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TITLE: Moxie
AUTHOR: Jennifer Mathieu WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mat - NOVELS SUMMARY: In a small Texas town where high school football reigns supreme, Viv, sixteen, starts a feminist revolution using anonymously-written zines. |
TITLE: Looking for Alaska
AUTHOR: John Green WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gre - NOVELS SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. |
TITLE: Dumplin'
AUTHOR: Julie Murphy WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mur - NOVELS SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs. |
TITLE: Five Feet Apart
AUTHOR: Rachael Lippincott WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lip - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-olds Stella and Will, both suffering from cystic fibrosis, realize the only way to stay alive is to stay apart, but their love for each other is slowly pushing the boundaries of physical and emotional safety. |
TITLE: Little Women
AUTHOR: Louisa May Alcott WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Alc - CLASSICS SUMMARY: The four March sisters experience joys and sorrows as they grow into young women in nineteenth century New England. |
TITLE: The Baby-Sitters Club: Kristy's Great Idea
AUTHOR: Adapted by Raina Telgemeier WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bab - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A graphic novel adaptation that follows the adventures of Kristy and the other members of the Baby-sitters Club as they deal with crank calls, uncontrollable two-year-olds, wild pets, and parents who do not always tell the truth. |
TITLE: The Girl on the Train
AUTHOR: Paula Hawkins WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Haw - THRILLER SUMMARY: Obsessively watching a breakfasting couple every day to escape the pain of her losses, Rachel witnesses a shocking event that inextricably entangles her in the lives of strangers. |
TITLE: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
AUTHOR: Bryan Stevenson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 353.4 Ste SUMMARY: The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice. |
TITLE: Little Fires Everywhere
AUTHOR: Celeste Ng WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ng - NOVELS SUMMARY: Fighting an ugly custody battle with an artistic tenant who has little regard for the strict rules of their progressive Cleveland suburb, a straitlaced family woman who is seeking to adopt a baby becomes obsessed with exposing the tenant's past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both of their families. |
TITLE: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
AUTHOR: Michelle McNamara WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.15 McN SUMMARY: True crime author Michelle McNamara describes the crimes of serial rapist and murderer the Golden State Killer and her work to try to uncover his identity. |
TITLE: Call Me By Your Name
AUTHOR: André Aciman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Aci - NOVELS SUMMARY: The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime. |
TITLE: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
AUTHOR: Becky Albteralli WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Alb - NOVELS SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he's pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he's never met. |
TITLE: Thirteen Reasons Why
AUTHOR: Jay Asher WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ash - NOVELS SUMMARY: High school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing seven cassette tapes recorded by his crush, Hannah Baker, who committed suicide, and spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death. |
TITLE: The Handmaid's Tale
AUTHOR: Margaret Atwood WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Atw - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order. |
TITLE: Pride and Prejudice
AUTHOR: Jane Austen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Aus - CLASSICS SUMMARY: A spirited young woman in early nineteenth-century England must cope with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. |
TITLE: The Princess Diaries
AUTHOR: Meg Cabot WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cab - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne. |
TITLE: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
AUTHOR: Stephen Chbosky WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cab - NOVELS SUMMARY: Charlie, a freshman in high school, explores the dilemmas of growing up through a collection of letters he sends to an unknown receiver. |
TITLE: Ready Player One
AUTHOR: Ernest Cline WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cli - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In the year 2044, Wade Watts, like the rest of humanity, chooses to escape reality and spends his waking hours in the limitless, utopian virtual world of the OASIS, but when Wade stumbles upon the first of the fiendish puzzles set up by OASIS creator James Halliday he finds he must compete with thousands of others--including those willing to commit murder--in order to claim a prize of massive fortune. |
TITLE: The Hunger Games
AUTHOR: Suzanne Collins WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Col - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death. |
TITLE: The Passage
AUTHOR: Justin Cronin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cro - HORROR SUMMARY: FBI agent Brad Wolgast vows to protext six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte after a government military experiment she was involved in goes bad, unleashing a toxic virus that turns humans into bloodthirsty monsters. |
TITLE: The Hate U Give
AUTHOR: Angie Thomas WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tho - NOVELS SUMMARY: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died. |
TITLE: It (Once you click, scroll down a bit to see this title.)
AUTHOR: Stephen King WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kin - HORROR SUMMARY: In 1985, six men and one woman are called back to Derry, Maine search for a creature of unspeakable evil that had stalked them as children. |
TITLE: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
AUTHOR: J. K. Rowling WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Row - FANTASY SUMMARY: Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. |
TITLE: The Sun Is Also a Star
AUTHOR: Nicola Yoon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Yoo - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Natasha is a girl who believes in science and facts. Daniel has always been a good son and good student. But when he sees Natasha he forgets all that and believes there is something extraordinary in store for both of them. |
TITLE: Everything, Everything
AUTHOR: Nicola Yoon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Yoo - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Confined to her home because she is allergic to the outside world, a teenage girl's life changes when she begins a romance with the new boy next door that challenges everything she's ever known. |
TITLE: Wonder
AUTHOR: R. J. Palacio WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Pal - NOVELS SUMMARY: Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunts and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student. |
TITLE: Paper Towns
AUTHOR: John Green WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gre - NOVELS SUMMARY: One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears. |
TITLE: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
AUTHOR: Jenny Han WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Han - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control. |
TITLE: Annihilation
AUTHOR: Jeff VanderMeer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Van - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Describes the 12th expedition to "Area X," a region cut off from the continent for decades, by a group of intrepid women scientists who try to ignore the high mortality rates of those on the previous 11 missions. |
TITLE: Divergent
AUTHOR: Veronica Roth WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rot - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. |
TITLE: The Glass Castle
AUTHOR: Jeannette Walls WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Wal SUMMARY: The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home. |
TITLE: Me Before You
AUTHOR: Jojo Moyes WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Moy - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living. |
TITLE: Murder on the Orient Express
AUTHOR: Agatha Christie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Chr - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Simon Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm and with a killer in the midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again. |
TITLE: The Swap
AUTHOR: Megan Shull WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Shu - NOVELS SUMMARY: When seventh-grader Ellie, who is having best-friend problems, and eighth-grader Jack, who is under tremendous pressure from his father, switch bodies and lives, they learn a great deal about themselves and the opposite sex. |
TITLE: Twelve Years a Slave
AUTHOR: Solomon Northup WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Nor SUMMARY: A memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana. |
TITLE: A Wrinkle in Time
AUTHOR: Madeleine L'Engle WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F L'En - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. |
TITLE: Jaws
AUTHOR: Peter Benchley WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ben - HORROR SUMMARY: As a great white shark terrorizes a small Long Island town, marine biologist Matt Hooper and Police Chief Martin Brody must find a way to stop the shark before more people are killed. |