Eighth grade is a year of challenges, disappointments, first love, and friendship in this honest and humorous novel about Jeffery and Tad, both cancer survivors, trying to make it to graduation.

Will Halpin is deaf, overweight, and geeky, and mainstreamed into a new high school. He finds a friend in Devon, a boy almost as unpopular as he is. Things change for the pair when they try to find out who killed the school's quarterback.

Whit and Wisty reunite and try to piece together those who are left from the Resistance, weary from the ongoing fight against the grim and fascist New Order. Unfortunately, their efforts are shattered by The One Who Is the One and his quest to steal Wisty's magical gift.

A fictionalized retelling of the story of 14-year-old Manjiro, who is caught in storm, saved by an American whaling ship, then raised in New England, only to return to Japan, now as an outsider, to help his country open it's borders.

HEROES OF OLYMPUS (THE LOST HERO SERIES) by Rick Riordan

The start of a new adventure epic series, Percy and his friends rebuild Camp Half-Blood so that the next generation of demigods can prepare for their own quest.

HOLD ME CLOSER, NECROMANCER by Lish McBride

Sam's a college dropout and bored with his lot. Then he encounters Douglas Montgomery, an evil necromancer, who has pegged Sam as his rival. Magic, werewolves, and ghosts star as unexpected turns of the plot unfold.

INCARCERON by Catherine Fisher

In alternate chapters, Finn, an inmate in the vast prison system of Incarceron, plans to break out, something no prisoner but one has ever done, while Claudia, daughter of the Warden, breaks in.

MOCKINGJAY (HUNGER GAMES SERIES) by Suzanne Collins

In the final installment of the Hunger Games series, brave Katniss is still alive but the Capitol has made her its scapegoat for revenge. Will she be able to save her district and family once more?

MY LIFE AS A BOOK by Janet Tashijan; illustrated by Jake Tashjian

Derek, twelve and a fiercely reluctant reader but a crackerjack cartoonist, insists there's no way he will read three books on his summer reading list and report on them.

THE RED PYRAMID (THE KANE CHRONICLE SERIES) by Rick Riordan

Carter Kane, 14, and sister, Sadie, 12, alternate relating the earthshaking turn their lives have taken since last Christmas Eve when they discovered that the blood of the pharaohs runs through their veins