My Kind of Crazy by Robin Reul
Contemporary Fiction
Despite the best of
intentions, seventeen-year old, wisecracking Hank Kirby can’t quite seem
to catch a break. It’s not that he means to screw things up all the
time, it just happens. A lot. Case in point: his attempt to ask out the
girl he likes literally goes up in flames when he spells “Prom” in
sparklers on her lawn…and nearly burns down her house. As if
that wasn’t bad enough, Peyton Breedlove, a brooding loner and budding
pyromaniac, witnesses the whole thing. Much to Hank’s dismay, Peyton
takes an interest in him—and his “work.” The two are thrust into an
unusual friendship, but their boundaries are tested when Hank learns
that Peyton is hiding some dark secrets, secrets that may change
everything he thought he knew about Peyton.
Nora & Kettle by Lauren Nicolle Taylor
Historical Fiction
Seventeen-year-old Kettle has had his share of adversity. As an orphaned
Japanese American struggling to make a life in the aftermath of an
event in history not often referred to--the internment of Japanese
Americans during World War II and the removal of children from
orphanages for having "one drop of Japanese blood in them"--things are
finally looking up. He has his hideout in an abandoned subway tunnel, a
job, and his gang of Lost Boys. Desperate to run away, the world outside
her oppressive brownstone calls to naïve, eighteen-year-old Nora--the
privileged daughter of a controlling and violent civil rights lawyer who
is building a compensation case for the interned Japanese Americans.
But she is trapped, enduring abuse to protect her younger sister Frankie
and wishing on the stars every night for things to change. For months,
they've lived side by side, their paths crossing yet never meeting. But
when Nora is nearly killed and her sister taken away, their worlds
collide as Kettle, grief stricken at the loss of a friend, angrily pulls
Nora from her window. In her honeyed eyes, Kettle sees sadness and
suffering. In his, Nora sees the chance to take to the window and fly
away.
Ouran High School Host Club vol 3 by Bisco Hatori
Manga (Japanese Graphic Novel)
It's summer break, and the Host Club crew head to the beach, dragging our reluctant heroine with them. When Haruhi stands up to some local bullies and gets tossed into the ocean, Tamaki, the Host Club King, rescues her. But afterward, he's so mad that he won't speak to her until she apologizes. Trouble is, Haruhi can't figure out what she should be sorry for!
Railhead by Philip Reeve
Science Fiction
In a world of drones and androids Zen Starling is a human thief, but
mostly he just likes to ride the Interstellar Express, the sentient
trains that travel through the K gates from planet to planet, something
only the Guardians understand--but now the mysterious Raven wants him to
steal the Pyxis, an object that could either open up a new gate,
challenging the Guardians, or put the entire gate system, and the
universe itself in danger.
The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
Paranormal
Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She
doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem,
but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of
the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.
