There are about 20,000 books for students to read in the HHS library. Only two to three thousand books get checked out each month, and most of those books are likely to be repeat check-outs by other students.
With that being said, there are oodles of books that students are not checking out to read that need to be. Whether they are series or just a novel, there are plenty of books that a student could get into.
Librarian Tammy LeBeau recommends the Private series by Kate Brian. The series centers around the rise of an ambitious teenager Reed Brennan, the narrator of the story, as she becomes a member of her school’s elite dorm that consists of a glamorous yet disparate group of teens known as the Billings Girls. As the series continues throughout all 16 books, several matters of mystery and romance arise.
Lebeau also recommends a novel that takes your average fairy tale into a futuristic adventure. The book is Cinder (Cinderella) and it involves a gifted mechanic that is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with a handsome prince known as Prince Kai, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future. But Meyer does not stop there, in fact there are two books added to this series with more to come.
Librarian Faye Friesen recommends books that not just girls but boys can enjoy reading too.
Although it was made into a big time Hollywood movie production, the I Am Number Four series by Pitticus Lore is one that should be picked up. Friesen assures that there are three books that follow the first novel and that will not be made into movies. The books focus on people who consist of magical powers that are hunted down on Earth.
Friesen also recommends that students should read non-fiction books. One in particular is called Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken is the true story of Louis Zamperini, a promising young Olympic runner from Torrance, California, who was called into service on a bomber crew in the Pacific in World War II. Zamperini’s plane went down in the Pacific Ocean and he and two other survivors drifted over 40 days living on rainwater and the occasional fish or bird they could catch. When they were nearing land, they were suddenly captured by the Japanese.
No matter what interest students have when it comes to reading, there is a book in the library that they can fit to their standards. And always remember to never judge a book by its cover because it can turn out to be the greatest book for somebody else.
