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= __ 10th Grade Interactive Book List __ =

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=== **This wiki is intended to give students a more interactive process to select a book of their choice. Our hope is that this gives you a better feel for what the book is about, how others feel about the book, and what to expect from the book. The titles listed on the left, will all contain the following:** ===
 * === **book information** ===
 * === **synopsis** ===
 * === **link to information on the author of the book** ===
 * === **links to professional and personal reviews** ===
 * === **a rating given by student readers** ===
 * === **a video of a book talk given by a Palmyra student on this title** ===
 * === **suggestions for similar books** ===

**Students who are being asked to add to this page, should follow these instructions:**

 * 1) === **Have the teacher add your book title to the list of books on the left if your book title is not present.** ===
 * 2) === **Follow the directions inside the page for your book title. You want to complete everything listed there to the best of your ability.** ===

===Below is the book list that you should use as a starting point. If you see a title that interests you below, find it on the menu to the left of this wiki and further investigate that title to see if it is something you would like to read.===

__Along for the Ride__ – Sarah Dessen
===When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.===

__The Batboy__ – Mike Lupica
===Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a batboy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.===

__Brain Jack__ – Brian Falkner
===In a near-future New York City, fourteen-year-old computer genius Sam Wilson manages to hack into the AT&T network and sets off a chain of events that have a profound effect on human activity throughout the world.===

__Break No Bones__ – Kathy Reichs
===Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is summoned to South Carolina to fill in for a colleague, and in the midst of teaching at an archaeology school, Temperance stumbles upon a murder mystery that may threaten her life.===

__Books of Fell__ – M.E. Kerr
===A young man from the wrong side of the tracks, John Fell investigates spies, drug dealers, murders, and a decades-old disappearance case, all of which are connected to his exclusive prep school's mysterious club, Sevens.===

__Center Field__ – Robert Lipsyte
===Mike lives for baseball and hopes to follow his idol into the major leagues one day, but he is distracted by a new player who might take his place in center field, an ankle injury, problems at home, and a growing awareness that something sinister is happening at school.===

__City of Bones__ – Cassandra Clare
===Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster. //Sequels: City of Ash, City of Glass//===

__Dirty Little Secrets__ – C.J. Omololu
===When her unstable mother dies unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Lucy must take control and find a way to keep the long-held secret of her mother's compulsive hoarding from being revealed to friends, neighbors, and especially the media.===

__Fake ID__ – Walter Sorrells
===After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the past that haunts her and her mother which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several people in a small Alabama town.===

__Fever Crumb__ – Philip Reeve
===Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.===

__Gingerbread__ – Rachel Cohn
===After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.===

__Graceling__ – Kristin Cashore
===In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. //Companion Book: Fire//===

__A Great and Terrible Beauty__ – Libba Bray
===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. //Sequels: Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing.//===

__How to Build a House__ – Dana Reinhardt
===Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado.===

__The Hunger Games__ – Suzanne Collins
===Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death. //Sequels: Catching Fire, Mockingjay//===

__I Am Number Four__ – Pittacus Lore
===In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.===

__Ice__ – Sarah Beth Durst
===A modern-day retelling of "East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon" in which eighteen-year-old Cassie learns that her grandmother's fairy tale is true when a Polar Bear King comes to claim her for his bride and she must decide whether to go with him and save her long-lost mother, or continue helping her father with his research.===

__Last Summer of the Death Warriors__ – Francisco X. Stork
===Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on avenging the senseless death of his sister, but after he meets D.Q, who is dying of cancer, and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys find their lives changed by their interactions.===

__Law of Nines__ – Terry Goodkind
===Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the Midwest, it is cataclysmic. Something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he has just saved has suddenly made him, and everyone he loves, a target.===

__Leviathan__ – Scott Westerfeld
===In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts. //Sequel: Behemoth//===

__Living on Impulse__ – Cara Haycak
===Getting caught shoplifting leads fifteen-year-old Mia to a greater understanding of herself, sympathy for her unmarried mother, and a job in a college laboratory which not only pleases her ailing scientist grandfather, but lets her glimpse a possible future brighter than any she had imagined.===

__Lockdown: Escape from Furnace__ – Alexander Gordon Smith
===When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.===

__Looking for Alaska__ – John Green
===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.===

__Matched__ – Ally Condie
===All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, who to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?===

__Never Slow Dance with a Zombie__ – E. Van Lowe
===High school juniors Margot and Sybil are terrified to find that classmates have been turned into zombies, but decide to use this situation to their advantage, and accomplish all the goals they set for themselves after middle school graduation.===

__Numbers__ – Rachel Ward
===Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.===

__Pirate Lattitudes__ – Michael Crichton
===The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad," guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.===

__Rivals__ – Tim Green
===Twelve-year-old Josh looks forward to facing a true rival in the Baseball Hall of Fame tournament, but first he and his friends Jaden and Benji put themselves at great risk trying to expose the truth about a conspiracy to bribe the head umpire.===

__Pretty Little Liars__ – Sara Shepard
===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.===

__Pop__ – Gordon Korman
===Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.===

__Revolver__ – Marcus Sedgwick
===In an isolated cabin, fourteen-year-old Sig is alone with a corpse: his father, who has fallen through the ice and frozen to death only hours earlier. Then comes a stranger claiming that Sig's father owes him a share of a horde of stolen gold. Sig's only protection is a loaded Colt revolver hidden in the cabin's storeroom. The question is, will Sig use the gun, and why?===

__Shiver__ – Maggie Stiefvater
===In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity. //Sequel: Linger//===

__Things a Brother Knows__ – Dana Reinhardt
===Although they have never gotten along well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a walking trip from Boston to Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning why Boaz is completely withdrawn.===

__Truth or Dairy__ – Catherine Clark
===Courtney, a Colorado high school senior, becomes the bane of her friends' and family's existence as she fumes over being dumped by her college-bound boyfriend--but a temptation named Grant may be enough to drag her back into happiness. //Sequel: Wurst Case Scenario//===

__Uglies__ – Scott Westerfeld
===Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.===

__Waiting for You__ – Susane Colasanti
===Fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Marisa, who has an anxiety disorder, decides that this is the year she will get what she wants--a boyfriend and a social life--but things do not turn out exactly the way she expects them to.===