Metamorphosis: Summer Reads 2008metamorphosis: noun. a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances. |
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 | Alexie, Sherman |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
| This 2007 National Book Award Winner and Fall 2008 Spokane is Reading selection tells the story of Junior, a young cartoonis, and his struggle to redefine himself when he leaves the reservation behind for an all-white high school. |
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 | Anderson, M. T. |
| Thirsty |
| Chris is going through a lot of changes. These aren’t your typical growing pains. His teeth are growing. He’s sleeping during the day. He’s losing his reflection. And he’s oh so very, very thirsty… |
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 | Caletti, Deb |
| Honey, Baby, Sweetheart |
| This summer, Ruby steps out of her role as "The Quiet Girl" for a summer of passion and adventure only to learn that love is about more than being someone’s "honey, baby, sweetheart." |
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 | Crutcher, Chris |
| Deadline |
| With only a year to live, Ben decides to fit an entire lifetime into his senior year. |
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 | Dickinson, Peter |
| Eva |
| Eva awakes from a horrific car accident to find herself on the business end of an extreme life-saving procedure. |
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 | Fleischman, Paul |
| Whirligig |
| To atone for killing a girl in a drunk-driving accident, Brent travels to the four corners of the country building whirligigs in her memory, whiriligs that transform everyone who encounters them. |
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 | Garfinkle, D. L. |
| Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl |
| A hilarious journal in which Michael chronicles his freshman year in high school and his attempts to live down his nickname, win the girl of his dreams, and survive his parents’ new romances. |
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 | Going, K. L. |
| Fat Kid Rules the World |
| At 17, 300 lb. Troy is ready to end it all when he’s drafted into a homeless teen’s punk band as their new drummer...despite the fact he can’t actually play the drums. |
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 | Gordon Korman |
| Jake, Reinvented |
| Rick becomes friends with the popular new boy, Jake Garrett, football player and host of superlative parties, and in the process discovers the true nature of his schoolmates and uncovers the mystery of Jake’s past. |
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 | Green, John |
| Looking for Alaska |
| Miles heads for boarding school looking for the "Great Perhaps." He finds Alaska Young instead. |
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 | Holm, Jennifer L. |
| Boston Jane: An Adventure |
| Schooled in the etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for her lessons while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory. |
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 | Hornby, Nick |
| Slam |
| At 16, Sam should be looking forward to skating and college—instead he’s about to become a father. |
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 | Klause, Annette Curtis |
| Blood and Chocolate |
| What with Vivian falling in love with a human and a brutal murderer stalking the streets, it doesn’t look like her werewolf pack will be settling peacefully into life in the suburbs any time soon. |
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 | Pattou, Edith |
| East |
| To save her family, Rose travels to the ends of the earth aback a great white bear who is not what he seems. |
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 | Pfeffer, Susan Beth |
| Life As We Knew It |
| Following a comet strike to the moon, Miranda struggles to survive on a hostile earth plagued with devastating meteorologic and geologic disasters. |
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 | Shull, Megan |
| Amazing Grace |
| Tennis’s latest "it" girl, Grace Kincaid, has just realized that being a teen sensation isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. With fame and fortune just a backswing away, all she really wants is to be ...NORMAL! |
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 | Werlin, Nancy |
| The Rules of Survival |
| Matthew struggles to protect his younger sisters from his increasingly psychotic and violent abusive mother. |
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 | Westerfeld, Scott |
| Peeps |
| Cal is parasite positive, a peep. Employed by a secret government organization, he tracks down others of his kind who’ve been transformed into crazed cannibals. Unfortunately, the peeps may be the least of the city’s worries… |
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 | Westerfeld, Scott |
| Uglies |
| Tally’s looking forward to her 16th birthday when she’ll undergo an operation transforming her from an outcast Ugly to a gifted Pretty. But when her best friend Shay runs away, Tally is faced with a terrible choice. |
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 | Zarr, Sarah |
| Sweethearts |
| After losing her soul mate, Cameron, when they were nine, Jennifer, now seventeen, transformed herself from the unpopular fat girl into the beautiful and popular Jenna, but Cameron’s unexpected return dredges up memories that can’t be ignored. |
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 | Zevin, Gabrielle |
| Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac |
| A tumble down a flight of stairs leaves 16-year-old Naomi missing the last 4 years of her life. What’s a girl to do when the life she was living isn’t the one she really wants? |
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