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Books
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Recommended
Reading
Shaker
Library
These titles garnered four or more starred reviews as Young Adult literature,
but all readers will appreciate these well-written stories.
Ask the Passengers: A Novel by A. S. King. Little, Brown, 2012. Imagining she is
sending love to passengers in airplanes flying overhead, Astrid Jones, a teen from a small
town torn by gossip and narrow-mindedness, struggles with her family’s dysfunction and
hides her secret love for another girl.
Doll Bones by Holly Black. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2013. Playing an endless
make-believe game about pirates, mermaids and warriors under the rule of a formidable
Great Queen china doll, best friends Zach, Poppy, and Alice find their bonds tested when
Zach is compelled to give up their shared adventures and Poppy begins having dreams
about the doll.
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Dutton Books, 2012. Despite the tumorshrinking
medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never
been anything but terminal, but when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters
suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be
completely rewritten.
The 5th Wave by Richard Yancey. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013. A first entry in a new
series by the award-winning author of The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
follows the experiences of two survivors of apocalyptic disasters that have decimated
life on Earth and transformed nearly everyone into crazed killers.
In the Shadow of Blackbirds: A Novel by Cat Winters. Amulet Books, 2013. In San
Diego in 1918, as the deadly influenza and World War I take their toll, 16-year-old Mary
Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for
comfort and, despite her scientific leanings, must consider if ghosts are real when her first
love, killed in battle, returns.