Hoopla Hits: Great No-Wait eBooks for Summer Reading!
Are you traveling this summer, or do you want to read or listen to a book now without the wait? Then checkout Hoopla. With your library card you have access to Hoopla’s collection of e-books, audiobooks, and comics all available now (no waiting required). Below are some of the books featured on the Pelham Middle School and Pelham Memorial High School summer reading lists as well as a few that our librarians think you’ll enjoy. Need help accessing Hoopla? Call or stop by the Library and one of our librarians will be happy to assist you.
Incoming 6th Grade
Small Town Pride by Phil Stamper (ebook, audiobook)
A Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga (ebook, audiobook)
The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat (audiobook)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (ebook)
Cuba in My Pocket by Adrianna Cuevas (audiobook)
Red, White and Whole by Rajani LaRocca (ebook, audiobook)
Not Your All-American Girl by Madelyn Rosenberg (audiobook)
Two Degrees by Alan Gratz (audiobook)
The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit by Octavia Spencer (audiobook)
The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer (audiobook)
Chunky by Yehudi Mercado (ebook)
New Kid by Jerry Craft (ebook, audiobook)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (audiobooks)
Lorien Legacies by Pitticus Lore (ebooks, audiobooks)
Michael Vey by Richard Paul Evans (audiobooks)
Divergent by Veronica Roth (ebooks, audiobooks)
Incoming Seventh and 8th Grade
Swing by Kwame Alexander (audiobook)
House Arrest by K.A. Holt (ebook, audiobook)
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (audiobook)
Allies by Alan Gratz (audiobook)
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (ebook, audiobook)
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick (ebook, audiobook)
Life as We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer (ebook)
Lightlark by Alex Aster (ebook)
It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas (ebook)
Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu (ebook)
Cinder by Marissa Meyer (audiobook)
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera (ebook, audiobook)
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore (ebook, audiobook)
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery (audiobook)
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson (audiobook)
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults by Robin Wall Kimmerer (ebook, audiobook)
Middle Grade Graphic Novels
El Deafo by Cece Bell (ebook)
Big Bad Ironclad! by Nathan Hale (ebook)
Sheets by Brenna Thummler (ebook)
Play Like a Girl by Misty Wilson (ebook)
Camp by Kayla Miller (ebook)
Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel by Mariah Marsden (ebook)
Primer by Jennifer Muro and Thomas Krajewski (ebook)
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan and Robert Venditti (ebook)
Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin (ebook)
Teen Graphic Novels
Nimona by N.D. Stevens (ebook, audiobook)
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha (ebook)
They Called Us Enemy by George Taki (ebook)
March: Book One by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin (ebook)
High School Courses
11th Grade AP English
Nonfiction:
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (ebook, audiobook)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers (audiobook)
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (audiobook)
Fiction:
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (ebook)
1984 by George Orwell (ebook)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (ebook, audiobook)
12th Grade AP English
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (required)(ebook)
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (required) (audiobook)
The below titles are suggestions for AP English that are all available on Hoopla:
A Delicate Balance and Seascape by Edward Albee
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents; In the Time of Butterflies; In the Name of Salome, by Julia Alvarez
A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian
Bleak House; Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyesvsky
Silas Marner; Adam Bebe by George Eliot
The Last Report on Miracles at Little No Horse; Four Souls; The Antelope Woman; The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Passage to India; A Room with a View by E.M. Foster
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard
The Long Home by William Gay
The Power and the Glory; The Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
Jude the Obscure; The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Blithedale Romance; The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Doll’s House; The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
The Cider House Rules; A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Ulysses; Dubliners by James Joyce
The Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Sons and Lovers; The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
Halfway House by Katharine Noel
Marya; Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates
Pygmalion; Saint Joan; Man and Superman by George B. Shaw
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Possessing the Secret of Joy; Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
Scoop; The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Lady Windermere’s Fan; An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
To The Lighthouse; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
SUPA Presidential Speaking Students
Talk Like TED by Carmine Gallo (audio only)
Adelphi Dramatic Literature Students
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
