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The Morgan School
2009 Suggested
Reading List
The following titles have been selected due
to their high interest and readability. They
often have a teenaged protagonist and/or
confront issues relevant to the lives of
high school students. Please be aware that
some of these books my contain strong
language, confront controversial issues
and/or explore adult situations. You may
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Adventure
Fiction
Historical Fiction Multi-Cultural
Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Nonfiction/Biography
Personal Issues, Health,
Science, Math
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Sports
ADVENTURE
Read
Alive
A rugby teams’ plane
crashes in the Andes Mountains in winter
and survival becomes all.
McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses
Young Texas rancher finds
adventure near border.
Maas
China White
A don of the Asian Mafia
hires a Manhattan lawyer to protect his
interests—heroin.
MacLean
Fire on the Mountain
A narrative of the South
Canyon fire of 1994 that burned for 10
days, and of the smokejumpers
Greenlaw
Hungry Ocean, The
The story of a grueling
30-day sword-fishing voyage encountering
savage weather, equipment failure, and
sharks
Krakauer
Into Thin Air
A college grad walks away
from his life and is found dead in the
Alaskan wilderness.
Bangs
Lost River: A Memoir of
Life, Death, and Transformation on Wild
Water, The
In the early 1970’s, a
quest to run the last unexplored rivers
of Africa; two men drown
Hobbs
River Thunder
Teens test their mettle
against Grand Canyon rapids.
Kurson
Shadow Divers
Rival divers search wreck
of German U-boat.
Frank
America
A lost boy without hope
meets doctor; gains an identity and
hope.
Levithan
Are We There Yet?
Brothers find themselves
on a trip to Italy.
Ferris
Bad
Girl faces consequences
of teenage delinquency in a rehab
center.
Conroy
Beach Music
An American expatriate in
Rome displays desperate desire to find
peace after his wife’s suicide.
Patchett
Bel Canto
Terrorists in South
America take party hostage.
Levenkron
Best Little Girl in the
World, The
Young girl battles with
anorexia.
Oates
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
Alliance of two teen
misfits accused of bomb threat
Roberts
Blood on his Hand
Coming-of-age as a family
falls apart
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NONFICTION/BIOGRAPHY
Wiesel
All Rivers Run to the Sea
This Nobel Peace Laureate
looks back at his years as an adolescent
in Auschwitz.
Strom
Calling the Shots
Firsthand experiences of
Earl Strom, an NBA referee for fifty
years
Wadsworth
Rachel Carson: Voice for
the Earth
This biography describes
the life and work of the noted biologist
and writer.
Morgan
Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel
The authorized biography
of the late Dr. Seuss
Schlosser
Fast Food Nation
Our love affair with fast
food
Fisher
Finding Fish
Nonfiction memoir by
screenwriter Antwone Fisher
Katz
Geeks: Two Lost Boys Rode
Internet out of Idaho
Nonfiction; computer
success
Hersey
Hiroshima
The stories of Hiroshima
residents shortly after the explosion,
giving the world first-hand accounts
from people who had survived the bomb
Bitton-Jackson
I Have Lived a Thousand
Years
Nonfiction Holocaust
story
Armstrong
It’s Not About the Bike
Lance Armstrong’s memoir
Rosenfeld
Iron Man: The Carl Ripkin
Story
A biography detailing
Carl Ripkin’s contributions as a player
for the Baltimore Orioles baseball team
Conway
Road from Coorain
The story of a woman’s
childhood in New South Wales, Australia,
and her gradual discovery of, and by,
the world
Walker
Same River Twice, The
Alice Walker recounts how
fame, illness, betrayal, and the
Pulitzer Prize impacted her life.
Fraser
Mary, Queen of Scots
This sympathetic
biography chronicles the life of a
tragic figure in English history.
Denenberg
An American Hero: The
True Story of Charles. A. Lindbergh
Biography highlights the
major events of Lindbergh’s life.
Solway
Dance Against Time, A
Dancer takes the ballet
world by storm. Then, at age 19, Eddie
tested positive for HIV.
