Wanted: Adventure, Love, and Fun All Between the Covers of a Book

“I don’t know what to read” is something I hear a lot at the library. Most of my favorite books are in our Young Adult collection. So if you need a break from your school reading list and you’re looking for love, adventure, and fun; look no further than your library’s shelves. There you’ll find teenage thieves, girls undercover, mobsters, wise-cracking Bozos, and much, much more…

I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter - "Cammie may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year she's beginning her most dangerous mission - falling in love"

Heist Society by Ally Carter - Since she can remember, Katarina's relatives have been grooming her for the family business, thieving. But when Kat tries to go straight and leave that life for a normal one, she's promptly kicked out of her new school for stealing the headmaster's car and mounting it on the school

Flipped by Wendlin Van Draanen - When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it's love. Bryce isn't so sure. Beginning that day, and for the next six years, young Bryce does everything he can to keep his outspoken wannabe girlfriend at arm's length, which isn't easy since they go to the same school and live across the street from each other.

13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson - When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.

Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman - Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.

Dunk by David Lubar - While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away..

Since I shared my favorite titles with you, please share your favorites with me

- Michelle C., Robbinsville