Reading Rave Book Suggestions

Reading Ravers – anyone stuck on trying to find a good book to read?!?

Here are a few choices that have been certified ‘good’ by other teens…

Marcelo in the Real World – By Francisco X. Stork
Marcelo isn’t your typical seventeen-year-old boy. He refers to himself in the third person, is often confused by verbal metaphors, and isn’t crazy about meeting new people. He has “special interests” in religion, classical music, Halflinger ponies and little else. That’s because Marcelo has an Asperger’s-like condition that limits the natural development of his social skills and causes him to be obsessively interested in only a handful of specific topics. Now his father, a high-powered attorney, wants him to take a summer job at his law firm in the mail room so he can learn how the “real world” works. Reluctantly, Marcelo agrees…

Mortal Engines – By Philip Reeve
Tom and Hester have been thrown together. Truly-thrown out of a city on wheels that’s left them stranded and starving in the middle of nowhere while it hares off after its prey. Hester is desperate for revenge, and Tom is only desperate to get back on board his beloved London. This is a stunning literary debut from Philip Reeve. A novel that defies easy categorisation, it is a gripping adventure story set in an inspired fantasy world, where moving cities trawl the globe. Peopled with convincing and utterly likeable characters, this story is a magical and unique read.

On the Jellicoe Road – by Melina Marchetta
Taylor Markham is seventeen, lives as a boarder at the Jellicoe school in rural New South Wales, can’t remember much of her father and was left on the side of the road by her mother at age 10.

Rescued and raised by Hannah, who lives on the outskirts of the school grounds, Taylor has groomed by her peers and teachers to be a role model for the other students. Now she’s a house captain, with responsibilities and power – but is rather apathetic to both. A role Taylor does relish however, is the Jellicoe school representative on the Secret Underground Club. Elected by her predecessors in an unpopular vote, Taylor must lead her troops in the yearly territory ‘war’ against the local Townies and the visiting army Cadets on the property surrounding the school.

Bloodsong – by Melvin Burgess
In a future dystopian London, peopled with human-animal hybrids and organic machines that can grow their own flesh, 15-year-old Sigurd is determined to recreate the peaceful kingdom his father Sigmund originated, which was bombed out of existence with his father’s assassination. Now England is ruled by a patchwork of squabbling warlords, and to unite them, Sigurd must make a great show of power.

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