Suskind
Hope in the Unseen, A
At a crime-infested
school, honor students learn to keep
their heads down. But one teen will not
swallow his pride.
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FICTION
LaRochelle
Absolutely, Positively Not
Gay teen comedy
Miller
Aimee
Guilt of girl coming to terms with a
friend’s suicide
Greene
Boy Who Drank Too Much, The
Hockey and alcoholism
Randle
Breakout
Foster child runs away.
Flinn
Breathing Underwater
Teen anger management issues
Anderson
Burger Wuss
Funny fast food coming-of-age
Runyon
Burn Journals, The
memoir of recovery from suicide attempt
Strasser
Can’t Get There From Here
Teen runaways, mature content
Anderson
Catalyst
Post-high school graduation blues
Moore
Caught in the Act
High school honors student
Moriarty
Center of Everything, The
Funny story of kid parenting parent
Stratton
Chanda’s Secrets
AIDs in an African village
Gibbons
Charms for the Easy Life
Margaret grows up in the South, guided
by her grandmother’s wisdom and her
mother’s beauty.
Koontz
Cold Fire
Reporter investigates what a local hero
means when he whispers in his sleep that
an enemy will kill everyone.
Toole
Confederacy of Dunces, A
New Orleans comedy
Sheldon
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Hilarious celebration of teen life
Haddon
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
Time, The
Gifted, autistic boy
McCormick
Cut
Teen self-mutilation
Bennett
Dakota Dream
After being shuttled between foster
homes and institutions, a 15 year-old
boy escapes a mental institution to a
Sioux reservation.
Klass
Dark Secret
Family crises
Brown
DaVinci Code
A murder in the Louvre museum reveals a
sinister plot to uncover a secret
protected since the days of Christ.
Packer
Dive from Clausen’s Pier, The
Girl struggles after fiancé is
paralyzed.
Wells
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Girl leaves Louisiana to break free from
her mother only to find out she yearns
to learn more about her mother and her 3
best friends.
Quarles
Door Near Here, A
Teenager takes control from alcoholic
mom.
Russo
Empire Falls
A father’s struggle with teenage
daughter
Sorrels
Fake ID
Strong language, lots about rock music
Going
Fat Kid Rules the World
Overweight boy becomes drummer in a rock
band.
Corbet
Fifteen Love
Tennis player survives being fifteen.
Johnson
First Part Last, The
Teenage dad and single parent
responsibility
Cohn
Gingerbread
Teenage girl shuttled from mother to dad
in NYC.
Hautman
Godless
A boy invents a new religion.
Tashjian
Gospel According to Larry, The
Teenager’s Internet ID becomes famous.
McNamee
Hate You
Dealing with an abusive father’s legacy
Rottman
Hero
Troubled ninth grader takes control of
his life.
Caletti
Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Mother, daughter find themselves.
Lynch
Inexcusable
High school rape, unreliable narrator
O’Brien
In the Lake of the Woods
The discovery that a Vietnam vet running
for office had been present at a
massacre ruins his career.
Gardner
Inventing Elliot
A victim has a choice in a new school to
become a bully.
Korman
Jake, Reinvented
Popularity, acceptance, and human nature
Gordimer
July’s People
A black servant in a South African
household reverses roles becoming the
host of his former master’s family.
Blunting
Jumping the Nail
California teens leap from dangerous
cliff; choices
Johnson
Key to the Golden Firebird, The
Teenaged sisters struggle with father’s
death.
Sparks
Kim: Empty Inside
A 17-year-old battles with anorexia.
Werlin
Locked Inside
Kidnapped teen confronts painful truths
Wittinger
Long Night of Leo and Bree, The
A young kidnapper and his victim face
off.
Green
Looking for Alaska
Edgy coming-of-age
Mackler
Love and Other Four-Letter Words
Teen sorts out feelings after divorce
Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
Set on the Caribbean coast of South
America, a story about a woman and two
men and their entwined lives
Sebold
Lovely Bones, The
Dead teen watches family from heaven
deal with loss.
