College BOB Recommendations by Kylie Morris

College BOB Recommendations by Kylie Morris https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g Book recommendations: Remember we need like one below grade level, one above, and then of various genres. en-us 2023-02-08 23:52:07 UTC 2025-10-06 01:43:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Battle Royale by Koushun Takami/ Thriller/ Dystopian https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474244081 Forty-two Junior High School students are sent to a deserted island. They are given a map, food, and various weapons. An explosive collar is fitted around their neck and if they break a rule, the collar explodes. Their mission: kill each other and be the last one standing. The last survivor is allowed to leave the island.]]> 2023-02-09 00:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474244081 My Name is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson / Historical 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474249465 When 12-year-old Luke and his brothers are sent to a punitive Catholic boarding school, he knows that he will have to sacrifice his Inupiaq name. But he isn't prepared to lose his youngest brother, Isaac, who is too young to enroll and is sent to live with a family in Texas.]]> 2023-02-09 00:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474249465 The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke / Historical fiction https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474252112 In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken. Until the autumn of 1880, when five babies are left in outrageous circumstances; one in a tin toolbox, one in a coal bucket, one in a picnic hamper, one in a wheat sack, and finally, one in a coffin-shaped basket.

Those babies were Lotta, Egg, Fenna, Sem, and Milou. And although their cruel matron might think they're "unadoptable," they know their individuality is what makes them special--and so determined to stay together.

When a most sinister gentleman appears and threatens to tear them apart, the gang make a daring escape across the frozen canals of Amsterdam. But is their real home--and their real family--already closer than they realize?]]> 2023-02-09 00:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474252112 The Ivies by Alexa Donne / Thriller / Mystery 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474254604 The Plastics meet the Heathers in this murder mystery about ruthless Ivy League ambition. After scholarship student Olivia transferred to an elite boarding school in 10th grade, she knew intelligence and drive wouldn't be enough to get her a full ride to an Ivy League school.]]> 2023-02-09 00:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474254604 Heartstopper by Alice Oseman / Romance / Graphic Novel 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474257493 "Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more ...?"]]> 2023-02-09 00:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474257493 These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong / Fantasy / historical 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474260246 A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang—a network of criminals far above the law.]]> 2023-02-09 00:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474260246 Mageborn by Jessica Thorne / Fantasy 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474262693 The life of an orphan soldier becomes entwined with that of the mysterious heir to the throne, whose very presence draws out the secret magic living inside her: a magic that breaks every law she is duty-bound to uphold… The room is small and dark.]]> 2023-02-09 00:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474262693 Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin Van Draanen / Mystery https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474262894 Sammy Keyes must be a magnet for trouble...

I mean it's bad enough that she has to live illegally in a seniors-only building with her grandmother while her mother tries to make it as a move star. And worse that she witnessed a burglary in progress--and that the theif saw her. And worse still that nosy neighbor Mrs. Graybill is onto her, and that the thief is after her. But on top of all that, she also manages to make an enemy of the queen of mean at her new school and get suspended on the first day.]]> 2023-02-09 00:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474262894 I must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys / Historical Fiction / Romania 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474411730 Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force.

Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He’s left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves—or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe.

Cristian risks everything to unmask the truth behind the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. He eagerly joins the revolution to fight for change when the time arrives. But what is the cost of freedom?]]> 2023-02-09 03:18:05 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474411730 The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett / Fantasy / Comedy https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474412216 The Colour of Magic is a collection of four stories set on Discworld, a flat planet that is carried by four huge elephants that stand on the back of the giant turtle Great A'Tuin. The stories pivot on the hapless failed wizard Rincewind.]]> 2023-02-09 03:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474412216 Beauty Queens by Libba Bray / YA / Comedy 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474414462 Pageant Meets Lord of the Flies: Teen beauty queens. A lost island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to email. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives deep in the heart of every girl, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror!
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.]]> 2023-02-09 03:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474414462 Circe by Madeline Miller / Fantasy https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474418097 Circe is the daughter of the Titan sun god Helios and an ocean nymph. Circe is a witch, skilled in potions, herbs and transformational arts. Exiled by her father to a remote island in punishment for her use of sorcery, Circe eventually encounters the mortal Odysseus, who becomes shipwrecked on her island.]]> 2023-02-09 03:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474418097 Things We Never Got Over By Lucy Score / Romance 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474421906 New York Times bestselling author Lucy Score brings you a grumpy/sunshine romance guaranteed to knock you out. Welcome to Knockemout, Virginia, the small town with the best coffee, the best whiskey and the hottest bad boy heroes you've ever laid hands—I mean eyes—on."
Knox Morgan doesn't tolerate drama, especially in the form of a stranded runaway bride.

