What to read AFTER The Hunger Games?

So. You read The Hunger Games. You devoured Catching Fire. You re-read the ending of Mockingjay at least two or three times.

What’s next?

Here is a selection of Young Adult novels that should sate your need:

Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis Gill. The best way to describe this book is like a teenage version of the movie Serenity. Set in a bleak future, no one lives on Earth anymore, but on Mars. What happens when Durango and his crew are hired to protect a mining community from feral marauders? You’ll have to read to find out.

Divergent by Veronica Roth. I was the edge of my seat with this one, it was fresh and a great kick to the teeth. In a dystopic Chicago, sixteen year olds are expected to choose one of five factions, where they’ll spend the rest of their lives. However, Tris does not belong to any one faction, she’s Divergent – something that is rare, feared, and could get her killed. I screamed when I finished this book – the sequel, Insurgent, is not due until sometime in 2012.

The Girl Who Was On Fire: your favorite authors on Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy, edited by Leah Wilson. Thirteen of your favorite authors take you back to Panem with pieces on Katniss, the Games, Gale and Peeta, survival, and reality TV. This is a completely unauthorized title!

Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan. In this bold and imaginative title, the Earth is long gone, and the current crop of teenagers were born in deep space. Waverly knows that her duty, at age fifteen, is to marry young and populate the new planet – but the violent betrayal of her ship by another spaceship has devastating consequences for everyone on board.

The Maze Runner by James Dashner. What if you woke up one day in the middle of a maze, with no memory, and no idea how you got there? That’s what happens to Thomas, and if he doesn’t escape … things will only get very, very bad.

XVI by Julia Karr. Dreading the government-mandated tattoo which declares her availability to the public at sixteen, Nina is shattered by a brutal attack on her mother, who before dying reveals to Nina a shocking truth about her family and her past. Will Nina be able to save herself, her sister, and her best friend Sandy?

Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughn. Y: The Last Man is one of those graphic novel series that you have to marathon. Don’t just inter-library loan the first volume, loan at least the first SIX to get started. The series starts on the day that EVERYONE with the XY chromosome drops dead, except Yorick Brown and his male Capuchin monkey, Ampersand.

More Books! Recommended by Philip Reeve and Eric Norton in the August 2011 School Library Journal

steampunk!

Steampunk Titles in the Young Adult Collection

Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth’s surface.

While working at summer jobs in San Francisco, twins Sophie and Josh find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book.

In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.

When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is very wrong, and after investigating, learns that her love of automata makes her the only one who can set things right.

Long ago in Germany, a storyteller’s story and an apprentice clockwork-maker’s nightmare meet in a menacing, lifelike figure creature by the strange Dr. Kalmenius.

Tessa Fell’s search for her missing brother leads her into Victorian London’s supernatural underworld, where she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.

Assigned to solve an underwater mystery, fourteen-year-old English spy Modo races against French adversaries to locate an enormous sunken ship amid rumors of sea monsters, an attack on their vessel, and Modo’s discovery of deep-sea human life. Sequel to The Hunchback Assignments.

Raised by a member of the Order of Engineers, apprentice Fever Crumb is dispatched to assist archaeologist Kit Solvent with a top-secret project that causes Fever to recall bizarre memories that raise questions about her origins.

Living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College, Lyra hears rumors of a magical dust that supposedly possesses powers that can unite whole universes, and beings a difficult and dangerous journey to find it.

To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

A quiet English country village is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who keeps his face hidden and his back to everyone.

In an alternate 1914 Europe, Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from forces who are attempting to take over the world with machinery, forms an alliance with Deryn, who is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.

Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world – where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets.

Thirteen-year-old Theo, who has lived in seclusion his entire life, discovers he is the descendant of the Candle Man, a Victorian vigilante with the ability to melt criminals with a single touch.

When Alexia, a soulless spinster with the ability to negate supernatural powers, accidentally kills a vampire, her life goes from bad to worse.

In the quiet English hamlet of Wall, Tristran Thorn embarks on a remarkable journey through the world of Faerie to recover a fallen star.

An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894.

SYNC YA Literature into your earbuds

Hey everyone! The Teen Summer Reading Club has kicked off, and starting on Monday, you can come in and earn book bucks!

In case you dig audiobooks (and yes, they count – just find out how many pages the book has), SYNC is offering free audiobook downloads ALL SUMMER LONG. (You know who else offers free audiobooks? We do. Oh yeah).

SYNC YA Literature into Your Earphones

2 Free Audiobook Downloads Each Week

June 23 – August 17, 2011

Teens and other readers of Young Adult Literature will have the opportunity to listen to bestselling titles and required reading classics this summer.   Each week  from June 23 – August 17, 2011, SYNC will offer two free audiobook downloads.

