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Title: The Perks of being a WallflowerAuthor: Stephen ChboskyLexile: 830

Summary: Fifteen-year-ol Charlie is !oping with thesui!ie of his frien" #i!hael$ To lessen the fear anan%iety of starting high s!hool alone" Charlie startswriting letters to a stranger" someone he hear wasni!e but has ne&er met in person$ '(in of like whenwe write letters to Paul )ubefore we go to sleep$*

+t s!hool" Charlie fins a frien an mentor in his,nglish tea!her" ill$ .e also o&er!omes his !hroni!

shyness an approa!hes a !lassmate" Patri!k" who" along with his step-sister Sam" be!ome two of Charlie/s FFs$

uring the !ourse of the s!hool year" Charlie has his first ate an his first

kiss" he eals with bullies" he e%periments with rugs an rinking" an hemakes friens" loses them" an gains them ba!k$ .e !reates his ownsountra!k through a series of mi% tapes full of i!oni! songs" reas a hugesta!k of !lassi! books" an gets in&ol&e in the Rocky Horror PictureShowauien!e-parti!ipation !ulture$

Charlie has a relati&ely stable home life" though" with supporti&e" if istant"parents to fall ba!k on$ 1nfortunately" a isturbing family se!ret that Charliehas represse for his entire life surfa!es at the en of the s!hool year$Charlie has a se&ere mental breakown an ens up hospitali2e$

Charlie/s final letter !loses with feelings of hope: getting release from thehospital" forgi&ing his aunt .elen for what she i to him" fining newfriens uring sophomore year" an trying his best not to be a wallflower$Charlie hopes to get out of his hea an into the real worl" parti!ipating inlife instea of ust wat!hing it fly by$

Why I liked it?This book ientifies with teenagers be!ause it is rele&ant to what kis fa!etoay4 5t oes not !ompromise reaer/s ugment$ 5t instea instills a sense

of self" base on !hoi!e$ +#+657444This is one of the best books 5/&e e&er rea$ 5t taught me a lot of importantthings about life an has a lot of beautiful 9uotes" my fa&orite is We a!!eptthe lo&e we think we eser&e$
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Title:The .unger gamesAuthor: Su2anne CollinsLexile: 8;0Summary: Si%teen-year-ol (atniss ,&ereenhas been pro&iing for her family sin!e herfathernly it isn


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+s the first book of the .unger ames trilogy" The Hunger Gamesis!ompelling reaing an makes the reaer want to rea the ne%t bookimmeiately to fin out what has happene to (atniss an Peeta$ (atniss isa strong !hara!ter who sol&es her own problems an takes !harge of herown life$ .er struggles with her i&ie affe!tions between two boys arerealisti!ally portraye but not o&erwrought$ +n her tenen!y toina&ertently !reate problems !an spark many !on&ersations about whethershe was right or wrong an whether she staye true to who she is$ (atniss issomeone that reaers will not forget$

Title:The Fault in our StarsAuthor: ?ohn reenLexile:8@0

Summary:Here's the whole sordid tale. Dying girl

meets hot boy. Hot boy and dying girl fall in teenage loveand go on adventures to Amsterdam together. Dying girl

is disappointed by her meeting with a certain author whomshe idolizes. Dying girl and hot boy admit their love toeach other and have physical relations. In a horribletwist of fate, dying girl lives while hot boy dies. The end.

onfused and a little intrigued! Don't worry about it"we'll go a little slower #and add a little detail$ to ma%ethe summary &ust a bit more palatable and easy to

follow.

e open up the story with Hazel (race, who is your average teenagerexceptfor thelittle fact that she's got all sorts of cancer inside her body and her lungs aren't wor%ingvery well.

Hazel is in )upport (roup one day when a new boy catches her eye. ell, to beaccurate, they catch one another's eyes. )oon enough, she and Augustus#aforementioned hot boy$ are flirtatious friends and tal% to each other about everything.

Hazel shares her favorite boo%,An Imperial Affliction, with Augustus, and together theyobsess about the unsolved ending. Augustus manages to somehow get through to theauthor and when Hazel emails him, he invites her to come to Amsterdam to discuss theending of the boo%. A fan's dream come true.

In the meantime, Augustus and Hazel's good friend Isaac is losing his eye #the onlyone he has left$ so that he can be cancer*free at long last. In the process though, healso loses his girlfriend +onica, who can't deal with having a blind boyfriend. -eah,we thin% she's a little superficial too, but whatever.
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)o Augustus surprises Hazel by telling her that he still has his wish #the ish thatthey grant to dying children$ from when he had cancer and lost his leg, and he'dhappily use it to ta%e her to Amsterdam to meet eter /an Houten, reclusive authorofAn Imperial Affliction.Ah, true romance. Hazel of course, is over the moon about thewhole idea, but first she has to convince her hovering, worried parents and hers%epticaldoctors.

