Ratings Guide


5 stars
-Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
-The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
-Cascade by Lisa T. Bergren
-Divergent by Veronica Roth
-Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
-Dust City by Robert Paul Weston
-Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan
-The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
-I'll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan
-Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
-Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
-Redheart by Jackie Gamber
-The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
-Sela by Jackie Gamber
-Sign Language by Amy Ackley
-Stick by Andrew Smith
-The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt
-Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
-Uglies by Scott Westerfeld


4½ stars

-68 Knots by Michael Robert Evans
-Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
-Charlie Woodchuck is a Minor Niner by Dalya Moon
-Eon Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman
-Everlost by Neal Shusterman
-Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can’t Have by Allen Zadoff
-Ghost Medicine by Andrew Smith
-Graceling by Kristin Cashore
-The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
-I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
-Invasion by Jon S. Lewis
-The Last Apprentice: Revenge of The Witch by Joseph Delaney
-The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
-The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith
-The Maze Runner by James Dashner
-Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
-The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
-Specials by Scott Westerfeld
-Through Her Eyes by Jennifer Archer
-Unwind by Neal Shusterman
-Variant by Robison Wells
-Virtuosity by Jessica Martinez
-Waterfall by Lisa T. Bergren
-Worldshaker by Richard Harland


4 stars

-After Obsession by Carrie Jones and Steven E. Wedel
-The Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
-Between The Land And The Sea by Derrolyn Anderson
-Between Two Ends by David Ward
-The Boy Who Loved Bach by T.L. Peters
-Brain Jack by Brian Falkner
-Crossroads by Mary Ting
-Debugging Tori Redding by Jason Ancona
-Die For Me by Amy Plum
-The Dragon of Cripple Creek by Troy Howell
-Feed by M. T. Anderson
-Fire Bringer by David Clement-Davies
-The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
-The Goats by Brock Cole
-Gone by Michael Grant
-Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
-Illegal by Bettina Restrepo
-I, Q: Independence Hall by Roland Smith
-Ironman by Chris Crutcher
-The Last Words of Will Wolfkin by Steven Knight
-Midnighters: The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
-North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
-On A Dark Wing by Jordan Dane
-Pillage by Obert Skye
-The Raie'Chaelia by Melissa Douthit
-Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
-Runner by Carl Deuker
-Seeker by William Nicholson
-Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini
-Test by William Sleator


3½ stars

-The Atomic Weight of Secrets or The Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black by Eden Unger Bowditch
-Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff
-Destiny's Fire by Trisha Wolfe
-Deviant by Adrian McKinty
-Dogsled Dreams by Terry Lynn Johnson
-The Enemy by Charlie Higson
-Farworld: Water Keep by J.Scott Savage
-Foundling by D.M. Cornish
-The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
-H.I.V.E.: The Higher Institute of Villainous Education by Mark Walden
-I, Q: The White House by Roland Smith
-Knightley Academy by Violet Haberdasher
-Matched by Ally Condie
-The Phantom Limb by William Sleator and Ann Monticone
-Princess Callie and the Totally Amazing Talking Tiara by Daisy Piper
-The Printer's Devil by Paul Bajoria
-Savvy by Ingrid Law
-Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson


3 stars

-Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse by Kaleb Nation
-Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
-Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
-The Shadow Thieves by Anne Ursu
-The Unidentified by Rae Mariz
-The Year of Secret Assignments by Jacyln Moriarty


   2½ stars

-The Beginning of After by Jennifer Castle
-Those That Wake by Jesse Karp