Cape Elizabeth High School Library, 2010 Summer Reading List Grades 9-12

The library owns one copy of each title below. Students may check out as many library books as they would like for the summer. Happy Reading! --Mrs. Bell, Librarian Diaries and Journals
Author Alexie, Sherman Anonymous Fielding, Helen Filopovic, Zlata McDonald, Cornelia Pfeffer, Susan Beth Rees, Celia Turner, Nancy Upton, Joe Title Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. 2007 Go ask Alice. 1971 Bridget Jones Diary. 1998 Stolen voices. 2006 A womans civil war. 1992 Life as we knew it. 2006 Witch Child. 2000 These is my words. 1998 Alaska blues. 1977 Annotation Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot. Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world. Meet Bridget Jones - a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could: a) lose 7 pounds b) stop smoking and c) develop inner poise. Young peoples war diaries, from World War I to Iraq. On the night of March 11, 1862, as the heavy tramp of Confederate marching troops died away in the distanceher husbands regiment among themCornelia Peake McDonald began her diary of events in war-torn Winchester, Virginia. Through journal entries 16-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Mass. Inspired by the true story of the author's pioneering great-grandmother, this mesmerizing saga tells of the emotional, intellectual, and romantic awakening of a spirited young woman of the late 19th century in the American West. For seven months, Joe Upton steered his 32-foot boat through the open channels and narrow, twisting passageways of Southeast Alaska, trolling for salmon. Here is his moving account of that season of fishing--the lonely hours at sea as well as the close community of small-boat fishers.

Family Matters
Author Glass, Julia Harmon, Michael Kneale, Matthew Murdock, Catherine Myers, Walter Dean Picoult, Jodi Reinhardt, Dana Smelcer, John Voorhees, Coert Zarr, Sara Title I see you everywhere. 2008 The last exit to normal. 2008 When we were Romans. 2008 The off season. 2008 The glory field. 2008 Annotation Details the relationship of two sisters who have opposite natures over a twenty-five year span. Yanked out of his city life and plunked down in a small Montana town with his newly outed father, 17year-old Ben, angry and resentful about his new life, begins to notice something is not quite right with the little boy next door and determines to figure out what is going on. Nine-year-old Lawrence travels with his mother and younger sister to Rome, fleeing torment from his estranged father, and while staying in the homes of his mother's old friends, Lawrence looks at his new life as an adventure, until his father reappears. D.J. staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her responsibilities on the farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian, and her own athletic aspirations. Follows a family's 200 year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field. Her life shattered by a devastating act of violence, June Nealon is forced to make a pivotal choice that involves her 12-year-old daughter and a salvation-seeking criminal. Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado. In alternating chapters, 17-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather. The grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter. Frankie finally finds the courage to ask Julianne to the Homecoming dance, which ultimately leads to a face-off between a tough senior whose family owns most of their small, New Mexico town, and Frankie's soccer-star older brother and his gang-member friends. Deanna tries to come to terms with the reputation she earned in the 8th grade when she was caught by her father with a high school senior, and struggles with her still-strained relationship with her father and her changing feelings for her best friend, Jason.

Change of heart. 2008 How to build a house. 2008 The trap. 2006

The brothers Torres. 2008 Story of a girl. 2007

Faraway Places
Author Drew, Alan Title Gardens of water. 2009 Someone like summer. 2007 The rich man of Pietermaritzburg. 2008 Divisadero. 2008 Annotation Kurdish Muslim Sinan and his family move into a camp run by American missionaries after an earthquake destroys their home in Istanbul, but gratitude turns to dismay when his son converts to Christianity and his daughter falls in love with an American. An upper-middle-class white girl from Long Island and an immigrant worker from Colombia fall in love despite objections from both their families and their community. While the farming village of Nyanyadu faces the ramifications of the approaching apartheid, Mkhwanazi receives a mysterious correspondence from a man in Pietermarizburg, and later meets a man who promises untold riches for the community. Fleeing the violence that destroyed her family and separated her from her sister Claire and Coop, an enigmatic young man who lives with them, Anna finds refuge in an isolated house in south-central France, while she struggles to reconcile the past and present. In Iran, a young girl with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers. In 17th-century China, three women become emotionally involved with "The Peony Pavilion," a famed opera rumored to cause lovesickness and even death.

