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Grade Suggested New Reads!

~The brief overviews are adopted from barnesandnoble.com~

Creative Thinking CR-8: Assess the originality and value of a creative process or product

Creative Thinking CR-5: Make decisions after reflection and review

Lady Mary is a ward of Lord and Lady Macbeth whose life is forever changed when her father, Lord Cawdor, betrays the Scottish king -- and is hanged as a traitor. In an instant, Mary has lost both her father and future. Now she's trapped in a castle with the power-hungry Macbeths who will do anything to get what they want.

As murderous events unfold around her, Mary must struggle to survive -- and do what she can to prevent more deaths. But can a lone girl save lives when a legion of Scottish lords cannot?

“Henry Smith’s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.” But Trouble comes careening down the road one night in the form of a pickup truck that strikes Henry’s older brother, Franklin. Caught between anger and grief, Henry sets out to do the only thing he can think of: climb Mt. Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine.

The journey, both exhilarating and dangerous, turns into an odyssey of discovery about himself, his older sister, Louisa, his ancestry, and why one can never escape from Trouble.

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When something is most important to me and I do not want to lose it, I gather it into a poem.

Before she was an iconic American poet, Emily Dickinson was a spirited girl eager to find her place in the world. Expected by family and friends to mold to the prescribed role for women in mid-1800s New England, Emily was challenged to define herself on her own terms.

In the zombie-infested, post apocalyptic America where Benny I lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but what he gets is a vocation

that will teach him what it means to be human.

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http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ou1s3t6q2Q4 In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth.

But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her.

When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future loves her.

—between the one she loves and the one who

Willow Chance is a twelve-year old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents.

Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is

not

a tragedy.

This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief.

Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read.

An 11-year-old boy living in Memphis in 1959 throws the meanest fastball in town, but talking is a whole different ball game. He can barely say a word without stuttering, not even his own name. So when he takes over his best friend's paper route for the month of July, he knows he'll be forced to communicate with the different customers, including a housewife who drinks too much and a retired merchant marine who seems to know just about everything.

The paper route poses challenges, but it's a run-in with the neighborhood junkman, a bully and thief, that stirs up real trouble-

-and puts the boy's life, as well as that of his family's devoted housekeeper, in danger.

It's 1910, and thirteen-year-old Raisa has just traveled alone from a small Polish shtetl all the way to New York City. It's overwhelming, awe-inspiring, and even dangerous, especially when she discovers that her sister has disappeared and she must now fend for herself. She finds work in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sewing bodices on the popular shirtwaists. Raisa makes friends and even-dare she admit it?- falls in love. But then 1911 dawns, and one March day a spark ignites in the factory.

unfolds, an uncontrollable fire.

One of the city's most harrowing tragedies

One hundred years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, this moving young adult novel gives life to the tragedy and hope of this transformative event in American history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f RvIG8Aqn5M Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the

Noise

germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him flee with only his dog.

— something so awful Todd is forced to With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily

silent

creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World?

Set in 1906 in the Adirondack Mountains and based on the true story of a murder, this novel weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.

Sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiancé, takes a job at a summer inn where

she discovers the truth about the death of a guest.

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v=tu5Erw-posg When Beatrice is 16, she must choose between five factions in her society —Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). She will have to devote the rest of her life to the factions she chooses.

She also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death.

And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that might destroy her.

her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it

Amber Appleton lives in a bus. Ever since her mom's boyfriend kicked them out, Amber, her mom, and her totally loyal dog, Bobby Big Boy have been camped out in the back of Hello Yellow (the school bus her mom drives). Despite this situation, Amber refuses to sweat the bad stuff. But when a fatal tragedy threatens Amber's optimism--and her way of life,

can Amber continue to be the rock star of hope?

With an oddball cast of characters, and a heartwarming, inspiring story, this novel unveils a beautifully beaten-up world of laughs, loyalty, and hard-earned hope. http://www.youtube.com/watch?

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In the future, in a world baked dry by the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the wall and those, like sixteen-year-old midwife, Gaia Stone, who live outside. Gaia has always believed it is her duty, with her mother, to hand over a small quota of babies to the Enclave. But when Gaia’s mother and father are arrested by the very people they so dutifully serve,

Gaia is forced to question everything she has been taught to believe.

Gaia’s choice is now simple: enter the world of the Enclave to rescue her parents, or die trying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZq M26CAAaU Since her parents' bitter divorce, Mclean and her dad, a restaurant consultant, have been on the move - four towns in two years. Each new place gives Mclean a chance to try out a new persona: from cheerleader to drama diva.

But now, for the first time, Mclean discovers a desire to stay in one place and

just be herself

whoever that is.

Fans of Peterfreund’s take on Jane Austen’s

Persuasion Divergent

will love Diana set in a post-apocalyptic world.

In the future, a genetic experiment has devastated humanity.

In the aftermath, a new class system placed anti-technology Luddites in absolute power over vast estates —and any survivors living there.

Elliot North is a dutiful Luddite and a dutiful daughter who runs her father’s estate. When the boy she loved, Kai, a servant, asked her to run away with him four years ago, she refused, although it broke her heart.

Now Kai is back. And while Elliot longs for a second chance with her first love, she knows it could mean betraying everything she’s been raised to believe is right.

Jeremy Johnson Johnson hears voices. Or, specifically, one voice: the ghost of Jacob Grimm, one half of The Brothers Grimm. Jacob watches over Jeremy, protecting him from an unknown dark evil whispered about in the space between this world and the next.

But Jacob can't protect Jeremy from everything.

The Finder of Occasions knows waiting and watching. . . —whose identity and evil intentions nobody —is watching and waiting, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ ktcmV-3NaI And as anyone familiar with the Brothers Grimm know, not all fairy tales have happy endings.