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Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her. Book 1. 2013. Read for a Lifetime. Nex t. 2012. Across the Universe by Beth Revis.
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Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her. Book 1 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Across the Universe by Beth Revis
The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies. Book 2 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Enzo knows he is different from other dogs. He has educated himself by watching TV and by listening closely to his master, Denny. On the night before his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, hoping in his next life, to return as a human. Book 3 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
A teenage girl named Tessa, has only five months to live. She makes out a list of things to do before she dies. Tessa hopes to get through everything on her list before time runs out. Book 4 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Before I Die by Jenny Downham
After losing her mother and grandmother during Hurricane Katrina, Laurel moves to another town and becomes a meth addict. Book 5 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson
Book 6 In Lithuania 1941, Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled apart from her father by Soviet guards and sent to two different Siberian work camps. Lina stays hopeful through her artwork and the thought of her father. 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Offers information about Prohibition, temperance movements at the end of the eighteenth century, the Eighteenth Amendment, bootlegging, and gangsters. Book 7 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal
Lo’s compulsive behaviors are getting her into trouble when she witnesses a murder, collecting things that do not belong to her and obsessing about her brother's death. Book 8 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison
When Luis Fuentes, high school senior, returns to the south side of Illinois after six years in Colorado, he falls for a girl named Nikki and enters a dark world after learning some disturbing news about his family. Book 9 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles
In the early 20th century, Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about. Book 10 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Chime by Franny Billingsley
Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas time in New York, neither knowing quite what--or who--they will find. Book 11 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until meeting a boy at her cancer support group forcing her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. Book 12 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Colton is the four-year old son of a Nebraska pastor who slips from consciousness during emergency surgery and enters heaven. Told by the father, but often in Colton’s own words. Book 13 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there. Book 14 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Celia and Marco, have been trained since childhood to compete in "a game," where each must use their powers of illusion to win. Unbeknownst to them, this game is a duel to the death, and the circus is but the stage. Book 15 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
In 1982 North Carolina, Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend. His English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up. Book 16 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard
Northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre, tell in their own voices of their very different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes. Book 17 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
A series of short stories, interspersed with poems and photographs, provides different perspectives on a game of street ball played one steamy July day at the West 4th Street court in New York City known as The Cage. Book 18 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Pick-up Game: A Full Day of Full Court Marc Aronson, Editor
Gene Moore, from Sesser, Illinois, was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers at age 15 in 1940. Before that could happen, World War II intervened. Book 19 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Playing With the Enemy by Gary W. Moore
Owen Meany hits a foul ball while playing baseball in the summer of 1953 that kills his best friend's mother, an accident that Owen is sure is the result of divine intervention. Book 20 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic leg and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again. Book 21 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
Returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races. Both try to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Book 22 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
In a not-so-distant future, parents can have their children between the ages of 13 and 18 "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others. Three teens go to great lengths to uphold their beliefs and keep their lives. Book 23 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Cullen's summer in Arkansas is marked by his cousin's death from an overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance. Book 24 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Sixteen-year-old Min writes a letter to Ed in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end. Book 25 2013 Read for a Lifetime Next 2012 Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler