange new worlds and alien cultures.
Little brother by Cory Doctorow
Brainjack by Brian Falkner
Erebos by Ursula Poznanski
The Calling by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton
In each generation, for thousands of years, twelve Players have been ready. But they never thought Endgame would happen. Until now.
Fantasy
Red queen by Victoria Aveyard
The peculiar by Stefan Bachmann
The raven king by Maggie Stiefvater
Riders by Veronica Rossi
While recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can’t remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny. He has become War, one of the legendary four horsemen of the apocalypse.
The glittering court by Richelle Meade
Goldenhand by Garth Nix
Riverkeep by Martin J. Stewart
The Danék is a wild, treacherous river, and the Fobisher family has tended it for generations—clearing it of ice and weed, making sure boats can get through, and fishing corpses from its bleak depths. Wulliam’s father, the current Riverkeep, is proud of this work. Wull dreads it. And in one week, when he comes of age, he will have to take over.
Seven black diamonds by Melissa Marr
A conspiracy of princes Justin Somper
The fate of ten by Pittacus Lore
The bronze key by Holly Black
The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Keepin’ it real
When we collided by Emery Lord
Seventeen year old Jonah Daniels has lived in Verona Cove, California, his whole life, and only one thing has ever changed: his father used to be alive, and now he's not. Now Jonah must numbly take care of his family as they reel from their tragedy. Cue next change: Vivi Alexander, new girl in town. Vivi is in love with life. A gorgeous and unfiltered hurricane of thoughts and feelings. She seems like she's from another planet as she transforms Jonah's family and changes his life. But there are always consequences when worlds collide.
One true thing by Nicole Hayes
The sidekicks by Will Kostakis
Unexpected everything by Morgan Matson
When you are a politician’s daughter who’s pretty much raised yourself, you learn everything can be planned or spun, or both. Especially your future. But that was before the scandal. Before having to be in the same house with her dad. Before walking an insane number of dogs. That was before Clark and those few months that might change her whole life.
Salt to the sea by Ruta Sepetys
Walk the edge by Katie McGarry
Run by Kody Keplinger
Highly illogical behaviour by John Corey Whaler
The flywheel by Erin Gough
Thrilling
Target by Chris Bradford
Theodore Boone by John Grisham
Street soldier by Andy NcNab
Anna dressed in blood by Kendare Blake
Endgame by Chris Ryan
For some time now, Zack Darke has been operating solo, in total secrecy, for a shadowy government organisation. When his handlers are abducted by somebody with a serious personal vendetta against him, Zak has no choice but to go after them.
The cut out by Jack Heath
Code red lipstick by Sarah Sky
8 rivers of shadow by Leo Hunt
Luke Manchett used to be one of the most popular boys at school. That was before his necromancer father died and left him a host of vengeful ghosts that wanted him dead. Now everyone thinks he's a freak. To make matters worse, the mysterious new girl at school is actually the daughter of his father's deadliest enemy...And she's out for revenge. A thrilling supernatural adventure: dark, funny, with twists at every turn.
The monster within by Darrell Pitt
The beauty is in the walking by James Maloney
Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver
Don’t Cry
Talk under water by Kathryn Lomer
Pieces of sky by Trinity Doyle
Lucy's life was going as smoothly as any teenager's could. She lived with her parents and her brother, Cam, in the small coastal town she'd known all her life. She had friends, she had goals --- she had a life. Now Cam is dead, her parents might as well be. Why did Cam die? Was it an accident or suicide? But as Lucy hunts for answers she discovers much more than she expects. About Cam. About her family. About herself...
Everything, everything by Nicola Yoon
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
One would think the deep by Claire Zorn
Sam stared at the picture of the boy about to be tipped off the edge of the world: the crushing weight of water about to pummel him. Sam knew that moment exactly, the disbelief that what was about to happen could even be possible. The intake of breath before the flood. Sam has always had things going on in his head that no one else understands, even his mum. And now she's dead, it's worse than ever. With nothing but his skateboard and a few belongings in a garbage bag, Sam goes to live with the strangers his mum cut ties with seven years ago.
Beautiful disaster by Jamie McGuire
The last song by Nicholas Sparks
Breathing under water by Sophie Hardcastle
1915 by Sally Murphy
LOL
The haters by Jesse Andrews
The rest of us just live here by Patrick Ness
Hold me closer by David Levithan
Larger-than-life character Tiny Cooper, finally tells his own story the only way he knows how--as a stupendous musical. In this novel-in-musical-form, readers will experience all of Hold Me Closer, the autobiographical musical written by and staring Tiny Cooper. Filled with humour, pain, and 'big, lively, belty' musical numbers, readers will finally learn Tiny's full story, from his birth and childhood to his quest for love and his infamous eighteen ex-boyfriends.
Machine wars by Michael Pryor
The improbable theory of Anna and Zak by Brian Katcher
Hilarious he said/she said romance about two teens recovering from heartbreak and discovering themselves on an out-of-this-world accidental first date.
Why we took the car by Wolfgang Herrndorf
The first third by Will Kostakis
Wanted! New Dad by Gary Taafe
The private blog of Joe Cowley by Ben Davis
Kill the music by Nansi Kunze
Dodger by Terry Pratchett
Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
I’m being stalked by a moonshadow by Doug Macleod
Screen Time
Love Rosie
Batman v Superman
My big fat Greek wedding 2
X-Men Apocalypse
Ghostbusters
What if
The 5th wave
Project Almanac
The choice
The legend of Tarzan
Jupiter ascending
Accidental love
This is where I leave you
Maggie
The huntsman : Winter war
Mad Max
Tracers
Cinderella
Aloha
Graphic
Soul eater by Atsushi Ohkubo
Maka is a scythe meister working to perfect one particular scythe until it is good enough to become Death's Weapon - the weapon used by Shinigami-sama, the spirit of Death himself.
Green lantern by Robert Venditti
Nightwing by Chuck Nixon
Ms Marvel by G. Willow Wilson
Black Butler by Yana Toboso
Fairy tail by Hiro Mashima
Lucy is a young, rebellious celestial wizard with a dream : to join Fairy Tail, the world's most rambunctious and powerful magical guild!
Are you Alice? by Ikumi Katagiri
Attack on Titan
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein : a graphic novel
Captain America and the mighty Avengers
Nightrise by Anthony Horowitz
A gate has been opened. The Old Ones have been released. And now the third and fourth of The Five -- twins with a mysterious psychic bond -- are joining the fight.
Shadow kiss : a graphic novel by Richelle Mead
Case closed series by Gosho Aoyama
Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto
Naruto, a mischievous ninja in training with a formidable power inside him, wants to become the greatest ninja in the village of Konohagakure.
XO XO
Much ado about something by Michelle Ray
London belongs to us by Sarra Manning
The girl who fell by S.M. Parker
Cloudwish by Fiona Wood
Summer skin by Kirsty Eager
Frankie and Joely by Nova Weetman
Frankie and Joely are best friends. They love each other like no one else can. It's summer and, together, the girls are escaping the city and their mums for a week of freedom in the country. But when Joely introduces Frankie to her country cousins, Thommo and Mack, it soon becomes clear that something other than the heat is getting under their skin. As the temperature rises, local boy Rory stirs things up even more and secrets start to blister.
Saint anything by Sarah Dessen
First love by James Patterson
Love song by Sophia Bennett
The stars of Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard
A powerful, captivating story about Alice, who is reaching out to express herself through her beautiful-broken words, and Manny who is running to escape his past. When they meet they find the tender beginnings of love and healing.
Everything, everything by Nicola Yoon
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