Previous (I've taken off the current ones that we have/are reading):
- Flush -- Carl Hiaasen (YALSA best of 2006)
- Eragon -- Christopher Paolini
- The Lightning Thief -- Rick Riordan (YALSA best of 2006)
- Counting Coup --Larry Colton (Nonfiction)
- Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida -- Victor Martinez
- The Tequila Worm -- Viola Canales (Pura Belpre Medal book)
- Day of Tears -- Julius Lester
- Invisible -- Pete Hautman (we said books by earlier, but this is the one I'm most curious about as I've read others, but I'm open to rereading Godless or Sweet Blood too)
- Books by E.R. Frank
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -- Mark Haddon
- Esperanza Rising -- Pam Munoz Ryan
- Criss Cross -- Lynne Rae Perkins (Won this year's Newberry)
- The Arm -- Nancy Farmer (Sci Fi)
- Books by Philip Pullman
- Twilight--Stephanie Meyer (YALSA best of 2006)
- The Game of Sunken Place -- M.T. Anderson
More Book Ideas
Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The most concise yet interesting description of the book from bordersstores.com:
It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery . . .
Set during World War II in Germany , Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich . Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist -- books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau .
This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
Some others from my Borders newsletters that sounded interesting:
Golden by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (written when she was 19)
Bras & Broomsticks by Sarah Mlynowski (perhaps a bit of light reading if needed)
Burned by Ellen Hopkins (not sure, but has the possibility to be a �female� Chocolate Wars)
Hush by Jacquline Woodson (a current best seller about a relocated family)
Others that have peaked my curiosity from other lists/libraries:
Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa (A Pura Belpr� Honor Book about a girl whose both Cuban and Polish in ancestry, but very much American and how she deals with expectations of her family and her own)
Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a shifting self by Rebecca Walker
From Publishers Weekly: The daughter of famed African American writer Alice Walker and liberal Jewish lawyer Mel Leventhal brings a frank, spare style and detail-rich memories the this compelling contribution to the growing subgenre of memoirs by biracial authors about life in a race-obsessed society. Walker examines her early years in Mississippi as the loved, pampered child of parents active in the Civil Rights movement in the bloody heart of the segregated South. Torn apart by the demands of their separate careers, her parents' union eventually lost steam and failed, leaving Walker to shuttle back and forth across country to spend time with them both. Deeply analytical and reflective, she assumes the resonant voices of an inquisitive child, a highly sensitive teen and finally a young woman who is confronted with the harsh color prejudices of her friends, teachers and families-both black and Jewish-and who tires desperately to make sense of rigid cultural boundaries for which she was never fully prepared by her parents.(non-fiction, biography � sub-genre: autobiography)
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