Peters
Luna: A Novel
A teen struggles with gender identity.
Myers
Monster
Teen on trial for murder tries to sort
out who he is.
Freyman-Wey
My Heartbeat
Teen confronts a sibling’s possible
homosexuality.
Cart
Necessary Noise
Ten stories about the people we call
family.
Gallo
No Easy Answers
A collection of stories; teens making
tough choices
Flinn
Nothing to Lose
Teen’s mother on trial for murder of
abusive stepfather.
Ferris
Of Sound Mind
High school student deals with issues in
his deaf family.
Gallo
On the Fringe
Outsiders face the constant struggle of
hate and acceptance.
Kesey
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The story of a man who feigns insanity
and leads a group of mental hospital
inmates in a struggle against their ward
nurse
Lane
Orpheus Obsession, The
On the road with rockers
Mazer
Out of Control
Teen faces sexual harassment at school.
Johnson
Parallel Universe of Liars
Overweight girl struggles with identity
issues,
Orr
Peeling the Onion
An accident significantly alters a young
girl’s life.
Chobsky
Perks of Being a Wallflower, The
High-school freshman boy comes of age.
Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer, The
After discovering a family of coyotes, a
woman becomes determined to protect
them, a mission jeopardized by her
equally intense desire for a handsome
hunter.
Anderson
Prom
Reluctant girl gets roped into making
the big dance happen.
Cormier
Rag and Bone Shop, The
A boy accused of murder battles his
interrogator.
Thomas
Rats Saw God
Senior one step from flunking out
considers his life.
Nelson
Rock Star Superstar
Teen discovers the tough nature of the
music business.
Banks
Rule of the Bone
A punked-out teenager, rejected by his
parents, out of school and in trouble
with the police, begins an adventure to
the ganja-growing mountains of Jamaica.
Bauer
Rules of the Road
Cross-country journey of teen girl and
elderly employer
Deaver
Say Goodnight, Gracie
Teen girls suffer over friend’s
drunk-driving death.
Hautzig
Second Star to the Right
Talented teen suffers from anorexia.
Nolan
Send Me Down a Miracle
Sleepy town changed when NYC artist
arrives.
Giles
Shattering Glass
Popular teen boy makes over class
outcast with tragic results.
Proulx
Shipping News, The
In a Newfoundland fishing town, a
third-rate newspaper man and the women
in his life (his elderly aunt and two
young daughters)
Myers
Shooter
One of three high school loners goes on
shooting rampage.
Palmer
Shrapnel in the Heart
Collection of over 100 letters left at
the Vietnam memorial and the stories of
the wives, children and buddies who
wrote them.
Cohn
Shrimp
High school senior girl
Dessen
Someone Like You
Pregnant teen’s boyfriend dies,
reconnects with friends.
Korman
Son of the Mob
Comic tale of mob boss’s son who dates
FBI daughter
Anderson
Speak
Freshman girl date-raped must face the
consequences
McDonald
Spellbound
A spelling bee offers hope to drop-out
seeking a future.
Corrigan
Splintering
After-effects of a violent assault on a
dysfunctional family
Spinelli
Stargirl
Home-schooled girl faces life in Gr. 10
at public high.
Crutcher
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Friend helps badly burned girl with her
pain.
Koertge
Stoner & Spaz
Teen with disability befriends infamous
druggie.
Koja
Stray Dog
Angry teen finds solace in work at
animal shelter.
Draper
Tears of a Tiger
An African-American teenager considers
suicide in the wake of a devastating
tragedy.
Fusco
Tending to Grace
Girl finds her place when dumped with
elderly aunt.
Weisberg
Tenth Grade
The journal of tenth grader as he
chronicles his world
Lopez
Third and Indiana
The violence that is scarring American’s
vast urban wastelands, and the humanity
that might save them
Dessen
This Lullaby
College-bound girl’s life changes when
she meets rock musician.
