By Ashley Wiley
Summer is a great time to kick back and pick up a book. Fall into a new world, go on adventure without leaving the comfort of your home, and possibly learn something about yourself in the process. Here are some great new titles that you should consider reading.
Birds of Paradise by Diana Abu-Jaber
Take a journey to the grimy side of Miami Beach and follow the Muirs, a divided—at times dysfunctional—Cuban family. Each chapter is told through the eyes of one of the family members.
Felice, the 13-year old daughter, spends her time on her skateboard. She encounters outspoken females, drugs, clubs, and a boy who might be able to save her.
Enter into the Birds of Paradise and discover the inner workings of a family struggling to keep it together. There is a character for everyone to relate to. Abu-Jaber creates a world where we follow a lost girl hoping she’ll be found.
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
John Green has created a sad yet honest book about two teenagers, Hazel and Augustus, who have cancer. Green created well rounded characters that do not play the victim.
The two characters embrace—sometimes not so willingly—the idea of mortality. Together they explore what it means to be alive and what it means to loose.
Hazel’s sarcasm and seriousness couple well with Augustus’s spontaneous nature in this well written love story. Find out what happens to these teenagers who must come to terms with their fate.
Jo Walton’s Among Others is written in the form of a girls journal. Walton breaks the laws of reality with fantastical descriptions that are both real and imagined.
The story takes place in 1979. Mori lives with her witch mother and twin sister. She sees fairies, but they are not like the ones we think of. After a terrible spell gone wrong, Mori is sent to live with her father who then sends her to boarding school.
Follow this young girl’s tragic story that balances a thin line between reality and the fantastic. Will you find out what’s real or just a little girls imagination?
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
Along for the Ride is a great summer read. Auden West, the daughter of divorced parents decides to take a chance during her summer before college. She spends the summer with her father, his new wife and baby in his house beside the beach.
Auden meets new friends and bigger challenges than ever before. But these experiences will change her life forever.
Follow Auden’s story as she struggles with the feelings of jealousy and regret. She must learn to forgive or she will never be happy. This wonderful beachside town setting is the perfect summer read.
Enter this dystopian world where a girl is ripped away from her family because her special ability as a “Spinster.”
Adelice, the main character, can manipulate the world around her. The government controlling the new world, Arras, is looking for girls with similar powers to control and change the world to their own whims.
In a world where anything can be changed or erased, Adelice must search to find out what’s real. Join the protagonist as she discovers secrets in this magical story of power and control.
Kacvinsky creates a world where nobody leaves the comfort of their home. Everything from school to dating is done with a computer. Maddie lives in this world and is content with how things are until she meets a boy.
Justin isn’t like other people; he enjoys face-to face interaction. The more Maddie talks to him the more she realizes that she is missing something.
Maddie must decide whether to go against the norms of society and unplug herself from technology or stay plugged in forever. Will she have the courage to break away? See for yourself in this book that eerily reflects today’s society.
Intentional Dissonence by Iain Thomas
In a world that has already ended, a boy, Jon Salt, encounters the drug Saddness, new creatures, advanced technology, and ghosts—the result of teleportation gone wrong.
Jon must deal with his love for a girl name Michelle. His obsession practically drives him insane. Jon’s life will change forever when the government discovers that he possesses an interesting gift: the ability to make his thoughts real.
Jon must escape the clutches of the government and disrupt what they are planning. This book will shock you and make you reconsider what’s possible.
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
Enter a world among the stars in this science fiction novel, Across the Universe. Seventeen year old Amy has chosen to be frozen and preserved for a 300 year long journey to an earth-like planet on the spaceship Godspeed.
In a strange turn of events, Amy is taken out of her hibernation and left to thaw. When she wakes up she finds a different world on the Godspeed. She must encounter the savage group of people who have lived their entire life within the walls of a spaceship.
Read through Amy’s adventure as she discovers the truth about what’s really going on in this epic first book in Revis new trilogy.
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Where Things Come Back follows the lives of two young boys, Cullen and Benton. Both boys are facing the struggles of becoming adults.
Cullen must learn to cope with the death of his cousin and romantic relationships gone wrong. All his issues pale in comparison once his younger brother disappears.
Benton is a missionary in Africa who is looking for his purpose in life. He soon realizes his rash decisions don’t just affect him. Follow these two boys and discover that maybe, somehow the two will come together.
Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav
Fall in love with Leav’s collections of poems, Love & Misadventure. Leav deals with the emotions every girl—even men—face when it comes to relationships.
Her poems are short works of art that have the feeling of being written just for you. Each poem is itself a story and the emotions it evokes will last forever.
You will treasure this book like many others have. Travel through the emotions of love, regret, jealousy, and companionship.
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Comments
Along for the ride... amazing book!