By Dr. Seuss

"Unless someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better...It's not."

By Suzanne Collins


Summary:Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games."
Price: $150 M.N.

By Stephen Chbosky
ISBN 978-0671027346

Summary
This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares.


Price: $200 M.N.

By Wendelin VAn Draaner
ISNB 978-0375825446

Summary
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.


Price $150 M.N.

By Ishiguro, Kazuo
ISBN 9781400078776

SummaryThirty-one-year-old Kathy, along with old friends from Hailsham, a private school in England, are forced to face the truth about their childhood when they all come together again.

Price $150 M.N.

By Nicholas Sparks
ISBN:9780446618328

Summary
When U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a half-buried photograph of a smiling young woman in the desert in Iraq, he carries it with him and soon discovers that it brings him luck in games and during combat; after returning to Colorado, his obsession with the picture leads him in a fateful search for what may be the love of his life.

Price $130 M.N.

By Lis See
ISBN 9780812968064
Paperback

Summary
Friends Snow Flower and Lily find solace in their bond as they face isolation, arranged marriages, loss, and motherhood in nineteenth-century China.


Price $ 190 M.N.

By David Nicholls
ISBN 9780307474711
Paperback

Summary
The single day that Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley spend together in 1988, the day after college graduation in Edinburgh, makes a distinct impression on each of them and a relationship forms only after they part ways and are reunited once a year on the same day for twenty years.


Price: $180 M.N.

By Stieg Larsson
ISBN 9780307454546
Paperback


Summary
Hacker Lisbeth Salander assists Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist, with the investigation of Harriet Vanger's disappearance decades earlier, and the two uncover a dark world of secrets about a wealthy Swedish family as well as a surprising connection between themselves.


Price $150 M.N.

By Kathryn Stockett 
ISBN 9780425232200

Summary
Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.


Price: $200 M.N.

Awards: Amelia Bloomer Project: 2010 

By Emily Giffin
ISBN 9780312321192
Paperback

Summary
Rachel White, a young Manhattan attorney, finds her ordered life in an uproar when she gets drunk on her thirtieth birthday and winds up in bed with her best friend's fiance, Dex.


Price $190 M.N.

By Lore Pittacus 
ISBN 9780061969577



Price: $250 M.N. 
Pasta Dura 

By Louise Rennison
ISBN 9780064472272

Summary
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.


Price: $150 M.N.

By Flinn Alex
ISBN 9780061998669

Summary
A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.

Price $120 M.N.

By Gruen, Sara
ISBN 978-1565125605

Summary
Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski finds himself haunted by memories of his past in the circus and the freaks, exotic animals, and other people he encountered as a performer.


Price $200 M.N.

Summary: Judy's big plans for the summer seem ruined when two of her best friends go away, and then her parents leave her and Stink with Aunt Opal, but a new "thrill-a-delic" plan has her racing toward fun.

Summary:Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother, Rodrick, from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.

By Riordan, Rick
ISBN 9780786838653

Summary
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.


Price $150 M.N.

By Cowell, Cressida
ISBN 9780316085274

Summary
Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon.


Price $110 M.N.

Summary: Greg 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.