ValleyReads

Jason & Kyra by Dana Davidson
Kyra Evans, a smart, less than popular high-schooler begins to fall for Jason Vincent, a popular basketball star.

Breaking Point by Alex  Flinn
Fifteen-year-old Paul enters an exclusive private school and falls under the spell of a charismatic boy who may be using him.

Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
Two fifteen-year-old girls–one a slave and the other an indentured servant–escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

Kung Fu Princess series by Pamela Walker
The first book is Daughter of Light
On her fourteenth birthday, Cassidy Chen receives five ancient and mysterious Chinese coins, which introduce her to the supernatural world known to her Chinese and Irish ancestors and which lead her to accept her destiny as a warrior princess.

Merriam Webster’s Rhyming Dictionary
A dictionary for poets, editors, and others, with approximately 55,000 words arranged alphabetically by their rhyming sound with pronunciations and cross references.

Time for some classic fiction….

Dune by Frank Herbert
Forced by the Emperor of the known universe to live in exile on a barren planet, Duke Leto Atreides and his son lead the struggle against the Empire

A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Three men dare to adventure into a subterranean world full of danger and beauty. They discover many unusual things on their trip to the Earth’s mysterious core.

The Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, dig a well, and fight a prairie fire.

The Swiss  Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
A shipwrecked family learns to live off the natural vegetation on their island and refuses to leave when a ship arrives to take them home.

And of course, in honour of St. Patrick’s Day, why not read about Ireland?

Ireland by Patricia Levy
A photo-illustrated overview of Irish culture that covers the country’s geography, history, government, economy, environment, people, lifestyle, religions, languages, arts, leisure activities, festivals, and foods, and includes a map, time line, glossary, and further reading list.