Book+recommendations

Roth, Veronica //Free Four// Homer Hickam //Rocket Boys (now October Sky)// Lauren Oliver //Delirium//

James Dashner// The Maze Runner// (Link to mythology)

Orson Scott Card //Ender's Game//

Paolo Bacigalupi //Ship Breaker// Matthew J. Kirby //Clockwork Three//

Rick Riordan //Percy Jackson series//

Jeanne DuPrau //City of Ember //

Scott Westerfeld //Uglies//

Marie Lu //Legend and Prodigy//

Cory Doctorow //Little Brother// //Free download: Little Brother//

Tahereh Mahi //Shatter Me//

Veronica Rossi //Under the Never Sky//

Simone Elkeles //Rules of Attraction//

Robinson Wells //Variant//

Lex Thomas //The Loners (Quarantine #1)//

John Marsden //Tomorrow in the Real World//

Neil Gaiman //Coraline//

Michael Grant //Gone//

James Clavell //The Children's Story//

Brian Falkner //The Project//

Todd Strasser //The Wave//

Rodman Philbrick //The Last Book in the Universe//

Books for the panopticon effect discussion: Louis Sachar //Holes// Aldous Huxley //Brave New World// Lois Lowry //The Giver//

Catherine Fisher //Incarceron//
William Golding //Lord of the Flies//

Cassandra Clare //The Mortal Instruments// series (City of Bones #1) Cassandra Clare //The Mortal Instruments series Book 1: City of Bones//

John Marsden [|Tomorrow When the War Began]

Nancy Farmer The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm and The House of the Scorpion really good dystopian writing by Farmer

Eva Gray //Tomorrow Girls: Behind the Gates// //FANTASY:// Laini Taylor //Daughter of Smoke & Bone// Leigh Bardugo //Shadow & Bone// //[see Bargugo's website for the// //kafta]// Kristin Cashore //Graceling //

SCIENCE FICTION: Ray Bradbury There Will Come Soft Rains Ray Bradbury "The City" from //The Illustrated Man//

//Technology:// Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler //The Future of Us// Cory Doctorow Little Brother free download Orson Scott Card //Ender's Game//

REALISTIC FICTION: Matt de la Peña //Mexican White Boy (not dystopian) Author page// Jay Asher Thirteen Reasons Why Gayle Forman //If I Stay/Where She Went// Jack Gantos //Dead End in Norvelt// Andrew Smith //Stick// John Green //The Fault in Our Stars// John Green //Looking for Alaska//

HISTORICAL FICTION: Elizabeth E. Wein //Code Name Verity//

MG Mystery: Ashley Miller & Zack Stentz //Colin Fischer//

MEMOIR Jack Gantos //Hole in My Life//

//HISTORICAL FICTION:// Edward Bloor //London Calling//

//FICTIONALIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY:// Anzia Yezierska //Bread Givers: A Novel// //Jewish female voice, not Holocaust// //Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials) The Golden Compass//

HUMOR Eric Stevens //Finn Reeder, Flu Fighter: How I Survived a Worldwide Pandemic, the School Bully, and the Craziest Game of Dodge Ball Ever//

Chris Rylander //The Fourth Stall//

Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell //And Tango Makes Three // //Daddy penguin book //

Ann Aguirre //Enclave//
ADULT FICTION: Kazuo Ishiguro //Never Let Me Go// <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">//(The movie isn't very good. Appropriate for high school, but not intended as YA. It's powerful but psychological and requires strong inferencing skills)//

<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> BOOKS WE RECOMMEND: <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Stephen Chbosky //The Perks of Being a Wallflower//

Rainbow Rowell // Eleanor and Park //

Susan Beth Pfeffer //Life As We Knew It//

Neal Shusterman //Unwind//

Gayle Foreman //If I Stay//

Stephen King //The Long Walk//

Bethany Griffin //Masque of the Red Death//

John Green //Paper Towns//

Gene Luen Yang //American Born Chinese// (graphic novel)

SHORT STORIES FOR MIDDLE GRADES/HIGH SCHOOL: M. Jerry Weiss Big City Cool Jon Scieszka: Guys Write For Guys Read: Boys' Favorite Authors Write About Being Boys Jon Scieszka: Guys Read: The Sports Pages Jon Scieszka: __Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka__ Various authors (edited by M. Jerry Weiss): This Family Is Driving Me Crazy: Ten Stories About Surviving Your Family Paul Janeczko: The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles

GRANT WRITING: Grant Writing for Educators: Practical Strategies for Teachers, Administrators, and Staff

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Kelly Gallagher //Readicide// Rick Wormeli //Fair Isn't Always Equal// Donalyn Miller //The Book Whisperer and Reading in the Wild (November 4, 2013 release date)// Teri Lesesne //Reading Ladders// Penny Kittle //Book Love// Kylene Beers & Robert Probst //Notice and Note// Kylene Beers //When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do (6-12)// Cris Tovani //I Read It, But I Don't Get It// Jeff Wilhelm and Michael Smith //Reading Don't Fix No Chevys//

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FINAL BOOK TALKS FROM LAURA: Susan Vaught //Going Underground// Stephanie Meyer //The Host// Scott Westerfeld //Uglies: Shay's Story// Scott Westerfeld //Leviathan (alternate history/steampunk)// Erin Hunter //Warriors: Into the Wild// Vordak T. Incomprehensible //Vordak the Incomprehensible: Double Trouble// Saci Lloyd //Momentum// Andrew Smith //Stick// M.T. Anderson //Feed// Scott McCloud //Understanding Comics//

//TEXTBOOKS:// Literature for Young Adults: Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers
 * <span class="productTitle" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Literature for Today's Young Adults, MyLabSchool Edition (7th Edition) ||