Sequoyah Book Award (grades 3-12)--Visit the Oklahoma Library Association's website for state book awards lists and see a preview of all the books on this year's current master list! Be sure to read at least 3 books from the Young Adult Intermediate master list (for grades 6-8) and be eligible in March to vote for your FAVORITE Sequoyah book. :) The 2012 Sequoyah Intermediate Young Adult award winner is Positively by Courtney Sheinmel.
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Rick Riordan's new series, The Heroes of Olympus, features the next generation from the rebuilt Camp Half-Blood. After defeating the evil Titan lord, Kronos, Percy's friends must once again save Olympus. In book one, The Lost Hero, Jason, Piper, and Leo search for the missing Percy and must rescue Queen Hera. His other series, The Kane Chronicles, has a new book out also--The Throne of Fire--the second installment of the three-book series. It features Carter and Sadie, children of the brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane, as they begin a worldwide search for the Book of Ra, but the House of Life and the gods of chaos are determined to stop them. Author Rick Riordan was a middle school social studies teacher and his books are great adventure/historical/fantasy stories!
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Popular titles at the LMC: The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, the Humger Games series, Peg Kehret's mystery novels, the Dork Diaries, and James Patterson's Maximum Ride series just keep flying off the shelves! Teenage spy Alex Rider (Stormbreaker series) combats evil villains he has met before in Scorpia Rising (book 9). Two popular spy series for older girls: Linda Gerber's features 16-year-old Aphra & her CIA Mom in several books, the first being Death by Bikini. Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls series features teen girls who attend a school for spies. Ann Brashares new series, The Three Willows: the Sisterhood grows, three good friends from middle school hope their friendship will survive their summer challenges & high school. Gary Paulsen's Woods Runner tells the story of 15-year-old Samuel, who must rescue his kidnapped parents from the British soldiers and Native Americans who have destroyed their small Pennsylvania settlement in 1776. Frances O'Roark Dowell's The Kind of Friends We Used to Be is a sequel about friendship and changes (book one is The Secret Language of Girls). There are many new graphic novels, including Into the Volcano by Don Wood, in which two brothers escape an erupting volcano. Will Hobbs has many good adventure novels, including Far North, Take me to the river, Go Big or Go Home, and many others. Ben Mikaelsen's Ghost Bear is a great sequel to Touching Spirit Bear. In Priscilla Cummings' novel, Red Kayak, (2007 Sequoyah Young Adult Award book), Brody must decide what to do when he discovers that a prank his best friends have done has had tragic consequences. Fantasy author T.A. Barron has completed the Great Tree of Avalon series with The Eternal Flame (Merlin's grandson and his friends must stop the evil warlord Gawr from destroying Avalon). His new series, the dragons of Merlin, are really good fantasy reads. A laugh-out-loud book is The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker, which is the story of 14-year-old Princess Emeralda who reluctantly kisses the frog Eadric to help him become a prince again....but instead, becomes a frog too! (There are 4 more books in the series). Audrey Couloumbis' rip-roaring adventure, The Misadventures of Maude March, is about two sisters who become unlikely/accidental outlaws in the Old West. The sequel, Maude March on the run--or trouble is her middle name, is on the shelves now. One of my all-time favorite books is Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. India Opal's move to a small Florida town is impacted greatly when she "adopts" an orphan dog that she names Winn Dixie. This is a funny and heart-warming story for all ages. (Kate is also the author of The Tale of Despereaux). I have been re-reading many favorite authors' titles again this past year, including Joan L. Nixon, Lois Duncan, and Willo Davis Roberts' mysteries and Gordon Korman's hunorous fiction books.. Anna Myers is another favorite author who has many historical fiction titles, including Grave Robber's Secret, Spy, Stolen by the Sea, Red-Dirt Jessie, Assassin, etc. So many books to read and enjoy, and never enough time! :)
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Don't forget to visit the Edmond Public Library too! You can check them out on the web by going to www.metrolibrary.org . If you have a Nook reader, you can dowload the app from the Metropolitan Library System so you can check out FREE books from the library! So cool!
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