Naomi Witt is on the run. Not just from her fiancé and a church full of well-wishers, but from her entire life. Although if you ask her, Naomi's riding to the rescue of her estranged hot mess of a twin, Tina, to Knockemout, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way…with fists and beer. Usually in that order.

Too bad for Naomi, her evil twin hasn't changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi's car and cash, Tina leaves behind something unexpected: the niece Naomi didn't know she had. Now she's a guardian to an eleven-year-old-going-on-thirty with no car, no money, and no plan.

There's a reason this bearded, bad-boy barber doesn't get involved with high-maintenance women, especially not Type-A romantic ones. But since Naomi's life imploded right in front of him, the least Knox can do is help her out of her jam. And just as soon as she stops getting into new trouble, he can leave her alone and get back to his quiet, solitary life.

At least, that's the plan.]]> 2023-02-09 03:30:18 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474421906 All Systems Red by Martha Wells / Science Fiction https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474424734 Part SciFi thriller, part coming-of-age, All Systems Red follows the (mis)adventures of Murderbot as it tries to protect its humans, when those humans get in trouble after the sudden disappearance of another team on the other side of the planet.]]> 2023-02-09 03:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474424734 Bluebird by Sharon Cameron / Historical Fiction 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474427580 In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird — a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world power. Both the Americans and the Soviets want Bluebird, and it is something that neither should ever be allowed to possess.

But Eva hasn't come to America for secrets or power. She hasn't even come for a new life. She has come to America for one thing: Justice. And the Nazi that has escaped its net.]]> 2023-02-09 03:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474427580 Caraval by Stephanie Garber / Fantasy 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474428288 Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful and cruel father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over.

But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to attend. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season's Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner.

Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But whether Caraval is real or not, she must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over, and her sister disappears forever.]]> 2023-02-09 03:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474428288 All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely / YA fiction 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474430394 A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad’s pleadings that he’s stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad’s resistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashad’s every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the concrete pavement?

