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The Snowden Library 2018 Summer Reading Grade 9-10 |
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And then there were none
by Agatha Christie
When ten people arrive on private Indian Island off England's southwest coast, lured to a mansion by invitations from a mysterious host, terror mounts as one guest after another is murdered, in a classic whodunit that is an elaboration of the famous children's rhyme "Ten Little Indians." Paris Iverson
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Armada : a novel
by Ernest Cline
Struggling to complete his final month of high school only to glimpse a UFO that exactly resembles an enemy ship from his favorite video game, Zack Lightman questions his sanity before becoming one of millions of gamers tasked with protecting the Earth during an alien invasion. By the best-selling author of Ready Player One.
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Beartown : a novel
by Fredrik Backman
In a forgotten town fractured by scandal, an amateur hockey team might just be able to change everything. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of A Man Called Ove. Paris Iverson
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Because you'll never meet me
by Leah Thomas
Ollie, who suffers from seizures when near electricity, and Moritz, who has no eyes and a heart defect that requires a pacemaker, live in relative isolation but form a bond through correspondence that may get them through dark times. Tina Yang
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Caraval
by Stephanie Garber
Believing that she will never be allowed to participate in the annual Caraval performance when her ruthless father arranges her marriage, Scarlett receives the invitation she has always dreamed of before her sister, Tella, is kidnapped by the show's mastermind organizer. A first novel. Alicia Singh
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Daughter of smoke & bone
by Laini Taylor
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known. Cindy Li
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Everything, everything
by Nicola Yoon
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. Michelle Muwonge
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Phoenix Island
by John Dixon
When a tough sixteen-year-old boxing champ sentenced to an isolated boot camp discovers it is actually a mercenary training facility turning "throwaway children" into scientifically enhanced killers, he risks everything to save his friends and stop a madman bent on global destruction. Jules Henry
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The Lies of Locke Lamora
by Scott Lynch
Vowing to bring down the omnipotent crime boss running the city, a group of Gentlemen Bastards, led by the eccentric Locke Lamora, sets out to beat the Capa at his own criminal game, taking on other thieves, murderers, beggars, prostitutes, and thugs in the process. Cindi Li
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Rat life
by Tedd Arnold
Meeting a new friend with a troubled past seemed like an exciting twist to his dull life, but when Todd discovers that Rat is actually as dangerous as he seems, he begins to wonder if he may have had something to do with the body that was recently found in the Chemenga River.
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St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves : stories
by Karen Russell
A debut anthology of short stories, set against the backdrop of the Florida Everglades, features original tales, including "Haunting Olivia," "Z.Z.'s Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers," "Out to Sea," and the title story, about fifteen young girls who had been raised by wolves and who are painstakingly re-educated by nuns. A first collection. Jules Henry
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The magic thief
by Sarah Prineas
A young thief is drawn into a life of magic and adventure after picking the pocket of the powerful wizard Nevery Flinglas, who has returned from exile to attempt to reverse the troubling decline of magic in Wellmet City. Cindy Li
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The 57 bus
by Dashka Slater
Documents the true story of two Oakland high school students, a white girl from a privileged private school and a black youth from a school overshadowed by crime, whose fateful interaction triggered devastating consequences for both, garnering national attention and raising awareness about hate.
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After the shot drops
by Randy Ribay
Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.
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American Street
by Ibi Zoboi
Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou culture. Fabiola soon realizes that freedom comes at a cost. Trapped at the crossroads of an impossible choice, will she pay the price for the American dream?
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Dear Martin
by Nic Stone
Profiled by a racist police officer in spite of his excellent academic achievements and Ivy League acceptance, a disgruntled college youth navigates the prejudices of new classmates and his crush on a white girl by writing a journal to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the hopes that his iconic role model's teachings will be applicable half a century later. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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The border
by Steve Schafer
Narrowly escaping a narcos gang attack that has murdered their families, four Mexican teens discover that a reward has been set by the gang for their deaths, forcing the group to embark on a daring escape across the U.S. border.
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Everything here is beautiful
by Mira T. Lee
The bond between a responsible, self-contained older sister and her mentally ill, impulsive younger sister is shaped and tested over years marked by the loss of their mother, an impetuous first marriage, a fling that results in the birth of a baby and painful sacrifices. A first novel.
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A girl like that
by Tanaz Bhathena
Labeled as a troublemaker in spite of her bright mind, 16-year-old Zarin, a teen growing up in Saudi Arabia, engages in a forbidden relationship with a Parsi boy before a tragic accident brings everything others believed about the girl into question. A first novel.
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The hate u give
by Angie Thomas
Caught between her poor neighborhood and her fancy prep school, sixteen-year-old Starr Carter becomes the focus of intimidation and more after witnessing the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, by a police officer.
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I am not your perfect Mexican daughter
by Erika L. Sánchez
When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not have been as perfect as believed.
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I have lost my way
by Gayle Forman
A talented singer who is losing her voice, a gay teen on the brink of running away to find the boy he loves and a city newcomer reeling from a tragedy collide in Central Park and gradually reveal to each other the losses that have made them feel out of control.
