A Mad Wicked Folly
By Sharon Biggs (YA Fiction) MS/HS
A teen poses in the nude for art class!
Also Read: Sold by Patricia McCormick (YA PB Fiction, YA Play)
MS/HS
A Madness So Discreet
By Mindy McGinnes (YA Fiction) HS
Grace is brilliant but her voice is silent due to a horrific secret!
Also Read: Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein (YA Fiction) HS
Death Coming Up the Hill (VERSE)
By Chris Crowe (YA Fiction) HS
Ashe is caught between two wars!
Also Read: Like Water on Stone by Dana Walrath (YA Fiction)
HS
Biographies
The 50th Law
By 50 Cent (158 FIFTY) HS
How fear overcome can means success!
Also Read: Usher by Brenden Masar (YA USHER) HS.
ORR: My Story
By Bobby Orr (BIO ORR) MS/HS
Orr develops his skill as a young boy on a squirts team!
Also Read: The Other Side of the Mountain by Evan Valens
(YA B KINMONT) MS/HS
Unbroken
By Laura Hillenbrand (940.547252) HS
His will to survive saves him!
Also Read: Born to Fly: The Heroic Story of Downed U.S.
Navy Pilot Lt. Shane Osborn By Michel French (YA OSBORN)
HS
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and
Was Shot by the Taliban
By Malala Yousafzai (BIO YOUSAFZAI, Ebook) MS/HS
Malala is shot because she spoke out for education!
Also Read: I Am Nujood Age 10 and Divorced by Ali Nujood
(306.8723 ALI) MS/HS
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
By James L. Swan (YA 973.7 SWANSON, J 973.7 Swanson, YACD
B) MS
12 day pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth!
Also Read: Lincoln’s Last days: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever
By Bill O’Reilly (YA 973.7092 O’REILLY) MS
A Child Called It: One Child’s Courage to Survive
By David Pelzer (362.76 PELZER) MS/HS
A boy survives mistreatment by his mother!
Also Read: The Lost Boy: a Foster Boy’s Search for Love of
a Family
By Davis Pelzer (362.76 PELZER, Ebook) MS/HS
Teen Nonfiction
In Cold Blood: a true account of multiple murders and its
consequences
By Truman Capote (364:1523 C2461) HS
A true account of the horrific murder of the Clutter family of
four!
Also Read: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Fiction,
Ebook, Eaudio) HS
The Warrior’s Heart: becoming a man of compassion and
courage
By Eric Greitens (YA B GREITENS) MS/HS
He shows how we can all make a difference!
Also Read: Ben Carson by Ben Carson (YA B Carson) MS/HS
The Making of a Navy Seal: my story of surviving the
toughest challenge and the best training
By Brandon Webb (YA B WEBB) MS/HS
Also Read: I am a SEAL Team Six Warrior: Memoirs of an
American Soldier By Howard L. Wasdin (YA B WASDIN) MS/HS
Key Codes
MS . . . . . Middle School Title
HS . . . . . .High School Title
YA B . . . . .Young Adult Biography
YA CDB . . . Young Adult Book-on-CD
YA DVD . . Young Adult DVD
YA F . . . . .Young Adult Fiction
YA PB . . . .Young Adult Paperback
J F . . . . . .Children’s Fiction Collection
J CDB . . . .Children’s Book-on-CD
J PB . . . . .Children’s Paperback
FICTION . .Adult Fiction Collection
CDB . . . . .Adult Book-on-CD
eaudio . . .Downloadable Audiobook
ebook . . . Downloadable Book
Play . . . . .Playaway Book
Nonfiction has a Dewey Decimal
number ranging from 001-999.
Young Adult nonfiction is interfiled
with Adult nonfiction.
This list is a collaboration of Stratford Library Teen
Services and the Media Specialists of Flood and Wooster
Middle Schools and Bunnell and Stratford High Schools.
Teen Services
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SUMMER READING LIST 2016
Code of Honor
By Alan Gratz (YA Fiction) MS/HS
Kamran’s older brother is accused of being a terrorist!
Also Read: Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury (YA PB
Fiction, Eaudio) MS/HS
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Into the Future
Chillers, Thrillers and Mysteries
Elias Brooke
By Jared Toplian (YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy) HS
Everyone wants to kill Elias, who is a liar, a thief and a traitor!
Also Read: Gone by Michael Grant (YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy) HS
Girl Last Seen
By Heather Anastasiu (YA Mystery) HS
Kadance, who is a popular singer, goes missing!
Also Read: City of Bones (Mortal Instruments BK.1) By Cassandra Clare (YA PB Horror, Eaudio, YA DVD M) HS
Parasite
By Mira Grant (Fiction) HS
The world is free of disease!
Also Read: Cinder (Lunar Chronicles BK.1) by Marissa Meyer
(YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy, YA Play) HS
Life As We Knew It
By Susan Pfeffer (YA PB Sci-Fi/Fantasy, J Fiction, Fiction, Eaudio,
Ebook) MS/HS
A meteorite hits the moon and natural disasters occur!
Also Read: The Shade of the Moon BK.2 by Susan Pfeffer
(YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Ebook) MS/HS
The Naturals
By Jennifer Barnes (YA Mystery) HS
Cassie is in FBI school to solve cold cases!
Also Read: Legend by Marie Wu (YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy, YA Play,
Ebook, DVD) HS
Tunnel Vision
By Susan Adrian (YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy) HS
A teen has special powers to locate people by touching their
belongings!
