Rez Recommends 2009-2010

Check out this year's Rez Recommends list - these are your favourites from the 2009-2010 school year! (The titles with an * asterisk are on the Rez Recommends list for the 2nd year in a row). These books will all be on display when you come back in September. Click here for full book descriptions and comments from students!

In the meantime, check out your local library...and keep watching for new posts as I read my way through the nominations for the Teens' Top Ten.

Vampire/Supernatural:
  • All Hallows’ Eve ~ Vivian Vande Velde
  • Fell ~ David Clement-Davies
  • *House of Night series ~ P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
  • *Mortal Instruments series ~ Cassandra Clare
  • Shiver ~ Maggie Stiefvater
  • *Vampire Academy series ~ Richelle Mead
  • Vampire Diaries series ~ L. J. Smith

Mystery/Action/Suspense/Thriller:

  • Angels & Demons ~ Dan Brown
  • Black: the birth of evil ~ Ted Dekker
  • Catching Fire ~ Suzanne Collins
  • Daughter of the Flames ~ Zoe Marriott
  • *The Hunger Games ~ Suzanne Collins
  • The Lovely Bones ~ Alice Sebold
  • Silence of the Lambs ~ Ted Harris

Science Fiction/Dystopia:

  • Caretaker Trilogy ~ David Klaas
  • *Elsewhere ~ Gabrielle Zevin
  • Fray ~ Joss Whedon
  • Gone ~ Michael Grant

Realistic Fiction:

  • Audrey, Wait! ~ Robin Benway
  • Before I Die ~ Jenny Downham
  • Chanda’s Secrets/Chanda’s War ~ Allan Stratton
  • Crank/Glass ~ Ellen Hopkins
  • Fat Cat ~ Robin Brande
  • Head Case ~ Sarah Aronson
  • The Juvie Three ~ Gordon Korman
  • *Looking for Alaska ~ John Green
  • Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac ~ Gabrielle Zevin
  • Nineteen Minutes ~ Jodi Picoult
  • Peace Like a River ~ Leif Enger
  • Saving Zoe ~ Alyson Noel
  • Scorpions ~ Walter Dean Myers
  • *Suckerpunch ~ David Hernandez
  • The Truth About Forever ~ Sarah Dessen
  • Waves ~ Sharon Dogar

Non-Fiction (True Stories):

  • Kiss Off: poems to set you free
  • Night ~ Elie Wiesel