First Favorites List of 2012 books!

Around the room we went… if you have not yet read these, please do so – and let us know what you think of them!

Beneath a Meth Moon by Woodson
Bitter Blue by Cashore
Chopsticks by Anthony
Children of the Wolves by Rapp
The Drowned Cities by Bacigalupi
Drowning Instinct by Bick
Erebos by Poznanski
The Fault in Our Stars by Green
Gilt by Longshore
The Girls of No Return by Saldin
I Hate Killers by Lyga
The List by Vivian
Momentum by Lloyd
Ripper by Petrucha
What Boys Really Want by Hautman

Cinder, by Marissa Meyer

Summary:  Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction.

Feiwel & Friends

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The List, by Siobhan Vivian

Summary:  Every year at Mount Washington High School somebody posts a list of the prettiest and ugliest girls from each grade–this is the story of eight girls, freshman to senior, and how they are affected by the list.

Scholastic

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Grave Mercy, by Robin LaFevers

Summary: In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts–and a violent destiny.

Houghton Mifflin

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What Boys Really Want, by Pete Hautman

Summary: The crumbling friendship between writer Lita and entrepreneurial Adam is compromised by unexpected jealousies over each other’s romantic entanglements, stolen blog posts and a premature offer to sell a new self-help book.

Scholastic

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Erebos, by Ursula Poznanski

Summary:  When sixteen-year-old Nick Dunmore receives a package with a mysterious computer game called Erebos, he hopes it will explain his classmates’ strange behavior. Erebos watches its players and begins to manipulate their lives in frightening ways. It soon becomes clear the game has a deadly agenda. When Nick sets out on a dangerous mission, reality and the virtual world begin to blur.

Drowning Instinct, by Lisa J Bick

Summary:  An emotionally damaged sixteen-year-old girl begins a relationship with a deeply troubled older man.

Carolrhoda

 

The Children and the Wolves, by Adam Rapp

Summary:  Abducted by teen genius Bounce and her drifter friends Wiggins and Orange, three-year-old Frog seems content to eat cereal and play a video game about wolves all day–a game that parallels the reality around her–until Wiggins is overcome by guilt and tension and takes action.

Candlewick Press

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Fracture, by Megan Miranda

Summary:  After falling through the ice of a frozen lake and being resuscitated by her best friend Decker, seventeen-year-old Delaney begins experiencing a strange affinity for the dead and wonders whether she is predicting death or causing it.

Walker & Co

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The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

Dutton

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