You Never Know @ the Library

New York City Summer Reading 2008

Metamorphosis @ Your Library

Books Available in Braille (BR) & on Cassette (RC). Titles marked *LARGE PRINT AND *CD may be requested at any branch of The New York Public Library.

Booklist

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
by Chris Crutcher
Fat boy, disfigured girl, loyal friends.
RC 40522
*LARGE PRINT

Copper Sun
by Sharon M. Draper
Black and white escaping slavery
together.
BR 17067
RC 63855
*LARGE PRINT

An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of
Global Warming
by Al Gore
Global warming = NYC under water?
RC 64771
*CD

Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Famous last words for his dream girl.
RC 61873
* CD

Rash
by Pete Hautman
Forbidden football in a totalitarian world.
BR 16729
RC 65447
* CD

Buddha Boy
by Kathe Koja
School bully meets Eastern philosophy.
BR 14907
*LARGE PRINT

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
Bugging out.
RC 38410
*LARGE PRINT

Sold
by Patricia McCormick
Daddy sells you, body and soul.
RC 63793

Wait for Me
by An Na
Love interrupts a life of lies.
RC 63543
*CD

Between a Rock and a Hard Place
by Aron Ralston
Cut off your arm or die.
RC 58934
*LARGE PRINT

Chew on This: Everything You Don’t
Want to Know About Fast Food
by Eric Schlosser
Fast food exposed!
RC 62925

Recommended Authors

Teens love books by the following authors. Please ask your librarian to recommend
other good authors.

• Randa Abdel-Fattah
• Sherman Alexie
• Martha Brooks
• John Feinstein
• Neil Gaiman
• Nikki Giovanni
• Justina Chen Headley
• Elizabeth Knox
• Justine Larbalestier
• David Levithan
• David Lubar
• Janet McDonald
• Walter Dean Myers
• Blake Nelson
• Marilyn Nelson
• Naomi Shihab Nye
• Mal Peet
• Terry Pratchett
• Joann Sfar
• Kashmira Sheth
• Sonya Sones
• Jordan Sonnenblick
• Patrice Vecchione
• Paul Volponi
• Laurence Yep

These titles are available to registered patrons of the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, or other libraries in the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Network only.