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Kay's lucky coin variety : a novel
by Ann Y. K Choi
Mary, a Korean girl growing up with her brother above her parents' convenience store in 1980s Toronto, is caught between the traditional culture of her parents and her desire to be a Canadian.
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New boy
by Tracy Chevalier
The best-selling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring presents an imaginative retelling of Shakespeare's Othello that places events in 1970s America and follows the experiences of two diverse children who navigate themes of love, betrayal, racism and revenge on the playground of their all-white school. (suspense).
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Piecing me together
by Renée Watson
Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
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Refugee
by Alan Gratz
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
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Saints and misfits
by S. K. Ali
Struggling to secure her identity as an Arab Indian-American hijabi teen who loves pop culture and aspires to a career in photography, Janna Yusuf falls for a boy she cannot date and considers exposing a person with a monstrous nature who is pretending to be a saint in their tightknit Muslim community. A first novel.
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Starfish
by Akemi Dawn Bowman
A half-Japanese teen grapples with social anxiety and a narcissistic mother in the wake of a crushing rejection from art school before accepting an invitation to tour other art schools on the West Coast. A first novel.
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The sun is also a star
by Nicola Yoon
A scientifically minded girl who avoids relationships to help keep her family from being deported and a dutiful student who endeavors to live up to his parents' high expectations unexpectedly fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together.
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Symptoms of being human
by Jeff Garvin
A gender-fluid teen who identifies as a boy or girl on different days—and whose challenges are complicated by a new school and a conservative politician father—is encouraged by a therapist to write an anonymous blog that goes unexpectedly viral.
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Turtles all the way down
by John Green
In his long-awaited return, the author of #1 best-selling The Fault in Our Stars shares the story of Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
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The way it is
by Donalda J. Reid
In nineteen-sixties small-town Canada, a marginalized Native American boy named Tony Paul finds friendship with another high school outsider, a recently arrived city girl named Ellen who is bright, driven, and socially isolated.
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The blackthorn key
by Kevin Sands
In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe, apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend, Tom, try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and danger toward an unearthly secret with the power to tear the world apart.
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The impossible fortress : a novel
by Jason Rekulak
A fourteen-year-old boy pretends to seduce a girl to steal a copy of "Playboy" before discovering that she is his computer-loving soul mate, in a humorous coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of late-1980s teen pop-culture trends.
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La Belle Sauvage
by Philip Pullman
A highly anticipated latest series set in the parallel world of His Dark Materials begins 10 years before the events of The Golden Compass and centers on the early childhood of Lyra, her daemon Pantalaimon, and the struggle between totalitarians and supporters of free speech.
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A court of wings and ruin
by Sarah J Maas
Hoping to gather information on Tamlin and the invading king threatening Prythian, Feyre plays a deadly game of deceit while trying to find allies.
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The Hazel Wood : a novel
by Melissa Albert
Having spent most of her life on the run from uncanny bad luck, 17-year-old Alice ventures into a mysterious supernatural world to save her mother, who has been stolen away by a figure claiming to be a character from Alice's late grandmother's cult-classic book of dark fairy tales.
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Stealing Snow
by D. M Paige
Seventeen-year-old Snow escapes from a mental hospital into an icy forest and the world of Algid, where she discovers that she has a royal lineage and the magical abilities necessary to save Algid from her tyrannical father's rule.
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The Altered History of Willow Sparks
by Tara O'connor
Willow and Georgia are at the bottom of the social ladder at Twin Pines High School. Willow finds a mysterious book that allows her to change her life.
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The way it is
by Donalda J. Reid
In nineteen-sixties small-town Canada, a marginalized Native American boy named Tony Paul finds friendship with another high school outsider, a recently arrived city girl named Ellen who is bright, driven, and socially isolated.
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Pemmican Wars
by Katherena Vermette
Echo, a Métis girl adjusting to a new school, is transported back in time -- a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie where she visits a Métis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes, and experiences the perilous era of the Pemmican Wars. Series: A girl called Echo #1
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Polina
by Bastien Vivès
As a very young girl, Polina Oulinov is taken on as a special pupil by the famous ballet teacher Professor Bojinsky. He is very demanding and refuses to adapt his standards to the talents of his pupils, and Polina has to work hard and make great sacrifices in order to reach the level Bojinsky senses she has the talent for.
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The prince and the dressmaker
by Jen Wang
The best-selling cartoonist of In Real Life presents a graphically illustrated fairy-tale set in Paris at the dawn of the modern age, where a cross-dressing prince hides his identity as a popular fashion icon and falls for a brilliant dressmaker who knows his secret at the same time his royal parents begin searching for a traditional bride for him to marry.
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Speak : the graphic novel
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Adapted by the author and featuring artwork by an Eisner Award winner, a graphic novel edition of the award-winning novel follows the experiences of a girl who is rendered an outcast for her role in breaking up an end-of-summer party during which she was raped by a popular boy.
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The Wendy Project
by Melissa Jane Osborne
Wendy Davies crashes her car into a lake on a late summer night with her two younger brothers, John and Michael, in the backseat. Given a sketchbook by her therapist, Wendy starts to draw 'The Wendy Project".
