title: speak author: laurie halse anderson publisher: puffin isbn

Title: Speak

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

Publisher: Puffin

ISBN: 9780142407325

Summary: Melinda Sordino is starting high school with: a terrible secret, no friends, a family she can’t talk to, and a bad reputation. At an end of summer party Melinda was raped by a senior; however, she flees before the police arrive. Everyone at school thinks she did it on purpose because they do not know what happened that night. She carries the burden of this alone, confused and inwardly tortured. Once a happy girl, she is now depressed, withdrawn and hardly ever speaks. Melinda’s parents take note of her “condition” when they receive her report card; however, only Melinda’s art teacher Mr. Freeman is able to get her to speak.

Title: Looking for JJ

Author: Anne Cassidy

Publisher: Graphia Books

ISBN: 9780152061906Summary: Upon first meeting, Alice Tully seems like a normal teenager. She works at a small, friendly coffee shop (where she gets along with her co-workers), she has a boyfriend whom she adores, she lives with her guardian Rosie in a safe environment, and she is slated to go to University next year. With all that, what could possibly be wrong? Alice has a secret. A deep secret that eats her up inside and is soon to be exposed. What happens when our true identities are exposed?

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Title: The Hunger Games

Author: Suzanne Collins

Publisher: ScholasticISBN: 9780439023481Summary: Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining

Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death - televised for all of Panem to see. Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

Title: Catching Fire

Author: Suzanne CollinsPublisher: ScholasticISBN: 781407109367

Summary: This is the second book of the Hunger Games. It picks up six months after Katniss and Peeta won the Hunger Games. Despite being a national hero and having the ability to provide a nice house and plenty of food for her family, Katniss still feels uneasy. Her defiant behaviors that lead to her win is not sitting well with evil President Snow. She learns that her performance in the Hunger Games arena had far-reaching consequences. In beating the government at its own game the previous year, Katniss unintentionally demonstrated that the all-powerful President Snow is not quite so all-powerful. Now President Snow expects Kat to prove that she is a loyal citizen who doesn't support the anti-government rumblings that are spreading throughout the country, and if she doesn't succeed to President Snow's satisfaction, her family and friends will pay the price.



Title: The Book Thief

Author: Marcus ZusakPublisher: Knopf Books for Young ReadersISBN: 0375842209 / 978-0375842207

Summary: “It’s just a small story really, about, among other things: A girl / Some words / An accordionist / Some fanatical Germans / A Jewish fist-fighter / And quite a lot of thievery. The girl is nine-

year old Liesel, who is a foster child. Set before and during World War II, and told by a very interesting narrator. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist : books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with the hidden Jewish man in her basement and later with her neighbors during bombing raids.

Title: Sold

Author: Patricia McCormickPublisher: HyperionISBN: 0786851724 / 978-0786851720

Summary: Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal.

Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black-and-white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. When Lakshmi dreams of living luxuriously, she never imagines what is to come….

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Title: Airborn

Author: Kenneth OppelPublisher: Harpercollins CanadaISBN: 1554682819 / 9781554682812Summary: Enter a past in which airplanes have never been invented, giant airships rule the skies and the glittering skyscrapers of Lionsgate City, Canada’s greatest metropolis, rise near the Pacificus Ocean.

When Matt Cruse, cabin boy on the luxury airship Aurora, fearlessly performs a dramatic rescue to save an old man from his damaged hot air balloon, he doesn’t know what events he’s setting in motion. Will he and the balloonist’s fiery granddaughter, Kate de Vries, be able to solve the mystery of impossible flying creatures seen among the clouds? And will they figure it out before pirates and shipwreck end their voyage forever?

Title: Crazy Man

Author: Pamela PorterPublisher: Anansi Press: Groundwood BooksISBN: 0888996950 /978-0888996954

Summary: In the year 1965, Emaline was an 11-year-old girl who liked to have rides on her father's tractor.

One day she came from school and climbed onto a running tractor. To save her dog 'prince' for a tragic incident she jumped down only to get her foot badly cut off by the blade. She was taken to hospital, while her father shot the dog dead and walked out of his daughter's life. Emaline and her mother had to face difficult situations. 'Angus' known to the town as a crazy man was brought in from the mental hospital to help with the farm work. He was stared at and accused of theft...




Title: I am the Messenger

Author: Markus ZusakPublisher: Knopf Books for Young ReadersISBN: 0375836675 / 978-0375836671

Summary: Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the

Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.

That's when the first ace arrives in the mail.

That's when Ed becomes the messenger.

