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Mohonasen Central School District |
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Draper Middle School |
Fabulous Books to Try
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"Reading is to the
mind what exercise is to the body." |
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Looking for a book? Try these websites or one of Ms. DeFilippo's suggestions! |
| http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/books.html |
| http://www.teenreads.com/ |
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http://www.carnegielibrary.org/teens/read/booklists/midschool.html |
| Tangerine: By Edward Bloor So what if he's legally blind? Even with his bottle-thick, bug-eyed glasses, Paul Fisher can see better than most people. He can see the lies his parents and brother live out, day after day. No one ever listens to Paul, though--until the family moves to Tangerine. In Tangerine, even a blind, geeky, alien freak can become cool. Who knows? Paul might even become a hero |
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Petey:
By Ben Mikaelsen It is based on a true, tragic situation in which Petey, born with
cerebral palsy in 1920, is misdiagnosed as mentally retarded. Unable
to care for him at home, his parents relinquish him to the care of
the state, where he languishes in a mental institution for the next
five decades. In 1977, statewide reorganization and a new, correct
diagnosis result in Petey being moved to a local nursing home.
There, the final, triumphant chapters of his life are entwined with
an eighth-grade student named Trevor, who finds his own life
transformed by love and caring in ways he never could have imagined. |
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Zach’s
Lie
by Roland Smith |
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Loser By Jerry Spinelli Jerry Spinelli's novel, LOSER, details the childhood of Donald Zinkoff, focusing on his life from the first through sixth grades. Most readers will relate to either knowing or being a Donald Zinkoff at some point in their lives. Zinkoff is usually the last person picked for athletic teams, his flute consistently hits the wrong note during concerts, and he is occasionally too eager at the wrong times. |
| One Fat
Summer by Robert Lipsyte Bobby Marks, an overweight fourteen-year-old boy, experiences a turning-point summer when he takes a summer job tending the grounds of the town miser. His new image bolsters his self esteem. |
| Flipped
by Wendelin Van Draanen In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years. |
| Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site. |
| Hope
Was Here by
Joan Bauer When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor. |
| Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. |
| Love,
Stargirl by
Jerry Spinelli
This story picks
up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life
of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl.
The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter,"
in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a
year's time. In her writing, Stargirl mixes memories of her
bittersweet time in Mica, Arizona, with involvements with new people
in her life. |
| 33 Things
Every Girl Should Know Various Authors Thirty-three extraordinary women offer stories, songs, poems, and smart talk in this collection that will give every adolescent girl reason to feel hopeful about making the transition from girlhood to womanhood |
| Read For
Your Life: Tales Of Survival From the Editors of Read Magazine These stories from the pages of Read magazine will have even the most reluctant readers screaming for more! |
| Among the
Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix Born third when having more than two children per family is illegal, Luke has always lived in hiding. |
| Surviving
The Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan A juvenile delinquent arrives at the Applewhite house to be homeschooled by the most outrageously weird family he's ever met. |
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