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Mount Sinai Suggested Summer Reading Entering 9th Grade
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Beware the wild
by Natalie C Parker
When her brother disappears in their town's swamp and is replaced by a mysterious girl, Sterling sets out the find him after she realizes that no one in town remembers that her brother ever existed
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The fallout
by S. A. Bodeen
A sequel to The Compound finds Eli and his family struggling to acclimate to the outside world after escaping the compound where his father imprisoned them for six years, an effort that is complicated by an intrusive media and disturbing revelations about his father's company.
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The fault in our stars
by John Green
Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, but when Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be rewritten
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Ghost house
by Alexandra Adornetto
After the loss of her mother, Chloe Kennedy starts seeing the ghosts that haunted her as a young girl again, only this time she encounters the spirit of Alexander Reade, an alluring man who is 157 years dead and whose ghostly past love, Isobel, will stop at nothing to destroy anyone who threatens to take him away. By the best-selling author of the Halo trilogy.
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Girl, stolen
by April Henry
When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more sympathetic toward his wealthy, blind victim, 16-year-old Cheyenne, than toward his greedy father.
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Hollow city
by Ransom Riggs
"Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends, who possess supernatural abilities, must journey to London (circa 1940), the 'peculiar' capital of the world. There they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner"
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Help for the haunted
by John Searles
Struggling with the loss of her parents, who helped haunted souls find peace, Sylvie Mason pursues the mystery, moving closer to the truth of what happened that night as she comes to terms with her family's past and uncovers secrets that have haunted them for years. (general fiction). Simultaneous.
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If I stay
by Gayle Forman
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death
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Mosquitoland
by David Arnold
Enduring a dysfunctional existence with her father and new stepmother, snarky Mim learns that her mother is sick and hops a bus to visit her, experiencing a journey filled with unexpected revelations.
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Purple Heart
by Patricia McCormick
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali
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Rash
by Pete Hautman
In the late twenty-first century, Bo, after being falsely accused of spreading a rash throughout his school, is sold into forced labor at a pizza factory in the Canadian tundra where he's promised early parole if he joins an illegal football team, while, at home, his school project takes on a life of its own. Reprint.
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Restless : a ghost's story
by Rich Wallace
Frank, a teen-aged ghost who has not been able to move on to a higher realm in the afterlife, tries to connect with his younger brother Herbie, a high school senior who was eight years old when Frank died. Reprint.
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Sorta like a rock star : a novel
by Matthew Quick
Although Amber Appleton lives in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who helps everyone, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression
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Tangerine
by Edward Bloor
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
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A tree grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century
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True legend
by Mike Lupica
Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball but learns the consequences of fame through a former player as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA.
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The glass castle : a memoir
by Jeannette Walls
The second child of a scholarly, alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing from the Arizona desert, to Las Vegas, to an Appalachian mining town, during which her siblings and she fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
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His name was Raoul Wallenberg : courage, rescue, and mystery during World War II
by Louise Borden
Documents the inspirational, lesser-known work of a World War II humanitarian who helped save thousands of Jewish citizens in Budapest from Holocaust persecution, describing how he issued protective passports and offered shelter to Jewish refugees in Swedish-territory housing before disappearing in 1945.
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Vietnam : a history of the war
by Russell Freedman
A succinct account of how Cold War politics led to one of America's most puzzling and contentious wars describes how the war began, why it was so difficult to end and how its tragic legacy endures today.
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