Isinglass Book List

The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah By Nora Raleigh Baskin

The Compound By S. A. Bodeen

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas By John Boyne

Eighth Grade Bites By Heather Brewer

Airman By Eoin Colfer

The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

Losing Forever By Gayle Frieseh

The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman

Gone By Michael Grant

Football Genius By Tim Green

Found By Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Ruby Key By Holly Lisle

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks By: E. Lockhart

The Declaration By Gemma Malley

The Reminder By Rune Michaels

Night of the Howling Dogs By Graham Salisbury

My Swordhand is Singing By Marcus Sedgwick

Amazing Grace By Megan Shull

Everlost By Neal Shusterman

The Red Thread By Roderick Townley

The Red Thread

The Red Thread
By Roderick Townley
Library Standing: We don’t have this book but we would be happy to ILL it for you!

Prompted by recurrent dreams, sixteen-year-old Dana Landgrave uncovers an ancient crime that has drawn the same souls together through three lifetimes.

There's nothing sinister about the girl's sunlit twenty-first-century American life in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Yet, centuries ago, terrible things were done — by someone she knows! Could it be her easygoing, easy-to-look-at boyfriend, Chase? Or her younger brother, Ben, who has been confined to a wheelchair since a school bus accident? What about Gianna, her inscrutable enemy on the yearbook staff? Or her eccentric psychotherapist, Dr. Sprague?

As Dana summons courage to reenter the past, each incarnation propels her to new discoveries — and new suspicions — until the threads of all three lives converge in a devastating revelation.

Everlost

Everlost
By Neal Shusterman
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Nick and Allie don't survive the crash, and now their souls are stuck halfway between life and death in a sort of limbo called Everlost. It's a magical yet dangerous place, where bands of lost souls run wild andanyone who stands in the same spot too long sinks to the center of the Earth.
Frightened and determined, Nick and Allie aren't ready to rest in peace just yet. They want their lives back, and their search for a way homewill take them deep into the uncharted areas of Everlost. But the longer they stay, the more they forget about their pasts. And if all memory of home is lost, they may never escape this strange, terrible world.

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace
By Megan Shull
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Tired of the endorsements, press conferences, and tournaments, Grace Kincald, a beautiful tennis superstar, goes into hiding and starts a new life in Alaska, with the help of a former FBI agent, where she transforms herself into the girl she’s always wanted to be.

My Swordhand is Singing

My Swordhand is Singing
By Marcus Sedgwick
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WHEN TOMAS AND HIS SON, Peter, settle in Chust as woodcutters, Tomas digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut, so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this, nor why his father carries a long, battered box, whose mysterious contents he is forbidden to know.
But Tomas is a man with a past: a past that is tracking him with deadly intent, and when the dead of Chust begin to rise from their graves, both father and son must face a soulless enemy and a terrifying destiny.

Night of the Howling Dogs

Night of the Howling Dogs
By Graham Salisbury
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DYLAN'S SCOUT TROOP goes camping in Halape, a remote spot below the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. The only thing wrong with the weekend on a beautiful, peaceful beach is Louie, a tough older boy. Louie and Dylan just can't get along.
That night an earthquake rocks the camp, and then a wave rushes in, sweeping everyone and everything before it. Dylan and Louie must team up on a dangerous rescue mission. The next hours are an amazing story of survival and the true meaning of leadership.

The Reminder

The Reminder
By Rune Michaels
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Daisy, otherwise known as Daze, keeps hearing her dead mother's voice. Sometimes it's because of her dad, who likes to watch old home movies when he can't sleep. Sometimes it's because of her brother, who was too young to remember Mom, and needs to be reminded by looking at photographs and watching videos. Sometimes it might just be her mind trying to work out what her therapist would call "issues." But this time, it is none of those things. It's something much more wonderful and much more terrifying, something Daze never thought possible. And it might allow Daze to do what she couldn't years ago: save her mother's life.