There were witnesses: Quinn Collins—a varsity basketball player and Rashad’s classmate who has been raised by Paul since his own father died in Afghanistan—and a video camera. Soon the beating is all over the news and Paul is getting threatened with accusations of prejudice and racial brutality. Quinn refuses to believe that the man who has basically been his savior could possibly be guilty. But then Rashad is absent. And absent again. And again. And the basketball team—half of whom are Rashad’s best friends—start to take sides. As does the school. And the town. Simmering tensions threaten to explode as Rashad and Quinn are forced to face decisions and consequences they had never considered before.]]> 2023-02-09 03:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474430394 The Green Mile by Stephen King / Thriller / Fantasy 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474453374 t tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities]]> 2023-02-09 04:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474453374 Animal Farm by George Orwell / Uptopian / Fantasy / Classic 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474461588 An allegorical novel published in 1945, Animal Farm features an uprising by a group of animals against their human farmer. The utopian existence they try to establish rapidly crumbles in the face of avarice and selfishness. Orwell intended a mirror of the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s rule.]]> 2023-02-09 04:20:00 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474461588 Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay / Historical Fiction / France 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474483195 Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.]]> 2023-02-09 04:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474483195 You've Reached Sam by Dustin Thao / Realistic Fiction / Romance 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474491712 You've Reached Sam is a story about a high school girl named Julie grappling with the recent death of her boyfriend Sam. One day, after a week of Sam's death, Julie decides to call Sam to try and hear his voice for one last time. And to her surprise, he actually picks up.]]> 2023-02-09 04:59:03 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474491712 Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi / Fantasy 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474496434 Blood and Bone follows a young girl, Zélie, who lives in Orïsha, a mythical world filled with magic, monarchy, and the problems often associated with them: class discrimination, abuse of power, and violence.]]> 2023-02-09 05:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474496434 Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell / Romance 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474524273 Eleanor Douglas and Park Sheridan are two star-crossed teens living in 1980s Omaha, trying to get through their own struggles while figuring out the complicated matter of first love.]]> 2023-02-09 05:50:10 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474524273 Words on the Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton / Comedy / Romance 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474528231 Diagnosed with a mental illness during his senior year of high school, a witty, introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to open his heart and not be defined by his condition.]]> 2023-02-09 05:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474528231 One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus / Mystery 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474529945 Five Bayview High School students are in detention when one of the students, Simon, suddenly dies while the teacher is out of the room. After claims that this incident was no accident, the four remaining students in the detention all become suspects.]]> 2023-02-09 06:00:24 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474529945 The Leaving by Tara Altebrando / Mystery / Thriller 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474531551 Eleven years ago, six five-year-olds went missing without a trace. After all this time, the people left behind have moved on, or tried to.Until today. Now five of those kids are back. They're sixteen, and they are ... fine.]]> 2023-02-09 06:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474531551 holding up the universe by jennifer Niven / Realistic Fiction 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474536932 HOLDING UP THE UNIVERSE follows the relationship that grows between Libby Strout and Jack Masselin, two teens who meet because of a vicious bullying "game" that lands them in group counseling.]]> 2023-02-09 06:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474536932 Then she was Gone by Lisa Jewell / Mystery / Thriller 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474538019 the story around a mother whose daughter goes missing and then the book covers the story of her journey ten years later to find out what really happened when her life is turned upside down by a man]]> 2023-02-09 06:12:13 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474538019 The Lake by Natasha Preston / thriller / mystery 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474539569 The Lake is a YA mystery/thriller centered around two young girls named Esme and Kayla who end up training to be counselors at a camp they attended as kids, and the two of them have been keeping a huge secret from the time they spent at the same camp ten years]]> 2023-02-09 06:14:16 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2474539569 Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney / Romance / Dublin 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2475454611 Conversations with Friends follows Frances, a 21 year old college student, as she navigates a series of relationships that force her to confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time. Frances is observant, cerebral and sharp. Her ex-girlfriend, now best friend, Bobbi is self-assured, outspoken and compelling.]]> 2023-02-09 18:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2475454611 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn / Thriller / Mystery 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2475459617 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is a psychological thriller: a tale of a marriage gone cold and a sociopath who will stop at nothing to get revenge. Echoing the domestic noir genre, Flynn takes that genre one step further by incorporating several plot twists that subvert the reader’s expectations. Chief among the subverted expectations is the reader’s ability to trust the narrator. The novel consists of alternating chapters: one told by husband, Nick, and the other told by Amy, his wife. Both narrators in this story are lying, and the multiple shifts in point of view—as Nick tells his side of the story and Amy tells hers—result in an atmosphere of confusion about who is telling the truth.]]> 2023-02-09 18:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2475459617 Any Sign of Life by Rae Carson / Dystopian 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2475465957 Paige Miller is determined to take her basketball team to the state championship, maybe even beyond. But as March Madness heats up, Paige falls deathly ill. Days later, she wakes up attached to an IV and learns that the whole world has perished. Everyone she loves, and all of her dreams for the future—they’re gone.

But Paige is a warrior. She pushes through her fear and her grief and gets through each day scrounging for food, for shelter, for safety. As she struggles with her new reality, Paige learns that the apocalypse did not happen by accident. And that there are worse things than being alone.

