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Annotated Bibliography Albom, Mitch. The Five People You Meet in Heaven. New York: Hyperion, 2003. Print. Eddie is an eighty-three-year-old war veteran. He spends his days maintaining the rides at Ruby Pier, a seaside amusement park. Now Eddie's own life is about to come to an end. One morning, an accident occurs on one of the rides. In front of a horrified crowd, Eddie attempts to save the five-year-old's life. The last thing he sees is the little girl's frightened face, the last thing he feels is the child's hands in his. Then, a blinding flash of light and silence, and Eddie reawakens in an unfamiliar place called Heaven. But he's not alone. Five people have been waiting to meet him. Asher, Jay. Thirteen Reasons Why . New York: Razorbill, 2007. Print. Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker his classmate and crush - who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah's pain, and learns the truth about himself-a truth he never wanted to face. Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones. New York: M.K. McElderry Books, 2007. Print.

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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. Clare, Cassandra. City of Ashes. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2008. Print. Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon. Clare, Cassandra. City of Glass. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2009. Print. Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, and to its capital, the City of Glass, where with the help of a newfound friend, Sebastian, she uncovers important truths about her family's past that will not only help save her mother but all those that she holds most dear. Clare, Cassandra. City of Fallen Angels. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2011. Print. As mysterious murders threaten the new peace between Shadowhunters and Downworlders, only Simon, the Daylighter vampire, can help bring both groups together. Clare, Cassandra. City of Lost Souls. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2012. Print. When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world's destruction.

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Croggon, Alison. The Naming. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2005. Print. Maerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child when her family is destroyed in war. She doesn't yet know she has inherited a powerful gift, one that marks her as a member of the noble School of Pellinor and enables her to see the world as no other can. It is only when she is discovered by Cadvan, one of the great Bards of Lirigon, that her true identity and extraordinary destiny unfold. Now, she and her mysterious teacher must embark on a treacherous, uncertain journey through a time and place where the forces of darkness wield an otherworldly terror. Croggon, Alison. The Riddle. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2006. Print. The further translation of a manuscript from the lost civilization of Edil-Amarandah which chronicles the experiences of sixteen-year-old Maerad, a gifted Bard, as she seeks the answer to the Riddle of the Treesong and continues to battle the Dark forces. Croggon, Alison. The Crow. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2007. Print. After a brief reunion with his lost sister Maered, who continues to pursue her dangerous destiny in the frozen North, orphaned Hem is sent south to Turbansk for safety but, as the armies of the Dark overrun the city, he flees with his mentor Saliman, his white crow Irc, and the orphan girl Zelika to join the resistance forces of the Light and finally learn his role in his sister's quest. Cruz, Melissa. Misguided Angel: a Blue Bloods novel. New York: Hyperion, 2010. Print. While fleeing to Florence to find and protect the seven gates that guard earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silverbloods, Schuyler approaches a terrifying

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crossroads--and a choice that will determine the destiny of all vampires. De la Cruz, Melissa. Blue Bloods. New York: Hyperion, 2006. Print. Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines. De la Cruz, Melissa. Masquerade: a Blue Bloods novel. New York: Hyperion, 2007. Print. Schuyler Van Alen, growing comfortable with her newfound vampire powers, seeks her grandfather in Italy, while back in New York plans are being completed for the fabulous Four Hundred Ball, to be followed by an elite, teensonly event at which masks hide a terrible secret. De la Cruz, Melissa. Revelations: a Blue Bloods novel. New York: Hyperion, 2008. Print. Schuyler Van Alen's blood legacy has just been called into question: Is the young woman in fact a Blue Blood, or is it the sinister Silver Blood that runs through her veins? When one of the Gates of Hell is breached by the Silver Bloods, the Blue Bloods will need Schuyler on their side. De la Cruz, Melissa. The Van Alen legacy: a Blue Bloods novel. New York: Disney/Hyperion, 2009. Print. Once left to live the glamorous life in New York City, the Blue Bloods--an ancient group of vampires--now find themselves in an epic battle for survival following the stunning revelation of a young socialite's true identity and the growing threat of the sinister Silver Bloods. Dessen, Sarah. That Summer. New York: Orchard Books, 1996. Print. During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-yearold Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths of the past. Dessen, Sarah. Someone Like You. New York: Viking, 1998. Print. Halley's junior year of