The Declaration

The Declaration
By Gemma Malley
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It's the year 2140 and Longevity drugs have all but eradicated old age. A never-aging society can't sustain population growth, however...which means Anna should never have been born. Nor should any of the children she lives with at Grange Hall. The facility is full of boys and girls whose parents chose to have kids--called surpluses--despite a law forbidding them from doing so. These children are raised as servants, and brought up to believe they must atone for their very existence. Then one day a boy named Peter appears at the Hall, bringing with him news of the world outside, a place where people are starting to say that Longevity is bad, and that maybe people shouldn't live forever. Peter begs Anna to escape with him, but Anna's not sure who to trust: the strange new boy whose version of life sounds like a dangerous fairy tale, or the familiar walls of Grange Hall and the head mistress who has controlled her every waking thought?

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
By: E. Lockhart
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Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14:
Debate Club.
Her father's "bunny rabbit."
A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school.

Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15:
A knockout figure.
A sharp tongue.
A chip on her shoulder.
And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston.

Frankie Landau-Banks.
No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer.
Especially when "no" means she's excluded from her boyfriend's all-male secret society.
Not when her ex-boyfriend shows up in the strangest of places.
Not when she knows she's smarter than any of them.
When she knows Matthew's lying to her.
And when there are so many, many pranks to be done.

Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16:
Possibly a criminal mastermind.

This is the story of how she got that way.

The Ruby Key

The Ruby Key
By Holly Lisle
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Mankind is Sunkind
And rules by the light;
Nightlings are Moonkind,
And rule in the night;
Or there will be war.

Human and Nightlings are never to meet, but when Genna and her brother Dan venture into the old forest at night, they encounter a Nightling slave who reveals a terrifying secret: Genna and Dan's village chieftain has made a dangerous deal with Letrin, ruler of the Nightlings, offering the lives of his people in exchange for his own immortality.

To save the villagers and themselves, Genna and Dan strike their own bargain with the Nightling lord, but the stakes are even higher.

Found

Found
By Margaret Peterson Haddix
Library Standing: We have this in book form!

Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who's also adoped, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, "You are one of the missing." The second one says, "Beware! They're coming back to get you."

Jonah, Chip, and Jonah's sister, Katherine, are plunged into a mystery that involves the FBI, a vast smuggling operation, an airplane that appeared out of nowhere — and people who seem to appear and disappear at will. The kids discover they are caught in a battle between two opposing forces that want very different things for Jonah and Chip's lives.

Do Jonah and Chip have any choice in the matter? And what should they choose when both alternatives are horrifying?

Football Genius

Football Genius
By Tim Green
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Troy White has a phenomenal gift. He can predict football plays before they happen. Any position. Any player. Any team.

When Troy's single mom gets a job working in public relations for the Atlanta Falcons, Troy figures it's his chance to prove what he can do. But first he has to get to the Falcons—and with tight security and a notoriously mean coach, even his mom's field passes aren't much help.

Then Troy and his best friends devise a plan to get the attention of star linebacker Seth Halloway. With Seth's playing and Troy's genius, the Falcons could be unstoppable—if they'll only listen.

Gone

Gone
By Michael Grant
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Except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not one single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened.

Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers—that grow stronger by the day.

It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else...

The Graveyard Book

The Graveyard Book
By Neil Gaiman
Library Standing: We have this in both book and audio form!

Nobody Leaves.
Hear this tragic tale: a sleeping family, a talented murderer, and an adventurous toddler — orphaned, but not assassinated. Small and alone, by accident and luck he escapes the scene of the crime and climbs a grassy hill to safety. At the top of the hill the boy finds a fence, and on the other side, a dark, quiet place.
And what is to become of him?

Nobody Stays.

The boy is welcomed on the hill where the dead do not sleep, and the graveyard residents rally to protect him. For outside the fence that separates a city from its ghosts, a dastardly killer is patient and persistent. The danger is real, and it is alive. It is hunting, and wise, and evil. A little child must not be left to the merciless knife of a professional fiend.
But who will watch over him?

Nobody’s Home.

The chattering dead make a pact. A decision is made, and shelter is granted to the tiny fellow, who has no inkling of his peril. He has no parents, no place, and no name. But the kind-hearted spirits will not let him freeze, or starve, or meet his end by a murderer’s blade. They wrap the breathing boy in a shroud. They call him Nobody, for he looks like nobody but himself.