Marsden
Tomorrow when the War Began
Seven high school seniors begin to
comprehend that their country has been
invaded and everyone in their town taken
prisoner.
Powell
Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star
Boy searches for family after mother’s
death.
Brooks
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
Wild girl upsets sleepy town.
Bradley
24 Girls in 7 Days
High school senior needs date
Maynard
Usual Rules, The
NYC girl faces life after 9/11 scars her
family.
de Lint
Waifs and Strays
Sixteen short stories about teens
Brugman
Walking Naked
Popular girl befriends outcast; both
change.
Howe
Watcher, The
Lonely, abused girl fantasizes about
boys she meets.
Moore
Watchmen
A half-insane hero uncovers a plot to
murder super-heroes, and millions of
innocent civilians.
Sones
What My Mother Doesn’t Know
Freshman experiences her first romance.
Lester
When Dad Killed Mom
Struggle to rebuild family after
domestic violence
Mazer
When She Was Good
Girl faces family alcoholism, abuse with
courage.
Letts
Where the Heart Is
Pregnant teen dumped at Wal-Mart finds
hope.
Flake
Who Am I Without Him
Stories; outcome of twelve unique
romantic trysts
Rochman
Who Do You Think You Are?
Stories of complex friendships between
teens
Baldacci
Wish You Well
Twelve-year-old and her little brother
cope with the illness of their mother as
they adjust to life in the Appalachian
Mountains.
Klass
You Don’t Know Me
Provocative tale of funny, self-aware,
scared teen boy
Wittlinger
ZigZag
Teen girl on cross-country journey finds
inner resources.
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HISTORICAL FICTION
Proulx
Accordion Crimes
The accordion that passes
from hand to hand in this novel delivers
illness, death and murder; Crimes
begins in 1890 New Orleans.
Hearn
Across the Nightingale
Floor
Boy thrust into political
intrigue in feudal Japan
Matas
After the War
Young Holocaust survivor
leads group to Palestine.
Rhodes
All for the Union
Accounts of campaigns
from Bull Run to Appomattox; diary
chronicles the career of one of the
Civil War’s most remarkable soldiers.
Pesci
Amistad
Rebellion of slaves
aboard the Amistad in 1839
Auch
Ashes of Roses
Immigration and the
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Terry
Bloods: An Oral History
of the Vietnam War
African-American
soldier’s nightmare; fighting for his
country and the discrimination/prejudice
encountered
Sinclair
Coffee Will Make You
Black
An African-American girl
in high school during in 1960’s Chicago;
first-person account of that turbulent
decade
Burns
Cold Sassy Tree
Story of a boy in a
turn-of-the-century town; his
grandfather suddenly marries his store’s
young clerk
Styron
Confessions of Nat Turner
The psychology behind Nat
Turner’s 1831 slave revolt; graphic
violence and Biblically-dimensioned
heartbreak
Blakeslee
Different Kind of Hero, A
1881 mining town
Weir
Eleanor of Aquitaine
A portrait of an
exceptional medieval woman who was wife
of both the King of France and the King
of England
Follett
Eye of the Needle
“The Needle” is an agent
hired by Hitler. He must find his way
back to Germany from Great Britain with
a secret that could defeat the D-Day
landing.
Myers
Fallen Angels
Tour of duty in Vietnam
O’Brien
Going After Cacciato
A private deserts Vietnam
war.
Springer
I Am Mordred
The Arthurian legend from
another perspective
Nolan
If I Should Die Before I
Wake
Neo-Nazi enters the mind
of a Polish Jew.
Shaara
Killer Angels, The
Novel brings to life the
Battle of Gettysburg
Gaines
Lesson Before Dying, A
In 1940’s Louisiana, a
young black man is about to wrongly go
to the electric chair for murder.
Cushman
Midwife’s Apprentice, The
Spirited young girl in
medieval England
Spinelli
Milkweed
Boyhood is lost to the
horrors of war in Warsaw ghetto.
Updale
Montmorency
Thief in Victorian London
reinvents himself.