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high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship. Dessen, Sarah. This Lullaby. New York: Viking, 2002. Print. Raised by a mother who has had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, nocommitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician. Dessen, Sarah. The Truth About Forever. New York: Viking, 2004. Print. Macy's summer stretches before her, carefully planned and outlined. She will spend her days sitting at the library information desk. She will spend her evenings studying for the SATs. Spare time will be used to help her obsessive mother prepare for the big opening of the townhouse section of her luxury development. But Macy's plans don't anticipate a surprising and chaotic job with Wish Catering, a motley crew of new friends, or Wes. Tattooed, artistic, anything-but-expected Wes. He doesn't fit Macy's life at all so why does she feel so comfortable with him? So happy? What is it about him that makes her let down her guard and finally talk about how much she misses her father, who died before her eyes the year before? Dessen, Sarah. Dreamland. New York: Viking, 2004. Print. After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous. Dessen, Sarah. Just Listen. New York: Viking Children's Books, 2006. Print. Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-

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the-year party that changed her life. Dessen, Sarah. Lock and Key. New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2008. Print. Ruby is used to taking care of herself. But now she's living in a fancy new house with her sister Cora, a sister she hasn't seen in ten years, and her husband Jamie, creator of one of the most popular online networking sites. She's attending private school, wearing new clothes, and for the first time, feels the promise of a future that include college and her family. So why is she so wary? And what is Nate, the adorable and good-hearted boy next door, hiding behind his genial nature? As Ruby starts to see, theres a big difference between being given help, and being able to accept it. And sometimes, in order to save yourself, you've got to reach out to someone else. Dessen, Sarah. Along for the Ride. New York: Viking, 2009. Print. 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. Dessen, Sarah. What Happened to Goodbye. New York: Viking, 2011. Print. Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to town, seventeen-year-old Mclean reinvents herself at each school she attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where she belongs. Fagles, Robert. The Odyssey. New York: Viking, 1996. Print. A new translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.

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Fisher, Catherine. Incarceron. New York: Dial Books, 2010. Print. To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Print. The Beautiful and Damned is the story of Anthony Patch and his wife, Gloria. Harvard-educated and an aspiring aesthete, Patch is waiting for his inheritance upon his grandfathers death. His reckless marriage to Gloria is fueled by alcohol and destroyed by greed. The Patches race through a series of alcohol-induced fiascoes at first in hilarity, then in despair. Fitzgerald, F. Scott, and Matthew J. Bruccoli. The Great Gatsby. New York, NY: Scribner, 1996. Print. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted it was the national drink and sex the national obsession, it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. Freud, Sigmund, and James Strachey. The Interpretation of Dreams : The Complete and Definitive Text. New York: Perseus Books Group, 2010. Print. What are the most common dreams and why do we have them? What does a dream about death mean? What do dreams of swimming, failing, or flying symbolize? Funke, Cornelia Caroline, and Anthea Bell. Inkheart. Frome, Somerset [England: Chicken House ;, 2003. Print. One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the

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kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever. Funke, Cornelia Caroline, and Anthea Bell. Inkspell. Frome, Somerset [England: Chicken House ;, 2005. Print. Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEART, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world of his past. Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too. But the story is threatening to evolve in ways neither of them could ever have imagined. Funke, Cornelia Caroline, and Anthea Bell. Inkdeath. New York: Chicken House/Scholastic Inc., 2008. Print. The Adderhead--his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo--has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of Death. To bring the renegade Bluejay back to repair the book, the Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, dooming them to slavery in his silver mines unless Mo surrenders. First Dustfinger, now Mo: Can anyone save this cursed story? Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie's world: a novel about the history of philosophy. New York:

