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CYRM Selections 2011/12

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Beastly by Alex Flinn

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

CYRM Selections 2011/12Revolution is Not a Dinner Party: A Novel by Ying Chang Compestine

Waiting for Normal by Leslie Conner

Every Soul A Star by Wendy Mass

Read all three in each category and vote for your favorite

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Katsa has a Grace for killing. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace—or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven

kingdoms with words alone.

Beastly by Alex FlinnI am a beast. A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog, but a horrible new creature who walks upright – a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.

If I Stay by Gayle FormanIn a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck...

Revolution is Not A Dinner Party by Yin Chang CompestineWhen Ling's father

saves a political poet, he is taken

into custody, and Ling and her mother

must survive alone as further horrors

unfold

Waiting for Normal by Leslie Conner

Addie is waiting for normal.

But Addie's mom has an all-or-

nothing approach to life: her way or no

way. All or nothing never adds up to normal.

Every Soul A Star by Wendy Mass

The lives of three very

different teenagers

intersect during a rare and total solar eclipse.

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

“Don’t worry, Anna. I’ll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it.”“Okay.”“Promise me? Promise you won’t say anything?”“Don’t worry.” I laughed. “It’s our secret, right?”

Alex Rider Series by Anthony Horowitz Appearance: Alex is well built, with short fair hair

and brown eyes.Early Life: A few months after his birth, Alex's parents, John and Helen Rider, were killed in a plane crash. Alex was then raised by his uncle, Ian Rider.

Current status: Alex lives in London with his legal guardian, Jack Starbright. He attends Brookland School.MI6 status: After the death of his uncle, Alex began to work with MI6 on special assignments. See mission files for more information.

13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

Chronicles of Vladimir Todby Heather Brewer

• Twelfth Grade KillsIt all comes down to this. Vlad’s running out of time, the Elysian Council has given him only weeks to live. In this epic finale to the heart-stopping Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, dark secrets will be revealed, old friends will become enemies, and warm blood will run cold. Just be careful it isn’t yours.

So much for college applications..

Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

It’s been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents’ divorce—or since the fighting started. Now she has the chance to spend a carefree summer with her dad and his new family in the charming beach town where they live.

The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn

A book about America, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster, and told with warmth, humor, wit, candor, and love.

Summer Ball by Mike Lupica

When you're the smallest kid playing a big man's game, the challenges never stop-especially when your name is Danny Walker.

Grace Happens by Jan M. Czech

Fifteen-year-old Grace lives an unusual life. Her mother, Constance Meredith, is an A-list movie star in high demand

and ruthlessly hunted by the paparazzi. Grace has never had a real

home or attended a regular school; she grew up on movie sets and is

homeschooled by a live-in teacher. Her life may not be normal, but it isn't all

that bad.

My Almost Epic Summer by Adele Griffin

After being fired from her mother's salon, Irene has to find a summer

job quickly. She'd rather be drawing the hairstyles of heroines

from literature, her passion. She carries her notebook and a few

classic books everywhere, looking for inspiration.

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

Matt Cruse is the 15-year-old cabin boy aboard the Aurora, the 900-foot luxury airship he has called home for the past two years.

Then one night, over the middle of the ocean, deadly air pirates board the Aurora. Far from any hope of rescue, Kate and Matt are flung into adventures beyond all imagining. . .

Revolution by Jennifer DonnellyTwo girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words

and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and

distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages—until, on a

midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris…

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets.

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