What will happen now?

Losing Forever

Losing Forever
By Gayle Frieseh
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For Jes, normal life is slipping away. Her mother is getting married again and is totally preoccupied with planning the perfect wedding. And if one fool in love is not enough, Jes's best girlfriend has fallen for a complete jerk. To make matters worse, Jes also has to deal with Angela, her soon-to-be stepsister, who has come to stay for a month before the wedding. A half-crazed mother, a lovesick friend, a perfectly evil stepsister — could things for Jes get any worse?

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins
Library Status: We have this in book form!

Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When her sister is chosen by lottery, Katniss steps up to go in her place.

Airman

Airman
By Eoin Colfer
Library Standing: We have this in book form!

Conor Broekhart was born to fly. In fact, legend has it that he was born flying, in a hot air balloon at the Paris World’s Fair.

In the 1890s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the kind’s daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy’s idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king. When Conor tries to intervene, he is branded a trator and thrown into jail on the prison island of Little Saltee. There, he has to fight for his life, as he and the other prisoners are forced to mine for diamonds in inhumane conditions.

There is only one way to escape Little Saltee, and that is to fly. So Conor passes the solitary months by scratching drawings of flying machines on the prison walls. The day comes when Conor must find the courage to trust his revolutionary designs to take to the skies.

Eighth Grade Bites

Eighth Grade Bites
By Heather Brewer
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Life is not easy for any thirteen-year-old, but when your mother was a human and your father was a vampire, and they were both killed in a fire, it's especially hard. The school bullies harass Vladimir Tod, the principal seems to have it in for him, and the girl he likes and wants to ask to the dance seems to prefer his friend, Henry.

Vlad's mother's best friend is raising him, and "Aunt" Nelly understands his problems and helps him to hide the fact that he is a vampire and must have fresh blood to survive. Vlad's best friend, Henry, is the only other person who knows his secret, and Vlad did bite Henry once when they were eight years old.

Vlamimir has real rapport with one teacher, but that teacher has disappeared and no one knows where he is. Vlad and Henry are determined to find out what happened to him. The substitute teacher begins to question Vlad too closely...and there is just something strange about Mr. Otis Otis. Vlad worries that Otis might suspect the truth. Then when Otis assigns Vampires as Vlad's research project, and the teacher scribbles "I know your secret" across the bottom of his essay, he is really frightened. Vlad discovers his father's journal and is learning about the reality of being a vampire and the powers that he may possess. He also becomes convinced that there is a Vampire killer in town, and that he is searching for Vlad. Things go from bad to worse when Aunt Nelly invites Otis to dinner and he confronts Vlad with what he knows

This is a well plotted, exciting, supernatural adventure that kept me reading, and the gripping confrontation with the vampire horde is electrifying, but be prepared for some gross-out vampire stuff...how about chocolate chip cookies dipped in blood?

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
By John Boyne
Library Standing: We have this in both book and audio form!

Berlin 1942

When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance.

But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.

The Compound

The Compound
By S. A. Bodeen
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Eli and his family have lived in the underground Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone, and they’ve become accustomed to their new life. Accustomed, but not happy. No amount of luxury can stifle the dull routine of living in the same place, with only his two sisters, only his father and mother, doing the same thing day after day after day. As problems with their carefully planned existence threaten to destroy their sanctuary—and their sanity—Eli can’t help but wonder if he’d rather take his chances outside. Eli’s father built the Compound to keep them safe. But are they safe—really?

The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah

The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah
By Nora Raleigh Baskin
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Caroline’s mom is Jewish, her dad isn’t, and Caroline has never really thought of herself as any religion. But when her nana dies and leaves Caroline a Star of David necklace, Caroline begins to wonder about her heritage. If she starts going to synagogue, won’t that upset her dad? Should she have a Bat Mitzvah like her best friend, Rachel? Does Caroline want to be Jewish? The more she thinks about it, the more questions she has.

