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Virginia Readers’ Choice2013-14
Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol
741.5 BRO
Anya, embarrassed by her family
and lacking confidence in her body
and her social skills, finally finds a
friend after falling down a well, but
quickly learns there are drawbacks
to having a ghost for a friend.
Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta SepetysF SEP
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their
Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is
sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to
honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on
Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
Choker by Elizabeth Woods
F WOO
Sixteen-year-old Cara has trouble fitting in when she moves away from her best
and only friend, Zoe. After a humiliating experience in the school cafeteria,
Cara earns a new nickname from her peers. Then, Zoe makes a surprise return
into her life and Cara's popularity begins to rise, until a girl goes missing and
Zoe begins to act strangely.
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
by Laini TaylorF TAY
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student
in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of
hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form
the only family she has ever known.
The Fault in Our Stars
by John GreenF GRE
Having been diagnosed as a terminal cancer patient,
Hazel is running out of time. When she meets
Augustus Waters at the Cancer Kid Support Group,
her life takes an unexpected turn.
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
by Lish McBrideF MCB
Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker
and college dropout, discovers that he
is a necromancer, part of a world of
harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one
particular necromancer who sees Sam
as a threat to his lucrative business of
raising the dead.
Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love
by Larry Levin636.7 LEV
The author describes how he and his adopted twin sons,
Dan and Noah, came to own and love a dog who was
rescued after its owners used it as bait for fighting dogs
and then left it in a cage to die.
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
F STI
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick
competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to
ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep
hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to
make it to the finish line.
Something Like Hope
by Shawn Goodman
F GOO
Shavonne, a fierce, desperate seventeen-year-old in
juvenile lockup, wants to turn her life around before
her eighteenth birthday, but corrupt guards, out-of-
control girls, and shadows from her past make her
task seem impossible.
This Dark Endeavor
by Kenneth OppelF OPP
You know the end. Now read the beginning. When his
twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the
independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century,
sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a
dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden
Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's
secret Biblioteka Obscura.