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Isinglass Teen Read List 2009-2010
Airman
by Eoin
Colfer (Adventure)
Conor Broekhart was born to fly.
It is the 1890s, and Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king's daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy's idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king. When Conor intervenes, he is branded a traitor and thrown into jail on the prison island of Little Saltee. There, he has to fight for his life, as he and the other prisoners are forced to mine for diamonds in inhumane conditions. There is only one way to escape Little Saltee, and that is to fly. So Conor passes the solitary months by scratching drawings of flying machines into the prison walls. The months turn into years, but eventually the day comes when Conor must find the courage to trust his revolutionary designs and take to the skies.
See a book promo at You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSdDYjhuywQ
Amazing Grace by Megan Shull (Realistic
Fiction)
A Gorgeous teen superstar Grace Kincaid has it all- an electric smile, million-dollar endorsement deals, and blond cover-girl looks. But what happens when America's "It" girl doesn't want "It" anymore? With the paparazzi stalking her every move, Grace quietly slips out of a TEEN PEOPLE photo shoot, ducks the press, and call s her mom from the boiler room of the fabled USTA National Tennis Center. And right there, in her custom-made Nike warm-ups, tears streaming down her face, Grace says the three magic words that her mom told her she could say anytime, anytime this whole crazy life wasn't fun anymore. Three simple words-and her new life begins. For the hottest girl on the planet, life's about to change. Grace gets a make-under, a new identity, and a new life in a rugged little town on the edge of nowhere, population 813 (including one cute boy: one very cute boy)
Read a short biography of Megan Shull online
http://www.girls-explore.com/bios/megan-shull.php
The Boy in the Striped
Pajamas by John Boyne ( Historical
Allegory)
Berlin 1942
When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings
are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family
must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one
to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as
far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in
the distance. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there
must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring
his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are
very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has
devastating consequences.
See a
movie trailer from the film adaptation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RGRaeAx9Qs
Please be aware that the movie is an adaptation of the book and does not
follow the story exactly.
The Compound by S.A. Bodeen (Suspense)
Eli, the 15-year-old son of a billionaire techno-preneur, has spent the last six years with his family in the massive underground shelter his father has built, knowing that nuclear war has destroyed the world he knows-and killed his grandmother and his twin brother, who couldn't reach the compound in time. With nine years to go before the air outside will be safe to breathe again, the food supply shows signs of running out, but Eli's father has a solution-provided they jettison all morals and ethics. Repulsed and already suspicious, Eli begins investigating his father's claims, and sets up a family death match against a man who grows increasingly irrational and sinister but no less powerful. -PW Review
See a Book Trailer at You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yreQwMu4xnY
Declaration by Gemma Malley (Science
Fiction)
It’s the year 2140 and Longevity drugs have all but eradicated old age. A never-aging society can’t sustain population growth, however…which means Anna should never have been born. Nor should any of the children she lives with at Grange Hall. The facility is full of boys and girls whose parents chose to have kids—called surpluses—despite a law forbidding them from doing so. These children are raised as servants, and brought up to believe they must atone for their very existence. Then one day a boy named Peter appears at the Hall, bringing with him news of the world outside, a place where people are starting to say that Longevity is bad, and that maybe people shouldn’t live forever. Peter begs Anna to escape with him, but Anna’s not sure who to trust: the strange new boy whose version of life sounds like a dangerous fairy tale, or the familiar walls of Grange Hall and the head mistress who has controlled her every waking thought?
See an interview with the author at You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQI39dAejYA
The sequel, "The Resistance" is also published already.
The
Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart ( Realistic
Fiction)
Frankie
Landau-Banks at age 14:
Debate Club. Her father's "bunny rabbit." A mildly geeky girl
attending a highly competitive boarding school.
Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15:
A knockout figure. A sharp tongue. A chip on her shoulder.
And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed
Matthew Livingston.
Frankie Landau-Banks.
No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer.
Especially when "no" means she's excluded from her boyfriend's all-male secret
society.
Not when her ex-boyfriend shows up in the strangest of places.
Not when she knows she's smarter than any of them.
When she knows Matthew's lying to her.
And when there are so many, many pranks to be done.
Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16:
Possibly a criminal mastermind. This is the story of how she got that
way.
