Need some new books to read? Take a look at what other 7th grade students said about books they enjoyed. These reviews were submitted to the Library during past summer reading programs.
A big THANK YOU to our teen volunteers who typed all these reviews so we could put them online. Stay tuned to this blog for more posts with more reviews (organized by grade) as our volunteers keep hard at work!
Need some new books to read? Take a look at what other high school students said about books they enjoyed. These reviews were submitted to the Library during past summer reading programs.
A big THANK YOU to our teen volunteers who typed all these reviews so we could put them online. Stay tuned to this blog for more posts with more reviews (organized by grade) as our volunteers keep hard at work!
Need some new books to read? Take a look at what other 7th grade students said about books they enjoyed. These reviews were submitted to the Library during past summer reading programs.
A big THANK YOU to our teen volunteers who typed all these reviews so we could put them online. Stay tuned to this blog for more posts with more reviews (organized by grade) as our volunteers keep hard at work!
Need some new books to read? Take a look at what other 6th grade students said about books they enjoyed. These reviews were submitted to the Library during past summer reading programs.
A big THANK YOU to our teen volunteers who typed all these reviews so we could put them online. Stay tuned to this blog for more posts with more reviews (organized by grade) as our volunteers keep hard at work!
Need some new books to read? Take a look at what other teens said about books they enjoyed. These reviews were submitted to the Library during past summer reading programs.
A big THANK YOU to our teen volunteers who typed all these reviews so we could put them online. Stay tuned to this blog for more posts with more reviews (organized by grade) as our volunteers keep hard at work!
Need some new books to read? Take a look at what other middle school students said about books they enjoyed. These reviews were submitted to the Library during past summer reading programs.
A big THANK YOU to our teen volunteers who typed all these reviews so we could put them online. Stay tuned to this blog for more posts with more reviews (organized by grade) as our volunteers keep hard at work!
Books can impact you in many ways. They can relate to you, inform you, move you, entertain you, etc. We invited teens to share what books made an impact on them for whatever reason. Here’s what they wrote on the Library’s graffiti board.
A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
Afraid that she is crazy, thirteen-year-old Mia, who sees a special color with every letter, number, and sound, keeps this a secret until she becomes overwhelmed by school, changing relationships, and the loss of something important to her.
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, “The $20,000 Pyramid,” a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda’s freshman year in high school.
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
With two attorneys for parents, thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows more about the law than most lawyers do. But when a high profile murder trial comes to his small town and Theo gets pulled into it, it’s up to this amateur attorney to save the day.
Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family’s struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret
The author describes her battle against polio when she was thirteen and her efforts to overcome its debilitating effects.
Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it’s up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Thirteen Plus 1 by Lauren Myracle
The year between turning eleven and turning twelve bring many changes for Winnie and her friends.
Winnie relates the events of her twelth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.
Winnie’s thirteenth year brings many joys and challenges as she negotiates her relationship with her first boyfriend and realizes that change is inevitable in her friends, family and even herself.
As Winnie and her friends count the days until the beginning of high school, they attend a summer camp where they learn about sea turtles–as well as human relationships.
Fever 1983 by Laurie Halse Anderson
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L’Engle
During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.
After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
A coming of age novel about Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. He deals with the usual teen problems, but also with the suicide of his best friend.
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted on Support Teen Literature Day during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Winners are announced in October during Teen Read Week.
Teens’ Top 10 of 2007
Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted on Support Teen Literature Day during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Winners are announced in October during Teen Read Week.
Teens’ Top 10 of 2008
Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted on Support Teen Literature Day during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Winners are announced in October during Teen Read Week.
Teens’ Top 10 of 2009
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