Kerr, M. E. Nyembezi, C. L. Sibusiso Ondaatje, Michael Sayres, Meghan See, Lisa

Anahitas woven riddle. 2006 Peony in love. 2008

High Anxiety
Author Connelly, Michael Dowd, Siobhan Grisham, John Guterson, David Title The brass verdict. 2008 The London eye mystery. 2007 The associate. 2009 Annotation Attorney Mickey Haller is targeted as the next victim when hes tapped to take over after colleague Jerry Vincent is murdered while in the middle of defending Hollywood producer Walter Elliot against a charge of killing his wife and her lover. When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim. A dark episode from college haunts Kyle McAvoy's future after he graduates from Yale and takes a shady job at a large law firm where his new employer blackmails him into unethical work, which includes a scheme that could put Kyle in jail or even get him killed. John and Neil are brought together by their mutual love of the outdoors; but when Neil asks John to help him disappear into Washington's backcountry, he finds himself in the center of secrets and deceit that will shatter his life.

The other. 2008

Higgins, Jack Ness, Patrick OFlynn, Catherine Reich, Chris

The killing ground. 2008 The knife of never letting go. 2008 What was lost. 2007

Rules of deception. 2008 Ninth ward. 2010

Rhodes, Jewell Parker Rosoff, Meg

British intelligence agent Sean Dillon takes on a Muslim extremist and the world's most successful assassin, who has set his sights on the head of British intelligence. One month away from an important birthday, Todd is forced to flee after discovering a secret near the town where he lives. Store manager, Lisa, teams up with security guard Kurt to investigate sightings of a little girl clutching a toy monkey which Lisa believes must have some link to the disappearance of ten-year-old Kate Meaney 20 years earlier--a crime that ruined her brother's life. Surgeon and mountaineer Jonathan Ransom, arriving at a Swiss train station to claim two bags belonging to his recently deceased wife, finds himself becoming the target of law enforcement personnel and holding the key to a deadly conspiracy. In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, 12-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them. Convinced that fate is out to get him, 15-year-old David Case assumes a new identity in the hope of avoiding what he believes is certain doom.

Just in case. 2006

Lifes Ups and Downs

Author Adoff, Jaime Anderson, Laurie Halse Buckhanon, Kalisha Caletti, Deb Title The death of Jayson Porter. 2008 Wintergirls. 2009 Conception. 2008 Annotation In the Florida projects, 16-year-old Jayson struggles with the harsh realities of his life which include an abusive mother, a drug-addicted father, and not fitting in at his predominately white school. Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder. Following in her single mother's footsteps when she becomes pregnant at 15, Shivana believes that all black women fall into the same trap, until she meets Rasul, a teen with problems of his own, with whom she forges a friendship. Eighteen-year-old Indigo is looking forward to becoming a full-time waitress after graduation, but her life is turned upside down by a large check given to her by a customer who appreciates that she cares enough to scold him about smoking. Arthur Key, a Hollywood stunt engineer; 19-year-old criminal Ronnie Panelli; and Darwin Gallegos, a ranch foreman raging at God for his wife's sudden death, are brought together in Rocky Mountains to build a ramp to nowhere, off which a daredevil motorcyclist plans to jump. Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos.".

The fortunes of Indigo Skye. 2008 Five skies. 2007

Carlson, Ron

Crutcher, Chris

Deadline. 2007

Dessen, Sarah Erlbaum, Janice Freirich, Roy

Lock and key. 2008

Have you found her: a memoir. 2008 Winged creatures. 2007 Saint Iggy. 2006 Pretty face. 2008 The soloist. 2008