Read an author Biography & Fun Facts About Her: http://e-lockhart.com/main/?page_id=3
Eighth Grade Bites by
Heather Brewer (Vampire Fiction)
Vlad has to keep his vampire urges under control while dealing with the pressures of middle school. Thirteen-year-old Vladimir Tod really hates junior high. Bullies harass him, the principal is dogging him, and the girl he likes prefers his best friend. Oh, and Vlad has a secret: His mother was human, but his father was a vampire. With no idea of the extent of his powers, Vlad struggles daily with his blood cravings and his enlarged fangs. When a substitute teacher begins to question him a little too closely, Vlad worries that his cover is about to be blown. But then he faces a much bigger problem: He's being hunted by a vampire killer.
View a very impressive student-made video promotion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM7Sg_jSUeo
Everlost by Neal Shusterman (Fantastic Fiction)
T
Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident...
...but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no onger exist. It's a magical, yet dangerous place where bands of lost children run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth.
When they find Mary, the self-proclaimed queen of lost kids, Nick feels like he he's found a home, but allie isn't satisfied spending eternity between worlds. Against all warnings, Allie begins learning the "Criminal Art" of haunting, and ventures into dangerous territory, where a monster called the McGill threatens all the souls of Everlost.
In this imaginative novel, Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what just might lie in between.
A short
clip of the author on You Tube with reader comments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IdzY5e7SaA
Football Genius by Tim Green ( Sports Story)
ITwelve-year-old Troy White's athletic ability and his preternatural talent for predicting football strategy are both going to waste (he's stuck playing second-string on his team), until frustration with a vicious bully on his team pushes him to "borrow" an official NFL football from local Atlanta Falcons star linebacker Seth Halloway. As Troy languishes on his own football team and resents the father who abandoned him, he strives to alert the Falcons of his gift: "Sometimes a kid's heart tells him to do something and he needs to listen, even if it means getting in trouble." Acting as a mentor, Seth encourages Troy to come clean about his adventures ("The truth is more important than the trouble it brings") and to forgive his father's desertion ("All I know is, things happen. Unless you're the one they're happening to, you usually can't understand it"). Seth ends up dating Troy's mother and coaching Troy's team, giving Troy the chance to shine not only on the sidelines, where his play-predicting ability helps bring the Falcons to victory, but on the field as well. "There was no rage fueling him now. It was something else, a blinding energy he never knew he had." Non-sports fans will root for underdog Troy ("I want to do something. I want to be something. I thought this was my chance") and enthusiasts will thrill to the firsthand knowledge Green brings to the novel. PW Review
Interview with the Author on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJNwM-1lTBg
Found by Margaret Peterson
Haddix
(Science Fiction)
Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who's also adoped, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, "You are one of the missing." The second one says, "Beware! They're coming back to get you."
Jonah, Chip, and Jonah's sister, Katherine, are plunged into a mystery that involves the FBI, a vast smuggling operation, an airplane that appeared out of nowhere — and people who seem to appear and disappear at will. The kids discover they are caught in a battle between two opposing forces that want very different things for Jonah and Chip's lives.
Do Jonah and Chip have any choice in the matter? And what should they choose when both alternatives are horrifying?
View a Book Trailer at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swRTZpnsXgY
Gone by Michael Grant (
Supernatural Thriller)
In the blink of an eye. Everyone disappears. GONE.
Except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not one single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened.
Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers—that grow stronger by the day.
It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else...
View a Book Trailer on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf8B3FM1L8c
A sequel, "Hunger" will be published in May 2009.
Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Fantastic Fiction)
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man.
Interview with neil Gaiman on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Dz90e883Q
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ( Futuristic)
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival.
View a book trailer on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TnxXoMpF3c
Losing Forever by Gayle Friesen ( Realistic Fiction)
In Ninth-grader Jessica is dealing with a "shifting universe." Several years earlier, her toddler sister died in an accident and her parents divorced. Now, her mom is remarrying, and Jessica's unlikable, but beautiful, stepsister-to-be has begun to share her room, four weeks before the wedding. If that's not enough, Jessica's friendship with her best friend has taken a backseat now that Dell has a boyfriend.
Read an author biography and interview: http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/friesen.html
My Swordhand is Singing ( Vampire
Story)
It In a bitter winter, Tomas and his son, Peter, settle
in a small village as woodcutters. Tomas digs a channel of fast-flowing waters
around their hut so that they have their own little island kingdom. Peter
doesn’t understand why his father has done this, or why his father carries a
long, battered box, whose mysterious contents he is forbidden to know.
