spring 2011 9th grade reading suggestions

Summer Reading @ the Bothell Library

Read 3 books, write 3 reviews, turn your completed forms in to any KCLS Library and get a free paperback! Completed entry forms will also enter you in drawings for great prizes. Forms are available at any KCLS library and at www.kcls.org/teens/.

March 23, 2008 The Alaska Ranger sinks in the Bering Sea. 47 crew members go into freezing water hundreds of miles from the nearest help. Fans of the Deadliest Catch shouldn’t miss this story of the greatest rescue in Coast Guard history.

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Zach has been brutally murdered. Micah Wilkins knows something about how he died.

This is the truth as Micah Wilkins tells it, and the only thing you know for certain is that Micah is a liar.

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The story behind thousands of band names from around the world. Packed with album covers, trivia and band profiles, this is one for music fans!

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Afterward it seemed like a set up. Martin was sitting on his stoop when a thug asked him where to get some weed. He told the guy about the neighborhood spot. Shortly thereafter, cops pulled up and arrested Martin, charging him with steering. Now he’s trying to go to high school in jail while waiting for his trial.

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Betrayal by her so-called “best friends” inspires Jessie to own her inner geek and seek out new friends among the Dungeons and Dragons fans.

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You were on vacation with your parents. You stopped for a coffee. That nice man behind you paid for it. Put sugar in it for you. Helped you walk to a flight when you felt strange. You slept. When you woke up, you were in Australia. In the Outback. Alone with him. You had been Stolen.

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Finnikin’s homeland was brutally conquered.He has trained in combat and diplomacy. But nothing could prepare him for the strange young woman who propels him on a dangerous journey leading resolutely toward home.

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When Jem looks at a person, she can see the date of their death. While in line for the London Eye, she realizes that everyone around her has the same date… and it’s today.

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Only those who can cross over to The Place can become dreamhunters. Once there, they can harvest dreams and bring them back to share, to sell. It is a glamorous career, one that covers the dirty truth of what the dreams are and how they are used.

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All Lily wants is one whole and perfect day, despite her crazy, irritating family.

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When Levi's older brother Boaz was 18, he could have done anything he wanted. But Boaz didn't choose to do what he wanted. He chose to do what he thought was right. Boaz joined the Marines and went to war.

That was three years ago. What is Levi supposed to do now that Boaz is home?

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In a dry, dark future, Gaia has been trained all her life to be a midwife. She knows her duty. The first three babies born each month must go to the Enclave. The same Enclave that just arrested her parents.

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Imagine this: You’re in your favorite bookstore. You get to your favorite author, and there, nestled in between the familiar spines sits a red notebook.What do you do? If you are Dash, you take down the red notebook and open it. And then you do whatever it tells you to do.

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After their best mate’s funeral, Kenny, Sim and Blake hatch a plan to hold a second funeral truly worthy of their friend. The only problem is that they have to steal his ashes and somehow get to Scotland. . .

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