Build a Better World: Teen Recommended Reads

SUMMER

2017

BUILD WORLD

Headed into 6th-10th grade?

You can get entered to win great prizes all summer long! The more times you enter the better your chances of winning. May the odds be in your favor.

We’ll enter you to win when you do any of the following: • Check out 3 or more books and speak to a staff person.

• Attend a teen program at a regional library.

• Play our Book Bingo Game, get any 5 or 5 in a row.

• Open a library account.

• Participate in Teen Leadership Corps.

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MIDDLE SCHOOL READS The Inquisitor’s Tale: or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog J GIDWITZ

by Adam Gidwitz A peasant girl and her holy greyhound, an oblate on a mission from his monastery, and a young Jewish boy travel across medieval France to escape persecution and save holy texts from being burned.

Ungifted J KORMAN

by Gordon Korman Donovan gets in trouble. A lot. There has been a mix up in the middle school office and he is getting sent to the gifted school across town. He is about to meet the most mixed up group of achievers and needs to try and fit in.

Like Magic J VICKERS

by Elaine Vickers Three friendless girls in Salt Lake City “meet” each other and become close through a special trinket box lent out by their local library.

Save Me a Seat J WEEKS

by Sarah Weeks Ravi has just moved to the U.S. from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy and the need to take control of their lives.

Booked YA ALEXANDER

by Kwame Alexander Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.

Gutless YA DEUKER

by Carl Deuker Brock is a born football player, but every time he gets on the field he’s afraid of being hit by the ball. He gets cut from the football team, loses his best friend, and becomes a target for bullying until he finds skill and strength off the field.

The Last Dragonslayer (Chronicles of Kazam Book 1) YA FFORDE

by Jasper Fforde Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for soothsayers and sorcerers. Trouble starts when Jennifer has a vision that predicts the death of the last dragon at the hands of a dragonslayer.

Camo Girl YA MAGOON

by Kekla Magoon Ella is the only black student in her school and has been friends with Z, a boy who lives mostly in his own head. When Bailey, another black student, arrives at school, Ella grapples with the middle school politics of popularity and race.

Love and Gelato YA WELCH

by Jenna Evans Welch 16-year-old Lena spends a summer in Italy after her mother dies and learns about her mother’s youth - and of course, finds a cute Italian boy to fall in love with.

The Young Adult Collection is made up of books for a wide age range (12-18 years old) and includes a variety of different topics and interests.

Not all titles will be appropriate for all readers

HIGH SCHOOL READS Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda YA ALBER

by Becky Albertalli Sixteen-year-old, Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here YA BRESLAW

by Anna Breslaw Scarlett is a fan of a Supernatural-esque TV show that is abruptly canceled, and her online fanfiction community falls apart. When some of her writing about her classmates is found, she needs to learn how to navigate real relationships, not fictional ones.

In Real Life YA DOCTOROW

by Cory Doctorow Anda lives for an online multiplayer role playing game. She befriends a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuables and then sells them to players from developed countries. Questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person’s real livelihood is at stake.

American Ace YA NELSON

by Marilyn Nelson Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother’s death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad’s father was probably a Tuskegee Airman.

The Summer of Chasing Mermaids YA OCKLER

by Sarah Ockler After an accident takes her beautiful singing and speaking voice from her, Elyse, leaves her home in Tobago to stay in Oregon where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.

Shadowshaper YA OLDER

by Daniel Jose Older Sierra discovers that her family are shadowshapers and can infuse paintings and photographs with spirits, but someone in their Brooklyn neighborhood has it out for the shadowshapers.

Salt to the Sea YA SEPETYS

by Ruta Sepetys Titanic. Lusitania. Wilhelm Gustloff. All major maritime disasters, yet the last is virtually unknown. Salt to the Sea rotates between four narrators attempting to escape various tragedies in 1945 Europe.

The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle #1) YA STIEFVATER

by Maggie Stiefvater Blue is from a family of clairvoyants but her only gift is making other people’s talents stronger. When she meets Gansey, from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and together their talents are a dangerous mix.

Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories YA SUMMER Edited by Stephanie Perkins Summer is the perfect time for love, and these short stories of teenagers facing the confusing maze of first love will have you dreaming of sunset strolls by the lake.

Meteor Men YAGRA PARKER

by Jeff Parker On a summer night, Alden Baylor sits in a field watching the largest meteor shower in human history. What begins as teenage adventure becomes something more - the celestial event brings travelers who will change the world completely.

Summer Reading Grades 6-10

BOOK BINGO Complete any five of the Bingo squares below and show us your Bingo card to be entered to WIN GREAT PRIZES this summer. Get an extra entry if you get five in a row!

Read a book that became a movie

Read a book published this year

Read a book writen by someone under 30

Read a book your friend loves

Read a book based on a true story

Read a book set on a different continent

Read a book set in a school

Read a book with a one word title

Read a book set in the future

Read a book without a love triangle

Read a book set in the summer

Read a book with music

Read a book with a blue cover

Read a prize winning book

Read a mystery or thriller

Read a stand alone book (no series)

Read a biography

Read a graphic novel

Read a book library staff recommends

Read a comic from the ComicsPlus Database

Read a book that has the letter ‘W’ in the title

Read a book set in the 80s

Read a retelling of a fairy tale or myth

Read a book written more than 100 years ago