Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Feb 4, 2012 High School List of Books (WWJD) Which Will Just Dazzle YOU?!?! 4/23/2015

Almost Perfect By: Brian Katcher A small-town Missouri boy’s world is rocked when he falls for the new girl at school, and she eventually confesses that she is a biological male. Logan’s world is small, as is his mind at first, but throughout the book he grows to accept and love Sage for who-not what-she is. This remarkable book takes a hard look at the difficulties and pain experienced by young male-to- female transsexuals from an easily relatable perspective, as Julie Ann Peters did in Luna. Logan is a conservative 18-year-old Everyman whose generic voice isn’t-and doesn’t need to be-anything special; although readers follow his growth, it is Sage’s story that is truly important. 4/23/2015

Helen Ruffin HS List The things a brother knows. (2010), Dana Reinhardt. Wendy Lamb Books, Although they have never gotten along well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a walking trip from Boston to Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning why Boaz is completely withdrawn. 4/23/2015

Ship breaker.(2010). Paolo Bacigalupi. Little, Brown, In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl. 4/23/2015

Shift.. (.2008.) Jennifer Bradbury. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened. 4/23/2015

Nightshade.( 2010). Andrea Cremer. Philomel Books, Calla and Ren have been raised knowing it is their destiny to mate with one another and rule over their shape-shifting wolf pack, but when a human boy arrives and vies for Calla's heart, she is faced with a decision that could change her whole world. 4/23/2015

The maze runner. (2009). James Dashner. Delacorte Press, Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. 4/23/2015

Forced to drop out of an esteemed East Coast college after the sudden death of her parents, Jane Moore takes a nanny job at Thornfield Park, the estate of Nico Rathburn, a world- famous rock star on the brink of a huge comeback. Practical and independent, Jane reluctantly becomes entranced by her magnetic and brooding employer and finds herself in the midst of a forbidden romance. But there's a mystery… 4/23/2015

A teenaged boy thrown out of his house by his abusive father goes to live with his older brother, who ran away from home years earlier under similar circumstances. 4/23/2015

Furnace Book 1: Lockdown Furnace Prison, where death is the least of your worries… My name is Alex and I'm not a killer. They framed me for murder, condemned me to life in Furnace with its punishments and pain. I've got to get out of here. If I don't, it could be me the Wheezers come for. Me who's dragged screaming from my cell. Me who's brought back scarred, twisted and hungry for blood. I've got to break out. Before they turn me into a monster. How do you break out of the world’s worst prison? 4/23/2015

Hate list.(2009). Jennifer Brown. Little, Brown, Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain. 4/23/2015

The Morgue and Me Eighteen-year-old Christopher, who plans to be a spy, learns of a murder cover-up through his summer job as a morgue assistant and teams up with Tina, a gorgeous newspaper reporter, to investigate, despite great danger. 4/23/2015

God is in the pancakes.(2010).Robin Epstein. Dial Books, Fifteen-year-old Grace, having turned her back on religion when her father left, now finds herself praying for help with her home and love life, and especially with whether she should help a beloved elderly friend die with dignity. 4/23/2015

Beautiful Creatures Ethan Wate is haunted by dreams of a girl he’s never met. When Lena Duchannes moves into his small southern town of Gatlin County, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her. And he is determined to uncover the strange connection between them, even if it means uncovering the one secret that could change everything. 4/23/2015

Food, girls, and other things I can't have : a novel.(2009.) Allen Zadoff. Egmont USA, Fifteen-year-old Andrew Zansky, the second fattest student at his high school, joins the varsity football team to get the attention of a new girl on whom he has a crush. 4/23/2015

Five flavors of Dumb (2010). Antony John. Dial Books,,. Eighteen-year-old Piper becomes the manager for her classmates' popular rock band, called Dumb, giving her the chance to prove her capabilities to her parents and others, if only she can get the band members to get along. 4/23/2015

Finnikin of the rock. (2010). Melina Marchetta. Candlewick Press, Now on the cusp of manhood, Finnikin, who was a child when the royal family of Lumatere was brutally murdered and replaced by an imposter, reluctantly joins forces with an enigmatic young novice and fellow-exile, who claims that her dark dreams will lead them to a surviving royal child and a way to regain the throne of Lumatere. 4/23/2015

Dirty little secrets.(2010). C.J. Omololu. Walker Publishers When her unstable mother dies unexpectedly, sixteen- year-old Lucy must take control and find a way to keep the long-held secret of her mother's compulsive hoarding from being revealed to friends, neighbors, and especially the media. 4/23/2015

Bruiser.(2010). Neal Shusterman. HarperTeen,.. Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen- year-old twins Tennyson and Bronte befriend a troubled a misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody. 4/23/2015

Black hole sun (2010). David Macinnis Gill. Greenwillow Books Sixteen-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community on Mars to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders. 4/23/2015

Birthmarked. (2010) Caragh M. O'Brien..Roaring Brook Press. ) Sixteen-year-old Gaia Stone, a midwife who dutifully delivers at least three babies a month and hands them over to the Enclave, a community within walls where the children are adopted and live with conveniences which are not available to the outside world, begins to question her loyalty to the group after her mother is brutally taken away from her by the people she serves. 4/23/2015

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL SLAM PARTICIPANTS- WELL DONE!!! Which books will you read?