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994. Print. Discovering two thought-provoking philosophical questions in her mailbox, Sophie enrolls in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher and begins to receive some equally unusual letters. Grosz, Tanya, and Linda Wendler. A Midsummer Nights's Dream. Irvine, CA: Saddleback Educational Pub., 2006. Print. Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius because she loves Lysander, and her friend Helena loves Demetrius. The romantic confusion thickens when Puck a troublesome sprite interferes. Shakespeare s beloved comedy ends happily after a string of mishaps and mistaken identities have been resolved. Gruwell, Erin. The Freedom Writers diary: how a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them. New York: Doubleday, 1999. Print. As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust - only to be met by uncomprehending looks ... Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. New York: Vintage Books, 1994. Print. When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The scarlet letter. New York, N.Y.: Library of America :, 2011.

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Print. Meet Hester Prynne, who has a baby from an adulterous affair, and must wear a scarlet A on her dress to represent her shameful act. She refuses to name the father, so her long-lost husband sets out to expose her lover. Holder, Nancy, and Debbie Viguie. Witch & Curse. Simon Pulse ed. New York: Simon Pulse, 2008. Print. Holly Cathers's world shatters when her parents are killed in a terrible accident. Wrenched from her home in San Francisco, she is sent to Seattle to live with her relatives, Aunt Marie-Claire and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole. In her new home, Holly's sorrow and grief soon give way to bewilderment at the strange incidents going on around her. Such as how any wish she whispers to her cat seems to come true. Or the way a friend is injured after a freak attack from a vicious falcon. And there's the undeniable, magnetic attraction to a boy Holly barely knows. Holly, Amanda, and Nicole are about to be launched into a dark legacy of witches, secrets, and alliances, where ancient magics yield dangerous results. The girls will assume their roles in an inter generational feud beyond their wildest imaginations...and in doing so, will attempt to fulfill their shared destiny. Holder, Nancy, and Debbie Viguie. Resurrection. New York: Simon Pulse, 2009. Print. What the Cahors witches thought was the end of their troubles was only the beginning. A threat more powerful and more frightening than anything they have faced has been watching and waiting. The Cahors witches must come together and find Jer and Eli as both the Deveraux and the Cahors family lines face eradication. All the secrets of the Cahors will be revealed, forcing them to overcome their greatest weaknesses in order to achieve their most powerful

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strengths. And only united do they have any chance at victory. Before the end, sacrifices will be made, alliances forged, and old friends lost forever. Holder, Nancy, and Debbie Viguie. Legacy & Spellbound. London: Simon & Schuster, 2010. Print. Holly Cathers is not the same person she was almost a year and a half ago. After discovering her connection to an ancient legacy of witches, Holly has accepted her destiny as a descendant of the House of Cahors. She is determined to end an intergenerational feud that has plagued her family for centuries.Holly will have to overcome unworldly obstacles as she battles to protect her loved ones -- including Jer, a member of the rival House of Deveraux and her one true love. A war of magical proportions is being waged, and Holly is at the center of it all. Lives will be lost, and sacrifices will have to be made.... Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Viking Press, 1962. Print. The struggle for power between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution leads to a climax of hate, violence and death. Kingsolver, Barbara. Prodigal summer: a novel. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. Print. Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place. Lee, Harper. To kill a mockingbird. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960. Print. The explosion