]]> 2023-02-09 18:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2475465957 All These Monsters by Amy Tintera / Dystopian 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2475469376 Seventeen-year-old Clara is ready to fight back. Fight back against her abusive father, fight back against the only life she’s ever known, and most of all, fight back against scrabs, the earth-dwelling monsters that are currently ravaging the world. So when an opportunity arises for Clara to join an international monster-fighting squad, she jumps at the chance.

When Clara starts training with her teammates, however, she realizes what fighting monsters really means: sore muscles, exhaustion, and worst of all, death. Scrabs are unpredictable, violent, and terrifying. But as Clara gains confidence in her battle skills, she starts to realize scrabs might not be the biggest evil. The true monsters are the ones you least expect.]]> 2023-02-09 18:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2475469376 Hyperion by Dan Simmons / Science Fiction https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2475570428 Written by Dan Simmons, Hyperion is a novel about seven pilgrims on their quest to meet the Shrike on the planet Hyperion. Each one of them has a purpose on the pilgrimage, and through their journey, they share them with one another.]]> 2023-02-09 19:59:08 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2475570428 Grown by Tiffany B. Jackson / Mystery/Contemporary https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2475577411 At a singing audition, 17-year-old Enchanted Jones catches the eye of superstar musician Korey Fields, who is 28. Korey promises her a future in music, but the starstruck teen is quickly swept into an illicit relationship with drugs and abuse.]]> 2023-02-09 20:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2475577411 It's Lonely At The Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood/ Autobiographic/ Graphic novel https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477526994 Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how.

IT’S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival.

]]> 2023-02-11 21:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477526994 Christine by Stephen King /Horror https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477529841 It’s love at first sight for high school student Arnie Cunningham when he and his best friend Dennis Guilder spot the dilapidated 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury for sale—dubbed “Christine” by its original cantankerous owner—rusting away on a front lawn of their suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. Dennis knows that Arnie’s never had much luck in the looks or popularity department, or really taken an interest in owning a car . . . but Christine quickly changes all that. Arnie suddenly has the newfound confidence to stick up for himself, going as far as dating the most beautiful girl at Libertyville High—transfer student Leigh Cabot—even as a mysteriously restored Christine systematically and terrifyingly consumes every aspect of Arnie’s life. Dennis and Leigh soon realize that they must uncover the awful truth behind a car with a horrifying and murderous history. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and heaven help anyone who gets in Christine’s way…]]> 2023-02-11 21:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477529841 The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot/ Young Adult https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477533523 Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there’s nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra. Is she ever in for a surprise.

First Mom announces that she’s dating Mia’s Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who still doesn’t have a date for the Cultural Diversity Dance?

]]> 2023-02-11 22:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477533523 I want to eat your Pancreas by Yoru Sumino / Romance / Graphic Novel 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477574556 An aloof boy comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. He soon discovers that it is a diary kept by his very popular classmate who reveals to him that she is secretly suffering from a fatal pancreatic illness.]]> 2023-02-12 00:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477574556 The Boxer by Reinhard Kleist / nonfiction / graphic novel / poland 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477575154 In World War II Poland 16-year-old Harry is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, and spends several years trying to beat the odds to survive. It won't be easy. His best chance of staying alive comes in the life or death boxing matches arranged for his captors' entertainment.]]> 2023-02-12 00:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477575154 Maus by Art Spiegelman / Nonfiction / Graphic Novel 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477575606 Maus depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodern techniques, and represents Jews as mice and other Germans and Poles as cats and pigs.]]> 2023-02-12 00:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477575606 The Imitation Game: Alan Turning Decoded By Jim Ottaviani / Graphic Novel / Nonfiction 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477576682 Alan Turing (1912–1954) was the mathematician credited with cracking the German Enigma code during World War II, enabling the Allies to defeat the Nazis. After the war, Turing went on to launch modern computer science through his creation of the universal Turing machine and the Imitation Game, an artificial-intelligence test that is still in use today. Turing kept his code-breaking work a secret in order to safeguard his native England, but failed to hide his sexual preferences, which led to his tragic death at the hands of the same country he worked so hard to protect. Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis show Turing to be an eccentric, persecuted genius and a groundbreaking theoretician whose seminal work still plays a role in the science and telecommunication systems that fuel our modern world.]]> 2023-02-12 00:37:36 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477576682 The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater / Nonfiction 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477576986 This riveting nonfiction book for teens about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment tells the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California. One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter.One moment that changes both of their lives forever]]> 2023-02-12 00:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477576986 Deep Water by Katherine Nichols / Non fiction / Thriller 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477577411 A group of teens traffic drugs between Mexico and California in this start to the brand-new Simon True series.

