Sweet 16 Vote 2021 Tournament of Books

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The following books were some of the TOP 16 books read this year. Please Vote on your favorite choices.

𝕄𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕪/𝕊𝕦𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕖: 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙫𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙇𝙞𝙚𝙨 *

𝕎𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕓𝕪 𝕍𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕒 𝕃𝕒𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕖: Sixteen-year-old Maddie Flynn cannot help but see the death date of everyone she meets or sees in a photograph or on-screen, and her alcoholic mother exploits this by having her do readings for money, but when Maddie predicts the death of a young boy, she becomes the center of an FBI investigation.

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕣 𝕠𝕗 𝕃𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕓𝕪 ℂ𝕁 𝕃𝕪𝕠𝕟𝕤: High school senior Ella Cleary, whose synesthesia causes her to see colors with each interaction, must question everything she knows about her life when journalism student Alec investigates her parents' death.

ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝔽𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟: 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙫𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛 *

𝔾𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝕓𝕪 𝔸𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕫: On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, 14-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will change his life forever.

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕖𝕗 𝕓𝕪 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕦𝕤 ℤ𝕦𝕤𝕒𝕜: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

𝔽𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕪: 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙖𝙡 𝙫𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 *

ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕧𝕒𝕝 𝕓𝕪 𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕡𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕖 𝔾𝕒𝕣𝕓𝕖𝕣: Two sisters, Scarlett and Tella, leave their cruel father to attend Caraval--a faraway once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show--and, along the way, Tella is kidnapped and Scarlett is aided by a mysterious sailor and finds herself enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic.

𝕋𝕙𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝔾𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕤 𝕓𝕪 𝕊𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕙 𝕄𝕒𝕒𝕤: After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.

ℍ𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕣: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙝 𝙫𝙨. 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚 *

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔽𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕠𝕗 ℍ𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕋𝕖𝕖𝕥𝕙 𝕓𝕪 ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕖 ℝ𝕪𝕒𝕟: Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.

𝔾𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕄𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕖 𝕓𝕪 ℙ𝕒𝕥𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕜 ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕟: Ryan, who records all of his findings in his journal, and Sarah, who uses her video camera to document everything, continue to search for answers surrounding the strange occurrences in their hometown of Skeleton Creek.

ℝ𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙖𝙪𝙡𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙫𝙨. 𝙏𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 *

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔽𝕒𝕦𝕝𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕆𝕦𝕣 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕤 𝕓𝕪 𝕁𝕠𝕙𝕟 𝔾𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕟: Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

𝕋𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕓𝕪 𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕖 𝕄𝕖𝕪𝕖𝕣: Seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, where she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

𝕊𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝔽𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟: 𝘾𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙫𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙯𝙚 𝙍𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧 *

ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔽𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝕓𝕪 𝕊𝕦𝕫𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕖 ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕤: By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕄𝕒𝕫𝕖 ℝ𝕦𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕣 𝕓𝕪 𝕁𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝔻𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕟𝕖𝕣: Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕔 𝔽𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟: 𝙇𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘼𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙖 𝙫𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙐 𝙂𝙞𝙫𝙚 *

𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝔸𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕜𝕒 𝕓𝕪 𝕁𝕠𝕙𝕟 𝔾𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕟: Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕌 𝔾𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕓𝕪 𝔸𝕟𝕘𝕚𝕖 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕤: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. These worlds are shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.

𝔸𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟/𝔸𝕕𝕧𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖: 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣'𝙨 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙫𝙨. 𝘾𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙞𝙧𝙚 *

𝔹𝕣𝕚𝕒𝕟'𝕤 𝕎𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕓𝕪 𝔾𝕒𝕣𝕪 ℙ𝕒𝕦𝕝𝕤𝕖𝕟: Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.

ℂ𝕣𝕠𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕎𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝕓𝕪 𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝 ℍ𝕠𝕓𝕓𝕤: Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.

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