Learning Resource Center / Looking for a good book?

Book Recommendations

The following sites are not managed by Thompson Junior High School.

What Should I Read Next?

Search by favorite book or author to find books that are similar.

Your Next Read

Search by your favorite book to find a new great book to read.

Webquest

http://wmscubs.publishpath.com/Websites/wmscubs/images/Student%20Services/Media%20Center/Freak%20the%20Mighty%20Final%20draft.pdf

Book Trailers

Adventure

Heist Society by Ally Carter

H.I.V.E. The Higher Institute of Villainous Education by Mark Walden

I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill by Ally Carter

IQ: Independence Hall by Roland Smith

The Raft by S.A. Bodeen

Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

Trackers by Patrick Carman

Fantasy

The Clockwork Three by Matthew J. Kirby

This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel

The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman

Iron King by Julie Kagawa

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver

Historical Fiction

Al Capone Does my Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

Code Talkers by Joseph Bruchac

Countdown by Deborah Wiles

A Diamond in the Desert by Kathryn Fitzmaurice

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

Saving Zasha by Randi Barrow

Horror

Croak by Gina Damico

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Lockdown: Escape from the Furnace by Alexander Gordon Smith

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman

Things that Go Bump in the Night by Patrick Carman

Humor

Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading by Tommy Greenwald

No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman

Schooled by Gordon Korman

Ungifted by Gordon Korman

Military

I am a SEAL Team Six Warrior by Howard Wasdin

Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers

Vietnam: I Pledge Allegiance by Chris Lynch

Mystery

Cold Fury by T.M. Goeglein

Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson

Sammy Keyes by Wendelin Van Draanen

Nonfiction

Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin

Realistic Fiction

Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin

Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

The Encyclopedia of Me by Karen Rivers

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass

One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Out of My Mind by Nora Draper

Peeled by Joan Bauer

Slob by Ellen Potter

Beneath My Mother's Feet by Amjed Qamar

Sciene Fiction

Enclave by Ann Aguirre

Legend by Marie Lu

Maze Runner by James Dashner

Michael Vey: Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Evans

The Selection by Kiera Cass

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Sports

Football Genius by Tim Green

Unstoppable by Tim Green

Thompson Junior High School

Learning Resource Center