Going, K. L. Hogan, Mary Lopez, Steve

Moreira, Carol Scott, Elizabeth Stein, Garth Winthrop, Elizabeth Zarr, Sara

Charged. 2008 Perfect you. 2008

When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others. Erlbaum recounts her experiences working with the residents of a homeless shelter she lived at more than twenty years earlier, reflecting on her friendship with one troubled young woman who reminded Janice of the girl she used to be. A group of diverse characters find their lives forever linked after they are caught in the crossfire of a restaurant shooting, and each struggles to come to terms with their own role in the tragedy as they move on with their lives. Iggy Corso turns to his friend, Mo, to help change his image as a bad person, and in the course of trying to rebuild his life, Iggy finds his world changing in ways he never imagined. When an overweight high school student from Santa Monica spends the summer in Italy, she learns to relish life and understand the true meaning of beauty. Lopez shares the story of his relationship with Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless, gifted violinist on Skid Row, discussing his attempts to help Ayers reclaim the life he was forced to give up following a mental breakdown. Craig and Manda find strength in their friendship as they each battle issues of divorce and drugs. Kate Brown feels her life is spiraling out of control as she deals with her father's new job, her best friend's betrayal, and her own mixed feelings about Will, and decides the best thing to do is isolate herself, but she soon learns that good things can happen if she only lets them. Enzo, the dog of professional race car driver Denny Swift, recalls the memories of his life and shares his insight into the human condition that he learned from observing his owner. Wilson and Ruth Carter, having spent the past nine months trying to understand why their daughter, Isabelle suddenly quit speaking, are forced to face the possibility that what they initially thought was just an adolescent phase might be a lifelong transformation. Jennifer Harris, years after being the tormented outsider on the playground, has reinvented herself into Jenna Vaughn, a popular girl with what seems to be the perfect life, but when a childhood friend re-enters her life, she is forced to confront the most traumatic event of her past.

The art of racing in the rain. 2008 December. 2008

Sweethearts. 2008

Other Times
Author Adamson, Gil Arnold, Tedd Blundell, Judy Brooks, Geraldine Jiles, Paulette Just, Ward Title The outlander. 2008 Rat life. 2007 What I saw and how I lied. 2008 People of the book. 2008 Stormy weather. 2007 Exiles in the garden. 2009 Brothers of war. 2008 Song of the sparrow. 2007 Annotation Mary Boulton struggles to survive alone in the wild after fleeing west from the law and hiding from her two revenge seeking brothers-in-law for murdering her adulturous husband. After developing an unusual friendship with a young Vietnam War veteran in 1972, Todd discovers his writing talent and solves a murder mystery. In 1947, with her stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, Evie, in love with the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life forever. Rare book expert Hanna Heath discovers a number of tiny artifacts hidden within the binding of a 15th-century Hebrew manuscript and begins to unravel the mysteries behind its past. Witnessing the rise and loss of her family's oil business in the wake of her father's gambling problems, proud young Jeanine accompanies the other women in her family to an abandoned farm when her father dies under dubious circumstances. Photographer Alec Monroe, having shunned his senator father's political dreams for him and refused an assignment to cover the Vietnam War, connects with his ex-wife's long-lost dad, an antifascist commander, and is forced to reflect on his life. During the American Civil War, two brothers from Kentucky get captured by the Rebel army. The brothers soon find they are fighting for survival in Andersonville Confederate Prison. In fifth-century Britain, nine years after the destruction of their home on the island of Shalott brings her to live with her father and brothers in the military encampments of Arthur's army, 17year-old Elaine of Ascolat describes her changing perceptions of war and the people around her as she becomes increasingly involved in the struggle against the invading Saxons and copes with feelings of jealousy toward the beautiful Gwynivere. Young Ren, an orphan in 19th-century New England, is rescued from the orphanage by Benjamin Nab, who claims to be Ren's brother; but as time goes on Ren begins to question who he can and cannot trust. In the late 1970s in rural Maine, seven-year-old Asta Hewitt and her brother are convinced by their delusional mother that the world outside their home is a wasteland, and when her mother disappears, Asta has the opportunity to venture beyond her comfort zone.