It’s 1971 in Coronado, a small southern California beach town. For seventeen year-old Eddie Otero, a skilled waterman and avid surfer, life is simple. Then a buddy makes him an offer: Swim an illicit package across the border from Mexico. The intense workout is dangerous. Thrilling. Lucrative. And the beginning of a small business.

When the young entrepreneurs involve their former high school Spanish teacher, the smuggling adventure grows into a $100 million dollar global operation.

Soon they become fugitives. Living on the edge, they vow to return to their normal lives — right after one last run….]]> 2023-02-12 00:40:52 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477577411 Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis / nonfiction 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477577672 Katie, a charismatic and articulate young woman, adopted thirteen children in Uganda and has established a ministry, Amazima, that feeds and sends hundreds more to school while teaching them the Word of Jesus Christ. Kisses from Katie invites readers on a journey of radical love down the red dirt roads of Uganda.]]> 2023-02-12 00:42:14 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477577672 The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery / nonfiction https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477580741 Magnificently written, the endlessly beautiful and mystical story of The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery, follows the author through her journey of meeting and falling in love with four different octopuses - Athena, Octavia, Kali, and Karma- at the New England Aquarium as well as others during ocean adventures.]]> 2023-02-12 00:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477580741 Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao / Fantasy / Science Fiction https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477582306 Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA readers.

The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain.

When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.

To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.]]> 2023-02-12 01:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477582306 Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison / Comedy 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477606130 The books follows Georgia Nicholson, a 14-year-old girl living in Eastbourne, who is obsessed by the idea of being older and entering into a mature relationship. With the help of her "Ace Gang"—Jas, Ellen and Rosie—she manages to get the attention of Robbie, a new boy at her school.]]> 2023-02-12 02:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477606130 an Abundance of Katherines by John Green / Comedy / Romance 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477607571 Katherine V thought boys were gross
Katherine X just wanted to be friends
Katherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mail
K-19 broke his heart

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.

On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.

Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.]]> 2023-02-12 02:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477607571 an Abundance of Katherines by John Green / Comedy / Romance 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477659441 Katherine V thought boys were gross
Katherine X just wanted to be friends
Katherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mail
K-19 broke his heart

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.

On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.

Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.]]> 2023-02-12 06:04:34 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477659441 Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao / Fantasy / Science Fiction 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477659517 Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA readers.

The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain.

When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.

To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.]]> 2023-02-12 06:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477659517 Deep Water by Katherine Nichols / Non fiction / Thriller 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477659677 A group of teens traffic drugs between Mexico and California in this start to the brand-new Simon True series.

It’s 1971 in Coronado, a small southern California beach town. For seventeen year-old Eddie Otero, a skilled waterman and avid surfer, life is simple. Then a buddy makes him an offer: Swim an illicit package across the border from Mexico. The intense workout is dangerous. Thrilling. Lucrative. And the beginning of a small business.

When the young entrepreneurs involve their former high school Spanish teacher, the smuggling adventure grows into a $100 million dollar global operation.

