
MRS. MABERRY: 2010-2011
Florida Teens Read! List
After by Amy Efaw
Devon Davenport is a straight-A student and prominent player on her school's
soccer team, but when she is linked to an abandoned baby found in the trash
she is accused of attempted murder.
Brutal by Michael B.
Harmon
Forced to leave Los Angeles for life in a quiet California wine town with a
father she has never known, rebellious sixteen-year-old Poe Holly rails
against a high school system that allows elite students special privileges
and tolerates bullying of those who are different.
Candor by Pam Bachorz
For a fee, "model teen" Oscar Banks has been secretly--and
selectively--sabotaging the subliminal messages that program the behavior of
the residents of Candor, Florida, until his attraction to a rebellious new
girl threatens to expose his subterfuge.
Compound by S. A. Bodeen
Fifteen-year-old Eli, locked inside a radiation-proof compound built by his
father to keep them safe following a nuclear attack, begins to question his
future, as well as his father's grip on anity as the family's situation
steadily disintegrates over the course of six years.
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills
called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace
of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a
corrupt king.
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and
younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether
to live with her grief or join her family in death.
King of Screwups by K.L.
Going
Liam Geller is one of the most popular boys in school but can't seem to do
anything right in the eyes of his father; so he goes to live with his
homosexual, rocker uncle who helps him to understand that there is much more
to him than his father will ever see.
Last Thing I Remember by
Andrew Klavan
High school student Charlie West awakens injured in a concrete bunker,
discovers that he has lost a year of his life and has no memory of escaping
from prison after being convicted of murdering his former best friend, and
learns that he is being pursued by both the law and a group of terrorists
trying to destroy the U.S. government.
No Choirboy by Susan Kuklin
A collection of essays in which inmates at American prisons who were
sentenced to death while still in their teens share their thoughts and
feelings about how they ended up in prison and how they feel about capital
punishment.
North of Beautiful by Justina
Chen Headley
Terra, a sensitive, artistic high school senior born with a facial port-wine
stain, struggles with issues of inner and outer beauty with the help of her
Goth classmate Jacob.
Purple Heart by Patricia
McCormick
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury
sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy
struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his
ten-year-old friend, Ali.
Reality Check by Peter
Abrahams
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops
out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town; but when his
ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels
cross-country to join the search.
Secret Story of Sonia Rodgriguez by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Tenth-grader Sonia Rodriguez reveals secrets about her life and her Hispanic
family while she studies hard so that she can be the first member of her
family to successfully finish high school.
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house,
Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his
turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
Willow by Julia Hoban
Sixteen-year-old Willow, who was driving the car that killed both of her
parents, copes with the pain and guilt by cutting herself, until she meets a
smart and sensitive boy who is determined to help her stop.