Bialik Bookblasters Select Best Reads of 2011

Our Bialik Bookblasters members have recommended their favorite titles for this year's Bialik Reads! contests. Junior Bookblasters have made their selections with the incoming Sec.1 class for 2011-12 in mind as well as the Summer Reading list for the incoming Sec.2 group.  Senior Bookblasters have created their own list to be posted on the library website as recommended reading for all students in the Senior School (Sec.3-5).  Here is the list of books they read and loved and want to promote in the next Bialik Reads! contest.  In an upcoming blog I will announce the winning titles for each grade.

Sec.1:  Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham; The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman; Half-Brother by Kenneth Oppel; The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan; Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank; The Giver by Lois Lowry; Holes by Louis Sachar; Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan; Eragon by Christopher Paolini; Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis; The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan; The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins; The 30 Clues by various authors including Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, etc.

Sec.2: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan; Courage Tree by Diane Chamberlain; In Your Room by Jordanna Fraiberg; The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky; Just Listen by Sarah Dessen; It's Kind of a Funny Story by Nick Vizinni; Last Song by Nicholas Sparks; The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd; Little Brother by Cory Doctorow; Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld; Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card; We All Fall Down by Eric Walters.

Sec. 3-5: Least Difficult Reading:  I Am The Messenger; The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak; The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury; The Tenth Circle; The Pact by Jodi Picoult; The Princess Bride by William Goldman; Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane; Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks; When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Lawrence Kushner; The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; Looking for Alaska by John Green.   
More Difficult Reading: I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti; The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks; The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill; The Client by John Grisham; A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray; The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger; Lost In Place by Mark Salzman; Little Brother by Cory Doctorow;
Most Difficult Reading: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer; Faultlines by Nancy Huston; The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien; Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster; Kafka On The Shore; Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami; Time's Arrow by Martin Amis