Title: Peeps

Author: Scott Westerfeld

Publisher: RazorbillISBN: 1595140832 / 978-1595140838

Summary: Cal Thompson, a young man who has just arrived in Manhattan is in for the adventure of a lifetime. Cal, like many others, has been infected with

a parasite; however, he is lucky enough to be a carrier, so he receives more of the perks than the disadvantages. Mixing fact with fiction, this novel is an intriguing read – more than you’ll have ever wanted to know about microscopic organisms!




Title: Uglies

Author: Scott WesterfeldPublisher: Simon PulseISBN: 0689865384 / 978-0689865381

Summary: The first in a four book series, projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at

sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty. Tally Youngblood, the protagonist of the novel, is one of the most daring of the Uglies. Her imaginative tricks get her in trouble with the menacing department of Special Circumstances, and this leads to a whole other world for her. Promises are broken, secrets are revealed, and life for Tally Youngblood will never be the same.

Title: Pretties


Summary: The second book in a series of four, the look into a dystopian future leaves more to be desired. Tally Youngblood, the protagonist of the

first book, has forgotten all that she did as an Ugly and has completely embraced the mindless life of a New Pretty – she is going to parties, drinking heavily, and thinking of nothing more than the next bit of entertainment. It is not until one of the Uglies from New Smoke comes and delivers a message for her that leads her to two pills, that she begins to remember the real reason she is Pretty: to see if the cure will work.



Title: Specials


Summary: The Third Book in the series - set some time in the future, after a human-made bacteria

destroyed the modern world. Tally Youngblood overcomes many things in this novel, and becomes an elite-fighting machine. She is fully enhanced with nanotechnology and has super-fast reflexes – what else to do but work for Special Circumstances?

Title: Extras


Summary: This is an extension of the Uglies series, but the protagonist here is fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse –

but don’t worry, Tally plays a part in this book as well! What happens when society is not forced to be compliant anymore? City’s take control of their citizens – there’s new pressure on the city’s resources, and in Japan, they have chosen to live in a “reputation economy.” Citizens are rewarded for helping the city, they are given a face rank and popularity becomes a major point of contention! Everyone wants fame, but at what cost?




Title: Waiting for Normal

Author: Leslie ConnorPublisher: Katherine TegenISBN: 0060890886 / 978-0060890889

Summary: Twelve-year-old Addison is just waiting for normal. Addie’s life seems to be anything but perfect,

and although the odds seemed to be stacked against her, she is forever optimistic. With her Mommers, it’s all or nothing, and when it’s all or nothing, you can’t have normal. Addie misses Dwight and the Littles, and she seems to goes through tumultuous times all on her own, but what gets her through it all is the hope of finding normal.

Title: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time IndianAuthor: Sherman AlexiePublisher: Little, Brown and CompanyISBN: 0316013692 / 9780316013697Summary: Told in first person, Arnold Spirit Jr. has had nothing but trouble since he threw a textbook at his Geometry teacher, Mr. P. As he soon discovers his life is less than desirable, he branches out and does

what no other youth on the Spokane reserve has done before; he goes to an all-white High School. Junior’s life has some ups, but is mostly filled with downs, as he struggles to find his destiny.

Title: The Life of PieAuthor: Yann MartelPublisher: Vintage CanadaISBN: 0676973779 / 978-0676973778

Summary: Pi Patel, a God-loving boy and the son of a zookeeper, has a fervent love of stories and practices






not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. Alas, the ship sinks-and Pi finds himself in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi. Can Pi and the tiger find their way to land? Can Pi's fear, knowledge, and cunning keep him alive until they do?

Title: EggheadAuthor: Caroline PignatPublisher: Red Deer PressISBN: 0889953996 / 978-0889953994Summary: Grade Nine life is hard – especially when your friend is a bully or a victim. Ninth-grader Will Reid is obsessed with ants – and believes he has every chance of winning the science fair with Katie’s help this year. Awkward and strange, Will becomes

the target of bullies. Shane and his crew think it’s fun to pick on him, and Katie doesn’t know what to do. As incidents escalate, one event

changes Will’s life forever. Title: ChainsAuthor: Laurie Halse AndersonPublisher: Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingISBN: 1416905855 / 978-1416905851

Summary: As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their

owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom.



Title: WintergirlsAuthor: Laurie Halse AndersonPublisher: SpeakISBN: 014241557X / 978-0142415573

Summary: "Dead girl walking," the boys say in the halls. "Tell us your secret," the girls whisper, one toilet

to another. I am that girl. I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame. Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. But what comes after size zero and size double-zero? When Cassie succumbs to the demons within, Lia feels she is being haunted by her friend's restless spirit.

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