Martin, J. Marshall Sandell, Lisa Ann

Tinti, Hannah Watson, Jan Elizabeth

The good thief. 2008

Asta in the wings. 2009

Out of This World

Author Avi Title The seer of shadows. 2008 Sharp teeth. 2008 Annotation Photographer Horace Carpetine is commissioned to do a portrait for society matron Mrs. Frederick Von Macht; however, the photos evoke both the image and the ghost of the Von Macht's dead daughter, Eleanora, who has returned to seek vengeance on those who killed her. An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing as the initiated convince L.A.'s down-and-out to join their pack. Paying no heed to moons, full or otherwise, they change from human to canine at will--and they're bent on domination at any cost. 16-year-old Emerson Watts, a student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels. In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. The cast and crew of a TV reality show answer a distress signal from Henders Island, a newly discovered fragment of a lost continent, only to have their contingent ravaged by life forms never before seen on Earth. Scientists then find arthropods that could spell disaster for the rest of the world. Seventeen-year-old Leslie wants a tattoo as a way of reclaiming control of herself and her body, but the eerie image she selects pulls her into the dangerous Dark Court of the faeries, where she draws on inner strength to make a horrible choice. Jake Mendoza, whose father runs the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies, goes on his first solo overnight in the Smokehill National Park where he finds an infant dragon whose mother has been killed by a poacher. Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, 16-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries. A tsunami destroys everything leaving Mau, an island boy, Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, and a small group of refugees responsible for rebuilding their village and their lives. Luke Hunter had a premonition of a friend's death, and when his family and the people of his small town try to find out more about his vision he refuses to discuss it or the ongoing premonitions he keeps on having. Three teens embark upon a cross-country journey in order to escape from a society that salvages body parts from teens ages thirteen to eighteen. When music prodigy James Morgan and his best friend, Deirdre, join a private conservatory for

Barlow, Toby

Cabot, Meg Cashore, Kristin Fahy, Warren

Airhead. 2008 Graceling. 2008

Fragment. 2009

Marr, Melissa McKinley, Robin Noel, Alyson

Ink exchange. 2008

Dragonhaven. 2007

Evermore. 2009

Pratchett, Terry Proulx, Joanne Shusterman, Neal Stiefvater,

Nation. 2008 Anthem of a reluctant prophet. 2008 Unwind. 2007 Ballad: a gathering of

Maggie Werlin, Nancy

faerie. 2009 Impossible. 2008

musicians, his talent attracts Nuala, a faerie muse who fosters and feeds on creative energies, but soon he finds himself battling the Queen of the Fey for the very lives of Deirdre and Nuala. When 17-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes that she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born to break the curse and to save them both.

School Daze
Author Waters, Dan Title Generation dead. 2008 What I was. 2007 Annotation When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred. In 1960s Britain, a young boarding school student breaks rules to maintain a friendship with a reclusive teen who lives in a hut by the sea, and after his friend falls ill, learns a dark secret that changes both of their lives. After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts. Leon Harris becomes an instant celebrity when the film he makes for a class project sends him to inschool suspension. Astra Dell is stricken with a devastating illness, leaving the students and teachers at her distinguished New York prep school reeling as they try to cope with their friend's impending death and their own longings and attachments. Frankie Landau-Banks attempts to take over a secret, all-male society at her exclusive prep school, and her antics with the group soon draw some unlikely attention and have unexpected consequences that could change her life forever. Follows the lives of three high school juniors as they apply to a number of colleges and cope with the pressures of their teachers and parents, and an admissions advisor, Olivia, who struggles to sift through applications after her university was accidentally placed on a list of the top fifty schools in the country.

Rosoff, Meg

Anderson, Laurie Halse

Twisted. 2007

Selzer, Adam Schutt, Christine Lockhart, E

How to get suspended and influence people. 2006 All souls. 2008

Coll, Susan

The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks. 2008 Acceptance. 2007

Short Takes
Author Akpan, Uwem Savage, Sam Title Say youre one of them. 2008 Firmin. 2006 Annotation A collection of short stories by Akpan that celebrate the resilience and wisdom of children in third world countries. Firmin, a rat born in the basement of a Boston book store, becomes consumed by the words he eats, and filled with the thoughts, deeds, and hopes of such novels as "Jane Eyre," and "Lady Chatterley's Lover," ventures out into the world. At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.

Strout, Elizabeth

Olive Kitteridge. 2008

Sporting Life
Author Hobbs, Will Lupica, Mike Myers, Walter Dean Tharp, Tim Grisham, John Title Go big or go home. 2008 The big field. 2008 Game. 2008 Knights of the hill country. 2006 Playing for pizza. 2007 Annotation Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his South Dakota bedroom. Baseball player Hutch needs to work through issues about a new teammate at the same time he deals with his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too. Drew Lawson, counting on basketball to get him into college and out of Harlem, struggles to keep his cool when the coach brings in two white players that clearly threaten Drew's game. In his senior year, high school star linebacker Hampton Greene finally begins to think for himself and discovers that he might be interested in more than just football. Cut from the Cleveland Browns after the worst performance in the history of the NFL, Rick Dockery, desperate to play football, is hired by the Panthers of Parma, Italy!