Isinglass Book List Information

2009-2010 Nominees for the Isinglass Awards

Isinglass Teen Read Award
For 7th & 8th Grade
Criteria and Committee

The Isinglass Teen Read Award has been ongoing since 2001 with winners such as
Rodman Philbrick, Walter Dean Myers, Patricia McCormick, and Christopher Paolini.
We have gone from one community voting to 14 voting as of the 2004-5 voting cycle.
We have opened up voting to all NH towns that wish to participate. The committee currently meets monthly from September-April to determine the list from student-generated recommendations. We have 6 librarians who make up the selection committee, half of which are school librarians. The web site for Isinglass titles is hosted on the Barrington Public Library web site, as the chairperson of our committee is the Director, Amy Inglis.

Mission Statement: To encourage middle school level students to read for enjoyment
and promote a life-long love of reading and books.

Our criteria:
• Recommended by a teen directly, or, a book that YA librarians can’t keep on the
shelf due to high interest among students.
• High interest and appropriate reading level for 7-8th graders.
• Readily available in print in the US; author does NOT have to be from this
country.
• A title in a series must stand alone
• Non-fiction and previous award winners may be nominated
• We prefer titles published in the last 3 years, and choose the majority of the list
from these titles, but we WILL consider older titles that may deserve a “new life”
among our youth.
• Titles must be submitted to the committee chair June-January and include title,
author, publication year, and genre.
• Books will not be disqualified for tough topics or language that is appropriate to
the story. We strive to provide a well-rounded list that may also include some
books that are not appropriate for all readers. Parents make the final decision as
to what their children read.
• All books are read by the committee, reviews are sought, and selections chosen by
a panel of school and public librarians with expertise in working with teens.

Selection Criteria:
• Teen appeal, i.e. will teens be interested in the book topic, characters, and setting
and find the book a satisfying and enjoyable read.
• Quality of writing, i.e. has the author written a story with well-developed plot,
characters, and setting. The book must be a model for that genre and have an
interesting theme.
• Originality of the text
• Subject matter of current interest to teens
• Suitability of vocabulary and content for the age range
• Relevance to today’s societal issues
• Reflects a teen experience or concern
• Language style and usage
• Books that provide a balance selection of genres so the list reflects a wide variety
of reading tastes

The Isinglass Final List:
The committee meets Sept.-April to talk about books recommended for the list. The
committee will finalize the list in early April in order to make the choices available for
the May NHLA Conference. The final list will be comprised of 20 titles and will be
announced at NHLA. The Barrington Public Library will host the Isinglass page and add
any criteria, forms, etc. as needed until such time as the chairmanship moves on to
another library. PR about the book list will be sent via the state e-mail list and school
librarians will be informed.
• Student recommendations for the next years list may be sent via e-mail to
blibrary@metrocast.net Please include full title, author, and year published.
Recommendations will be taken from June-January in order to give the committee
time to review titles for a May final list.

For More Information Please Visit:
http://home.metrocast.net/~blibrary/teenindex.htm

Flume Book List

Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher

Graceling By Kristen Cashore

Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

Deadline By Chris Crutcher

Little Brother By Cory Doctorow

Waves By Sharon Dogar

The Christopher Killer-A Forensic Mystery By Alane Ferguson

Sold By Patricia McCormick

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X By James Patterson

The Last Lecture By Randy Pausch

I Heart You, You Haunt Me By Lisa Schroeder

Testimony By Anita Shreve

Pride of Baghdad By Brian Vaughan

Waves

Waves
By Sharon Dogar
Library Standing: We don’t have this but we could ILL it for you!

WAVES tells the story of the Dittons, a family in England struggling to come to terms with the events of a tragic accident that took place one summer at their beach house. Sixteen-year-old Charley, the oldest daughter, was left in a coma following what was believed to be a surfing mishap. The book starts with the family preparing to go back to the beach house for the first time since Charley's accident. The narrative shifts from its primary protagonist --- Hal, Charley's 14-year-old brother --- who feigns indifference at Charley's situation when he really, desperately wants his sister back, and Charley, trapped in a body that no longer responds to her commands.

Both teens sojourn back and forth in time, their present day minds touching one another on occasion, leaving Hal convinced that someone witnessed Charley's accident --- someone who could have helped her but didn't. Both Hal and Charley search their memories for answers, but at the same time seem incapable of transcending the unfolding events of the present.

