AHS+Summer+2013

** GRAPHIC NOVEL **
**Level Up** – Gene Luen Yang Dennis Ouyang is visited by four angels who prompt him to give up his dream of playing video games professionally and pursue a medical degree as his late father wanted, but a crisis reveals the true nature of the angels and brings Dennis to a crossroads in his path to the future. **Drama**– Raina TelgemeierRyoko, a character from the Manga World, falls through a rip in pages, into the real world, where he struggles to survive as an outsider in a typical American high school. Things like his chibi character, thought balloons, and motion lines make that difficult, especially after he meets and falls for Marissa. **Anya’s Ghost** – Vera BrosgolAnya, embarrassed by her family and lacking confidence in herself and her social skills, finally finds a friend after falling down a well, but quickly learns there are drawbacks to having a ghost for a friend.

** NON-FICTION/BIOGRAPHY **
Gaby details how she was able to fake her own pregnancy—hiding the truth from even her siblings and boyfriend’s parents—and reveals all that she learned from the experience. Examines the history of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world's most formidable weapon: the atomic bomb. The fight for civil rights lay in the hands of four children who tell the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary, middle, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail between May 2 and May 11, 1963. The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison.
 * The Pregnancy Project ** – Gabi Rodriguez
 * Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon ** – Steve Sheinkin
 * We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March ** - Cindy Levinson
 * The Other Wes Moore ** — Wes Moore

** DYSTOPIAN/SUPERNATURAL **
Tris survives the Erudite simulation attacks that occur during the time she expected to be celebrating her achievement of being ranked first among the initiate class of her chosen faction, Dauntless as a war and secrets emerge. In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her. Sequel to Delirium, Lena manages to find her way to a community of resistance fighters, and although she is bereft without the boy she loves, her struggles seem to be leading her toward a new love. Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.
 * Insurgent ** —Veronica Roth
 * Drowned Cities ** — Paolo Bacigalupi
 * Pandemonium ** – Lauren Oliver
 * The Raven Boys ** — Maggie Stiefvater

** HUMOR **
After finding out his parents are expecting a baby, sophomore Sean Hance, and his best friends Matt and Coop, decide to make their very own ultra-low-budget horror flick and enter it in TerrorFest with mayhem resulting. Sixteen-year-old Guy Langman, his best friend Anoop, and other members of the school Forensics Club investigate a break-in and a possible murder, which could be connected to the mysterious past of Guy's recently-deceased father.
 * Call the Shots ** —Don Calame
 * Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator** – Josh Berk

** HISTORICAL FICTION/MULTICULTURAL FICTION **
In 1941, Lena, her mother and brother are pulled from Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where they are sent to prison camps fighting for their lives. When soldiers arrive in his hometown in Cambodia, Arn Chorn Pond is separated from his family and sent to a labor camp, wherehe worksin the rice paddies until he volunteers to learn to play an instrument--a decision that both saves his life and lands him in battle.
 * The Diviners ** – Libba Bray
 * Code Name Verity ** —Elizabeth Wein In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
 * Never Fall Down ** —Patricia McCormick
 * Lincoln’s Grave Robbers**—Steve SheinkinDetails how counterfeiter Benjamin Boyd's gang stole the body of Abraham Lincoln and demanded Boyd's release from jail and two hundred thousand dollars as ransom and the efforts of the Secret Service to recover the remains.

** LIVING TODAY **
**Every Day**—David Levithan Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon. Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. After his older brother dies in Iraq, Matt makes a discovery that rocks his beliefs about strength, bravery, and honor in this page-turner.
 * October Mourning: A Song For Matthew Shepard ** —Leslea Newman
 * Personal Effects** – E. M. Kokie

** FAMILY MATTERS **
**Everybody Sees the Ants**—A.S. King Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective. . **How To Save a Life**—Sara Zarr Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated. **Girlchild**– Tupelo Hassman Follows the struggles of Rory Hendrix as she searches for a way out of her life of poverty at the Calle, a run-down Reno trailer park where she lives with her mother Jo, a hard-luck bartender at the Truck Stop. **Between** by Jessica Warman By weaving through her memories and watching the family and friends she left behind, eighteen-year-old Liz Valchar solves the mystery of how her life ended in the Long Island Sound.

** SPORTS **
**The Final Four**—Paul Volponi Four players at the Final Four of the NCAA basketball tournament struggle with the pressures of tournament play and the expectations of society at large.
 * Leverage** – Joshua C. CohenHigh school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship with Danny.

** SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR **
Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her heavy responsibility and the futility of relying on advisors who surround her with lies as she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities. In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.
 * Cinder ** – Marissa Meyer Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
 * Bitterblue ** — Kristin Cashore
 * Rot and Ruin ** – Jonathan Maberry

Experienced traveler Robie, having decided to take a cargo plane from Honolulu to Midway Atoll after a visit with her aunt, struggles to survive with the co-pilot, Max, after the plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean and they are left on a raft in shark-infested waters with only one bag of Skittles. **Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25** – Richard Paul Evans Michael discovers he has special electrical powers and, with the help of his best friends, becomes aware that there are other teens with similar powers, but something or someone is hunting them and, after Michael's mother is kidnapped, he will need to rely on his powers and his friends to rescue his mom, protect himself, and save the others. In an alternative London ruled by a young Queen Victoria, Dodger, a resourceful, homeless boy, unwittingly prevents Sweeney Todd from committing murder.
 * ADVENTURE **
 * The Raft ** — S. A. Bodeen
 * Wolf Mark ** – Joseph BruchacIn Mayda,a post-apocalyptic city, off the coast of Portugal, a brilliant young engineer and a recluse, race to build a flying machine, unaware that powerful enemies will kill to possess or destroy their new technology.
 * Dodger ** – Terry Pratchett