Brown
Morning Glory Afternoon
Set in Kansas in 1924,
this novel recounts the experience of a
17 year-old as she deals with the KKK.
Donnelly
Northern Light, A
Teen is involved in
romance and murder in 1906.
Rees
Pirates!
Two runaway girls survive
on the high seas in 1722.
Kingsolver
Poisonwood Bible, The
It is 1959 and the place
is the Belgian Congo. A Baptist
preacher has come with his family to
spread the Word.
Chambers
Postcards from No Man’s
Land
World War II in Amsterdam
Edgerton
Redeye
Set in the
turn-of-the-century mesa lands of the
Colorado-Utah border, this book explores
American expansionism, opportunism,
religious fanaticism, and wide-eyed
adventure.
Philbrick
Revenge of the Whale
Survivors’ accounts of a
shipwreck in 1820
Burks
Runs with Horses
Apache boy resists
government in 1886.
Kidd
Secret Life of Bees
Abused girl confronts
racial tensions in 1964.
Paulsen
Soldier’s Heart
A fifteen year-old
battles in the Civil War.
Doyle
Star Called Henry, A
A poor young man fighting
for the Irish Republic becomes a gunman
and trainer of young countrymen.
Napoli
Stones in Water
Teen and his buddy face
horrors of German work camp.
Les Becquets
Stones of Mourning Creek,
The
Teen faces racial issues
in ‘60’s South.
Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching
God
A woman’s evolving
selfhood in 1937
Achebe
Things Fall Apart
An Obi tribesman when
white men first arrive
O’Brien
Things They Carried, The
Profound study of men
embroiled in Vietnam War
Hartnett
Thursday’s Child
Girl’s struggle to
survive life during the Depression
Lester
To Be a Slave
Personal testimonies of
men/women who lived in slavery
Bryant
Trial, The
Teen’s perspective on
Lindbergh kidnapping, 1935
Geras
Troy
Trojan War through the
eyes of the besieged Trojan women
Elliott
Under a War-Torn Sky
Teen pilot during WW II
lost behind enemy lines
Reiss
Upstairs Room, The
Two Dutch Jewish girls
hide during German occupation.
Otsuka
When the Emperor Was
Divine
Japanese in interment
camps in WW II
Blackwood
Year of the Hangman, The
Imaginative history; the
British won the Revolution
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MYSTERY, THRILLER, HORROR
Crichton
Airframe
A twin-engine commercial
jet encounters an accident that leaves
dead, wounded and a cabin in shambles.
Benchley
Beast
Story about an
Architeuthis dux, or giant squid,
menacing Bermuda
Plum-Ucci
Body of Christopher
Creed, The
Town geek killed
Ludlum
Bourne Identity, The
Dragged from the sea
riddled with bullets, face altered by
plastic surgery; who is Jason Bourne?
The answer lies buried deep in his past.
Cooney
Burning Up
Connecticut mystery
Hillerman
Dance Hall of the Dead
Two boys suddenly
disappear.
Forsyth
Day of the Jackal
An assassin is assigned
to kill the president of France.
King
Dead Zone
All the occult and
suspense without the usual King gore.
Halam
Dr. Franklin’s Island
Teens escape genetic
experimentation.
Werlin
Double Helix
A teen is involved in
genetics mystery.
Cormier
Fade
Paul is excited by his
ability to become invisible until it
drives him toward a horrifying act from
which there is no turning back.
Fleischman
Fate Totally Worse than
Death, A
Parody of teenage horror
novels
Granger
Fine Place for Death, A
An underage regular at a
local pub leaves in the company of an
unknown man on the night she is killed.
Thompson
Grounding of Group Six,
The
Arriving at an exclusive
school, five sixteen-year olds are
unaware that they have been sent there
to be exterminated.
Woods
Heat
Convicted of a crime he
didn’t commit, ex-DEA agent must
infiltrate a dangerous and reclusive
religious cult.
Nixon
Nightmare
Girl tries to uncover
mystery at summer camp.
