The 12 Books of Christmas

12 Books of Christmas

Alex

 is on his own when a super volcano in

Yellowstone erupts in Mike Mullin’s Ashfall (2011).

Number of Will Graysons in Will Grayson,    

Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan (2010).

Love triangle between Katniss, Peeta, & Gale

from the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins (2008).

The main character’s name in I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (2011 Teens Top Ten)

The # of after-school jobs Karl has in John Barnes’ Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance 1973 (2009).

Best friends since they were 6, 9th-graders T.C. and Augie have figured things out,  but that changes when they both fall in love for the 1st time in Steve Kruger’s My Most Excellent Year: a Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, & Fenway Park  (2008).

Seven teens find themselves trapped inside a rural high school during a terrible blizzard and not all will survive in Michael Northrop’s Trapped (2011).

James Patterson’s Nevermore (2012) is #8, the last in the Maximum Ride series.

Nine stories (or innings), linked by baseball and Brooklyn, follows successive generations of a single family in Alan Gratz’s The Brooklyn Nine: a Novel in Nine Innings (2009).

Tessa’s list contains 10 items that she wants to do before she dies in Before I Die by Jenny Downham (2007).

A teen plans to “disappear” and be found after 11 days in a scheme to make her college admission chances better in Eireann Corrigan’s Accomplice (2010).

Twelve energy dragons named for animals  from the Chinese zodiac exist in Eon (2008) by Alison Goodman.

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Sharon Rawlins, currently reading Thirteen Days to Midnight by Patrick Carman

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