The audiobook pairings will include a popular YA title and a classic that connects with the YA title’s theme and is likely to show up on a student’s summer reading lists.  For example, Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver, the first book in a popular series with strong allusions to Romeo & Juliet, will be paired with Shakespeare’s classic.

To find out when you can download titles to listen to on the run this summer, visit www.AudiobookSync.com or text syncya to 25827

There will be posters up all summer in the Young Adult Audiobook Area, along with bookmarks, about what book will be released when.

Teen Advisory Board

Why should you join the Teen Advisory Board, if you are in grades 6-12?

1. Your voice counts! At our meeting in May, the fifteen teens who came told us what they wanted. An ice cream party, board game night, a screening of the Justin Bieber movie… guess what’s happening?

Ice Cream Party (make your own sundaes) at our next Teen Advisory Board meeting on June 30th

Board Game night in September

Justin Bieber movie screening, also in September

2. Attending a Teen Advisory Board meeting = a community service hour. You are donating your time to the library and helping us create better, more awesome programs for teens. When’s our next meeting? June 30th… sign-up ahead of time HERE and show up at 7!

3. Heads-up on programs that you’ll be interested in. Need to learn how to babysit? Want to see how you would do on a (free) practice SAT? Interested in ghosthunting? Want to find out what new books are in the Teen Section before New Book Friday?

So, the message is: come to the Teen Advisory Board meetings. Starting in September, meetings will be on the first Thursday of every month. This summer, we’re playing a little fast and loose with meeting dates, so watch the website (or call the library at 631-692-6820) for time and date.

Summer Assignments, East Woods School

Congratulations, it is summer time!

And you have summer reading.

The Cold Spring Harbor Library has copies of the 2011 summer assignments for the East Woods School, grades 7 through 9.

To make your life easier, here is a list of the books you may be required to read this summer (check your assignment). Each title is a link to the catalog, where you can a) see what’s on the shelf and b) request a copy.

Entering 7th Grade

Students must read ONE of the selections below:

My Brother Sam is Dead
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
I Am Regina
Belle Prater’s Boy

In addition, students should read THREE other books

Suggested Reading List for Students Entering 7th Grade

Crispin: the Cross of Lead
And Then There Were None
The Chocolate War
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Rumble Fish
One Fat Summer
A Corner of the Universe
The River Between Us
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Of Mice and Men

Entering 8th Grade

In addition to your assignment, you should read THREE OTHER BOOKS from the list below.

True North
Dragon’s Gate
Counting on Grace
Bread and Roses, Too
Will’s War
Monkey Town
The Grapes of Wrath
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Your Eyes in Stars
Code Talker
Slap Your Sides
Catch-22
Weedflower
House of the Red Fish
The Bomb
Double Play
Sources of Light
Countdown
Peace is a Four Letter Word
Dream Freedom
911: The Book of Help
The Usual Rules
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Saving Sky
Sunrise Over Fallujah
O Pioneers!
The House of the Scorpion
The Great Gatsby
Lord of the Flies
Olive’s Ocean
Life of Pi
Criss Cross
The Golden Compass and sequels
Dracula
The Hobbit

Entering 9th Grade

You must read ONE of the selections below:

Things Fall Apart
Thirteen Days: a Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
1984
This Boy’s Life: a Memoir

In addition, you should read THREE OTHER BOOKS:

Emma
Fahrenheit 451
Childhood’s End
Whale Talk
Oliver Twist
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
The Perfect Storm
Fallen Angels
The Fellowship of the Ring

You Are Here Bibliography

Looking for a book that is not from around here? Here are some* around-the-world titles for you to enjoy.

(*and these are not the only world-wide books in Young Adult! We’ll be highlighting different titles all summer in the Young Adult section of the library!)

Canada

Restoring Harmony by Joëlle Anthony

Scott Pilgrim series by Bryan Lee O’Malley

Eastern Europe

A Time of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

Western Europe

Annexed by Sharon Dogar

The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Africa

A Hare in the Elephant’s Trunk by Jan L. Coates

Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace

Middle East

Sphinx’s Queen by Esther M. Friesner

Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz

Asia

Karma: a novel in verse by Cathy Ostlere

Daughter of Xanadu by Dori Jones Yang

Pacific Islands

The Cannibals by Iain Lawrence

Nation by Terry Pratchett

Australia and New Zealand

Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey

Beatle Meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams

South America

Evil Star by Anthony Horowitz

Latin America and the Caribbean

The Zabîme Sisters by Aristophane

Illegal by Bettina Restrepo