But Tomas is a man with a past—a past that is tracking him with deadly intent.
As surely as the snow falls softly in the forest of a hundred thousand silver
birch trees, father and son must face a soulless enemy and a terrifying
destiny. View the author site for this book:
Night
of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury (
Survival Story)
DYLAN'S SCOUT TROOP goes camping in Halape, a remote
spot below the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. The only thing wrong with
the weekend on a beautiful, peaceful beach is Louie, a tough older boy. Louie
and Dylan just can't get along.
That night an earthquake rocks the camp, and then a wave rushes in, sweeping
everyone and everything before it. Dylan and Louie must team up on a dangerous
rescue mission. The next hours are an amazing story of survival and the true
meaning of leadership.
View the author's biography and web page:
http://www.grahamsalisbury.com/biography.html
The Red Thread by Roderick
Townley (
Historical Mystery & Thriller)
How do you avenge — or forgive — your own murder four hundred years after it happened?
Prompted by recurrent dreams, sixteen-year-old Dana Landgrave uncovers an ancient crime that has drawn the same souls together through three lifetimes. There's nothing sinister about the girl's sunlit twenty-first-century American life in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Yet, centuries ago, terrible things were done — by someone she knows! Could it be her easygoing, easy-to-look-at boyfriend, Chase? Or her younger brother, Ben, who has been confined to a wheelchair since a school bus accident? What about Gianna, her inscrutable enemy on the yearbook staff? Or her eccentric psychotherapist, Dr. Sprague?
As Dana summons courage to reenter the past, each incarnation propels her to new discoveries — and new suspicions — until the threads of all three lives converge in a devastating revelation.
The Reminder by Rune Michaels ( Realistic Fiction)
Daisy, otherwise known as Daze, keeps hearing her dead mother's voice. Sometimes it's because of her dad, who likes to watch old home movies when he can't sleep. Sometimes it's because of her brother, who was too young to remember Mom, and needs to be reminded by looking at photographs and watching videos. Sometimes it might just be her mind trying to work out what her therapist would call "issues." But this time, it is none of those things. It's something much more wonderful and much more terrifying, something Daze never thought possible. And it might allow Daze to do what she couldn't years ago: save her mother's life.
The Ruby Key by Holly Lisle
(Fantasy)
Human and
Nightlings are never to meet, but when Genna and her brother Dan venture into
the old forest at night, they encounter a Nightling slave who reveals a
terrifying secret: Genna and Dan's village chieftain has made a dangerous deal
with Letrin, ruler of the Nightlings, offering the lives of his people in
exchange for his own immortality.
To save the villagers and themselves, Genna and Dan strike their own bargain
with the Nightling lord, but the stakes are even higher. Now, the siblings
must embark upon a journey along the Moonroads, and bring back the key to
Letrin's downfall. Read an author autobiography online:
http://hollylisle.com/author/bio1.html
The Truth About My Bat
Mitzvah by Nora Raleigh Baskin (
Realistic)
Faced with the death of her beloved nana and the upcoming bat mitzvah of her best friend Rachel, Caroline must come to terms with what it means to be half Jewish and how this can affect her family. Meeting new family and hearing of troubles faced by her mother and her mother's family as they came to terms with being Jewish in the New World, Caroline also deals with the general trials and tribulations any eleven to twelve year old might face in school. Deciding when to and whom to admit her Jewishness, facing up to the admissions, and realizing that she has put more weight on this than any of her friends, Caroline realizes that it is what is inside that truly matters.
Check out the author's website online: http://www.norabaskin.com/
7th and 8th graders:
Soon we'll begin the process of creating the 2010-2011
list. Please e-mail us at blibrary@metrocast.net
with your suggestions for our next list. Please
include the author's full name, title, and when the book was published.
Winner 2008-2009: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
Winner 2007-2008: Perfect by Natasha Friend
Winner 2006-2007: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
2005-2006: one of those hideous books where the mother dies
by Sonya Sones
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2004-2005: Eragon by Christopher Paolini
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2003-2004 Cut by Pat McCormick
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2002-2003 Monster by Walter Dean Myers
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2001-2002 The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
Past Nominated & Considered Books
Any items that appear on these lists will NOT be re-considered. Also, any books that have been on previous Great Stone Face or Flume lists will not be considered.
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