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of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape. Marr, Melissa. Wicked Lovely. New York: HarperTeen, 2007. Print. Faerie intrigue, mortal love, and the clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in Melissa Marr's stunning 21st century faery tale. Marr, Melissa. Ink Exchange. New York: HarperTeen, 2008. Print. Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries of stability, the balance among the Faery Courts has altered, and Irial, ruler of the Dark Court, is battling to hold his rebellious and newly vulnerable fey together. If he fails, bloodshed and brutality will follow. Marr, Melissa. Fragile Eternity. New York: Bowen Press, 2009. Print. Seth wants to be with Aislinn forever. Forever takes on new meaning, though, when your girlfriend is an immortal faery queen. Keenan stole Aislinn's mortality to make her a monarch. Now she faces challenges and enticements beyond any she'd ever imagined. In Melissa Marr's third mesmerizing tale of Faerie, Seth and Aislinn struggle to stay true to themselves and to each other in a milieu of shadowy rules and shifting allegiances, where old friends become new enemies and one wrong move could plunge the Earth into chaos. Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2005. Print. When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

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Meyer, Stephenie. New Moon. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2006. Print. When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways. Meyer, Stephenie. Eclipse. New York: Little, Brown, 2007. Print. Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob, a werewolf, and her relationship with Edward, a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city. Meyer, Stephenie. Breaking Dawn. New York: Little, Brown, 2008. Print. Although eighteen-year-old Bella joins the dark but seductive world of the immortals by marrying Edward the vampire, her connection to the powerful werewolf Jacob remains unsevered. Meyer, Stephenie. The Host. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2008. Print. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. But Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves--Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate

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herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1996. Print. The enduring classic drama of the Salem witch trials was inspired by the political witchhunting activities of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the '50s. Though set in the 17th century, "The Crucible" presents issues still gnawing at modern society. Noel, Alyson. Evermore. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2009. Print. After a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever Bloom can see peoples auras, hear their thoughts, and know someones entire life story by touching them. Going out of her way to avoid human contact and suppress her abilities, she has been branded a freak at her new high school but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste. Damen is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy. Hes the only one who can silence the noise and random energy in her head wielding a magic so intense, its as though he can peer straight into her soul. As Ever is drawn deeper into his enticing world of secrets and mystery, shes left with more questions than answers. And she has no idea just who he really is or what he is. The only thing she knows to be true is that shes falling deeply and helplessly in love with him. Noel, Alyson. Shadowland. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2009. Print. Ever and Damen have gone through countless lives and fought off the worlds darkest enemies so they could be together. But just when an everlasting future is finally within their reach, Damen is struck down by a curse a dark spell separating him and Ever for

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eternity. Now sharing so much as a single touch could bring about Damens death and send him plummeting into the Shadowland, an eternal abyss for lost souls. Desperate to break the curse and save Damen, Ever immerses her herself in magick. And in her quest, she gets help from an unexpected source...a surfer named Jude. Although she and Jude have only just met, he feels startlingly familiar. Despite her fierce loyalty to Damen, Ever is drawn to Jude, a greeneyed golden boy with magical talents and a mysterious past. Shes always believed Damen to be her soulmate and one true love and she still believes it to be true. But as Damen pulls away to save them from the darkness inhabiting his soul, Evers connection with Jude grows stronger and tests her love for Damen like never before. Noel, Alyson. Blue Moon. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2009. Print. Just as Ever is learning everything she can about her new abilities as an immortal, initiated into the dark, seductive world by her beloved Damen, something terrible is happening to him. As Evers powers are increasing, Damens are fading stricken by a mysterious illness that threatens his memory, his identity, his life. Desperate to save him, Ever travels to the mystical dimension of Summerland, uncovering not only the secrets of Damens past the brutal, tortured history he hoped to keep hidden but also an ancient text revealing the workings of time. With the approaching blue moon heralding her only window for travel, Ever is forced to decide between turning back the clock and saving her family from the accident that claimed them or staying in the present and saving Damen, who grows weaker each day...

