Summer Reading
Contemporary and Fiction
Alfred Kropp: The thirteenth skull
by Yancey, Richard
Alfred Kropp faces an unknown enemy that is causing him to question who he can trust and whether or not he will escape this latest adventure with his life.
Read first: The extraordinary adventures of Alfred Kropp; Alfred Kropp:the seal of Solomon
by Colfer, Eoin.
Artemis's fairy friends help him travel back in time to find a cure for his mother's rare disease which can only be cured by the brain fluid of now-extinct African lemurs, and is shocked to discover that it was actually his younger self who was responsible for bringing about the animal's extinction. This entry in the popular series will grab and keep readers' attention, as magical devices, duplicate characters, and time paradoxes combine to create complex situations and adventures.
by Perez, Marlene.
Seventeen-year-old Daisy Giordano, daughter and sister of psychics, attempts to help her mother discover who is behind a series of bizarre attacks on teenage girls in their little town of Nightshade, California.
Deep and dark and dangerous
by Hahn, Mary Downing.
While spending the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home in Maine, thirteen-year-old Ali stumbles upon the secret to the childhood tragedy that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: the last straw (5 in the series)
by Kinney, Jeff
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.
Escape from Fire Mountain
by Paulsen, Gary.
Thirteen-year-old Nikki Roberts rescues two children from a forest fire, but then she must save herself and them from ruthless poachers. 67 p.
Extras
by Westerfeld, Scott
In an alternative civilization where the social status of each person is monitored and rated and anyone can drop from celebrity to nobody, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse's popularity ranking is so low her only chance of moving up is to find a good story, so when she meets a group of girls who hide an explosive secret, Aya decides to expose the group and unknowingly puts her own life in danger.
Also by Westerfield: Pretties, Uglies, and Specials.
Free baseball
by Corbett, Sue.
Eleven-year-old Felix becomes a bat boy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder.
by Buckley-Archer, Linda
In this exciting adventure-filled story, 12-year-old Peter and Kate unexpectedly find themselves in 18th century England. When Kate and Peter chase after Kate's dog, a series of unusual events catapult them through time, and they find themselves in the year 1763.
Also: The time thief : being the second part of the Gideon trilogy; The time quake (The Gideon Trilogy #3)
Heat
By Lupica, Mike
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
by Walden, Mark.
Still trapped at the Higher Institute of Villainous Education, or H.I.V.E., evil-genius-in-training Otto Malpense is nearly assassinated and must now not only try to escape, but also find out who murdered his best friend--and save himself. l
Hotel for dogs
by Duncan, Lois
Andi, unable to adopt an adorable stray dog because of her aunt's allergies, enlists her brother Bruce in a plan to care for the dog and its puppies in an abandoned house down the street, but when the siblings give in the urge to take in more canine guests, the secret becomes too large to keep.
Independence Hall :
By Roland Smith.
Series: I, Q ; bk. 1
Quest and his stepsister Angela are thrust into the dangerous world of the American Secret Service and the Israeli Mossad when they learn Angela's real mother was a former Secret Service agent who was killed by a terrorist group.
by Abrahams, Peter
Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill tries to clear her grandfather's name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm.
by Pearson, Ridley.
When the evil Overtakers gain control of a computer server at the Magic Kingdom, allowing them to put the holographic hosts into permanent comas if they should fall asleep, Finn and the others race against time to find the missing Jez and foil the plan.
The last Olympian / (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5)
by Riordan, Rick
Percy Jackson and his army of young demigods do battle with Kronos on the streets of Manhattan as Percy's sixteenth birthday approaches and his fate looms even closer
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery
By Feinstein, John
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
Life As We Knew It
by Pfeffer, Susan Beth
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.
Max
by Patterson, James
When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.
Maximum Ride Series by Patterson: The Angel Experiment; School’s out –forever; Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports; The Final Warning
The Million Dollar Putt
By Gutman, Dan
Assisted by his neighbor, Birdie, blind thirteen-year-old Ed "Bogie" Bogard will win one million dollars if he can sink a ten-foot putt in Hawaii's fifth annual Angus Killick Memorial Tournament.
Once upon a Marigold
by Ferris, Jean
A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.
P.s., I loathe you : a Clique novel (10 in the series)
by Harrison, Lisi.
Having decided to give up their "boy fast," the Pretty Committee finds itself at odds with the members of the Witty Committee over the new cheerleading squad and crushes on Derrington and Dempsey.
by Hiaasen, Carl.
Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.
Schooled
By Korman, Gordon
Cap lives in isolation with his grandmother, a former hippie; but when she falls from a tree and breaks her hip, Cap is sent to a foster home where he has his first experience in a public school.
Shadow Children (6 in the series)
By Haddix, Margaret Petersen
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, third-born Luke, a Shadow Child, has lived all of his life in fear and isolation.
Series titles: Among the betrayed; Among the brave; Among the enemy; Among the free; Among the hidden; Among the impostors
Snakehead (#7 in the Alex Rider series)
By Horowitz, Anthony
Snakehead begins right where Ark Angel ended. After splashing down in Australian waters, Alex Rider is taken to Sydney and immediately recruited by ASIS, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service. The convoluted plot, nearly constant action, and clever gadgets will intrigue readers as Alex crosses the world, and Ash reveals new information about Alex’s parents and their untimely demise.
Tree Girl
By Barron, T. A.
Nine-year-old Rowanna is drawn to the forest and a huge tree, despite the warnings of the old man with whom she has always lived at the edge of the sea--especially after she befriends a bear who is much more than he seems.
by Hunter, Erin