Stabenow
Play with Fire
P.I. discovers a
decomposed body in the fire-ravaged
woods of Alaska, leading her to a
cultish community
Crichton
Prey
Thriller about the misuse
of nanotechnology
McDonald
Shades of Simon Gray
Teen computer whiz works
on new and old crimes.
Plum-Ucci
She, The
Teen boy searches for
clues to his parents’ disappearance.
Higgins Clark
Silent Night
Seven-year-old Brian
follows thief into the subway and into
the most dangerous adventure of his
young life.
Westerfield
So Yesterday
A thriller about
uncovering pop culture trends
LeCarré
Tailor of Panama, The
Be prepared for savage
novelty. LeCarré’s skills are at work
here.
Brown
Wired
Snowboarder mystery
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MULTI-CULTURAL
Garcia
Aguero Sisters, The
A story of family secrets
unfolds as sisters reunite; explore culture.
Carroll
An American Requiem
Choosing a world view
different from parents
Anaya
Bless Me Ultima
Life of family of Chicanos in
the Southwest
Cisneros
Caramelo
Hispanic immigrant experience
Sanders
Clover
Black girl grows up with
white stepmother.
Osa
Cuba 15
Quinceańero culture clash
Triana
Cubanita
Seventeen year-old female in
Miami
Yen Mah
Falling Leaves
Abuse in 20th century China
Dumas
Funny in Farsi
Coming of age memoir, Iran to
America
Butler
Good Scent from Strange
Mountain, A
A collection of bittersweet
stories about Vietnamese expatriates living
in the American South struggling to find a
balance between their hearts and their
hopes.
Soto
Help Wanted: Stories
Young
Mexican-Americans (ESL)
Cisneros
House on Mango Street, The
Girl’s childhood in a
Spanish-speaking area of Chicago is
described in a series of powerful vignettes.
Alvarez
How the Garcia Girls Lost
Their Accents
Four lively Latinas plunged
from a pampered life of privilege into the
big-city chaos of New York, rebel against
Mami and Papi’s old-world discipline.
Woodson
If You Come Softly
Black boy, Jewish girl and
the prejudice they face
Tan
Kitchen God’s Wife, The
The story of an aging Chinese
woman unfolding a life’s worth of secrets to
her Americanized daughter
Hosseini
Kite Runner, The
The harrowing relationship
between two boys in Afghanistan
Martel
Life of Pi
16-year-old shipwrecked with
a tiger
Martinez
Parrot in the Oven
Mexican-American boy’s life;
gangs
Garland
Shadow of the Dragon
High school boy tries to
resolve the conflict between the values of
his Vietnamese refugee family and his new
American way of life.
Na
Step From Heaven, A
Korean girl deals with
challenges of life in America.
Namioka
Ties That Bind
Chinese girl faces
consequences for rebellion against culture.
Mikaelsen
Tree Girl
Girl is caught up in violence
of civil war in Central America.
Wolff
True Believer
Inner city teen shapes life
amidst violence and drugs.
Crutcher
Whale Talk
New swim team confronts
town’s prejudices.
Carvell
Who Will Tell My Brother?
Mixed-race teen fights
prejudice and bullying.
Dorris
Yellow Raft in Blue Water, A
Three generations of Native
American women
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PERSONAL ISSUES, HEALTH, SCIENCE, MATH
Grealy
Autobiography of a Face
A woman’s candid memoir of
her struggle with jaw cancer as a child and
her attempt to live a normal life
Kolata
Clone: The Road to Dolly and
the Path Ahead
Account of this scientific
breakthrough along with the ethical issues
and developments of cloning.
Steinhart
Company of Wolves, The
The wolf as seen through the
eyes of biologists, wildlife managers,
ranchers, trappers, wolf lovers/haters
Preston
Hot Zone, The
An outbreak of the Ebola
virus in Virginia in 1989; the details are
all accurate and the events actually
happened
Paulos
Innumeracy
Our inability to deal
rationally with numbers - or with the
probabilities associated with them - results
in confused personal decisions.
