1. 2012 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers
The Quick Picks list, presented annually at the ALA Midwinter Meeting suggests books that teens, ages 12-18,
will pick up on their own and read for pleasure; it is geared to the teenager who, for whatever reason, does not
like to read. The committee also selected a top ten list, denoted here by an asterisk.
At Blackstone Library Blake, Kendare. Anna Dressed in
Blood. Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Teen,
Nonfiction 2011.
Cas kills the dead, it's his job.
Beecroft, Simon. Star Wars Character
Encyclopedia. DK, 2011. Brosgol, Vera. Anya's
From Admiral Ackbar to Yoda. Ghost. Macmillan/First Second, 2011.
Anya's new best friend is a ghost with a
*Beever, Julian. Pavement Chalk Artist: secret!
The Three-Dimensional Drawings of Julian
Beever. Step into street art. Gidwitz, Adam. A Tale Dark and
Grimm. Penguin Group/Penguin Young
Bragg, Georgia. How They Croaked: The Readers Group, 2010. Hansel goes to hell
Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous. Illus. by and Gretel slays a demon.
Kevin O'Malley. Walker & Company, 2011.
The down and dirty on great deaths in Harrington, Kim. Clarity. Scholastic/Point,
history. 2011. One touch can solve a murder.
*Dugard, Jaycee. A Stolen Life: A Memoir. Harris, Carrie. Bad Taste in Boys. Random
Simon & Schuster, 2011. Eighteen years in House/Delacorte, 2011. Can Katie save her
captivity—in her own words. town from a zombie virus AND land the hot
boy?
Guinness World Records. Guinness
World Records 2011. Guinness Worlds Riders of the Apocalypse Series:
Records, 2010.. The biggest, fastest, and Kessler, Jackie Morse. Hunger. Houghton
strongest. Mifflin Harcourt/Graphia, 2010. While
battling anorexia, Lisabeth becomes
Scholastic. Ripley's Believe It or Not! Famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the
Special Edition 2012. Scholastic, Apocalypse.
Inc./Ripley's Publishing, 2011. Strange but
true! Lewis, Stewart. You Have Seven
Messages. Random House/Delacorte
Tebow, Tim. Through My Eyes: A Press, 2011. Was everything in Luna's life
Quarterback’s Journey. HarperCollins a lie?
Publishers/Zondervan, 2011. Up-close and
personal with a Heisman Trophy winner. Lore, Pittacus. I Am Number Four (Lorien
Legacies #1). HarperCollins
Publishers/Harper, 2010. Numbers 1, 2,
Fiction
and 3 are dead. Now they are coming for
number 4.
Beam, Cris. I am J. Little, Brown Books for
Young Readers, 2011. J was born a girl but
feels like a boy.

2. Marcus, Kimberly. Exposed. Random Schreiber, Joe. Au Revoir, Crazy
House Children's Books, 2011. European Chick. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Who should Liz believe? Her best friend or 2011.
her brother? One exchange student + 1 borrowed
Jaguar + 5 assassinations = 1 epic prom
McMann, Lisa. Cryer's Cross. Simon & night
Schuster/Simon Pulse, 2011.
Missing teens and mysterious messages. Shepard, Sara. The Lying
Game. HarperCollins
Mlynowski, Sarah. Ten Things We Did Publishers/HarperTeen, 2010.
(And Probably Shouldn't Your best friends just may be your
Have). HarperCollins enemies.
Publishers/HarperTeen, 2011. April's crazy
junior year starts with one big lie. Summers, Courtney. Fall For
Anything. Macmillan/St. Martin's Griffin,
Northrop, Michael. Trapped. Scholastic 2010.
Press, 2011. Seven teens stranded. Who Eddie has unanswered questions about her
will survive? father’s suicide.
*Patterson, James. Middle School: The *TenNapel, Doug. Ghostopolis. Scholastic,
Worst Years of My Life. Illus. by Lara Park Inc./Graphix, 2010.
and Chris Tebbets. Little, Brown and Garth finds a new reason to live in the land
Company, 2011. It all started going wrong of the dead.
in middle school...
