Grasshopper Jungle
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, February 2014:Andrew Smith’sGrasshopper Jungledefies easy description.  To say that it’s a wild, over-the-top story of male adolescence, science gone wrong,  the end of the world, and giant praying mantises sounds a little bit insane.  And doesn’t begin to touch the warm and fuzzy bits (honesty, love, connection) that are a large part of what makes this book great.  Narrator Austin Szerba is a unique historian of momentous things, including the nature of history itself, and his chronicle of family, how the end of the world began beside a dumpster in his small Iowa town, and what life is like when you’re sixteen and in love with two people, is something you won’t want to miss. --Seira Wilson