0ventually, they manage to get their trip in order and ta%e off into the great un%nownwith Hazel's mother in tow. They go to Amsterdam and have beautiful and romantictimes, but when they meet eter /an Houten, it doesn't e1actly go as planned. 2irst ofall, he's a mean drun%. )econd of all... well actually, no, that's totally it. He's &ust amean drun% and doesn't answer any of Hazel's 3uestions. Hazel is angry and upset,but /an Houten's assistant 4idewi& ta%es her and Augustus out to e1plore Amsterdam.They see Anne 2ran%'s house, where things are %ind of redeemed because she and

Augustus finally %iss. 5oh la la. They go bac% to the hotel room and even steamier

things happen. -owza.

Augustus then drops a bomb6 his cancer has returned. This is very, very bad. henthey return to Indianapolis, it's clear that Augustus's health is deteriorating and hemight not have much time left. In a heartbrea%ing scene, Hazel and Isaac even sharethe eulogies that they wrote for him. Throughout it all, Hazel is there with Augustus,until the very end.

hen he dies, Hazel is shoc%ed and filled with grief. At his funeral, though, she gives adifferent eulogy than the one she had written him. hy! ell, she realizes that she

needs to deliver something that's tailored to his parents, who are the ones sufferingnow #not him$.

At the funeral, she's shoc%ed to see that eter /an Houten is there. )he tal%s to himand realizes that he wroteAn Imperial Affliction because he had a daughter who diedof cancer. )he's no closer to li%ing /an Houten as a person, but she understands alittle more why he's so tortured and crotchety. )he also learns from Isaac that Augustuswas writing something for her before he died. )he proceeds to go on a %ind of crazysearch for what he's written, which she thin%s might be the alternate ending toAn

Imperial Afflictionthat she wanted so badly. )he also learns that her mother is ta%ingclasses to become a )upport (roup leader, and is relieved that there will be life for herparents after she dies.

At the very end, she learns from 4idewi& that Augustus wrote her a eulogy that he sentto /an Houten. The boo% ends with her reading the eulogy, which states that he hopesthat she's happy with the choices she made.Hazel says that yes, she is happy.

Why I liked it?


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.ere is a story about !han!e an !hoi!e too tragi! to be !omei! an toofunny to be sa$ 5t is e%9uisitely !rafte an uni&ersally a!!essible$ +t the!enter of this swirling &orte% of big ieas lies the notion that mae upstories !an mean a great eal to people$$ an that we fa!e losing su!hstories ust as we fa!e losing life$

Title:)aian!eAuthor: +lyson 7oelLexile: 830

Summary:)iley loom left her sister" ,&er" in the worl of the li&ing an !rosse thebrige into the afterlifeAa pla!e !alle .ere" where time is always 7ow$)iley an her og" utter!up" ha&e been reunite with her parents an are

ust settling into a ni!e" rela%ing eath when she/s summone before TheCoun!il$ They let her in on a se!retAthe afterlife isn/t ust an eternity ofleisureB )iley has to work$ She/s been assigne a ob" Soul Cat!her" an atea!her" ohi" a !urious boy she !an/t 9uite figure out$

)iley" ohi" an utter!up return to earth for her first assignment" a)aiant oy who/s been haunting a !astle in ,nglan for !enturies$ #anySoul Cat!hers ha&e trie to get him to !ross the brige an faile$ ut he/sne&er met )iley

5f you ha&e rea the 5mmortals series before reaing )aian!e you woulknow that )iley is snarky" wity" an ust an o&erall likeable !hara!ter$ 5n)aian!e she still is the likeable !hara!ter you grew to lo&e in the 5mmortalsseries 5 was ust e%pe!ting a little more snarkyness$ .owe&er" with that sai5 think that she really !omes into her own in this story while ealing with the

normal issues all twel&e year ols eal with$ The story begins with )ileyha&ing to atten s!hool ust like she woul ha&e to if she was still ali&e anli&ing on ,arth$ .owe&er" s!hool in the .ere is not what she e%pe!ts$ She isgi&en the title as Soul Cat!her an nees to tra&el to a !astle an !at!h asoul of a ten year ol boy who has been haunting a !astle in ,nglan forhunres of years$ +long with her guie ohi a somewhat orky fourteenyear ol boy she is etermine to get the mission !omplete as soon aspossible so she !an enoy ,nglan an ha&e ohi tea!h her how to fly$Sometimes things on/t go as smoothly as planne espe!ially when ohi


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in/t gi&e her the whole story to begin with$ Shimmer the se9uel to)aian!e !omes out in Spring =0;; an 5 hope )iley/s snarkyness is turneup a not!h an we learn more about ohi$

Why I liked it?5 think raian!e is a wonerful an elightful rea$5t tells the story of a young girl whos life has ust been yanke fromunerneath her feet$ +n who has to bra&e the !hallenges of her new worl$For )iley" the herenow is a little bit like her life on the human plane$ ,%!eptthere is no one that she knows besies her family$ There is also no time orate" its always here now$

?oin riley in the a&enture of her ne%t life$ +n maybe e&en earn a little bitraian!e for yourself$

Title:The 7otebookAuthor: 7i!holas sparks

Lexile: 8@0Summary:A man with a faded, well- worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a

morning ritual she doesn't understand. Until he begins to read to her. The Notebook

is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of loe, a story of miraclesthat will stay with you foreer.

