Rebecca Radic

Book Title: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor

to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
Author: M. T. Anderson
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Year: 2006

Format: Book
Genre: Historical Fiction
Selection Source: Textbook honor list, p.23
Recommended Audience Age: 14 & up
Stars (1-5): 5
Curriculum Connections: History, Science,
Philosophy

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Deckle edge on regular paper, National Book Award winner, First person P.O.V. memoir mixed with
recovered letters, and science journal recordings; 351p
Rebecca Radic
Book Title: Nothing
Author: Janne Teller
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Year: 2000, translated 2010

Format: Book
Genre: Realistic
Selection Source: Textbook honor list, p.22
Recommended Audience Age: 12 & up
Stars (1-5): 3
Curriculum Connections: Leisure,
Philosophy

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Translated from Danish, Printz honor book, Batchelder Honor Books, first person POV Agnes
7th grade 12yrs, 227; repetition of threes, some pages with only one sentence for emphasis
Rebecca Radic
Book Title: Repossessed
Author: A. M. Jenkins
Publisher: HarperTeen
Year: 2007

Format: Book
Genre: Religious Humor
Selection Score: Discovered in Library
Recommended Audience Age: 13 & up
Stars (1-5): 5
Curriculum Connections: Religion, Leisure

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First person POV, 218p Kiriel

Rebecca Radic

Format: Book

Book Title: Deadline

Author: Chris Crutcher
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Year: 2009

Genre:
Selection Source:
Recommended Audience Age: 14 & up
Stars (1-5): 5
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336 pages, first person POV, adult themes, sports parts boring
Rebecca Radic
Book Title: All Good Children
Author: Catherine Austen
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Year: 2011

Format: Book
Genre:
Selection Source:
Recommended Audience Age: 12 & up
Stars (1-5): 4
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First person pov, 312 pages, left reader wanting more fight against the totality of events, not just
the escape for one family
Rebecca Radic
Book Title: The House of the Scorpion
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Year: 2004

Format: Book
Genre:
Selection Source:
Recommended Audience Age: 11 & up
Stars (1-5): 5
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380 pages, first person POV, discussion questions at end, ending rushed-set up for sequel
Rebecca Radic
Book Title: No Way Out
Author: Peggy Kern
Publisher: Townsend Press
Year: 2008

Format: Book
Genre:
Selection Source:
Recommended Audience Age: 13 & up
Stars (1-5): 4

Curriculum Connections: list some for

each book (i.e. Sociology, English, History, P.E., Health, leisure reading)
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140 pages, hi-low, first person pov, deals with real life events
Rebecca Radic
Book Title: Wintergirls
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Penguin Group
Year: 2010

Format: Book
Genre:
Selection Source:
Recommended Audience Age: 13 & up
Stars (1-5): 3
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First person POV, book makes you feel like u have an eating disorder. More focus on that than
the emotional distress, 278 pages
Rebecca Radic
Book Title: Hold Still
Author: Nina LaCour
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 2010

Format: Book
Genre:
Selection Source:
Recommended Audience Age: 15 & up
Stars (1-5): 5
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256 pages, best book of those I read

Rebecca Radic
Book Title: The Monstrumologist
Author: Rick Yancy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Year: 2010

Format: Book
Genre: Horror
Selection Source:
Recommended Audience Age: 14 & up
Stars (1-5): 4
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464 pages, first person POV, long drawn out paragraphs with slightly outdated language makes
the readers mind wander. Written as a discovered journal, meaning to add to that this might be
a true story, really scary and grotesque
Rebecca Radic
Book Title: One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
Author: Sonya Sones
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Year: 2013

Format: Book
Genre:
Selection Source:
Recommended Audience Age: 12-16
Stars (1-5): 4
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Easy format to read of poetry, 288 pages, surprise ending

Rebecca Radic
Book Title: A Monster Calls
Author: Patrick Ness
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Year: 2013

Format: Book
Genre:
Selection Source:
Recommended Audience Age: 12 & up
Stars (1-5): 5
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Narrated, 215 pages, illustrated by jim kay, based on an idea by Siobhan Dowd, glossed pages,
sometimes illustrations cut into boxed text format