Cool Reads for Hot Days
Hot enough for ya? It's so hot, the cactus are melting. It's so hot, the lizards are walking on stilts. It's so hot, you might as well stay inside and read some books set in cold places. For teens: The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean A troubled fourteen-year-old is taken to Antarctica by a man she thinks of as her uncle. She believes this is a vacation but then she discovers that he’s obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of the Earth. Frozen by Mary Casanova When Sadie Rose was five, she was found nearly frozen in the snow, her prostitute mother dead nearby. Now sixteen, she remains unable to speak. After discovering some risqué pictures of her mother, her voice slowly returns and she is determined to learn more about her mother and the events that led to her violent death. Set in 1920 in northern Minnesota along the Canadian border. Towering by Alexandra Flinn A retelling of ...