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City of saints and thieves
by Natalie C. Anderson
Years after her beloved mother is murdered by her corrupt businessman employer, Tina, a girl who fled Congo during childhood, becomes an expert thief in order to support her younger sister and pursue a dangerous opportunity to exact revenge.
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End game
by David Baldacci
Returning home from an overseas mission to discover that his boss has gone missing in remote Colorado, Will Robie and his sometime partner, Jessica Reel, team up in an increasingly violent small town, where their lives are soon in jeopardy. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author. .
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Genuine fraud
by E Lockhart
A novel of psychological suspense by the best-selling author of We Were Liars follows the experiences of a diabolically intelligent girl who repeatedly reinvents herself in an effort to secure a charmed existence.
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I hunt killers
by Barry Lyga
Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his father, but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer.
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Long way down
by Jason Reynolds
Driven by the secrets and vengeance that mark his street culture, 15-year-old Will contemplates over the course of 60 psychologically suspenseful seconds whether or not he is going to murder the person who killed his brother. By the National Book Award finalist author of When I Was the Greatest.
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REALISTIC FICTION: RELATIONSHIPS, FRIENDSHIPS & FAMILIES |
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Dumplin'
by Julie Murphy
Questioning her plus-sized body for the first time when an athletic boy appears to return her affections, Willowdean enters her city's beauty pageant and uses her sassy styles and talents to compete against thinner contestants.
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Emergency contact
by Mary H. K Choi
"After a chance encounter, Penny and Sam become each other's emergency contacts and find themselves falling in love digitally, without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other".
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Exit, pursued by a bear
by E. K Johnston
A head cheerleader in a tiny community where cheerleading is the school's primary sport dedicates herself to her team only to wake up after being drugged to discover that she has been raped and become pregnant as a result, a situation that is further complicated by local attitudes.
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Goodbye Days
by Jeff Zentner
“Text me back”. This is the last text Carver’s three best friends would get from him before the accident.
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The grave's a fine and private place : a Flavia de Luce novel
by C. Alan Bradley
Joining her older sisters for a recuperative boating trip in the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, 12-year-old Flavia de Luce discovers a body in the water near the church of a murderous vicar. By the co-author of Ms. Holmes of Baker Street.
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Okay for now
by Gary D. Schmidt
While Doug struggles to be more than the thug that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds an unlikely ally in Lil Spicer, as they explore Audubon's art.
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The Serpent King
by Jeff Zentner
Struggling through his senior year of high school, where he is targeted by bullies because of his father's extreme faith, Dill teams up with fellow outcast Lydia, who is determined to escape their tiny town by pursuing a career in fashion, and Travis, whose obsession with an epic book series and a fangirl turns his reality into real-life fantasy.
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Wonder
by R. J Palacio
A special movie tie-in edition of the best-selling first novel by the author of 365 Days of Wonder traces the story of a boy whose extraordinary face inspired the Choose Kind movement.
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SCIENCE FICTION / SURVIVAL / SUPERNATURAL /HORROR / DYSTOPIA / VIRTUAL REALITY |
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Fourth Dimension
by Eric Walters
Moving into a new condo building with her ex-Marine mother and younger brother, 15-year-old Emma becomes concerned when a series of power outages escalate to a massive blackout that halts travel and communication, forcing her family to camp on a nearby island where increasingly desperate and violent people scavenge for food and safety.
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Nexus
by Scott Westerfeld
Three award-winning authors present a conclusion to the trilogy that includes Swarm, depicting a scattered band of superpowered Zeroes comrades who battle inner demons and threats to their survival while preparing for an ultimate confrontation.
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The Fates Divide
by Veronica Roth
When Cyra's father Lazmet Noavek, a soulless tyrant thought to be dead, reclaims the throne, Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are desperate to stop him from igniting a barbaric war. Series: Carve the mark #2
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The Marrow Thieves
by Cherie Dimaline
In a world ravaged by global warming, people, except for America’s Indigenous population have lost the ability to dream and this has led to widespread madness. Their marrow holds the cure for the world.
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Ready player one
by Ernest Cline
Immersed in a mid-21st-century virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins a violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir, in a book that is the basis for the forthcoming film. Movie tie-in. A New York Times best-seller.
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Thunderhead
by Neal Shusterman
A follow-up to Scythe finds Rowan pursuing a vigilante life a year after going off the grid, while Citra, as Scythe Anastasia, openly challenges the ideals of the "new order" in ways that cause her life to be threatened. By the award-winning author of the Unwind Dystology. By the National Book Award-winning author of Challenger Deep.
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Tool of war
by Paolo Bacigalupi
In a future beset with rising seas, corporate government, and constant civil war, a bioengineered half-man/half-beast super-soldier who calls himself Tool breaks his conditioning to overcome his genetically enhanced sense of loyalty to the corporation that created him and seeks revenge against his old masters.
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Warcross
by Marie Lu
After hacking into the Warcross Championships' opening game to track illegal betting, bounty hunter Emika Chen is asked by the game's creator to go undercover to investigate a security problem, and she uncovers a sinister plot.
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