Stewart
Nature’s Numbers
The key concepts of math and
their implications are explained, pointing
out that mathematics is a totally unreal,
entirely mental construct.
McGrayne
Nobel Prize Women in Science
The personal and professional
lives of 14 female scientists
Osserman
Poetry of the Universe
This tour through the ages
shows how mathematical concepts and
imagination have helped to illuminate the
observable universe
Ackerman
Rarest of the Rare:
Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
Ackerman investigates the
disappearance of endangered species and
habitats.
Barrett
Ship Fever
In this collection of short
stories, Barrett tells fictional tales of
events in the lives of famous scientists,
highlighting their ambitions, failings, and
relationships.
Carson
Silent Spring
Published in 1962, this was
the book that began the current ecological
awareness movement.
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SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
Soto
Afterlife, The
Killed in a club, a boy’s
ghost haunts those he loved.
Oppel
Airborn
Futuristic fantasy of teens
facing space pirates
Kress
Beggars and Choosers
As a byproduct of their
genetic mental enhancements, the Sleepless
neither sleep nor age and are reviled by the
unmodified majority of humans.
Stephens
Big Empty, The
Teenagers in a
post-apocalyptic future
De Lint
Blue Girl, The
Fantasy; high school girls
and a world of evil fairies
Asimov
Caves of Steel
A detective in a New York
that has moved underground to support its
exploding population, investigates the
murder of colonist from another world.
Allende
City of the Beasts
Supernatural forces in the
Amazon
Burgess, A.
Clockwork Orange, A
A violent juvenile delinquent
is caught and institutionalized in order to
make him civilized.
Velde
Companions of the Night
Girl aids an alleged vampire.
Jordan
Crown of Swords, A
Rand al’Thor, the Dragon
Reborn, draws even closer to the Last Battle
as a stifling heat grips the world.
Nolan
Dancing on the Edge
Return from beyond the grave
Bova
Death Dream
A man is hired to make sure
that Cyber World, the virtual reality theme
park of the future, opens on time.
Anthony
Demons Don’t Dream
Two escapees from Nundania
find themselves transported via a computer
disk to Xanth.
Adlington
Diary of Pelly D,
The
Futuristic colony
Herbert
Dune
Sweeping tale of a desert
planet called Arrakis, the focus of an
intricate power struggle in a Byzantine
interstellar empire.
Card
Ender’s Game/Ender’s Shadow
The alien Buggers threaten
humanity with extinction, and Earth’s
ultimate savior may be one small boy.
Teller
Exegesis
E-mail messages between a
grad student and EDGAR, an artificial
intelligence project she created
Anderson
Feed
Futuristic world; advertising
feeds planted in the brain
Cabot
Haunted
Teenage medium develops
relationship with a ghost.
Adams
Hitchhikers Guide to the
Galaxy, The
This book starts just seconds
before the Earth is demolished to make way
for a galactic freeway.
Hegland
Into the Forest
Sisters struggle to survive
in a world reverted to its natural state
after war, nuclear melt-downs, earth-quakes,
paramilitary attacks, and other cataclysms.
Chamberlin
Merlin of St. Gille’s Well,
The
This is the story of Joan of
Arc in terms of ancient pagan beliefs.
Heinlein
Puppet Masters, The
Slug-like creatures arrive in
saucer-shaped craft to enslave humans by
growing into their nervous systems
Hoffman
Stir of Bones, A
Ghost helps girl break away
from abusive parent.
Hautman
Sweetblood
Teen writer believes vampires
are untreated diabetics.
Paulsen
Transall
Saga, The
A hike in the desert whisks a
boy to an alien world.
Black
Valiant: A Modern Faerie Tale
Troll slave runs off to NYC.
Ingold
Window, The
A blind girl can “see” family
stories of past.
O’Brien
Z For Zachariah
Teen girl faces dangers in a
post-nuclear world.
