We Were
Liars - E. Lockhart
Short description: A beautiful and
distinguished family. A private island.
A
brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group
of four friends – the Liars – whose friendship turns destructive.
A
revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies
upon lies.
True
love.
The
truth.
Girl
Online - Zoella
Short description: Under the alias Girl
Online, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about
friendship, boys, her crazy family and the panic attacks that have begun
to take over her life. When things go
from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets Noah; a gorgeous, guitar-strumming
American. Suddenly Penny is falling in love – and capturing every moment of it on her
blog.
But Noah
has a secret too. One that threatens to ruin Penny’s cover – and her
closest friendship – forever.
Girl
Online: On Tour – Zoella
Short
description: When Noah invites Penny on his European music tour, she can’t wait
to spend time with her rock-god-tastic
boyfriend. But, between Noah’s jam-packed schedule less-than-welcoming bandmates and
threatening messages from jealous fans, Penny
wonders whether she’s cut out for life on tour. She can’t help but miss
her family, her best friend Elliot …
and her blog, Girl Online.
Can
Penny learn to balance life and love on the road, or will she lose everything
in pursuit of the perfect summer?
Water
for Elephants - Sara Gruen
Short Description:
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of
freaks, swindlers and misfits in a second-rate circus struggling to survive.
A
veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of
caring for the circus menagerie. It is
there that Jacob meets Marlena, the beautiful equestrienne who is married to August, a charismatic but
violently unpredictable animal trainer. Jacob also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems unmanageable
until he discovers an unusual way to reach
her.
A
Thousand Pieces of You - Claudia Gray
Short
description: As the daughter of two brilliant physicists, Marguerite Caine grew
up surrounded by wild scientific theories, always encouraged to imagine the
improbable or even the impossible. But when her father is murdered,
Marguerite’s life is turned upside down. All the evidence points to one person
– Paul, her parents handsome, enigmatic
protégé. Before the law can touch him, though, Paul uses Marguerite’s
mother’s latest invention – a device called the Firebird, which allows people
to leap into alternate dimensions – to escape.
With the
help of another physics student, Theo, Marguerite chases Paul through various
dimensions, determined to avenge her father. Her parents theorized that people
who have met in one reality will be likely to meet in another… that key moments
will happen over and over, in different ways. But when Marguerite leaps into
each new world, she meets another version of Paul that has her doubting his
guilt and questioning her heart. Before long she realises that what happened to
her father may be more complex, and more sinister, than she ever dreamed.
Marguerite is swept into an epic love affair that feels both dangerous and
inevitable.
Hunger
Games - Suzanne Collins
Short
description: In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the
nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The
Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all
to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to
participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when he steps
forward to take her sister’s place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to
death before – and survival, for her is second nature. Without meaning to, she
becomes a contender. But I she is to win; she must start making choices that
weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
Paper
towns - John Green
Short
description: Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificent Margo
Roth Spiegelman from afar. So, when she cracks open a window and climbs back
into his life summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge – he follows.
When their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Margo has disappeared. But
Quentin soon learns that there are clues and they’re for him. Embarking on an
exhilarating adventure to find her, the closer Quentin gets, the less he sees
the girl he thought he knew.
Wonder -
R.J. Palacio
Short
description: My name is August
I won’t
describe what I look like
Whatever your thinking
It’s
probably worse
If I
Stay - Gayle Forman
Short description: Mia is a very gifted cellist. She has everything she
could ever want, a loving family, an adoring boyfriend, an amazing best friend,
and an amazing career ahead of her in music. All that changes suddenly. Mia and
her family have a terrible car accident and Mia is rushed to the ICU.
Mia is caught between life and death, and watches as family and friends come to
visit her at the hospital she is in. Soon Mia realizes that she must make the
most critical decision of her life - wake up to live a life more difficult than
she ever could have imagined, or slip away and die.
Where She Went - Gayle
Forman
Short description: It’s been three years since the
devastating accident … three years since
Mia walked out of Adam’s life forever.
Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Julliard’s
rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status
and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance
brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city
that has become Mia’s home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts
to the future—and each other.
Written By Lucy Rolph.