Complicating matters for Hal is Jack, a girl his age whose family also owns a beach house nearby. Hal gets his first taste of romance with Jack, which distracts him from his quest to learn the truth about what happened to Charley. To make matters worse, Jack is the sister of Pete, the "surfing god" Charley was hanging around before the accident --- making him a prime suspect, in Hal's mind. The mystery slowly unfolds, and Hal, with "help" from Charley, moves closer to understanding what happened that fateful night.

Thirteen Reasons Why

Thirteen Reasons Why
By Jay Asher
Library Standing: We have this in book form!

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker--his classmate and crush--who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.

Testimony

Testimony
By Anita Shreve
Library Standing: We have this in book form!

Four teenagers - one dead, three with their futures in tatters. This is the opening promise of Testimony, with two or more ruined marriages and a school's disgraced reputation thrown in.

All this drama spools out of a video cassette handed to Avery Academy's headmaster, Mike, which shows four students - three male, one female - engaged in sexual acts. The boys are aged between 17 and 19; the girl is 14, which makes the boys' actions sexual assault according to the laws of the State of Vermont.

Nothing in the tape suggests the girl is unwilling; if anything, she seems to be in control. This is not a story of a group of boys coercing a girl into sex. It is the story of how very young lives can be hurled off course - and in one case, ended - by an alcohol-fuelled evening of bad choices, immaturity and hormones.

Sold

Sold
By Patricia McCormick
Library Standing: We don’t have this book but we could ILL it for you!

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 pet goat and doing her schoolwork by lamplight. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family.

He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid working for a wealthy family in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi undertakes the long journey to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution.

An old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cunning and cruelty. She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family's debt – then cheats Lakshmi of her meager earnings so she can never leave.

Lakshmi becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. Still, she lives by her mother's words – "Simply to endure is to triumph" – and gradually she forms friendships with the other girls that enable her to survive in this terrifying new world. Then the day comes when she must make a decision – will she risk everything for a chance to reclaim her life?

The Pride of Baghdad

The Pride of Baghdad
By Brian Vaughn
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In the spring of 2003, a pride of lions escaped from the Baghdad Zoo during an American bombing raid. Lost and confused, hungry but finally free, the four lions roamed the decimated streets of Baghdad in a desperate struggle for their lives. In documenting the plight of the lions, PRIDE OF BAGHDAD raises questions about the true meaning of liberation — can it be given, or is it earned only through self-determination and sacrifice? And in the end, is it truly better to die free than to live life in captivity?

Little Brother

Little Brother
By Cory Doctorow
Library Standing: We have this book in book form!

Marcus Yallow, also known as w1n5t0n (using the leet alphabet), though later in the book he changes to M1k3Y, and three of his friends are truant from high school and find themselves near a terrorist bombing of The San Francisco Bay bridge. The foursome are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and held as enemy combatants because of their suspicious behavior, including having encryption on Marcus' cell phone. Marcus is eventually released to find that San Francisco has become a police state. He fights back against the DHS using technology and guile.

The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture
By Randy Pausch
Library Standing: We have this in book and audio form!

On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture called “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” With slides of his CT scans beaming out to the audience, Randy told his audience about the cancer that is devouring his pancreas and that will claim his life in a matter of months. On the stage that day, Randy was youthful, energetic, handsome, often cheerfully, darkly funny. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he himself acknowledged.

I Heart You, You Haunt Me

I Heart You, You Haunt Me
By Lisa Schroeder
Library Status: We don’t have this book but we could ILL it for you!

Girl meets boy.
Girl loses boy.
Girl gets boy back...
...sort of.

Ava can't see him or touch him, unless she's dreaming. She can't hear hisvoice, except for the faint whispers in her mind. Most would think she'scrazy, but she knows he's here.
Jackson. The boy Ava thought she'd spend the rest of her life with. He's back from the dead, as proof that love truly knows no bounds.

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins
Library Status: We have this in book form!

Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When her sister is chosen by lottery, Katniss steps up to go in her place.

Graceling

Graceling
By Kristen Cashore
Library Status: We have this book in book form!