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Alphin
The Perfect Shot
Basketball
Volponi
Black and White
Basketball, criminal justice
McKissack
Black Diamond
Stirring story of the Negro
Leagues
Grisham
Bleachers
A former All-American
struggles to reconcile his conflicted
feelings towards his legendary former coach.
Kahn
Boys of Summer, The
The author traveled with the
Brooklyn Dodgers and wrote about the many
heroes including: Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee
Reese, Roy Campanella and Leo Durocher.
Carter
Bull Catcher
“Bull” Larsen hopes to cap
his high school baseball career with a
college scholarship and a move to the pros.
Strom
Calling the Shots
The life of Earl Strom, an
NBA referee for fifty years
Coy
Crackback
Football; steroids
Trueman
Cruise Control
Basketball player whose
brother has cerebral palsy
Jenkins
Damage
A football star’s struggle
with depression
Klass
Danger Zone
Basketball player finds
himself faced with racist views when he
plays for the American dream team.
Powell
Dean Duffy
Baseball and scholarship
issues
Bissinger
Friday Night Lights
A nonfiction look at a Texas
high school football team
Hartje
From Behind the Red Line
A hockey star travels to
Russia in the dying days of the Soviet Union
to play elite league hockey.
Feinstein
Good Walk Spoiled, A
An examination of the
pressures of tour pros and their elusive
search for perfection in their golf games
Bechard
Hanging Out with Max
Football player decides to
keep baby.
Klass
Home of the Braves
Soccer player deals with
prejudice, old wounds.
Fromm
How All This Started
A college dropout obsessed
with Nolan Ryan, is determined to make her
younger brother the greatest pitcher of all
times.
Cheripko
Imitate the Tiger
Football player’s drinking
and epiphany
Blais
In These Girls, Hope is a
Muscle
A girls’ basketball team’s
quest for respect and success
Brennan
Inside Edge
Sportswriter chronicles one
year in the figure skating circuit.
Crutcher
Iron Man
Angry outbursts at his
football coach and English teacher cost boy
his spot on the football team and move him
dangerously close to expulsion.
Kluger
Last Days of Summer
Novel written in letters from
a boy to a baseball great.
Olajuwon
Living the Dream
Hakeem Olajuwon, NBA MVP in
1994, tells the story of his journey from
Lagos, Nigeria to the Houston Rockets.
Brooks
Moves Make the Man, The
Explosive friendship on
basketball court
Deuker
Night Hoops
Uneasy friendship of troubled
teens on varsity basketball team
Sweeney
Players
A new basketball player is a
threat to the team’s success.
Halberstam
Playing for Keeps
Book chronicles the forces in
Michael Jordan’s life that shaped him into
history’s greatest basketball player.
Deuker
Painting the Black
Teen tries out for the
baseball team finding himself in an ethical
dilemma when he discovers his friend has a
serious flaw.
Courtenay
Power of One, The
The story follows a young,
frail victim as he aims for the improbable
goal of welterweight champion of the world.
Cochran
Roughnecks
Football player’s chance to
redeem mistake
Deuker
Runner
A runner deals with
alcoholism.
Johnson
Safe at Second
A line drive causes teen
baseball star to lose an eye.
Bennett
Squared Circle, The
A university freshman and
star basketball player faces the pressures
of college life, NCAA competition and
painful memories.
Bouton
Strike Zone
The ultra-inside baseball
thriller by the bestselling author of
Eight Men Out: an aging umpire has
reasons to use his position to fix the game.
Halberstam
Summer of ‘49
The conflict between the
Boston Red Sox and the dreaded New York
Yankees.
Alborn
Tuesdays with Morrie
A true story about love,
affection, and gratitude between a mentor
and his pupil
Lupica
Travel Team
Boys cut from basketball team
create new team showing heart.
Paulsen
Winterdance: the Fine Madness
of Running the Iditarod
Madness
describes man’s participation in the
Iditarod, the annual 1,180-mile race by
dogsled across Alaska.
Wallace
Wrestling Sturbridge
Small town senior wrestler
faces big issues of life/love.
Have a great summer!
See you in the fall.
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