Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

It is supposed to be Anna and Frankie's Absolutely Best Summer Ever. Frankie's parents are taking Anna with them on the annual family vacation for three weeks to Zanzibar, California. Three weeks of sun and sand, and oh yeah, boys. Frankie is determined that Anna is going to lose her virginity this summer, and to make sure, they need to meet a boy a day, so twenty boys. Anna goes along with the idea, never intending to take it seriously. After all, she's already had a boyfriend although Frankie never knew. Matt asked Anna to keep it a secret until he could tell Frankie at the right moment. Matt was Frankie's brother. Was. He died right before he could tell Frankie.

Anna is trying to be there for Frankie but she's still keeping her relationship with Matt a secret. And now in California all she can think about is him. Until Sam comes on the scene. Sam is sweet, gorgeous, and makes Anna feel very special. She's sure she's falling in love with him, but what will happen to her memories of Matt if she does?

Will Anna's secret destroy her Twenty Boy Summer?

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

The Hate List. Valerie started the Hate List as a way to vent, to write down everything and everyone that was annoying her. Algebra, celebrities, homework, parents fighting, and Christy Bruter, the girl who'd been bothering Val since elementary school. When Val met Nick Levil as a freshman, they bonded over the Hate List, adding more and more names of kids in school who annoyed them or bullied them. Val never thought it was anything more than a way of getting frustration out until the day Nick brought a gun to school and targeted those whose names were on the Hate List.

Now people blame Val for creating the infamous list and she no longer knows who she is. Villain for coming up with the list? Victim for being taken in by Nick? Or Hero for saving the life of a girl she didn't even like and getting shot in the process? She can't shake the momories of the day and trying to move on with her life is difficult. It takes all her strength to go back to school and face her old friends who now hate her. And regardless of what people tell her to think, and what he did, she still misses and cares for Nick.

All this started as a simple joke that became so much more. But how can Val move on and create a new life after the Hate List?

Florida Teens Read

We are in the middle of our reading for the Florida Teens Read program, and there are rarely any books left on the shelf! It is a very popular list this year. One student has already read all 15 titles, and several students are getting close.

Here is the list:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
Gym Candy by Carl Deuker
Homeboyz by Alan Sitomer
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Last Exit to Normal by Michael Harmon
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The Market by J.M Steele
Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham
Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
Suck It Up by Brian Meehl
Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
Three Little Words: A Memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Unwind by Neal Shusterman

My prediction? (So far I've been 3 for 3!) The Hunger Games followed by Unwind. Voting is the month of April so we'll see if I'm right!