H-F Reads - Other Times, Other Places
Suggestions for Further Reading
If you are enjoying reading this year's H-F Reads selections, try some of the following fiction titles available at the HFHS Library.............
FIC COL Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire
FIC COL Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay
FIC DOC Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother
FIC SHU Shusterman, Neal. Unwind
FIC NES Ness, Patrick. Knife of Never Letting Go
745.5 SPI Spiegelman, Art. In the Shadow of No Towers
745.5 SPI Spiegelman, Art. Maus II: And Here my Troubles Began
745.5 SAT Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis
FIC AND Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever
FIC BRA Bray, Libba. A great and terrible beauty. New York : Delacorte Press, c2003.
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
FIC BRE Brewer, Heather. Ninth grade slays. New York : Speak, 2009, c2008.
While half-vampire Vlad, his best friend Henry, and Henry's cousin Joss make their way through their freshman year at Bathory High, a hired vampire slayer seeks to destroy Vlad.
FIC CAB Cabot, Meg. Avalon High. 1st HarperTeen pbk. ed. New York : HarperTeen, 2007, c2006.
Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School, where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.
FIC CAB Cabot, Meg. Jinx. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2007.
Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.
FIC CAP Cappo, Nan Willard. Cheating lessons : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2002. When her team is announced as finalists in the state Classics Bowl contest, Bernadette suspects that cheating may have been involved.
FIC CAR Carter, Ally. I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2006.
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.
FIC COR Cormier, Robert. The chocolate war : a novel. [New York] : Pantheon, c1974.
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
FIC DEU Deuker, Carl. High heat. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
When sophomore Shane Hunter's father is arrested for money laundering at his Lexus dealership, the star pitcher's life of affluence and private school begins to fall apart.
FIC DRA Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills). Romiette and Julio. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2001, c1999. Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.
FIC GIL Giles, Gail. Shattering Glass. 1 st ed. Brookfield, Ct. : Roaring Brook Press, 2002.
When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence.
FIC GRE Green, John. Looking for Alaska : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Dutton, c2005.
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
FIC GRI Grimes, Nikki. Bronx masquerade. New York : Dial Books, c2002.
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
FIC KIM Guilford, J. D. The edification of Sonya Crane. New York : Kimani, c2007.
Two female students in a predominantly African American high school threaten to expose each other's secrets.
FIC HAR Hartinger, Brent. Geography Club. 1st pbk. ed. New York : HarperTempest, 2004, c2003.
A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds mutual support when they form the "Geography Club" at their high school.
FIC KOR Korman, Gordon. Jake, reinvented. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2003.
When Jake Garrett arrives at F. Scott Fitzgerald High, the students immediately take a liking to him and he becomes one of the most popular boys in school, but when a dark secret is revealed, the same students begin to fear him.
FIC LOC Lockhart, E. The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks : a novel. New York : Hyperion, c2008.
Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.
FIC LUB Lubar, David. Sleeping freshmen never lie. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2005.
While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.
FIC LYN Lynch, Chris. Inexcusable. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2005.
High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.
FIC MEA Mead, Richelle. Vampire Academy. New York : Razorbill, c2007.
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
FIC MON Mo'Nique. Beacon Hills High. 1st ed. New York : Amistad, c2008.
After being accepted to one of the best high schools in Baltimore, Eboni is disappointed to learn that she and her family will be moving to Los Angeles where her father plans to start a new business venture.
FIC MOR Moriarty, Jaclyn. The year of secret assignments*. New York : Scholastic, [2005], c2004.
Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.
FIC NEL Nelson, Blake, 1960-. The new rules of high school. New York : Viking, 2003.
Seventeen-year-old Max Caldwell has been the perfect high school student--on the honor roll, captain of the debate team, and soon-to-be editor of the school newspaper--but during his senior year, he begins questioning his approach to life and things start to change.
FIC OAT Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. Big Mouth & Ugly Girl. 1st HarperTempest ed. New York : HarperTempest, 2002. When sixteen-year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to blow up his high school and his friends turn against him, an unlikely classmate comes to his aid.
FIC ODE O'Dell, Kathleen, 1957-. Bad tickets. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2007.
Rebelling against her strict Catholic upbringing in 1967, teenager Mary Elizabeth sorts through her feelings about her parents and friends, and about sex, while making some decisions about the type of life she wants for herself.
FIC PLU Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-. The body of Christopher Creed. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt, Inc., c2000.
Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.
FIC POR Portman, Frank. King Dork. New York : Delacorte Press, c2006.
High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The Catcher in the Rye" may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his life.
FIC SHE Shepard, Sara, 1977-. Pretty little liars. 1st HarperTeen pbk. ed. New York : HarperTeen, 2007, c2006.
When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets.
FIC SOR Sorrells, Walter. First shot. 1st American ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2007.
David Crandall, haunted by his mother's murder two years ago, uncovers a dark family secret that leads him to believe that his father, headmaster of the military school in which David is currently a senior, is the killer.
FIC SPI Spinelli, Jerry. Stargirl. 1st Dell Laurel-Leaf ed. New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, 2004, c2000.
At first the students at Arizona's Mica High School are captivated by Stargirl Caraway's unusual, carefree behavior; however, she is soon shunned for everything that makes her unique in this story that pits individuality against conformity.
FIC WAL Walsh, Marissa, 1972-. A field guide to high school : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007. Andie and her best friend Bess read through a manual Andie's Yale-bound sister wrote for her, which is filled with tips and tricks for excelling at Plumstead Country Day high school where Andie is about to be a freshman.
FIC WIN Winston, Sherri. The Kayla chronicles : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007.
Kayla transforms herself from mild-mannered journalist to hot-trotting dance diva in order to properly investigate her high school's dance team, and has a hard time remaining true to her real self while in the role.
FIC WOL Wolff, Tobias, 1945-. Old school : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Knopf :, 2003.
A young man at a prestigious, literary New England preparatory school who has spent his entire time there hiding his real self in order to fit in finds his facade and his world falling apart during his senior year.
FIC ZEV Zevin, Gabrielle. Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007.
After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life.
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