!et amid the austere beauty of coastal North "arolina in #$%&, The Notebook

begins with the story of Noah "alhoun, a rural !outherner returned home from

orld ar ((. Noah, thirty- one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory,

and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl heloed like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spenttogether, Noah is content to lie with only memories...until she unexpectedly returns to

his town to see him once again.

Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but reali)es that the original

passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. !till, the obstaclesthat once ended their preious relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is

too ast to ignore. ith her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to

confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape.

*ike a pu))le within a pu))le, the story of Noah and Allie is +ust the beginning. As itunfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes.

The result is a deeply moing portrait of loe itself, the tender moments and the

fundamental changes that affect us all. !hining with a beauty that is rarely found incurrent literature, The Notebook establishes Nicholas !parks as a classic storyteller with

a uniue insight into the only emotion that really matters.

( am nothing special, of this ( am sure. ( am a common man with common thoughtsand ('e led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will

soon be forgotten, but ('e loed another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has


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always been enough.

And so begins one of the most poignant and compelling loe stories you will eerread...The Notebook

Why I liked it?

The 7otebook by 7i!holas Sparks is a story about two teenagers from

opposite sies of the tra!k who meet one fateful summer an fall in lo&e fora lifetime$ This no&el was engaging an steay pa!e$ 5 was able to rea itin one sitting as 5 was rawn into the li&es of 7oah an +llie$ 7i!holas Sparkshas !reate a poignant story about two people who try to re!apture the lo&ethey on!e share espite the passage of time$

Title:it!he 'the Do&e Story*+uthor: )obin #ellomLexile: 800Summary:There's a girl.

?ustina riffith was ne&er the girl who reame of going to prom$ esignerresses an strappy heelsE 7ot her thing$ That sai" she ne&er e%pe!te herbest frien" 5an Clark" to ask her$

And there's a boy.5an" who always passe her the baseball bat" hanle first$5an" who knew e%a!tly when she neee re li!ori!e$5an" who promise her the most ama2ing night at prom$

Then there's a ditch.ut when ?ustina is it!he" figurati&elyandliterally" she must pie!etogether--stain-by-stain on her thrift store ress--e%a!tly how she ene upateless$$$with only the help of some opinionatei laies at the -,le&en$

Why I liked it?This is su!h a !ute story that left me laughing an smiling so mu!h4 5 aorethat !hara!ters an her story-telling of what happene that night$ 5t /s so!ra2y an e%!iting that it totally lea&es you smiling4

This story starts off with a girl !ra2y in lo&e" swirling into a turn of e&entsthat will ha&e you laughing$ >ne thing 5 enoye about this book is the main!hara!ter ?ustina$ +fter fighting her feelings about 5an" things ha&e turn outnot what she e%pe!te$ 5 enoye reaing about ?ustina

To get the whole store" ?ustina will ha&e to fa!e the boy who it!he her$Can losing out at her prom ultimately lea to fining true lo&eE


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Title: The Cat!her in the )yeAuthor: ?$ SalingerLexile: 8G0Summary: olden "aufield, the seenteen-year-old narrator and protagonist of the

noel, addresses the reader directly from a mental hospital or sanitarium in southern"alifornia. e wants to tell us about eents that took place oer a two-day period the

preious /ecember. Typically, he first digresses to mention his older brother, /.0., whowas once a terrific short-story writer but now has sold out and writes scripts in nearby

ollywood. The body of the noel follows. (t is a frame story, or long flashback,

constructed through olden's memory.olden begins at 1encey 1rep, an exclusie priate school in 1ennsylania, on the

!aturday afternoon of the traditional football game with school rial, !axon all.olden misses the game. 2anager of the fencing team, he managed to lose the

team's euipment on the subway that morning, resulting in the cancellation of amatch in N.3.

