Recommended Reading

Lions Read: Lions Lead

 QACHS STUDENT "BEST READS "

HUNGER GAMES---------CATCHING FIRE -----------MOCKINGJAY
by Suzanne Collins


PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS series

by Rick Riordan

 "CHECK OUT" THESE OTHER 2009-10 QACHS POPULAR BOOKS


Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Twilight  by Stephanie Meyer
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

QACHS FAVORITE AUTHORS

Stephanie Meyer
Twilight - New Moon - Eclipse

Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper - The Pact - Keeping Faith - Second Glance - Vanishing ActNineteen Minutes

Sarah Dessen
Dreamland - Just Listen - Someone Like You - This Lullaby - Keeping the Moon - The Truth about Forever

David Pelzer
A Child Called It- The Lost BoyA Man Named Dave

Jacqueline Woodson
Hush - If You Come Softly - Behind You - I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This - The Dear One - Lena

Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak - Twisted - Prom- Catalyst - Fever 1793

Sharon M. Draper
Double Dutch - Copper Sun - Darkness before Dawn - Tears of a Tiger - Forged by Fire - The Battle of Jericho - Romiette and Julio

Sharon G. Flake
Who am I without Him? - Begging for Change - Money Hungry - Bang! - The Skin I'm In

Ellen Hopkins
CrankGlass-- Burned

Nicholas Sparks
The Notebook - True Believer - Dear John - A Walk to Remember - The Wedding - Message in a Bottle

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Demon in My View - Shattered Mirror - Midnight Predator

QACHS ALL TIME "FAVS"

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson- with over 100 checkouts is the all-time fiction "FAV" at QACHS
Monster & Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Twilight, New Moon, & Eclipse byStephanie Meyers
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
A Lesson before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
Carrie and Pet Sematary by Stephen King
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde

QACHS TOP BIOGRAPHY FAVORITES

A Child called "It" : One Child's Courage to Survive

Lucky

The Lost Boy: a Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

Martin Luther King, Jr. : leader for civil rights

Glass Castle: a memoir

Only the Strong Survive: the Odyssey of Allen Iverson

READING LINKS

QACHS Summer Reading

Black-Eyed Susan Award Winning Books

101 Great Books Recommended for College Bound Readers by College Boards

YALSA -- Young Adult Library Services Association Book List