And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Blurb submitted by Mara C.
And Then There Were None is fiction

When ten strangers receive invitations to a mysterious island, all under different pretexts, they are surprised to find that there is no host to be found. The small group is alone on the island, except for two servants in the large home who are also confused by the mysterious circumstances. Due to dangerous weather, they cannot be reached by boat, nor can they swim the wide distance to the mainland, leaving them helpless. Tensions only rise when they receive a gramophone recording explaining to them the true reason they were all brought to the island: they must all pay for their crimes. It becomes a race against time as they are murdered one by one in a fashion that, they realize, follows the poem "Ten Little Soldiers." They must try to figure out who the murderer is and stop them before the poem concludes, fearing those last words: "And Then There Were None."

Every Day by David Levithan

Blurb submitted by Ashleigh C.
Every Day is fiction

The book Every Day is a romance novel about two star-crossed lovers who have a very odd situation. A, the main character, is like no other person. He doesn't have a body to call his own but, instead, every day he wakes up in a new body. One day he finds himself as a teenage boy named Justin so, like any other day, he goes on with Justin's life and tries to make things better for him. Then A meets Rhiannon, Justin's girlfriend, and he soon realizes she is not treated right by Justin, so he takes her to the beach and quickly falls in love with her. The story takes a turn, and now, instead of going along with the person's life he takes on for the day, he spends his day trying to find Rhiannon.

We Beat the Street: How A Friendship Pact Led to Success by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt

Blurb submitted by Kayla W.
We Beat the Street is nonfiction

The book is about three African American young boys who grew up in a bad neighborhood in New Jersey where there were drugs, crime rates were high, and people were poor.  They were smart boys, but they had the struggle of dealing with peer pressure, drug use, and being minorities in a cruel world.  They made a pact that they would get out of this situation with help from each other.  They applied to pre-med and pre-dentistry programs at Seton Hall University and they all got accepted.  The pact they made was to push each other and finish the program together, and that is exactly what they did.

I would recommend this book to all teenagers, but especially to teenage boys.  It shows how hard it is for a male growing up without a positive role model, but there is always hope.  They went through some of the same things happening with the youth of today.   As long as there are friends with the same goals in life and they are there for each other, success is always possible regardless of your background.