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2020 Mount Sinai Summer Reading List 11th Grade
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All the bright placesby Jennifer NivenMeeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world.
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Before I fallby Lauren OliverAfter her charmed life ends in a car crash, teenager Samantha relives the last day of her life seven times during one week in which she untangles the mystery surrounding her death and discovers the true value of everything she's in danger of losing.
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Beauty queensby Libba BrayWhen the 50 contestants of the Miss Teen Dream Pageant crash on a desert island, the young beauty queens struggle between survival efforts and denial while hoping for rescue and encountering a band of handsome pirates. By the Printz Award-winning author of Going Bovine.
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Blood of my bloodby Barry LygaJazz Dent, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
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Bone Gapby Laura RubyKnowing that his sister has been kidnapped by a dangerous assailant and that she did not abandon the family like their mother did years earlier, Finn confronts town secrets to organize a search. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of Lily's Ghost.
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Burnoutby Adrienne Maria VrettosMonths after coming out of alcohol and drug rehab, high school student Nan wakes up on the subway the day after Halloween with short hair, a torn Halloween costume, the words "Help me" on her chest, and no idea how she got there
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The cellarby Natasha PrestonFor months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet.
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Children of blood and boneby Tomi AdeyemiSeventeen-year-old Zélie, her brother Tzain, and princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
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Compulsionby Heidi AyarbePoised to lead his high school soccer team to its third straight state championship, 17-year-old star player Jake Martin struggles to keep hidden his nearly debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Crooked kingdomby Leigh BardugoKaz and his crew find their loyalties tested after pulling off an impossible heist and are forced to fight for their lives when powerful enemies descend on Ketterdam in pursuit of knowledge about a dangerous drug.
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Denton Little's deathdateby Lance RubinA tale set in a world where everyone knows the day on which they will die finds Denton preparing for his imminent demise and wondering about a mysterious purple rash before a stranger's warning raises suspicions about shady government characters. A first novel.
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Denton Little's still not deadby Lance RubinLiving in an alternate world where everyone knows the day they will die, Denton Little survives his death date and finds himself separated from his family and chased by a ruthless Death Investigation Agency. By the author of Denton Little's Deathdate.
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Eleanor & Parkby Rainbow RowellA first young adult novel by the author of Attachments follows the year-long, star-crossed romance between two 1980s high school misfits whose intelligence tells them that first loves almost never last but whose feelings prevent them from remaining as practical.
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Game : The Sequel to "I Hunt Killers"by Barry LygaAfter solving a deadly case in the small town of Lobo's Nod, seventeen-year-old Jazz, the son of history's most infamous serial murderer, travels to New York City to help the police track down the Hat-Dog Killer.
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Hate listby Jennifer BrownSixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
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The hate u giveby Angie ThomasA collector's edition of the award-winning novel traces the story of a teen whose uneasy balance between her elite prep school and her disadvantaged home life is shattered when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her best friend by a police officer.
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I hunt killersby Barry LygaSeventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad" but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
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Oblivionby Sasha DawnSixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.
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One of us is lyingby Karen M. McManusWhen one of five students in detention is found dead, his high-profile classmates—including a brainy intellectual, a popular beauty, a drug dealer on probation and an all-star athlete—are investigated and revealed to be the subjects of the victim's latest gossip postings.
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One of us is next : The Sequel to One of Us Is Lyingby Karen M. McManusA sequel to the best-selling One of Us Is Lying finds the Bayview friends targeted by an anonymous adversary who uses an increasingly dangerous truth-or-dare app to keep the late Simon’s gossip legacy alive.
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Paper townsby John GreenHigh school senior Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, his neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then disappears.
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Salt to the sea : a novelby Ruta SepetysFrantically racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive. By the award-winning author of Out of the Easy.
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Six of crowsby Leigh BardugoOffered 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. Simultaneous eBook.
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The storyteller : a novelby Jodi PicoultBecoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs.
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Trust me, I'm lyingby Mary Elizabeth SummerOrchestrating petty scams at an exclusive Chicago private school where her grifter father would have her mingle with the privileged elite, Julep teams up with a hacker sidekick and her school's most popular boy to rescue her father when he disappears. A first novel.
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Two can keep a secretby Karen M. McManusForced to return to the picturesque town where her aunt went missing as a teen and a homecoming queen was murdered five years earlier, Ellery navigates an anonymous assailant's threats about the school's homecoming events while uncovering dark community secrets. By the best-selling author of One of Us Is Lying.
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We were liarsby E. LockhartA modern, sophisticated suspense tale by the National Book Award finalist author of The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks follows the revolutionary activities of four friends who turn against each other in the wake of trauma, differing political views and a devastating secret.
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Wild birdby Wendelin Van DraanenWhen her behavior escalates out of control, fourteen-year-old Wren is taken away to a wilderness therapy camp where she is forced to develop new skills, including the courage to ask for help.
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Bubonic panic : when plague invaded Americaby Gail JarrowDocuments the 1900 outbreak of the bubonic plague in San Francisco's Chinatown, tracing the efforts of doctors to halt its spread, the political leaders who tried to keep the epidemic from being publicized and the scientists who unlocked the plague's secrets.
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Defianceby Nechama TecChronicles the activities of a group of Jewish partisans in Belorussia during World War II, who were responsible for the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews.
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The Innocent Man : Murder and Injustice in a Small Townby John GrishamThe best-selling author of The Last Juror, The Runaway Jury, A Time to Kill, and other tales of legal suspense presents his first work of nonfiction, in a compelling legal thriller. 1,500,000 first printing.
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Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBIby David GrannPresents a true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. Reprint. A New York Times best-seller and National Book Award finalist.
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Red madness : how a medical mystery changed what we eatby Gail Jarrow One hundred years ago, a mysterious and alarming illness spread across America’s South, striking tens of thousands of victims. No one knew what caused it or how to treat it. People were left weak, disfigured, insane, and in some cases, dead. Award-winning science and history writer Gail Jarrow tracks this disease, commonly known as pellagra, and highlights how doctors, scientists, and public health officials finally defeated it.
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Truce : The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fightingby Jim MurphyWith World War I raging on the battlefields of Europe, an unexpected and miraculous event unfolded one Christmas evening; in defiance of their commanding officers' orders, a truce was declared by soldiers on opposing sides, who stopped fighting to engage in a spontaneous Christmas celebration with their "enemies." By a two-time Newbery Honor-winning author.
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