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Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Booklists and Book Awards

Teen Reads "Ultimate Reading List"

International Reading Association: Choices Booklists: Young Adults' Choices

      Read-alikes - recommendations from participants of: Books & Banter @ Lunch

         Summer Suggestions:

The Broker by John Grisham                        

The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency by

Secret Santa by Sabrina James                                               

Witch & Wizard by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet

Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness A Novel by William Bernhardt

  If you liked New Moon by Stephenie Meyer, you'd probably enjoy any book by the author or:

Marked by P.C. Cast  Enter the dark, magical world of The House of Night, a world where vampyres have always existed. Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird has just been Marked as a fledgling vampyre and joins the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult vampire. That is, if she makes it through the Change--and not all of those who are Marked do.

Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz Schuyler Van Alen, growing comfortable with her newfound vampire powers, seeks her grandfather in Italy, while back in New York plans are being completed for the fabulous Four Hundred Ball, to be followed by an elite, teens-only event.

            If you liked The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, you'd probably enjoy any book by the author or:

Pendragon Series: The Merchant of Death by D.J. McHale Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal and somewhat reluctant 14- year-old boy who is swept into an amazing five-year quest.

Epic by Conor Kostick On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families.

        If you liked A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, you'd probably enjoy any book by the author or:

Sold by Patricia McCormick Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.

Shabanu Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples Shabanu, a young nomad of the Cholistan Desert, must submit to the marriage her father arranges for her, or go against centuries of tradition by defying him.

Sister of my Heart by Chitra Divakaruni Two women, family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart.

         If you liked If you come softly by Jacqueline Woodson you'd probably enjoy another book by these authors:

Sarah Dessen            Laurie Halse Anderson            Elizabeth Scott            Maureen Johnson       

       If you liked The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor you'd probably enjoy the entire series!

Seeing Redd             Arch Enemy

       If you liked Unwind by Neal  Shusterman you'd probably enjoy another book by this author:

Everlost      Everwild     or     The maze runner by  James Dashner

  If you liked 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson you'd probably enjoy another book by this author:

Girl at Sea      The Bermudez Triangle     or Bloom  by Elizabeth Scott

 

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