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What’s New In YA LiteratureLori Bierschwale

Houston MSNatalie Sunde

Nimitz HSDiana StephensCardwell Career Prep

Cindi RockettLamar MS

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Texas BooklistsBluebonnet

20 Titles for 3rd-6thLonestar

20 titles for Middle School TAYSHAS

Top Titles for Texas HS Teens

By Brian Selznick

When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

By James Rollins

Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a Mayan artifact to a strange world inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost civilizations who are threatened by prehistoric creatures and an evil alchemist, the Skull King.

Jake Ranson and the Skull King’s Shadow

Cabinet of Wonders NEW AUTHOR

By Marie Rutkoski

When the prince of Bohemia steals her father's eyes, enchants them, and wears them, Petra Kronos sets out to Salamander Castle in order to take her father's eyes back.

Hunt for the Seventh

By Christine Morton-Shaw

When his father starts a new job at Minerva Hall as gardener, twelve-year-old Jim discovers an ancient curse that needs to be unraveled before disaster happens.

The London Eye MysteryBy Siobahn Dowd

When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.

By Mary E. Pearson

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Coming of Age

How does a teen with

Asperger’s Syndrome learn to

interpret social interactions in

the adult world?

Mystery

Supernatural

What happens when other people’s dreams can take over your life?

Newbery AwardThe Newbery Medal is named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery, and is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal.cfm

When You Reach Me

By Rebecca Stead2010 Newbery Medal WinnerMostly realistic with time travel elements

Printz Award

Named for a Topeka, Kansas librarian, and awarded by the American Library Association’s Booklist magazine, this award honors literary excellence for young adult writing (generally high school level or interest).http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/printzaward/Printz.cfm

Book Thief

By Markus ZusakPrintz Honor BookLONG, but great historical fiction

I Am the Messenger

Printz Honor Award Older teen manfiction; coming of age

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time

Indian

By Sherman AlexieYoung Adult humor, sports, romance

Falling Hard: 100 Love Poems by

Teenagers

Teen poetryEdited by Betsy Franco

The Knife of Never Letting Go

By Patrick NessScience Fiction

By John GreenYoung Adult Mystery

Paper Towns

Twisted

By Laurie Halse AndsersonManfiction

Guys ReadCreated by Jon ScieszkaWebsite : Book of the month, reading suggestions, blogBoys Read

Boy Who DaredSusan Campbell BartolettiIn October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in

Hitler’s ShadowSusan Campbell BartolettiBartoletti explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people.

Diary of a Wimpy KidJeff KinneyGreg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.

The Maze RunnerJames DashnerSixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

PopGordon KormanLonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.

The Graveyard BookBy Neil GaimanFollows a young boy named Nobody Owens as he is raised in a graveyard by a group of ghost and avoids leaving the graveyard for fear that he will be killed by the man who has already murdered his family.Newbery Winner 2008

The 39 CluesVarious AuthorsDan and Amy Cahill are given the choice of receiving a million dollars or uncovering the thirty-nine clues hidden around the world that will lead to the source of the family's power, but by taking on the clues, they end up in a dangerous race against their own family.

AirmanBy Eoin ColferIn the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and trust to carry him to safety.

oh. my. gods. By Tera Lynn Childs

When her mother suddenly decides to marry a near-stranger, Phoebe, whose passion is running, soon finds herself living on a remote Greek island, completing her senior year at an ancient high school where the students and teachers are all descended from gods or goddesses.

Sequel:goddess bootcampWebsite: http://teralynnchilds.com

Unwind By Neal Shusterman

In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.

By Lauren McLaughlin

For a few days each month, Jill McTeague transforms into a boy named Jack, who is confined to Jill's bedroom due to her parents' fear that someone will discover Jill's secret. As Jack begins to feel fed up with being a prisoner, Jill is forced to deal with more and more frequent visits by her alter ego.

Cycler

Memoir•How does a

Mexican-American boy with dyslexia survive the

language barrier, bullying and self-doubt to become a prize winning

author?

•Great for AVID teachers

• and students

Memoir

Jeannette Walls’ dysfuntional family follows impossible dreams. What makes her choose to leave?Good follow-up to “A Child Called It”

Personal narrativesSome have been shot or seen friends die. They want guns banned. Others are convinced that gun use can nurture self-esteem. Students can draw their own conclusions.

Inspiration

Three boys in Newark joined forces to escape drugs, gangs, and prejudice and graduate together

InspirationHow can teens be heroes? By overcoming obstacles to help themselves and othersMany short true vignettesDVD available

Social ActivismPicture book based on a true storyHow one small loan made a big difference in GhanaCan you make an impact on your community? YES!!

Social ActivismTrue story of an environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winnerHow one woman’s vision and determination restored forests and livelihoods

Social ActivismGives a voice to enslaved children in Nepalese rug factoriesImportance of education in self – empowermentBook itself raises funds for cause

Historical Fiction

Picture book relates Belfast religious conflicts through the eyes of a young girlCompare/Contrast with story of Ruby Bridges

Historical Fiction

True story of the “Lost Boys” of SudanCould you survive losing your entire family, starvation and years in refugee camps?

Dairy Queen & Sequels

Which book would you rather read?

Dairy Queen & Sequels

By Catherine Gilbert Murdoch Sports, romance, family

Blood Brothers

By A. S. HarazinYoung Adult mystery

Little Brother

By Cory DoctorowYoung adult sciencefiction

The Death of Jayson Porter

By Jaime AdoffYoung adult manfiction

Road of the Dead

By Kevin BrooksMystery

Whole Sky Full of Stars

By Rene SaldanaYoung adult, boxing

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Traitor to the Nation

Volume I The Pox Party

Historical FictionBy M. T. AndersonPrintz Honor BookNational Book AwardSequel: Volume II The Kingdom on the Waves

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Traitor to the Nation:

The Pox Party“I was raised in a gaunt house with a garden; my earliest recollections are of floating lights in the apple-trees.I recall, in the orchard behind the house, orbs of flames rising through the black boughs and branches; they climbed, spiritous, and flickered out; my mother squeezed my hand with delight. We stood near the door to the ice-chamber.By the well, servants lit bubbles of gas on fire, clad in frockcoats of asbestos.Around the orchard and gardens stood a wall of some height, designed to repel the glance of idle curiosity and to keep us all from slipping away and running for freedom; though that, of course, I did not yet understand.How doth all that seeks to rise burn itself to nothing.”

Shiver

Maggie StiefvaterIn all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.

Academy 7Anne OsterlundAerin Renning and Dane Madousin struggle as incoming students at the most exclusive academy in the Universe, both hiding secrets that are too painful to reveal, not realizing that those very secrets link them together.

Ghosts of KerfolDeborah NoyesOver the centuries, the inhabitants of author Edith Wharton's fictional mansion, Kerfol, are haunted by the ghosts of dead dogs, fractured relationships, and the bitter taste of revenge.

Pants on FireMeg CabotHaving become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.

ImpossibleNancy WerlinWhen seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes that she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born to break the curse and to save them both.

Prophecy of the Sisters

Michelle ZinkIn late nineteenth-century New York state, wealthy sixteen-year-old twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe find that they are on opposite sides of an ancient prophecy that has destroyed their parents and seeks to do even more harm.

Immortal

Gillian ShieldsFalling in love with the mysterious Sebastian, Evie Johnson, a scholarship student at the Wyldcliffe Abbey School, is haunted by a sister-like figure that seems to be sending her a warning.

SizzlingSequels

Wicked Lovely Hunger Games

Generation Dead

Tantalize

HOT series for MS girlsEvernight series by Claudia Gray

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