Off the Shelf--West Media Center
Audiobooks --Issue #9
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The universe versus Alex Woods [electronic resource] by Gavin Extence
Alex Woods was struck by a meteorite when he was ten years old, leaving scars that marked him for an extraordinary life. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, he hasn't had the most conventional childhood. When he meets curmudgeonly widower Mr. Peterson, he finds an unlikely friend. Someone who teaches him that that you only get one shot at life. That you have to make it count. So when, aged seventeen, Alex is stopped at Dover customs with 113 grams of marijuana, an urnfull of ashes on the passenger seat, and an entire nation in uproar, he's fairly sure he's done the right thing.
Legend [electronic resource] by Marie Lu
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
Uses for boys [sound recording] : a novel by Erica Lorraine Scheidt
Anna, whose father has left and whose mother is focused on finding another husband, fills the voids in her life with relationships with boys and tries to ignore the negative reputation she has built, but, after meeting Sam, who has a stable family, Anna starts to realize she has something to offer the world and what it means to really love someone.
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / [sound recording] by Junot Díaz
Overweight and nerdy Oscar lives with his Dominican American mother and sister in New Jersey and dreams of becoming a renowned author and finding true love, but unfortunately, a family curse stands in the way of his wishes.
The cardturner [sound recording] : a novel about a king, a queen, and a joker by Louis Sachar
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
Ender's game [sound recording] by Orson Scott Card
Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy.
The giver / bk. 1 [sound recording] by Lois Lowry
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Guy Langman, crime scene procrastinator by Josh Berk
Sixteen-year-old Guy Langman, his best friend Anoop, and other members of their school's forensics club investigate a break-in and a possible murder, which could be connected to the mysterious past of Guy's recently-deceased father.
If I stay / bk. 1 [sound recording] by Gayle Forman
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
Okay for now [sound recording] by Gary D. Schmidt
Fourteen-year-old Doug Swieteck faces many challenges, including an abusive father, a brother traumatized by Vietnam, suspicious teachers and police officers, and isolation, but when he meets a girl known as Lil Spicer, he develops a close relationship with her and finds a safe place at the local library.
Eleanor & Park / [sound recording] by Rainbow Rowell
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.
Shelter [sound recording] : a Mickey Bolitar novel by Harlan Coben
After Mickey witnesses his father's death and his mother's admission into rehab, he is sent to live with his estranged uncle and change high schools, but when Mickey's new girlfriend, Ashley, suddenly disappears Mickey refuses to let another person walk out of his life and follows clues that reveal truths about both Ashley and Mickey's father.