Van Cleave, Ryan G. Unlocked.
Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate on a Bloomsbury Publishing/Walker Books for
Roll. HarperCollins/Harper, 2011. Antics of Young Readers, 2011. Will Alex betray his
a funny kid. best friend?
Santat, Dan. Sidekicks. Scholastic, Vrettos, Adrienne Maria. Burnout. Simon
Inc./Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011. & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry Books,
Captain Amazing is getting old and needs 2011.
to choose a sidekick. Halloween nightmare or reality?
Schroeder, Lisa. The Day Before. Simon & Wells, Robison. Variant. HarperCollins
Schuster/Simon Pulse, 2011. Publishers/HarperTeen, 2011.
Amber and Cade each hope for one perfect Playing by the rules can be deadly.
day.

3. In LION SYSTEM (Place a hold on these; not at Blackstone)
Nonfiction Cowsill, Alan. Marvel Avengers: The
Ultimate Character Guide. 2010. Heroes
*Almerico, Kendall and Tess and villians, from A-Z.
Hottenroth. Whoogles: Can a Dog Make a
Woman Pregnant?...and Hundreds of Other *Haugen, Brenda. The Zodiac Killer: Terror
Searches That Make You Ask "Who Would and Mystery. 2010. The killer that got away
Google That?” 2010. Google has all the with it.
answers to every question, even the ones
you never thought to ask. Kaelin, Lauren and Sophia Fraioli. When
Parents Text, So Much Said...So Little
Barton, Chris. Can I See Your I.D.? True Understood. 2011. LOL!
Stories of False Identities, 2011.
Spies, robbers, runaways . . . could you get Levy, Joel. Phobiapedia: All the Things We
away with it? Fear the Most! 2011. Does anyone suffer
from xanthophobia? The fear of yellow.
Benson, Richard. F in Exams, The Very
Best Totally Wrong Test Answers. 2011. Murrie, Steve and Matthew Murrie. Every
“Where was the Declaration of Day on Earth. 2011. 2,740 miles of
Independence signed? At the bottom.” Twizzlers are made every day.
Black, Jake. The Ultimate Guide to Ripley's Believe It or Not! Curioddities.
WWE. 2011. Your favorite WWE wrestlers 2011. Off-the-wall facts like fingernails that
all in one place! are 33 feet long.
Bleiman, Andrew; Eastland, Sherman, M. Zachary. Fighting
Chris. ZooBorns: The Newest, Cutest Phantoms. 2011. Shot down behind enemy
Animals From the World's Zoos and lines.
Aquariums. 2010.
Baby animals...Awwwwww! Shoket, Ann. Seventeen Ultimate Guide to
Style: How to Find Your Perfect Look 2011.
Brady Games. Guinness World Records, What’s your look? Girly, glam, or indie?
Gamers Edition 2011.
Top characters, high scores, and all the Shoreline Publishing. Year in Sports
best games. 2012. Big shots, big wins, and big buck
(prior years in system)
Buchholz, Rachel. How to Survive
Anything 2011. *Snider, Brandon T. DC Comics: The
From embarrassing parents to shark Ultimate Character Guide. 2011
attacks. From Aquaman to Wonder Woman.
Claybourne, Anna. 100 Most Awesome Tibballs, Geoff, Judy Barratt, and Sally
Things On The Planet. 2011 McFall (eds). Ripley’s Believe it or Not!:
Mount Everest, nanomachines, the Great Strikingly True. 2011. Unbelievably weird!
Wall of China, and more.
Conrad, Lauren. Lauren Conrad Style.
2010. Exceptional style for every day.

4. Fiction blade as War, one of the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse.
50 Cent. Playground. Illus. by Lizzi Akana.
2011. How a bully became an artist. Lancaster, Mike A. Human.4. 2011
Alien invasion or something else?