!pencer is a well-meaning but long-winded old man, and olden gladly escapes to the

uiet of an almost deserted dorm. earing his new red hunting cap, he begins to read.is reerie is temporary. 4irst, a dorm neighbor named Ackley disturbs him. *ater,

olden argues with his roommate, !tradlater, who fails to appreciate a theme thatolden has written for him about olden's deceased brother Allie's baseball gloe. A

womani)er, !tradlater has +ust returned from a date with olden's old friend 5ane

6allagher. The two roommates fight, !tradlater winning easily. olden has had enoughof 1encey 1rep and catches a train to New 3ork "ity where he plans to stay in a hotel

until ednesday, when his parents expect him to return home for "hristmas acation.!ally is snobbish and phony, but the two watch a play featuring married 0roadway

stars Alfred *unt and *ynn 4ontanne. !ally and olden skate at 7adio "ity but fight when

olden tries to discuss things that really matter to him and suddenly suggests that theyrun off together. olden leaes, sees the "hristmas show at 7adio "ity 2usic all,

endures a moie, and gets ery drunk. Throughout the noel, olden has been worriedabout the ducks in the lagoon at "entral 1ark. e tries to find them but only manages to

break 1hoebe's recording in the process. 8xhausted physically and mentally, he heads

home to see his sister.olden's story ends with 1hoebe riding a carrousel in the rain as olden watches.

(n the final chapter, olden is at the sanitarium in "alifornia. e doesn't want to tell usany more. (n fact, the whole story has only made him miss people, een the +erks.

Why I liked it?7.D. )alinger's novel is a wa%e*up call to all teenagers and in a sense, is an inspiring read because itsends out the message that we should all remain hopeful and true to ourselves. Teenagers can relate
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to it because of its comple1 themes of rebellion, identity and independence but I would recommendyou read it before you're an adult otherwise you may have the urge to slap Holden for his actionswhen reading the boo%8

Title:The Story TellerAuthor: ?oi Pi!oult

Lexile: 830

Summary:Sage Singer befriens an ol man who/s

parti!ularly belo&e in her !ommunity$ ?osef Weber ise&eryone/s fa&orite retire tea!her an Dittle Deague!oa!h$ They strike up a frienship at the bakery

where Sage works$ >ne ay he asks Sage for afa&or: to kill him$ Sho!ke" Sage refusesHan

then he !onfesses his arkest se!ret - he eser&es

to ie" be!ause he was a 7a2i SS guar$ Compli!atingthe matterE Sage/s granmother is a .olo!aust

sur&i&or$

What o you o when e&il li&es ne%t oorE Can someone who/s !ommitte atruly heinous a!t e&er atone for it with subse9uent goo beha&iorE Shoulyou offer forgi&eness to someone if you aren/t the party who was wrongeE+n most of all - if Sage e&en !onsiers his re9uest - is it murer" or usti!eE

Why I liked it??oi Pi!oult has ta!kle yet another Ibig issue< 'forgi&eness* in TheStoryteller" but as in all her books things are a little more !ompli!ate thanusual" an there


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Title:#irror 5mage

Author:Sanra rownLexile: 80Summary: +&ery aniels is a tele&ision ournalist who hasproblems keeping emotionally unin&ol&e with her news stories$She sur&i&es a plane !rash only to be mistaken for a fellowpassenger whose !hil she has !arrie from the air!raft$ ,&eryonebelie&es that she is Carol )utlege" the mother of the !hil$ Shehas lost her &oi!e an !annot !ommuni!ate with the surgeons whowill perform the !osmeti! surgery to re!reate the fa!e of the eaCarol$ While in re!o&ery her life an that of Carol/s husban arethreatene$ +&ery fears she will be targete if the killer is!o&ersher real ientity an sees an unparalle opportunity to regain hertainte reputation in the ournalisti! !ommunity$

Tate )utlege is an up an !oming politi!ian in the Southwest with a&ery unhappy marriage" who is planning a i&or!e$ .e is &erygrateful to his wife for sa&ing their aughter an e!ies tosupport her through the iffi!ulties of surgery an re!uperation$

.e oes not unerstan the attra!tion he feels for this woman hehas !ome to espose$ 5t is almost like is!o&ering that he ismarrie to a ifferent an e%!iting woman$ .is attempts tomaintain his istan!e an aloofmess are woefully unsu!!essful ashe fin himself falling in lo&e with her all o&er again$#eanwhile +&ery is falling in lo&e herself an fining out whoamong Tate/s family an politi!al !ir!les wants to o him harm anpossibly eliminate him$

Why I liked it?>&erall" 5 lo&e this story an the main plot$ #istaken ientitymae in a plan !rash an the !rash &i!tim '+&ery* unergoesre!onstru!ti&e surgery an ens up taking someone else/s ientity$efore she !an re&eal her ientity" she fins that the woman/shusban 'Tate*" a senatorial !aniiate is an assasination target$.is wife 'Carol" her new ientity* was in on it$ uring her re!o&ery"


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Tate is there aily" gi&ing her en!ouragement an +&ery fins Tateas the !enter of her worl$

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