|
Teen Picks: Volunteer Recommendations
|
|
|
|
|
Six of crows
by Leigh Bardugo
Offered a chance to participate in a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams, criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker recruits a team of talented associates to organize a plot that is threatened by their mutual enmity.
|
|
|
Love & olives
by Jenna Evans Welch
When her long-estranged father invites sixteen-year-old Liv Varanakis to help him film a documentary about his theories on Atlantis, she looks forward to reconnecting but discovers he may have invited her to Greece for a very different reason.
|
|
|
Piecing Me Together
by Renée Watson
Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, Jade would rather participate in the school's Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
|
|
|
The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable
by John Boyne
An evocatively illustrated edition of the international best-seller follows the experiences of young Bruno in a desolated, fenced-in region of 1942 Berlin, where his friendship with a boy from very different circumstances has devastating consequences.
|
|
|
The cousins
by Karen M. McManus
Invited to their grandmother’s island resort for the summer, three cousins who have never previously met uncover dark family secrets about why their parents were disinherited and what they must do to regain their grandmother’s favor. Simultaneous eBook.
|
|
|
Challenger Deep
by Neal Shusterman
A brilliant but troubled high school student pretends to engage in sports activities and uses his artistic talents to document his voyage to the world's most southern point while his friends observe his increasingly unbalanced behavior. National Book Award and Golden Kite Award Winner.
|
|
|
Grave mercy
by Robin LaFevers
Escaping a brutal arranged marriage into the sanctuary of a convent of assassin nuns who serve ancient gods, 17-year-old Ismae learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts and a violent destiny that requires her to destroy the lives of others at the high court of Brittany. 100,000 first printing.
|
|
|
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
by Mark Haddon
After stumbling upon his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork and being blamed for the killing, fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone, an autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, decides to track down the real killer and turns to his detective hero to help him with the investigation, which brings him face to face with a family crisis. A first novel. Reader's Guide available.
|
|
|
Dear heartbreak : YA authors on the dark side of love
by Heather Demetrios
A teen anthology in the tradition of Dear Sugar features responses from such leading young-adult authors as Nina LaCour, Libba Bray and A. S. King to letters from real teens from all walks of life who have asked for advice about the darker side of love, including dating violence, cheating and breakups. Simultaneous eBook
|
|
|
Carve the mark
by Veronica Roth
Living on a violent planet where everyone manifests a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from opposing countries, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners. Simultaneous eBook.
|
|
|
Far from the Tree
by Robin Benway
Feeling incomplete as an adopted child after placing her own baby up for adoption, teen Grace tracks down her biological siblings and finds herself struggling with the dynamics of being a middle child between an embittered older brother and an outspoken younger sister. National Book Award Winner.
|
|
|
|
|
|