*Aguirre, Ann. Enclave. 2011.
The fight to survive continues underground. Littman, Sarah Darer. Want to Go
Private? 2011. Is Abby's online friend
Barnholdt, Lauren. Sometimes it responsible for her disappearance?
Happens. 2011. Sometimes you fall for
your best friend's boyfriend. McClintock, Norah. She Said/She
Saw. 2011. Two friends are dead. What did
Binns, B. A. Pull. 2010. Tegan see?
What happens after dad murders mom?
Nelson, Blake. Recovery Road. 2011.
*Booth, Coe. Bronxwood. 2011 Does rehab love work in real life?
Too much pressure, too many choices, not
enough options. Proimos, James. 12 Things to Do Before
You Crash and Burn. 2011
Brooks, Kevin. iBoy. 2011. The mission: find the unattainable and
After Tom’s head-on collision with an beautiful woman.
iPhone, he’s out for revenge.
Restrepo, Bettina. Illegal. 2011
Busch, Jeff. Zombie High Yearbook Nora will do anything to find her father.
'64. 2011. Not your typical yearbook.
Roth, Veronica. Divergent. 2011
Cerrito, Angela. The End of the Line. 2011 In a perfect world, being different can be
Can Robbie change or will he be stuck in deadly.
his own prison forever?
Sanchez, Alex. Boyfriends with Girlfriends.
*Elkeles, Simone. Chain Reaction. 2011 2011. Sergio and Kimiko, Lance and Allie—
Will Luis choose the girl or the gang? but who's attracted to whom?
Ford, Christopher. Stickman Odyssey: An Urban Underground Series
Epic Doodle Book One. 2011
The Odyssey, like you’ve never seen it. Schraff, Anne. To Catch a Dream.
2010. Able's job at the donut shop
Greenman, Catherine. Hooked. 2011 may be in jeopardy.
Seventeen and pregnant. Where do you
turn? Schraff, Anne. The Fairest. 2011.
The girls at Tubman High will stop at
Hopkins, Ellen. Perfect. 2011. nothing to win Princess of the Fair.
What is the price of perfection?
Schraff, Anne. The Quality of
Hunter, Travis. Two the Hard Way. 2010 Mercy. 2011. Alonee and Oliver
Two brothers, two paths. investigate who is vandalizing the
school.
Riders of the Apocalypse Series.
Kessler, Jackie Morse. Rage. 2011 Schraff, Anne. Wildflower. 2010.
Missy is a cutter, now she wields a larger Chelsea rebels against her father's
rules.

5. Schraff, Anne. Leap of Faith. 2011. Surviving South Side Series
Ernesto witnesses a robbery.
Fontes, Justine. Benito Runs.
Schraff, Anne. The Lost. 2011. 2011. Benny's father returns from
Is Carmen’s new boyfriend in a Iraq with PTSD.
gang?
Korman, Susan. Bad Deal. 2011.
Schraff, Anne. No Fear. 2011. Everyone wants what Fish is selling.
Naomi stands up to her abusive
father. Simon, Charnan. Shattered
Star. 2011. How far will Cassie go
Schraff, Anne. The Stranger. 2010. for fame?
Ernesto, the new boy at school, falls
for Naomi. Simon, Charnan. Plan B. 2011.
When Lucy gets pregnant, will Luke
Smith, Alexander Gordon. Death do the right thing?
Sentence (Escape From Furnace #3). 2011
Alex fights to keep his identity while Weyn, Suzanne. Beaten. 2011.
transforming into what he hates most. Paige's “perfect” boyfriend is not so
perfect.
Springer, Kristina. My Fake Boyfriend is
Better Than Yours. 2010 Weyn, Suzanne. Recruited. 2011.
Tell me about your boyfriend. Are the offers too good to be true?
Strasnick, Lauren. Her and You and Me. Wilkinson, Lili. Pink. 2011.
2010. Caught between a brother and a New school, new friends, new look.
sister.