Soon they become fugitives. Living on the edge, they vow to return to their normal lives — right after one last run….]]> 2023-02-12 06:05:43 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477659677 The Imitation Game: Alan Turning Decoded By Jim Ottaviani / Graphic Novel / Nonfiction 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477659799 Alan Turing (1912–1954) was the mathematician credited with cracking the German Enigma code during World War II, enabling the Allies to defeat the Nazis. After the war, Turing went on to launch modern computer science through his creation of the universal Turing machine and the Imitation Game, an artificial-intelligence test that is still in use today. Turing kept his code-breaking work a secret in order to safeguard his native England, but failed to hide his sexual preferences, which led to his tragic death at the hands of the same country he worked so hard to protect. Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis show Turing to be an eccentric, persecuted genius and a groundbreaking theoretician whose seminal work still plays a role in the science and telecommunication systems that fuel our modern world.]]> 2023-02-12 06:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477659799 Hostage by Guy Delisle / nonfiction / graphic novel 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477659995 Hostage is the true story in graphic novel form of the 1997 kidnapping of Frenchman Christophe André, who was working with a charity organization in Chechnya. He was kept hostage for three months while his kidnappers shuffled him from house to house while trying to work out a way to exchange him for money]]> 2023-02-12 06:07:09 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477659995 Maus by Art Spiegelman / Nonfiction / Graphic Novel 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660020 Maus depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodern techniques, and represents Jews as mice and other Germans and Poles as cats and pigs.]]> 2023-02-12 06:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660020 The Boxer by Reinhard Kleist / nonfiction / graphic novel / poland 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660125 In World War II Poland 16-year-old Harry is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, and spends several years trying to beat the odds to survive. It won't be easy. His best chance of staying alive comes in the life or death boxing matches arranged for his captors' entertainment.]]> 2023-02-12 06:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660125 I want to eat your Pancreas by Yoru Sumino / Romance / Graphic Novel 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660164 An aloof boy comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. He soon discovers that it is a diary kept by his very popular classmate who reveals to him that she is secretly suffering from a fatal pancreatic illness.]]> 2023-02-12 06:08:05 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660164 It's Lonely At The Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood/ Autobiographic/ Graphic novel 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660331 Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how.

IT’S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival.

