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Summer Reading Program for Grades 9 – Young Adult

RC = Book on Cassette            BR = Braille         

  1. Are You in the House Alone? by Richard Peck.
    Gail is raped by the son of a prominent family & then further humiliated by the legal system. Some strong language.     RC10446
  2. Black Mirror by Nancy Werlin.
    Sixteen-year-old teen believes her brother’s accidental death by drug overdose was actually murder.  Some strong language. RC53590
  3. The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci.
    Torey, 16, struggles with his suspicions about the disappearance of the class outcast.  Some strong language. RC52758, BR13389
  4. Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters by Gail Giles.
    Sunny is stunned when a letter comes from her sister Jazz, presumed dead in a fire, saying she’s alive.  BR14873 
  5.  Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers.
     Francis moves to 116th Street not knowing anyone but soon makes friends, falls in love, experiences a friend’s death and lands in jail.  RC47033
  6. For All Time by Caroline Cooney.
    Annie’s attempt to time travel back to Egypt to the archeological dig where her true love is backfires and she goes much further back in time.     RC53476, BR14056
  7. Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper.
    Gerald tries to protect his younger half-sister from being abused by her stepfather.  BR11688
  8. The Honorable Prison by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins.
    Marta’s journalist father get the family imprisoned because he disagrees with their South American dictator’s politics.   RC53799
  9. How Not to Spend Your Senior Year by Cameron Dokey.
    Having to move when you’re a senior & have a boyfriend isn’t a disaster unless your family’s in the witness protection program. RC58919
  10. In the Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier.
    A deadly accident from 25-years ago has come back to haunt a man and his teenaged son.    RC42721
  11. The Killer’s Cousin by Nancy Werlin.
    High School senior is exiled to his uncle’s house after being acquitted of murder & is haunted and harassed by his cousins. Some strong language.  BR13609
  12. Locked Inside by Nancy Werlin.
    Rich orphan is kidnapped from her boarding school & her only hope for rescue is her anonymous computer buddy, “Elf.”  Some violence.  RC53395
  13. Monster by Walter Dean Myers.
    Sixteen-year-old boy in jail accused of being a lookout in a deadly robbery reflects on his actions in form of a movie script.         RC56569, BR12515
  14. Playing for Keeps by Joan Lowery Nixon.
    Sixteen-year-old girl on Caribbean cruise falls for boy who’s been smuggled aboard from Cuba, where he is wanted by police. BR13748
  15. The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier.
    Twelve-year-old Jason is persuaded by an expert interrogator to confess to a crime he didn’t commit.   BR13896
  16. Secret of Two Brothers by Irene Hernandez.
    After Beaver Torres is paroled from prison for a crime he didn’t commit, he dreams of turning his prison-taught cooking skills into a career.    RC42846
  17. Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman.
    Shawn, 14, who has CP and cannot speak, suspects his father is planning to kill him. Some strong language. R14082
  18. Sword Song by Rosemary Sutcliff.
    Banished from his Norse village for an accidental killing, Bjarni, 16, becomes a Viking mercenary.   Some violence. RC53301
  19. Take a Thief: A Novel of Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey.
    Skif, an orphaned pickpocket, finds a magical horse.  RC53301
  20. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner.
    Gen, master thief, gets the chance to be free of jail if he steals a legendary stone.  Some strong language.    RC47183, BR11285

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