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Graphic Novels
The Wonderful Wizard of OzEric Shanower, Young Skottie, Jean Francois Beaulieu, and Jeff Eckleberry
American Born ChineseGene Yuen LangJin just wants to fit in; desperately wants to fit in with his white classmates. Meanwhile in another plane of existence the Monkey King wants to fit in with all the other gods. As powerful as he becomes he’s still rejected. If Jin, if the Monkey King just change who they are they may be able to get everything they desire….or lose everything they already have, even themselves.
Wolverine: Worst Day EverBarry Lyga and Todd Nauck
Pride & PrejudiceAusten, Jane; Butler, Nancy, adapter; Petrus, Hugo, il
I Kill GiantsJoe Kelly, JM Ken Niimura
Pinocchio, Vampire SlayerVan Jenson and Dusty Higgins
A.D.: New Orleans After the DelugeJosh Neufeld
Gunnerkrigg Court, vol 1: OrientationTom Siddell
Skim (IL)Mariko Tamaki
Romance
Keturah and Lord DeathMartine Leavitt
Twilight SagaStephanie Meyer
Shiver (IL)Maggie Stiefvater
Grace has got an obsession. An obsession that tugs at her heart and prickles at her senses. It’s not natural. It’s supernatural and the only person who understands really isn’t a person at all, he’s an animal. Can love overcome magic?
Romeo and Juliet (IL)William Shakespeare
Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte
Lips Touch: Three TimesLaini Taylor
Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neal Hurston
Biography (IL)
The Other Wes MooreWes Moore
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. BarnumCandace Fleming
Cooked: From the Streets to the Stove, From Cocaine to Foie GrasJeff Henderson
Ernest Hemingway: A Writer’s LifeCatherine Reef
I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper LeeCharles J. Shields
The Autobiography of Malcolm XMalcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Up From SlaveryBooker T Was
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron CrotchMatthew PollyPolly’s an Ivy League 98-lb weakling with a fierce determination and a serious to-do list. In this strikingly personal memoir Matthew travels to the Shaolin Temple in China to learn the art of kung-fu, transform himself into a man and grow a backbone.
UncommonTony Dungy
I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou
Fantasy
The Hobbit (IL)J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the RingsJ.R.R. Tolkien
MagykAngie SageBoy 412 and Jenny have been living two very different and unremarkable lives, but when dark forces and fate combine to bring them together they learn that they are more special than they thought and life is nothing short of Magykal.
EverlostNeil Shusterman
PeepsScott Westerfield
The Dragons of BabelMichael SwanwickWill le Fey has a secret, a power within him that he doesn’t understand. As he travels from his home in the countryside to the magical but industrially decadent Babel he encounters politically minded dwarves, elitist elves, time traveling witch women and host of others. Once there he’ll have to grapple with who he was, who he has become and the dragon within. (Steampunk)
Chronicles of Narnia (IL)C.S. Lewis
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (IL)Rick Riordan
Guardian of the DeadKaren Healey
Science Fiction
The Hunger Games (IL)Suzanne CollinsIn a deadly reality show in post-apocalyptic America called the Hunger Games, 16-year-old Katniss, a clever girl from the coal mining District 12 must fight for her life. Will she survive? And how can she
navigate the harsh reality of the arena with an angel on one shoulder telling her to help a friend she’s indebted to and the devil on the other telling her to kill him before he kills her.
The Goodness GeneSonia Levitin
UgliesScott Westerfield
Liar (IL)Justine Larbalastier
The Maze RunnerJames Dashner
LeviathanScott Westerfield
BoneshakerCherie Priest
UnwindNeil Shusterman
The Adoration of Jenna FoxMary Pearson
The CompoundS.A. Bodeen
Non-Fiction
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland (IL)Sally M. Walker
What Color is Your Parachute? 2010 (IL)Richard Bolles
Wheelchair Warriors: Gangs, Disability and Basketball (IL)Melvin Juette
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (IL)Emily Dickinson
From Clueless to Class Act: Manners for the Modern Man (Woman) (IL)Jodi Smith
7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens (IL)Sean Covey
The Souls of Black Folk (IL)W.E.B. DuBois
Overthrow: America’s History of Regime Change from Hawaii to IraqStephen Kinzer
Sneakiest Uses for Everyday Things (IL)Cy TymonyStep by Step Instructions on making everything from paper airplanes to mini-boomerangs.
Outliers (IL)Malcolm Gladwell
Adventure and Mystery
The TrapJohn SmelcerAt the height of winter’s bitterness Albert Least-Weasel goes out for a hunt and doesn’t return, his grandson, Johnny, struggles with his own worry and insecurity and then goes to look for him.
Tom Sawyer (IL)Mark Twain
A Journey to the Center of the Earth (IL)Jules Verne
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the NationM.T. Anderson
Life of Pi (IL)Yann Martel
The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan : An Enola Holmes Mystery (IL)Nancy Springer
The Complete Sherlock HolmesSir Arthur Conan Doyle
Theodosia and the Serpents of ChaosR.L. LaFevers
The Mysterious Benedict SocietyTrenton Lee Stewart
Chasing VermeerBlue Balliet