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Noel, Alyson. Dark Flame. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2010. Print. Ever is trying to help Haven transition into life as an immortal. But with Haven drunk on her new powers and acting recklessly, she poses the ultimate threat exposing their secret world. As Ever struggles to keep the Immortals hidden, it only propels Haven closer to the enemy Roman and his evil companions. At the same time, Ever delves deeper into dark magick to free Damen from Romans power. But when her spell backfires, it binds her to the one guy whos hell-bent on her destruction. Now theres a strange, foreign pulse coursing through her, and no matter what she does, she cant stop thinking about Roman and longing for his touch. Frantic to break the spell before its too late, Ever turns to Jude for help, risking everything she knows and loves to save herself, and her future with Damen. Patterson, James, and Gabrielle Charbonnet. Witch & Wizard. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2009. Print. A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books. Paul, Fiona. Venom. Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. Print. Cassandra Caravello has everything a girl could desire: elegant gowns, sparkling jewels, invitations to the best parties, and a handsome, wealthy fiancyet she longs for something more. Ever since her parents death, Cassandra has felt trapped, alone in a city of water, where the dark and labyrinthine canals whisper of escape. When Cass stumbles upon the body of a murdered womanwith a

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bloody X carved across her shes drawn into a dangerous world of secret societies, courtesans, and killers. Soon, she finds herself falling for Falco, a poor artist with a mischievous grin . . . and a habit of getting into trouble. Will Cassandra find the murderer before he finds her? And will she stay true to her fianc or succumb to her uncontrollable feelings for Falco? Beauty, romance, and mystery weave together in a novel thats as seductive and stunning as the city of Venice itself. Pausch, Randy. The Last Lecture. New York: Hyperion, 2008. Print. The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family. Reeves, Dia. Slice of Cherry. New York: Simon Pulse, 2011. Print. Portero, Texas, teens Kit and Fancy Cordelle share their infamous father's fascination with killing, and despite their tendency to shun others they bring two boys with similar tendencies to a world of endless possibilities they have discovered behind a mysterious door. Rosen, Michael, Jane Ray, and William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2004. Print. Romeo and Juliet is based on external conflict and portrays the long-standing quarrel between the two established families in Verona, the Capulets and the Montagues. Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. New York: A.A. Levine Books, 1998. Print. Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 1999. Print. When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school. Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 1999. Print. During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths. Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2000. Print. Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger. Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2003. Print. When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors. Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2005. Print. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes up the story of Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

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at this point in the midst of the storm of this battle of good and evil. Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007. Print. Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him. Scott, Michael. The Alchemyst:TheSecrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. New York: Delacorte Press, 2007. Print. While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life. Scott, Michael. The Magician. New York: Delacorte Press, 2008. Print. Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli. Scott, Michael. The Sorceress. New York: Delacorte Press, 2009. Print. While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to seek Gilgamesh. Scott, Michael. The Necromancer. New York: Delacorte Press, 2010. Print. Back in London, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for both Scatty and an immortal who can

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teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power. Scott, Michael. The Enchantress. New York: Delacorte Press, 2012. Print. The twins of prophecy have been split. Nicholas Flamel is near death. John Dee has the swords of power. And Danu Talis has yet to fall. The future of the human race lies in the balance; how will the legend end? Shakespeare, William, and Alvin B. Kernan. The tragedy of Julius Caesar. [Rev. ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959. Print. The tribunes, Marullus and Flavius, break up a gathering of Roman citizens who seek to celebrate Julius Caesars triumphant return from war. The victory is marked by public games in which Caesars friend, Mark Antony, takes part. On his way to the arena Caesar is stopped by a stranger who warns that he should Beware the Ides (15th) of March. Fellow senators, Caius Cassius and Marcus Brutus, are suspicious of Caesar reactions to the power he holds in the Republic. They fear he will accept offers to become Emperor. Cassius, a successful general himself, is jealous, while Brutus has a more balanced view of the political position. Cassius, Casca, and their allies, visit Brutus at night to persuade him of their views, and they plan Caesars death. Brutus is troubled but will not confide in his devoted wife, Portia.On the 15th March Caesar is urged not to go to the Senate by his wife, Calphurnia, who has had dreams that he will be murdered, and she fears the portents of the overnight storms. He is nevertheless persuaded by flattery to go and as petitioners surround him Caesar is stabbed and dies as Brutus gives the final blow. Against Cassius advice Mark Antony is allowed by Brutus to speak a

