AHS+Summer+2015

Living in a broken-down camper hidden in a forest, fifteen year-old Carey and her younger sister, Jenessa, just have each other. After their mentally ill mother disappears for good and they are put into foster care, Carey must face the truth of why her mother abducted her ten years ago, and find the reason why Jenessa has not spoken in over a year.
 * Abington Senior High Summer Reading 2015 **
 * //If you Find Me //** by Emily Murdoch –

As her high school graduation draws near, Glory O'Brien begins having powerful and terrifying visions of the future as she struggles with her long-buried grief over her mother's suicide.
 * //Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future //** by A.S. King

A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah.
 * //*I’ll Give you the Sun //** by Jandy Nelson

Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, both teetering on the edge, it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another.
 * Realistic Fiction **
 * //*All the Bright Places //** by Jennifer Niven


 * //How It Went Down //** by Kekla Magoon. When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">I Was Here //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Gail Forman

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Since You’ve Been Gone //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Morgan Matson

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">**//To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before//** by Jenny Han <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent.

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">The story of two young African American men, one condemned to death for a murder and the other a teacher, who form a bond in a small Cajun Louisiana community in the late 1940s.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Historical Fictions //**
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">*A Lesson Before Dying //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">by Ernest Gaines

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">In 1909 London, as the world of debutante balls and high society obligations closes in around her, seventeen-year-old Victoria must figure out just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dream of becoming an artist.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">A Mad Wicked Folly //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Sharon Biggs Waller.

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">//**Revolution**// by Jennifer Donnelly <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">After dying at age sixteen, Travis Coates' head was removed and frozen for five years before being attached to another body, and now the old Travis and the new must find a way to coexist while figuring out changes in his relationships.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Science Fiction / Fantasy **
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">*Noggin //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by John Corry Whaley

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Pure evil has a name, hides behind a mask of deceit, and uses her "glamour" to gain power. But who //is// Queen Levana? Long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress in The Lunar Chronicles, Levana lived a very different story—a story that has never been told. . . until now.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Fairest //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Marissa Meyer

//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Graceling //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> meets //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Selection // in debut novelist Victoria Aveyard's sweeping tale of seventeen-year-old Mare, a common girl whose once-latent magical power draws her into the dangerous intrigue of the king's palace. Will her power save her or condemn her?
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Red Queen //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Victoria Avelard

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Abandoned on Earth because of her inability to survive on other planets, Jarra crafts a fake background for herself to join a class of norms who are excavating the dangerous ruins of the old cities.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Earth Girl //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Janet Edwards


 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">The Eye of Minds //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by James Dashner Michael, a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology, is called upon to seek out a cyber-terrorist when he begins to threaten players.

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">*The Fifth Wave //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Rick Yancey

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">As the active-duty daughter of international spies, sixteen-year-old safecracker Maggie Silver never attended high school so when she and her parents are sent to New York for her first solo assignment, Maggie is introduced to cliques, school lunches, and maybe even a boyfriend.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Adventure **
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Also Known As //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Robin Benway

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Discover a terrifying world in the woods in this collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories that includes the online web comic sensation "His Face All Red," in print for the first time.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Graphic Novel **
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Through the Woods //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Emily Carroll

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">In 1914, a young Serbian named Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria; a violent act that sparked World War I. Henrik Rehr's riveting graphic novel imagines the events that led Princep to become history's most significant terrorist.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Terrorist : Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who ignited World War I //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Henrik Rehr

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Creative Wilhelmina "Will" struggles to come to terms with a family tragedy and participates in an arts carnival that forces her to face her fear of the dark when a hurricane causes a blackout.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Will & Whit //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Laura Lee Gulledge

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Ernest Shackleton was one of the last great Antarctic explorers, and he led one of the most ambitious Antarctic expeditions ever undertaken. Nick Bertozzi has documented this remarkable journey with such wit and fiendish attention to detail that it's impossible not to get caught up in the drama of the voyage.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Shackleton : Antarctic odyssey //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Nick Bertozzi

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Shane Burcaw describes the challenges he faces as a twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to having a girlfriend and everything in between, Shane handles his situation with humor and a "you-only-live-once" perspective on life.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Non-fiction **
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Laughing at My Nightmare //** <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">written by Shane Burcaw

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">On October 9, 2012, the teenaged Yousafzai was very nearly assassinated by members of the Taliban who objected to her education and women's rights activism in Pakistan. Currently, she lives in England, under threat of execution by the Taliban if she returns home. Lamb, who has been reporting from Pakistan for 26 years and was named Foreign Correspondent of the Year five times, helps Yousafzai tell her hugely significant story.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">I am Malala //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">by Malala Yousafzai

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs--at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">The Family Romanov : Murder, Rebellion, & the Fall of Imperial Russia //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Candace Fleming

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Kennedy's Last Days is a gripping account of the events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century. Author Bill O'Reilly vividly describes the Kennedy family's life in the public eye, the crises facing the president around the world and at home, the nation's growing fascination with their vigorous, youthful president, and, finally, the shocking events leading up to his demise.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Kennedy's last days --the assassination that defined a generation //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Bill O’Reilly

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Delve into the magical, unforgettable world through the first-hand account of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients. For over forty years, generations of readers have thrilled to Herriot's marvelous tales, deep love of life, and extraordinary storytelling abilities.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">All creatures great and small //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by James Herriot

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">A civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin that describes the fifty black sailors who refused to work in unsafe and unfair conditions after an explosion in Port Chicago killed 320 servicemen, and how the incident influenced civil rights.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">*Port Chicago 50 //**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> by Steve Sheinkin

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">*Denotes a 2016 High School Reading Olympics title