Thornton High School Library
Gerald G. Doughty, Library Media Specialist
Jalanii Lewis, Library Media Specialist
Terri Redick-McClendon, Library Media Specialist
Tony L. Ratliff, Sr., Principal
Wildcat Readers 2016-2017 Booklist
921 ENGLE`Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island country. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Then a revolution breaks out in Cuba. Margarita fears for her faraway family. When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupts into the Bay of Pigs invasion, Margarita’s worlds collide in the worst way possible. How can the two countries she loves hate each other so much? And will she ever get to visit her beautiful island again?
FIC ALBERTALLISimon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
When an e-mail falls into the wrong hands, not-so-openly gay Simon is blackmailed into being a classmate’s wingman – or risk having his secret relationship exposed to the entire school.
FIC AVEYARDGlass Sword
As the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world escalates, Mare, who has the red blood of the common folk but also the silver ability to control lightning, must fight against the darkness that has grown in her soul.
FIC BARDUGOSix of Crows
Six dangerous outcasts.One impossible heist.Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.
FIC BLACKThe Darkest Part of the Forest
In the town of Fairfold, where humans and fate exist side by side, a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives awakes after generations of sleep in a glass coffin in the woods, causing Hazel to be swept up in new love, shift her loyalties, feel the fresh sting of betrayal, and to make a secret sacrifice to the faerie king.
FIC BROCKENBROUGHThe Game of Love and Death
In Seattle in 1937, two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.
FIC BROOKSThe Bunker Diary
Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems, a street person since leaving his wealthy father’s home, is kidnapped and taken to an underground bunker where he is soon joined by five others, ranging in age from nine to seventy, who are alternately cared for and tortured by their unseen captor.
FIC GILBERTConviction
A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when is father is accused of murder.
FIC HANDThe Last Time We Say Goodbye
After her younger brother, Tyler, commits suicide, Lex struggles to work through her grief in the face of a family that has fallen apart, the sudden distance between her and her friends, and memories of Tyler that still feel all too real.
FIC KAUFMANIlluminae
The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find them selves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship’s artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all.
FIC KERNLittle Peach
Hospitalized in Brooklyn, New York, fourteen-year-old Michelle recalls being raised in Philadelphia by a loving grandfather and drug-addicted mother before running away and find herself engulfed in the world of child prostitution.
FIC KONIGSBERGThe Porcupine of Truth
Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years—but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
FIC MACKLERInfinite in Between
Five students who meet in freshman orientation agree to write notes to their future selves and promise to reunite in exactly four years when they are ready to graduate from high school.
FIC MATHIEUThe Truth about Alice
When ugly rumors and lies about Alice Franklin start after one of the guys she allegedly slept with at a party dies in a car accident, questions about truth arise in her small town.
FIC MCLEMOREThe Weight of Feathers
The Paloma and Corbeau families, both clans of traveling performers, have been feuding for twenty years. When Cluck Corbeau saves Lace Paloma’s life, they forge a secret, dangerous connection.
FIC MORRISONThe Bluest Eye
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity.
FIC MURPHYDumplin’
Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.
FIC NIVENAll The Bright Places
Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, both teetering on the edge, it’s the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the “natural wonders” of the state of Indiana, and two teens’ desperate desire to heal and save one another.
FIC PAIGEYellow Brick War
Her name is Amy Gumm. Tornadoes must have a thing about girls from Kansas, because, just like Dorothy, she got swept away on one too. She landed in Oz, where good is wicked, wicked is good, and the wicked witches clued her in to her true calling: Assassin. The way to stop Dorothy from destroying Oz, and Kansas, is to kill her. And Amy is the only one who can do it.
FIC RABBKissing America
Eva falls deeply for Will…right before he suddenly has to move from New York City to L.A. Not wanting to lose her chance at love, Eva hits the road, heading West.
FIC ROWELLCarry On
Simon Snow and his roommate, Baz, are longtime nemeses. But in their final year at Watford School of Magicks, a dangerous mystery draws them together – while a villain threatens to destroy magic forever.
FIC RUBYBone Gap
Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
FIC SCHMIDTOrbiting Jupiter
Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he’ll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice.
FIC SEPETYSSalt to the Sea
As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war’s final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull.
FIC SHABAZZX
Malcolm Little’s parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but from what he can tell, that’s a pack of lies—after all, his father’s been murdered, his mother’s been taken away, and his dreams of becoming a lawyer have gotten him laughed out of school. There’s no point in trying, he figures, and lured by the nightlife of Boston and New York, he escapes into a world of fancy suits, jazz, girls, and reefer.
FIC SHUSTERMANChallenger Deep
A teenage boy struggles with schizophrenia.
FIC SILVERAMore Happy Than Not
After enduring his father’s suicide, his own suicide attempt, broken friendships, and more in the Bronx projects, Aaron Soto, sixteen, is already considering the Leteo Institute’s memory-alteration procedure when his new friendship with Thomas turns to unrequited love.
FIC SUMAThe Walls Around Us
Orianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered. Orianna is accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets Amber and they experience supernatural events linking the girls together.
FIC SUMMERSAll the Rage
After being assaulted by the sheriff’s son, Kellan Turner, Romy Grey was branded a liar and bullied by former friends, finding refuge only in the diner where she works outside of town, but when a girl with ties to both Romy and Kellan goes missing and news of him assaulting another girl gets out, Romy must decide whether to speak out again or risk having more girls hurt.
FIC WESTERFIELDZeros
Told from separate viewpoints, teens Scam, Crash, Flicker, Anonymous, Bellwether, and Kelsie, all born in the year 2000 and living in Cambria, California, have superhuman abilities that give them interesting but not heroic lives until they must work as a community to respond to a high stakes crisis.
FIC YOONEverything, Everything
The story of a teenage girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she’s ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more.
URBAN FICTION REYNOLDSAll American Boys
When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of a close friend, but also a father figure.
URBAN FICTION REYNOLDSThe Boy in the Black Suit
Soon after his mother’s death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.