Also Read: Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment (BK. 1)
by James Patterson
(YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy, YA CDB, Eaudio, Ebook) HS
Forest of Wonders (Wing & Claw BK.1)
By Linda Sue Park (YA Fiction) MS/HS
Raffe discovers that a bat he has healed can talk!
Also Read: The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey (YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy,
YA DVD) HS
The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus BK.1)
By Rick Riordan (YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy, J Fiction, J CDB, Ebook) MS
Enjoy the action and suspense in this teen series!
Also Read: The Son of Neptune BK. 2 by Rick Riordan(YA
Sci-Fi/Fantasy, J Fiction, J CDB, J Play, Eaudio) MS
Jekel Loves Hyde
By Beth Fantaskey (YA Fiction, Eaudio, YA DVD) MS/HS
Jill and Tristan create an ancient formula that changes personalities!
Also Read: The Chronicles of Vladmir Tod: Eighth Grade
Bites, Ninth Grade Slays
By Heather Brewer (YA PB Horror, YA Play, Eaudio) MS/HS
Betrayal
By Gregg Olsen (YA Fiction) HS
A foreign exchange student is found dead!
Also Read: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil
Gaiman (YA Fiction) HS
Bad Day for Voodoo
By Jeff Strand (YA Fiction) MS
Tyler finds a VooDoo doll that is a replica of him!
Also Read: Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan (YA PB Horror,
YA Play, Eaudio, Ebook) MS
Hidden (VERSE)
By Helen Frost (YA Fiction) MS/HS
Wren and Dara met again after a spine chilling past!
Also Read: I have a Bad Feeling About This by Jeff Strand
(YA PB Fiction) MS/HS
Teen Life
Blackbird Fly
By Erin Estrada Kelly (YA Fiction) MS
Bullied at school, a girl changes her life playing a guitar!
Also Read: Middle School, the Worst Years of My Life
By James Patterson (YA Fiction, YA PB Fiction, J Fiction, Ebook)
MS
Going Where it’s Dark
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (YA Fiction) MS
Suspended over a pit by bullies!
Also Read: Dog Sense by Collard Sneed (J Fiction) MS
Full Cicada Moon
By Marilyn Hilton (YA Fiction) MS/HS
A teen is challenged to fit into a new community!
Also Read: Blue Birds (VERSE) by Carolina Star Rose (YA
Fiction) MS/HS
Just My Luck
By Cammie McGovern (YA Fiction) MS/HS
Is he guilty of causing his father’s death?
Also Read: If You Find Me by Emily Murdock (YA Fiction, YA
Play) MS/HS
First Descent
By Pam Withers (YA Fiction, Ebook) MS/HS
Rex challenges himself to kayak down a Columbian river!
Also Read: Looking for Alaska by John Green (YA Fiction, YA
Play, Ebook) MS/HS
Forbidden
By Kimberly Griffiths Little (YA Fiction) HS
Jayden falls in love with someone not in her tribe!
Also Read: Accidental Love by Gary Soto (YA Fiction, YA PB
Fiction, Ebook, YA DVD) HS
Consent
By Nancy Ohlin (YA Fiction) HS
A teacher and a student share a passion for music!
Also Read: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (YA Fiction) HS
You
By Charles Benoit (YA Fiction) MS/HS
Where did all the blood come from?
Also Read: Scrawl by Mark Schulman (YA PB, YA Fiction,
Eaudio) MS/HS
Memory of Light
By Francisco X. Stork (YA Fiction) HS
Vicky wakes up in a mental hospital!
Also Read: The Fault in Our Stars By John Green (YA Fiction,
Ebook, YA Play, YA CDB, YA DVD) MS/HS
Love is in the Air MS/HS
By A. Destiny (YA Fiction)
How can you tell when you are in love?
Also Read: Eleanor and Park by Rainbow and Rowell (YA
Fiction, YA Spanish) MS/HS
Sports
Stepping Up
By Mark Fink (YA Fiction) MS/HS
What happens when best basketball friends separate?
Also Read: The Summer I Got a Life by Mark Fink (YA Fiction)
MS/HS
Danger Zone
By David Klass (YA Fiction, YA PB) MS/HS
A shot rings out on the basketball court!
Also Read: The Final Four by Paul Volponi (YA Fiction) MS/HS
The New Kid
By Tim Green (YA Fiction) MS/HS
Will this baseball game be a game changer for Tim?
Also Read: The Only Game by Mike Lupica (J Fiction, J Play)
MS
Payback Time
By Carl Deuker (YA Fiction) HS
What is Angel covering up?
Also Read: Ball Don’t Lie By Matt De la Pena (YA Fiction,
Ebook) MS/HS
Historical Fiction
Paper Hearts
By Meg Wivott (YA Fiction) HS
Where a birthday card means death!
Also Read: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (YA Fiction)
HS
Yellow Star
By Jennifer Rozines Roy (YA Fiction) MS/HS
One of 12 children to survive life on a ghetto!
Also Read: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
(YA PB, Eaudio, Ebook, CDB, YA DVD,) MS/HS
American Ace
By Marilyn Nelson (YA Fiction) MS/HS
Connor discovers a surprising heritage!
Also Read: A Boy at War: a Novel of Pearl Harbor by Harry
Mazer (YA Fiction) MS/HS