Suggested Holiday Reading List - June 2009

P4 to M2

• Sea of Trolls
• The Land of Silver Apples
• The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm By Nancy Farmer
• The Breadwinner
• Parvanah’s Journey By Deborah Ellis
• Inkheart
• Inkspell
• Inkdeath By Cornelia Funke
• The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
• The Garbage King By Elizabeth Laird
• Swindle By Gordon Korman (Anything by Gordon Korman)
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit By Judith Kerr
• Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (Maniac McGee and all others by Spinelli)
• Wicked by Gregory McGuire
• The Butterfly Lion by Michael Murporgo
• Heir Apparent by Vivian Vanne Velde
• Silverwing series by Kenneth Oppel
• Pigman By Paul Zindel
• Ramose series by C. Wilkinson
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey
• Queen of Attolia & King of Attolia by Megan Whelan Turner
• The Runaways by Ruth Thomas
• The Number Devil Hans Enzensberger
• Mister Monday series by Garth Nix
• Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
• City of Beasts by Isabelle Allende
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini
• Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Paterson
• Bone series by Jeff Smith
• Clay by David Almond
• The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Banks
• The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
• The Pigheart Boy by Malorie Blackman
• Millions by Frank Cottrell Bryce
• Lost and Found by Andrew Clements
• Lionboy series by Zizou Corder
• The Black Brothers by Lisa Tetzner
• Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
• The Truth Cookie series by Fiona Dunbar
• The Skin I'm In by Sharon G Flake

Middle Years (M3+)

• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Freak the Mighty by R. Philbrick
• Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Missing Judy by Anne Cassidy
• Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going
• Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
• Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
• Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff
• Weaver of Dreams by Elfrida Vipont
• Ties That Bind, Ties that Break by Lensey Namioka
• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
• Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman
• Life of Pi by Y. Martel
• Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
• A Curios Incident with a Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• The Skin I’m In by Sharon g Flake
• The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashers
• The City of Ember by Jeanne Deprau
• Sabriel series by Garth Nix

M4 to Adult

• Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie
• White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtney
• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
• Fortune’s Rocks by Anita Shreve
• The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson
• Under the Wolf, Under the Dog by Adam Rapp
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• The Red Tent by A Diamant
• A Dry White Season by A. Brink
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Chart Throb by Ben Elton
• Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Non-Fiction

• The Burn Journals by B Runyon
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
• Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
• Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
• The Diary of Anne Frank by C. Martin
• What is the What by Dave Eggers
• Unfeeling by Ian Holding
• How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• From Capetown to Cairo by David Ewing Duncan
• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• The State of Africa by Martin Meredith
• Good to Great by J. Collins
• The Darwin Reader by Charles Darwin
• Chew on This by Eric Schlosser
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
• Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
• Blink: the power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
• Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
• Adam’s Curse by Bryan Sykes
• The Google Story by D. Vise
• The End of Faith by Sam Harris
• A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

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