Graceling, my debut novel, is the story of Katsa, who has been able to kill people with her bare hands since she was eight. Katsa lives in the seven kingdoms, where very occasionally, a person is born with an extreme skill called a Grace. Gracelings are feared and exploited in the seven kingdoms, and none moreso than Katsa, who's expected to do the dirty work of torture and punishment for her uncle, King Randa. But then she meets a mysterious stranger named Po, who is also a Graced fighter and the first person ever to challenge her in a fight. The two form a bond, and each discovers truths they never imagined about themselves, each other, and a terrible danger that is spreading slowly through the seven kingdoms.

Deadline

Deadline
By Chris Crutcher
Library Status: We don’t have this one but we could ILL it for you!

Ben Wolf goes in for a routine physical at the beginning of his senior year. He walks out with a year to live and some big decisions to make:

I walked away understanding I have a rare form of whatever the hell it is and without treatment my chances sucked, but with it they still sucked and somehow I knew my chances aren't about living, they're about living well. I wouldn't recommend this for anyone else, but I'm not going out bald and puking. I don't have anything to teach anyone about life, and I'm not brave, but I'd rather be a flash than a slowly cooling ember, so I'll eat healthy food, take supplements, sleep good, and take what the universe gives me.

And I'm turning out for football.

Not only does he decide to forgo treatment -- he decides that he wants his last year to be as normal as possible. So he doesn't tell anyone. His parents, his brother, his coach -- no one.

He sets out to do a lifetime's worth of living in a year. He wants to learn as much as he can, understand as much as he can, get up the nerve to talk to Dallas Suzuki and, yes, go out for football.

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
By James Patterson
Library Status: We have this in both book form and audio form!

He was born with great power. The greatest superpower of all isn't to be part spider, part man, or to cast magic spells–the greatest power is the power to create. Daniel X has that power and a deadly secret. Daniel's secret abilities–like being able to manipulate objects and animals with his mind or to re-create himself in any shape he chooses–have helped him survive. But Daniel doesn't have a normal life. He is the protector of Earth, the Alien Hunter, with a mission beyond anyone's imagining. Now the fate of the world rests on Daniel X. From the day that his parents were brutally murdered before his very eyes, Daniel has used his unique gifts to hunt down their assassin. Finally, with the help of The List, bequeathed to him in his parents' dying breath, he is closing in on the killer. Now, on his own, he vows to carry out his father's mission–and to take vengeance in the process.

The Christopher Killer: A Forensic Mystery

The Christopher Killer: A Forensic Mystery
By Alane Ferguson
Library Status: We don’t have this one here but we could ILL it for you!

As the daughter of a Colorado County coroner, seventeen-yearold Cameryn Mahoney is no stranger to death. in fact, she’s always been fascinated by the science of it. so she’s thrilled to finally get some hands-on experience in forensics working as her father’s assistant. but Cammie is in for more than she bargained for when the second case that she attends turns out to be someone she knows—the latest victim of a serial killer known as the Christopher Killer. And if dealing with that isn’t hard enough, Cammie soon realizes that if she’s not careful, she might wind up as the killer’s next victim. . . .

The Flume: Background Information

The Flume: NH Teen Reader’s Choice Award was created in 2005 in response to a New Hampshire teens’ request to have a book award geared towards high school students. This award is a state-wide venture led by a collaborative effort from school and public librarians. Each year teens nominate titles, published within the last two years, they think deserve to be recognized. Librarians then narrow the group of titles to a list of 13. Teens then vote for the winning title from the list of 13.

Nomination Criteria

Titles must be nominated by teens in grades 9-12, can be fiction or nonfiction books, with appeal to this age group. They must have a publication date within the last two years. If the books is part of a series, it must be able to stand alone, meaning a reader doesn’t have to read the other books in the series to understand what’s going on.

For more information about this award visit www.nashualibrary.org/YALS/Flume.htm

Young Adult News

Teens, be sure to check out the new YA book section. All the new YA titles will now be displayed here.

There will be no teed advisory meeting in August. Starting in September we should be able to go back to meeting the second Tuesday of every month. Please let Chrissy know if you want to be called and reminded of upcoming teen events.