Quotes
"We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?"
Historical Fiction (The Book Thief)
The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider.
Coming of Age (The Outsiders)
The Maze Runner
Sci-Fi
S.E. Hinton
Coming of age (The Outsiders)
In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. But here is different. Wrinkles aren't desirable. A round belly isn't a sign of success.
Sci-Fi (The Hunger Games)
After a lifetime of bottling up his magical powers, _____ finally feels like a normal kid. But even within the Wizarding community, he is special. He is the boy who lived: the only person to have ever survived a killing curse inflicted by the evil Lord Voldemort, who launched a brutal takeover of the Wizarding world, only to vanish after failing to kill ______.
Fiction (Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone)
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Historical Fiction
Edgar Allen Poe
Horror
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who's to say where on shall end and the other begins?"
Horror
Meg Murry and her little brother, Charles Wallace, have been without their scientist father, Mr. Murry, for five years, ever since he discovered a new planet and used the concept known as a tesseract to travel there. Joined by Meg's classmate Calvin O'Keefe and guided by the three mysterious astral travelers known as Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the children brave a dangerous journey to a planet that possesses all of the evil in the universe.
Sci-Fi (A Wrinkle In Time)
The Lightening Thief
Fiction
Robert Frost
Poetry
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay
Poetry (Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost)
Meet Stargirl. She’s the new girl at Mica High who captures the most popular boy’s heart with her bright smile and colorful, individual style. But when her classmates have enough of her unique ways, they turn on her, and even her boyfriend urges her to be “normal.” Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, touching story about the perils of popularity and the thrill of first love that’s a must-read for tweens and their parents.
Coming of Age (Stargirl)
Holes
Coming of Age
John Green
*hint "The Fault In Our Stars"
Fiction