Title, Author | Genre | Reader |
As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth, Lynne Rae Perkins | Contemporary, humorous | Ginny Figlia |
A Million Shades of Gray, Cynthia Kadohata | historical fiction (Vietnam) | Alison Francis |
The Cabinet of Wonders, Marie Rutkoski | medieval, Prague | Ellen Clancy |
The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance, Glenn Dakin | adventure, otherworldly | Lisa Prentiss |
Half Brother, Kenneth Oppel | contemporary | Chris Pattantyus, JoAnn Di Salvo |
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman | Janet Battistoni | |
The Emerald Atlas, John Stephens | Kelly Tomaseski | |
The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman, Meg Wolitzer | contemporary | Kristin Charles-Scaringi |
Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment, James Patterson | Julianna Arms, John Santana | |
On the Blue Comet, Rosemary Wells | Historical Fiction | Linda Deubert |
I am the Messenger, Marcus Zusak | Maureen McGrath | |
Secret Saturdays, Torrey Maldonado | contemporary, family, friends | Jolie Hamer-Conroy |
The Rock and the River, Kekla Magoon | historical, Black Panthers, Civil Rights | John Santana |
Zahrah the Windseeker, Nnedi Okorafor | Fantasy | Christine Houlihan |
The Princess Bride, William Goldman | Classic ,Adventure | Christine Pacuk, Kristin Charles-Scaringi |
The Brooklyn Nine, Alan Gratz | Sports | JoAnn DiSalvo, Lisa Prentiss |
The Girl is Murder, Kathryn Miller Haines | Mystery | Emily Chameides, Amy Thiel |
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury | Classic | Maureen McGrath, Julianna Arms |
Additional books that were considered (availability per Blackwood & Brouwer):
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos – available in paperback 5/7/13
Does My Head Look Big in This? By Randa Abdel-Fattah – available now ($9.99 retail)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs – no paperback available at this time
Wonder by RJ Palacio – available in paperback 12/24/13 (2013!)