Need Help with That Square? Read a Young Adult Book

Summer Reading Program 2016 Read for the Win! 

Need help with your adult bingo card for summer reading? Try these titles for the square "Read a Young Adult Book".

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Symphony for the City of the Dead by M.T. Anderson
An account of the Siege of Leningrad reveals the role played by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony in rallying and commemorating their fellow citizens.

We Were Liars by E Lockhart
This modern, sophisticated suspense tale follows the revolutionary activities of four friends who turn against each other in the wake of trauma, differing political views and a devastating secret.

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. 

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina , her mother and her brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to a work camp in Siberia. Unsure of her father's whereabouts and her own fate, Lina vows to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil.