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Reading Olympics High School Booklist 2012-2013

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**__The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian__** by Alexie Sherman Budding cartoonist Junior leacer his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the ony other Native American is the school mascot.

__**American Born Chinese**__ by Gene Luen Yang Alternates interrelated stories about three characters, including a Chinese American trying to participate in popular culture; a Chinese folk hero attempting to be worsipped as a god; and a teenager who is so ashamed by his Chinese cousin's behavior that he changes schools.

**__Anya's Ghost__** by Vera Brosgol Anya Embarrassed by her family and lacking confidence in her body and her social skills, finally finds a friend after falling down a well, but quickely lears there are drawbacks to having a ghost for a friend.

__**Au Revior, Crazy European Chick**__ by Joe Schreiber Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their queit Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but agter an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious Jaguar, on a mission in Manhattan.

__**Bean Trees**__ by Barbara Kingsolver Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tuscon. There she finds friends and disconvers resources in apparently empty places.

__**Beauty Queens**__ by Libba Bray When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in tome for the competition.

__**Before I Die**__ by Jenny Downham A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.

__**Between Shades of Gray**__ by Ruta Sepetys In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and thousands like her by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.

__**Born Blue**__ by Han Nolan Janie was four years old when she nearly drowned due to her mother's neglect. Through an unhappy foster home experience, and years of feeling that she is unwanted, she keeps alive her dream of someday being a famous singer.

__**Born Confused**__ by Tanuja Desai Hidier As Dimple Lala turns seventeen, she realizes that life is about to become more complex as her best friend starts pulling away and her parents try to fina a suitable boyfriend for Dimple, despite the fact that she is not interested.

__**The Burn Journals**__ by Brent Runyon Presents the true story of Brent Runyon, who at fourteen set himeself on fire and sustained burns on over eighty percent of his body and describes the months of physical and mental rehabilitaion that followed as he attempted to pull his life together. __**City of Bones**__ by Cassandra Clare Suddenly able to see demons and Darkhunters who are dedicated to returing them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

__**Climbing the Stairs**__ by Padma Venkataman In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accostumed to a totally different way of life.

__**Crank**__ by Ellen Hopkins Kristina Georgia Snow's life is turned upside-down, when she visits her absentee father, gets turned on to the drug "crank", becomes addicited and is led down a desperate path that threatens her mind, soul, and her life.

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of the neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
 * __The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time__** by Mark Haddon

__**Divergent**__ by Veronica Roth In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect at all.

Recounts the true story of Kamiola Sidiqi, a woman who was forced to support herself and her five siblings after the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul and her father and brothers fled the country.
 * __The Dressmaker of Khair Khana__** by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where, although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.
 * __Everlost__** by Neal Shusterman

Sixteen-year-old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a kids-with-cancer support group and as they fall in love they both wonder how they will be remembered.
 * __The Fault in our Stars__** by John Green

Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
 * __The First Part Last__** by Angela Johnson

Presents a true accouny of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.
 * __Getting Away with Murder__** by Chris Crowe

__**The Great Gatsby**__ by F. Scott Fitzgerald The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.

Astronomer Mike Brown describes how his search for a tenth planet, Eris, a planet more massive than Pluto, led to the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet.
 * __How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming__** by Mike Brown

Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
 * __Life As We Knew It__** by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Sequel to: //The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy// and //The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.// The people of Krikkit are planning to destroy the rest of the universe.
 * __Life, the Universe and Everything__** by Douglas Adams

Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the governent army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the Untied States.
 * __Long Way Gone__** by Ishmael Beah

Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.
 * __The Lovely Bones__** by Alice Sebold

Chronicles the life of controversial militant leader Malcolm X.
 * __Malcolm X: By Ay Means Necessary__** by Walter Dean Myers

After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory for the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life.
 * __Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac__** by Gabrielle Zevin

An old fisherman battles the sea and sharks to bring home the giant marlin he caught.
 * __The Old Man and the Sea__** by Ernest Hemingway

In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowing of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.
 * __Paper Covers Rock__** by Jenny Hubbard

A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living in Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.
 * __A Raisin in the Sun__** by Lorraine Hansberry

A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior.
 * __Repossessed__** by A.M. Jenkins

Two brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London traveling to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister.
 * __The Road of the Dead__** by Kevin Brooks

When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.
 * __The Running Dream__** by Wendelin Van Draanen

Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, broth trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
 * __The Scorpio Races__** by Maggie Stiefvater

Two sisters, very different in attitude but both in search of the perfect man are the heart of Sense and Sensibility. Senseible, restrained Elinor seems to have found a kindred spirit in Edward Ferrars, while the impetuous, romantic Marianne falls hard for the dashing Willoughby. But each man has a secret that may desroy the relationship. Will the sisters find happiness--or betrayal?
 * __Sense and Sensibility__** by Jane Austen

A teenaged boy thrown out of his house by his abusive father goes to live with his older bother, who ran away from home years earlier under similar circumstances.
 * __Split__** by Swati Avasthi

Just before his sixteenth birthday, Felton Reinstein has a sudden growth spurt that turns him from a small, jumpy, picked-on boy with the nickname of "Squirrel Nut" to a powerful athlete, leading to new friends, his first love, and the courage to cotnront his family's past and current problems.
 * __Stupid Fast__** by Geoff Herbach

After his anger erupts into violence, fifteen year-old Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
 * __Touching Spirit Bear__** by Ben Mikaelsen

The author, an alumnus of Brandeis University, tells of his meetings with a former professor suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease and of the lessons he learned about life and death from his college mentor.
 * __Tuesdays with Morrie__** by Mitch Albom

After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
 * __Twisted__** by Laurie Halse Anderson

Throughout her high school years, as her mother battles cancer, Lupita takes on more responsibilty for her house and seven younger siblings, while finding refuge in acting and writing poetry. Includes glossary of Spanish terms.
 * __Under the Mesquite__** by Q. Garcia McCall

__**White Cat**__ by Holly Black When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.

__**Wingshooters**__ by Nina Revoyr Michelle LeBeau, the daughter of an American man and a Japanese woman, lives with her grandparents in Deerhorn, Wisconsin, and their lives are forever changed when an African American family moves into their all-white town in 1974.