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While working on a project translating letters from sixteenth-century Prague, high school senior Nora Kane discovers her best friend murdered with her boyfriend the apparent killer and is caught up in a dangerous web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all searching for a mysterious ancient device purported to allow direct communication with God.
When fourteen-year-old Anthony "Ant" Jones from the ghetto of East Cleveland, Ohio, gets a scholarship to a prep school in Maine, he finds that he must change his image and adapt to a world that never fully accepts him, but when he goes home he discovers that he no longer truly belongs there either.
Two years after the disappearance of her older sister, sixteen-year-old Ellie goes on a quest to find her.
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
Fourteen-year-old Ricki Jo, a Kentucky farm girl, learns that popularity is not all she hoped it would be when the huge changes she makes in her personality and style seem to do more to drive away old friends than to win new ones.

 

 

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Four players at the Final Four of the NCAA basketball tournament struggle with the pressures of tournament play and the expectations of society at large.
Sixteen-year-old Miles, thirteen-year-old Sarah, and their parents find themselves changing in many ways as they struggle to survive winter in a remote cabin, while keeping anyone in the nearby town from learning they are living there illegally after the devastation of volcanic eruptions drove them from their Minneapolis home.
In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training.
In 2029, hoping to bypass the exams and training that might lead to a comfortable life, Susan, her almost-boyfriend Derlock, and seven fellow students stow away on a ship to Mars, unaware that Derlock is a sociopath with bigger plans.
Eighteen-year-old vampire princess Jessica Packwood is in for the fight of her life--and her husband's--when Lucius is accused of a horrible crime and Jessica, trying to prove herself worthy of the throne, faces betrayal by those closest to her.

 

 

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 Batavia High School - 2012

Freshman

 

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Children of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Car by Gary Paulsen    

 

Sophomore

 

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Maze Runner by James Dashner

Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

  

Junior

 

Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson

Photo by Brady by Jennifer Armstrong

Mr. Lincoln's High-Tech War by Thomas B. Allen

 

Senior

 

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

The Gatekeepers by Jacques Steinberg