]]> 2023-02-12 06:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660331 Grown by Tiffany B. Jackson / Mystery/Contemporary 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660388 At a singing audition, 17-year-old Enchanted Jones catches the eye of superstar musician Korey Fields, who is 28. Korey promises her a future in music, but the starstruck teen is quickly swept into an illicit relationship with drugs and abuse.]]> 2023-02-12 06:09:13 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660388 The Boxer by Reinhard Kleist / nonfiction / graphic novel / poland 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660619 In World War II Poland 16-year-old Harry is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, and spends several years trying to beat the odds to survive. It won't be easy. His best chance of staying alive comes in the life or death boxing matches arranged for his captors' entertainment.]]> 2023-02-12 06:10:31 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660619 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn / Thriller / Mystery 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660824 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is a psychological thriller: a tale of a marriage gone cold and a sociopath who will stop at nothing to get revenge. Echoing the domestic noir genre, Flynn takes that genre one step further by incorporating several plot twists that subvert the reader’s expectations. Chief among the subverted expectations is the reader’s ability to trust the narrator. The novel consists of alternating chapters: one told by husband, Nick, and the other told by Amy, his wife. Both narrators in this story are lying, and the multiple shifts in point of view—as Nick tells his side of the story and Amy tells hers—result in an atmosphere of confusion about who is telling the truth.]]> 2023-02-12 06:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660824 Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney / Romance / Dublin 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660874 Conversations with Friends follows Frances, a 21 year old college student, as she navigates a series of relationships that force her to confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time. Frances is observant, cerebral and sharp. Her ex-girlfriend, now best friend, Bobbi is self-assured, outspoken and compelling.]]> 2023-02-12 06:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660874 The Lake by Natasha Preston / thriller / mystery 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660934 The Lake is a YA mystery/thriller centered around two young girls named Esme and Kayla who end up training to be counselors at a camp they attended as kids, and the two of them have been keeping a huge secret from the time they spent at the same camp ten years]]> 2023-02-12 06:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477660934 Then she was Gone by Lisa Jewell / Mystery / Thriller 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661007 the story around a mother whose daughter goes missing and then the book covers the story of her journey ten years later to find out what really happened when her life is turned upside down by a man]]> 2023-02-12 06:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661007 The Leaving by Tara Altebrando / Mystery / Thriller 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661079 Eleven years ago, six five-year-olds went missing without a trace. After all this time, the people left behind have moved on, or tried to.Until today. Now five of those kids are back. They're sixteen, and they are ... fine.]]> 2023-02-12 06:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661079 Words on the Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton / Comedy / Romance 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661153 Diagnosed with a mental illness during his senior year of high school, a witty, introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to open his heart and not be defined by his condition.]]> 2023-02-12 06:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661153 Within these Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood / Thriller / Fantasy 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661203 Andromeda is a debtera—an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her mentor hadn't thrown her out before she could earn her license. Now her only hope of steady work is to find a Patron—a rich, well-connected individual who will vouch for her abilities.]]> 2023-02-12 06:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661203 Within these Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood / Thriller / Fantasy 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661249 Andromeda is a debtera—an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her mentor hadn't thrown her out before she could earn her license. Now her only hope of steady work is to find a Patron—a rich, well-connected individual who will vouch for her abilities.]]> 2023-02-12 06:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661249 You've Reached Sam by Dustin Thao / Realistic Fiction / Romance 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661373 You've Reached Sam is a story about a high school girl named Julie grappling with the recent death of her boyfriend Sam. One day, after a week of Sam's death, Julie decides to call Sam to try and hear his voice for one last time. And to her surprise, he actually picks up.]]> 2023-02-12 06:14:24 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661373 Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay / Historical Fiction / France 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661426 Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.]]> 2023-02-12 06:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661426 The Green Mile by Stephen King / Thriller / Fantasy 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661585 t tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities]]> 2023-02-12 06:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661585 Beauty Queens by Libba Bray / YA / Comedy 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661970 Pageant Meets Lord of the Flies: Teen beauty queens. A lost island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to email. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives deep in the heart of every girl, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror!
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.]]> 2023-02-12 06:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477661970 The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett / Fantasy / Comedy 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477662497 The Colour of Magic is a collection of four stories set on Discworld, a flat planet that is carried by four huge elephants that stand on the back of the giant turtle Great A'Tuin. The stories pivot on the hapless failed wizard Rincewind.]]> 2023-02-12 06:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477662497 These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong / Fantasy / historical 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477662595 A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang—a network of criminals far above the law.]]> 2023-02-12 06:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477662595 I must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys / Historical Fiction / Romania 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477662629 Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force.

Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He’s left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves—or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe.

Cristian risks everything to unmask the truth behind the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. He eagerly joins the revolution to fight for change when the time arrives. But what is the cost of freedom?]]> 2023-02-12 06:20:17 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477662629 The Ivies by Alexa Donne / Thriller / Mystery 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477662668 The Plastics meet the Heathers in this murder mystery about ruthless Ivy League ambition. After scholarship student Olivia transferred to an elite boarding school in 10th grade, she knew intelligence and drive wouldn't be enough to get her a full ride to an Ivy League school.]]> 2023-02-12 06:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477662668 Heartstopper by Alice Oseman / Romance / Graphic Novel 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477662750 "Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more ...?"]]> 2023-02-12 06:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477662750 Battle Royale by Koushun Takami/ Thriller/ Dystopian 928511 https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477662837 Forty-two Junior High School students are sent to a deserted island. They are given a map, food, and various weapons. An explosive collar is fitted around their neck and if they break a rule, the collar explodes. Their mission: kill each other and be the last one standing. The last survivor is allowed to leave the island.]]> 2023-02-12 06:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/928511/sm68zxgydimvy64g/wish/2477662837