Grade: two 100% grades for the first quarter.

* Black Boy. Richard Wright, 1945, $13.00, 448 pp. Classic autobiography of growing up and surviving

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The Last Lecture. Randy Pausch, 2008, $19.00, 176 pp. Knowing he was dying of pancreatic cancer, the

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An instant classic.

LeBron’s Dream Team: How Five Friends Made History. LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger, 2009, $15.00,

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Three Cups of Tea: the Young Reader’s Edition. Greg Mortenson, adapted by Sarah Thomson, 2009, $8.99,

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* The Yankee Years. Joe Torre and Tom Verducci, 2009, $26.95, 512 pp. The former Yankee manager (1996-2007)

on his years with the team.

hotel in outer space threatened by eco-terrorists, who claim it is a danger to the environment.

Behind You. Jacqueline Woodson, 2004, $5.99, 128 pp. Fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is dead, shot mistakenly. Those

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* Breaking Dawn. Stephenie Meyer, 2008, $14.99, 768 pp. Third sequel to Twilight. Pregnancy creates unexpected

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around them as the Volturi return to attack.

Breathless. Lurlene McDaniel, 2009, $10.99 hardcover, 176 pp. Travis Morrison is a high school senior diving

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* Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors. Jenny Nimmo, 2005, $9.95, 410 pp. New characters appear and Billy

* City of Bones: Book One of The Mortal Instruments. Cassandra Clare, 2008. $9.99, 512 pp. 15-year-old

Clary Fray is drawn into a bizarre world of demons and Shadowhunters when her mother disappears and

Clary suddenly finds a new circle of friends and powers.

Fallen Angels. Walter Dean Myers, 1988, $6.99, 336 pp. College plans fall through, so Harlem teenager Perry

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* The Golem’s Eye. Jonathan Stroud, 2004, $7.99, 562 pp. Sequel to Amulet of Samarkand. Now 14, Nathaniel

must deal with a new series of attacks. He still needs his djinni.

Heart on My Sleeve. Ellen Wittlinger, 2004, $6.99, 240 pp. From the end of high school until college begins,

Chloe and Julian deal via e-mail with major changes in their lives and feelings for each other.

The Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins, 2008, paperback $8.99 this August, 374 pp. Katniss Everdeen is an

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death. Do not ever bet against her. She singlehandedly changes the game and foments a revolution in the dystopia.

First in a series.

* Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports. James Patterson, 2007, $7.99, 432 pp. Six

extraordinary kids who can fly, led by 14-year-old Max, may stop a plot to annihilate half the world’s population.

Is one of them a traitor? Third in series.

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. Gabrielle Zevin, 2007, $8.99, 304 pp. After a bad fall, yearbook co-editor

Naomi Porter has no memory of the past four years – not of her boyfriend Ace, her best friend Will, or her

parents’ divorce. But she becomes obsessed with the troubled boy who helped get her to the hospital.

* The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. Kim Edwards, 2005, $14.00, 401 pp. When Dr. David Henry has to deliver

his own twins, he gives up for adoption the baby girl who has Down’s syndrome, and tells his wife that one

twin was stillborn. The lie haunts their lives.

Painting the Black. Carl Deuker, 1997, $5.99, 248 pp. High school senior Ryan Ward discovers his baseball

talent. When a team member pushes the limits, Ryan has to choose between integrity and love for the game.

* Rebel Angels. Libba Bray, 2005, $9.99, 592 pp. Highly rated Victorian fantasy-romance. Christmas in London

proves dangerous: Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms of magic to defeat

her foe and bind the magic that has been released.

medical research company, has disappeared, along with huge sums of money. As she covers the story for

a Wall Street paper, Marcia DeCarlo discovers new facts and make deadly enemies.

Shiver. Maggie Stiefvater, 2009, $17.99 hardcover, 390 pp. When the weather turns warm, werewolves may

revert to their human forms, but eventually lose that power. Grace has fallen in love with Sam. Can she

find a way to keep him human?

What Happened to Lani Garver? Carol Plum-Ucci, 2002, $6.95, 314 pp. Sixteen-year-old Claire McKensie,

worried about her own cancer and an eating disorder, befriends a strange outcast, who may or may not be

an angel.

• The Wizard Heir. Cinda Chima, 2007, $8.99, 480 pp. Sixteen-year-old Seth has been kicked out of four schools.

Untrained, his wizard powers are spiraling out of control. The next headmaster wants total control of his life,

and his powers. Sequel to The Warrior Heir, but not dependent on it.