IF YOU READ. . .
THE GREAT GATSBY
THE HUNGER GAMES
CLASSIC
DYSTOPIAN
IF YOU ENJOY. . .
In Suzanne Collins’s popular series, the rulers
of Panem force teenagers from the twelve
districts to battle against one another to the
death for televised entertainment. Sixteenyear-old Katniss's hunting skills are put to the
test when she voluntarily takes her younger
sister's place.
YOU MIGHT LIKE. . .
MEG CABOT
CHICK-LIT
IF YOU LIKED. . .
Whether you read it for fun or because
it was required reading, you now know
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s heartbreaking tale
of how Jay Gatsby’s adoration of
Daisy Buchanan forces him to risk
everything to lure her back.
YOU’LL UNDERSTAND. . .
Meg Cabot writes with humor as
she mixes mystery and romance,
using diaries and instant
messages to tell heartwarming
stories about likeable characters.
YOU MIGHT ENJOY. . .
DIVERGENT
ENDER’S GAME
THE DOUBLE BIND
JAKE, REINVENTED
STARGIRL
THIS LULLABY
In Veronica Roth’s futuristic
novel, 16-year-old Beatrice Prior
must choose among five predetermined factions to define her
identity for the rest of her life.
Orson Scott Card envisions a future
where children are tested and
honed for their battle-worthiness,
then sent on a life-threatening
mission to save the world.
Chris Bohjalian imagines the later years
of Daisy and Tom Buchanan's marriage
as a social worker in 2007 and
investigates the possibility that a
deceased elderly homeless person is
Daisy's son.
Gordon Korman rewrites The
Great Gatsby as a modern
version where the characters
are high school students.
Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense,
emotional tale about the
fleeting , cruel nature of
popularity--and the thrill and
inspiration of first love.
Sarah Dessen's most captivating
novel yet introduces readers to a
girl who believes her heart is
made of stone-and the boy who
proves her wrong.
BLOOD RED ROAD
UGLIES
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY. . .
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
Moira Young tells the stor y of
kidnapped 18-year-old Saba, her twin
brother Lugh and 9-year-old Emmi. In
their captive city of Hopetown, Saba is
forced to be a cage fighter until the
friends try to find a way to escape.
Scott Westerfeld’s first in a series about a
world where teens are transformed into
beauties on their 16th birthday. When
Truman Capote created Holly
Golightly, a woman whose
name has entered the American
idiom and whose style is a part
of the literary landscape.
Hunter S. Thompson was said to
have studied The Great Gatsby as
he perfected the prose of his story
E. Lockhart introduces us to
Frankie Landau-Banks, who, at
age 16, is possibly a criminal
mastermind. This is the story of
how she got that way.
William Goldman creates the
cult classic story of pirates,
evil princes, sorcerers, and,
most importantly, true love.
Tally’s best friend runs away right before
they both turn 16, Tally must find her and
turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
of money, drugs, and the road trip
toward the American dream.
IF IT’S NIGHT. . .
WHY NOT TRY. . .
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
HORROR
GREAT READS
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
Bestselling author John Green
returns with heartbreakingly funny
novel about life, love and death
that allows readers to wonder
what it really means to be alive.
Shirley Jackson has unnerved
readers with her tale of subtle,
psychological terror, earning its
place as one of the significant
haunted house stories of the ages.
STAY AWAKE WITH. . .
BRUISER
A MONSTER CALLS
YOU WON’T REGRET. . .
TEMPEST
CINDER
YOUNG ADULT
SUMMER READING 2012
Neal Shusterman’s chilling novel
about 16-year-old twins Tennyson
and Brontë’s unconditional friendship
with a troubled and misunderstood
outcast, nicknamed Bruiser.
Patrick Ness spun a haunting and
darkly funny novel of a boy, his seriously
ill mother, and an unexp ected
monstrous visitor with mischief, loss, and
monsters both real and imagined.
Julie Cross’s first in a trilogy about
19-year old Jackson, who is forced
to use his time travel ability to go
back in time 2 years to save his
girlfriend after she is fatally shot.
Marissa Meyer’s futuristic retelling
of Cinderella about Cinder, a
second-class cyborg, who lives in
a world where humans and
androids crowd New Beijing.
THE MARBURY LENS
THE SHINING
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
ALL THESE THINGS I’VE DONE
Andrew Smith’s disturbing and
stunning novel of the horrors 16-year
old Jack sees through the glasses
given to him by a stranger—horrors
committed by his best friend.
Stephen King captivates readers
with his classic spine-tingling
horror story of a family trapped
in a mysterious hotel from the
first page to its gory climax.
Beth Revis writes a love story that runs
out of time when Amy, a cryogenically
frozen teen on the spaceship
Godspeed, wakes up to discover that
someone had tried to murder her.
Gabrielle Zevin’s future world where
water is rationed and cell phones are
contraband, where 16-year old Anya
is thrust into the spotlight as part of
New York’s most infamous crime family
Every reader has their book.
Every book has its reader.
Find yours this summer.