2012+Summer+Reading+for+Students+(and+Staff)

"//The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go//." ~Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"

Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a kids-with-cancer support group and as they fall in love they both wonder how they will be remembered.
 * // [[image:chssummerreading/stars.gif align="left"]]The Fault in Our Stars //** by John Green

//**Ship Breaker**// by Paolo Bacigalupi In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.

//**Dash and Lily's Book of Dares**// by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two teenagers carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas-time in New York, neither knowing quite what--or who--they will find.

//**Black Hole Sun**// by David Mcinnis Gill Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community on Mars to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders.

//**R**////**ot & Ruin**// by Jonathan Maberry In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter. //**Dust & Decay**// by Jonathan Maberry In post-apocalyptic America, Benny Imura and his friends set out into the great Rot & Ruin hoping to find a better future but are soon pitted against zombies, wild animals, insane murderers, and the horrors of Gameland.

James lies about himself to be considered "cool" when he gets into an exclusive boarding school, but soon unnaturally vivid dreams of being a demon-hunting warrior lead to self-destructive acts while he is awake.
 * //[[image:chssummerreading/lying.gif align="left"]]Secret to Lying//** by Todd Mitchell



In the months after her sister dies, Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.
 * //The Sky is Everywhere//** by Jandy Nelson

The niece of famed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, fourteen-year-old Tory and her three friends are exposed to a rare strain of canine parvovirus that gives them special powers which they use to try to solve a murder.
 * //[[image:chssummerreading/virals.gif align="left"]]Virals//** by Kathy Reichs

A biography of Steve Jobs, focusing on his intense personality and creative success as the founder of Apple, based on interviews with Jobs and more than a hundred, friends, family, and colleagues.
 * //[[image:chssummerreading/jobs.gif align="left"]]Steve Jobs//** by Walter Isaacson

//**The Girl of Fire and Thorns**// by Rae Carson A fearful princess discovers her heroic destiny after being married off to the king of a neighboring country in turmoil and pursued by enemies seething with dark magic.

//**Divergent**// by Veronica Roth In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.