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Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein
When “Verity” is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn’t stand a chance. As a
secret agent captured in enemy territory, she’s living a spy’s worst nightmare. Her Nazi
interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. A
Michael L. Printz Award Honor book that was called “a fiendishly-plotted mind game of
a novel” in The New York Times, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve,
and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.
Curious Case of Benjamin Button – F. Scott Fitzgerald
In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is
one of Fitzgerald's most memorable stories.
Divergent (series) – Veronica Roth
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five
predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more
difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group,
and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Fault in our stars --John Green
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal
diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to
reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life
For One More Day – Mitch Albom
This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between
his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one
fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his father - and she dies while
he is gone. This haunts him for years. It leads him to depression and drunkenness. One
night, he decides to take his life. But somewhere between this world and the next, he
encounters his mother again, in their hometown, and gets to spend one last day with her -
the day he missed and always wished he'd had. He asks the questions many of us yearn to
ask, the questions we never ask while our parents are alive. By the end of this magical
day, Charley discovers how little he really knew about his mother, the secret of how her
love saved their family, and how deeply he wants the second chance to save his own.