The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The war is over and now the government yearly hosts the Hunger Games, a battle which is a brutal competition where two youths from every district complete. This year Katniss has gone voluntarily instead of her sister, who was chosen and what she does not know, is whether her competitor, Peeta, who is from her district will help or hurt her.
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Here is a list of a few of my favorite books
Shinn, Sharon. General Winston's Daughter. New York: Viking, 2007. Ages 13 to 17.
Averie is visiting the land where her general father is overseeing colonization, but while observing the colonization process Averie feels it may not be for the best. Averie’s betrothed is not who she thought he was and she starts to fall for Lieutenant Du'Kai who is a citizen from another colonized land.
Peterfreund, Diana. Rampant. New York: HarperTeen, 2009. Ages 14-18.
Astrid has grown up hearing family tales of her ancestor who would kill evil unicorns and she had thought the stories were just legends, but when on a date she comes across a killer unicorn she realizes the stories were true. She and her cousin go to Italy to a training school for girls to learn to kill unicorns and there uncover hidden secrets and plot ways to protect humans from the unicorns.
Zevin, Gabrielle. Elsewhere. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Ages 13 to 17.
Fifteen year old Liz had just died and moved on to Elsewhere, where people who have died age backwards and get jobs. She has to learn to move on from life to the afterlife, all while falling in love with a man learning to age backward whose wife is still alive.
Durst, Sarah Beth. Into the Wild. New York: Razorbill, 2007. Ages 12 to 15.
Julie has grown up in fear of the wild because her mother, Rapunzel, told her a story of people being trapped in endless cycles of stories by the wild. The wild escapes and Julie must help save the world before everyone is trapped in fairy tales.
Jones, Diana Wynne. Howl's Moving Castle. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1986. ages 12 to 15.
Sophie is unfortunately the eldest of her sisters and thus becomes cursed by a witch who turns Sophie into an elderly woman. She finds employment in a castle that moves everyday at the wished of the mischievous wizard, Howl.
Dunkle, Clare B. The Hollow Kingdom. New York: Henry Holt, 2003. Ages 11 to 16.
Sisters Kate and Emily, have just moved to Hallow Hill where they meet Marak, a powerful magician and the king of the goblins and who wants to claim Kate as his bride, but first Marak and Kate must work together to save the goblins of Hallow Hill.
Marriott, Zoë. Daughter of the Flames. Cambridge, Mass: Candlewick Press, 2009. Ages 13 to 17.
The Ruan people raised orphan, Zira, but when her new people are attacked she remembers that she really is the last princess of her family whose throne was taken over by her evil uncle. Zaira realizes the only way to fight her uncle and protect her people is to marry a lord of the people who had been ruined by her uncle and together they must fight to save her people.
Leavitt, Martine. Keturah and Lord Death. Asheville, N.C.: Front Street, 2006. 12-16.
Lord Death has come for Keturah but she convinces him to let her live to find her true love and protect her village against a coming plague.
Werlin, Nancy. Impossible. New York, NY: Dial Books, 2008. Ages 14-18.
Lucy Scarborough learns the lyrics for “Scarbourgh Fair” are not just a song, but a family curse that has driven the women of her family mad. When they reach the age of seventeen, they become pregnant and after they give birth to the next generation they go mad. Lucy is not alone and she learns to fight the curse with the love of the boy next door and her adoptive parents.
Pearson, Mary. The Adoration of Jenna Fox. New York: Henry Holt, 2008. Ages 13 to 17.
Jenna has awakened from a year long coma, but life is not normal. Her grandmother has been treating her like a different person since Jenna had a full body transplant. She must discover what really happened to her, while trying to adjust to living in her old world again.
Castellucci, Cecil. Boy Proof. Cambridge, Mass: Candlewick Press, 2005. Ages 13 to 17.
Victoria has grown up having a beautiful B movie actress for a mother, so she hides herself in the identity of a movie character, Egg. She meets the new boy at school and Max wants to know who she really is instead of who she pretends to be and this changes everything in her life.
Murray, Yxta Maya. The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Kidnapped. New York: Razorbill, 2010. Ages 13 to 17.
Michelle is every parents’ dream because she makes good grades, is a track star, and just made the academic decathlon team, but she is not her mother’s dream. Her mother is in prison for running the local gang with an iron fist and has told Michelle that she would be queen of the gang after she was gone. Michelle is kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend Silver who reminds her of who she was and she questions who she is and who she was.
Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009. Ages 14 to 18.
Marcelo is used to his routine but his parents want him to learn how to face the real world instead of interacting only with the people who had been trained to work with him because he is autistic. Marcelo’s dad forces him to work for his law firm and Marcelo uncovers all sorts of dark secrets in the real world.
Halpern, Julie. Into the Wild Nerd Yonder. New York, NY: Feiwel and Friends, 2009. Ages 14-18.
Jess’s best friends have changed and are now punk wannabes, and have left Jess behind. Jess likes math and making her own clothes and decides to find her own tribe and enters the world of Dungeons and Dragons.
Ockler, Sarah. Twenty Boy Summer. New York: Little, Brown and Co, 2009. Ages 13 to 17.
Anna has secret she has been hiding from her best friend, Frankie. She was secretly dating Frankie’s brother until he tragically died and this secret threatens to pull their friendship apart as the girls vacation together and look to find love.
Han, Jenny. The Summer I Turned Pretty. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009. Ages 14 to 17
Belly has always loved summertime and she and her family would share a summer house with her mother’s friend, Susannah, and her two boys, Jeremiah and Conrad. This summer is different, because this could be the last summer and she is torn between the two brothers.
Brown, Jennifer. Hate List. London: Little, Brown Young Readers, 2009.
Valerie and Nick were outsiders who were in love and kept a list of all the people who they hated, but one day Nick decides use the list as a way to target people on a shooting rampage. Valerie is left to pick up the pieces after an attack she had no idea was coming and being shot in the leg trying to stop Nick. She must come to grips with what happened and her own guilt.
Despain, Bree. The Dark Divine. New York: Egmont USA, 2010.
Gracie is shocked when her almost adopted brother, Daniel, comes back after he left her own brother, Jude, covered in blood. Gracie must uncover Daniel’s dangerous secret as bodies start to pile up around town.
Baratz-Logsted, Lauren. Crazy Beautiful. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.
In the modern retelling of “Beauty and the Beast”, Lucius lost both of his hands in an accident leaving him with two hooks for hand and Aurora has just suffered the tragic loss of her mother and both feel like outsiders at their high school. Together they must work to recover from their losses and learn to love again.
Blundell, Judy. What I Saw and How I Lied. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008.
Evie loves her family including her ex GI stepfather whom she views as a hero, but when her family takes a trip to Palm Beach she learns the secret of her stepfather’s money. A former comrade of her stepfather, Peter, comes to visit and pays attention to Evie and Evie falls for him, but she learns the truth about Peter and her parents when her parents and Peter go on a boating trip and Peter does not return.
Kagawa, Julie. The Iron King. Don Mills, Ont: Harlequin Teen, 2010.
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