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funeral oration in the market place after Brutus has addressed the people of Rome to explain the conspirators reasons and their fears for Caesars ambition. Brutus calms the crowd but Antonys speech stirs them to rioting and the conspirators are forced to flee from the city. Brutus and Cassius gather an army in Northern Greece and prepare to fight the forces led by Mark Antony, who has joined with Caesars great-nephew, Octavius, and with Lepidus. Away from Rome, Brutus and Cassius are filled with doubts about the future and they quarrel bitterly over funds for their soldiers pay. They make up the argument and despite the misgivings of Cassius over the site they prepare to engage Antonys army at Philippi. Brutus stoically receives news of his wifes suicide in Rome, but he sees Caesars ghost as he rests, unable to sleep on the eve of the conflict.In the battle the Republicans at first appear to be winning but when his messengers horse seems to be overtaken by the enemy Cassius fears the worst and gets his servant, Pindarus, to help him to a quick death. Brutus, finding Cassiuss body, commits suicide as the only honorable action left to him. Antony, triumphant on the battlefield, praises Brutus as the noblest Roman of them all, and orders a formal funeral before he and Octavius return to rule in Rome. Shakespeare, William, and Harold Jenkins. Hamlet. London: Methuen, 1982. Print. Ghosts, murder, and madness abound in this tale of revenge. Shaw, Christine. The Riddles of Epsilon. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2005. Print. Jess is not pleased when her parents drag her off to live on the weird little island of Lume. But then she encounters an eerie presence in an abandoned cottage, and her anger turns to fear when it begins to lead her through a series of creepy

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riddles. As she slowly unravels the mysteries of Lume, she finds the writings of Sebastian, a boy who lived one hundred years ago and whose life contains unsettling reflections of her own. To her horror, the dangers he unearthed in 1894 now begin to threaten Jess and her family . . . and if Jess does not unlock the riddles in time, she may lose her mother forever. Steinbeck, John. The grapes of wrath. New York: Viking Press, 1939. Print. The Grapes of Wrath is the story of one Oklahoma family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. Steinbeck, John, and John Steinbeck. Of mice and men. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. Print. They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Suicide Club. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2000. Print. A dashing young prince and his loyal servant find more adventure than they bargained for in The Suicide Club, Robert Louis Stevenson's gripping trilogy of short stories concerning a club for people who wish to end their lives. The "Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts", "Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk", and "The Adventure of the Hansom Cab" chronicle the exploits of Prince Florizel of Bohemia and Colonel Geraldine as they travel incognito through some of 19th-century London's most dangerous haunts. Stolarz, Laurie Faria. Bleed. New York: Hyperion, 2006. Print. A collection of interconnected short stories chronicling one day in the life of ten teenagers. Taylor, Laini. Daughter of Smoke & Bone. New York: Little, Brown, 2011. Print. Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war. Westerfeld, Scott. Pretties. New York: Simon Pulse, 2005. Print. Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities. Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies. New York: Simon Pulse, 2005. Print. Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only

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job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all. Westerfeld, Scott. Specials. New York: Simon Pulse, 2006. Print. After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special," teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society from outside threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel colony New Smoke, Tally's former home. Westerfeld, Scott. Extras. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. Print. Now that the world is in a complete cultural renaissance, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse, an Extra, just wants to lay low, so when she discovers the secret lives of the Sly Girls, she wants to report their story, but Aya knows that would propel her into celebrity--a status she's not prepared for. Wiesel, Elie. Night. Bantam ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1982. Print. Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. [This book] is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.