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GRADES 9-10 READING LIST

2011-2012

MILTON HIGH SCHOOL

 

Top Ten Best Books fro Young Adults     Alex Awards     Green Mountain Book Awards     Michael Printz Awards     2007 Teens' Top Ten Books     Biography/Auto-Bio/Memoir      Classics      Fantasy/Sci-Fi     Graphic Novels    Non-Fiction     Historical Fiction      Realistic Fiction     Sports/Adventure     Suspense/Mystery    Verse                      

YALSA Top Ten Best Books For Young Adults

Brennan, Sarah Rees                     Demon’s Lexicon
Griffin, Paul                                 The Orange Houses
Herlong, M.H.                              The Great Wide Sea
Jinks, Catherine                            The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Napoli, Donna Jo                          Alligator Bayou
Small, David                                Stitches: A Memoir
Stead, Rebecca                            When You Reach Me
Stork, Francisco X.                        Marcelo in the Real World
Taylor, Laini                                Lips Touch: Three Times
Walker, Sally M.                           Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland

 

 

2011 Alex Awards

Bell,Alden                                   The Reapers Are the Angels: A Novel
Bender, Aimee                             The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel
Bognanni, Peter                           The House of Tomorrow
Donoghue, Emma                        Room: A Novel
Grant, Helen                               The Vanishing of Katharina Linden: A Novel 
Haig, Matt                                  The Radleys
Hamilton, Steve                           The Lock Artist
Kwok, Jean                                Girl in Translation
Murray, Liz                                           Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
Pierson, DC                                 The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To

 

 

Green Mountain Book Awards (Nominated Titles)

(Vote for your favorite in April during National Library Week)

Benioff, David                              City of Thieves
Anderson, Laurie Halse                  Wintergirls
Barnes, John                               Tales of the Madman Underground
Black, Holly and Cecil Castelucci       Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
Connolly, John                             The Book of Lost Things
Doctorow, Cory                            Little Brother
Going, K.L.                                  King of the Screwups
Kelly, Joe                                    I Kill Giants
Lacour, Nina                                Hold Still
Ness, Patrick                               The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patterson, James & Hal Friedman    Med Head: My Knock-down, Drag-out, Drugged-up Battle with my Brain
Pratchett, Terry                           Nation
Price, Katherine                            101 Places Not to See Before You Die
Sitomer, Alan Lawrence                  The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez
Stork, Francisco X.                        Marcelo in the Real World
Yancy, Rick                                 Monstrumologist

 

 

Michael Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

Bacigalupi, Paolo                           Ship Breaker
Honorable Mention:
Christopher, Lucy                         Stolen
King, A.S.                                   Please Ignore Vera Dietz
Sedgwick, Marcus                         Revolver
Teller, Janne                               Nothing

Nominations for the 2011 Teens’ Top Ten Books

(Vote for your favorites during Teen Read Week, October 12-18, 2011)

Bachorz, Pam                             Drought
Beam, Cris                                 I Am J
Beaudoin, Sean                          You Killed Wesley Payne
Black, Holly and Justine Larbalestier       Zombies vs. Unicorns
Card, Orson Scott                       The Lost Gate
Clare, Cassandra                        The Clockwork Angel.
Collins, Suzanne                         Mockingjay
Collins, Yvonne                          Love, Inc
Condie, Ally                               Matched
Cremer, Andrea                         Nightshade
Fitzpatrick, Becca                        Crescendo
Grant, Michael                            Lies
Hawkins, Rachel                         Demonglass
Hakwins, Rachel                         Hex Hall
Kagawa, Julie                             The Iron King
Lore, Pittacus                             I Am Number Four
Moore, Peter                              Red Moon Rising
Nelson, Jandy                            The Sky is Everywhere
Oliver, Lauren                            Before I Fall
O’Neal, Ellis                               The False Princess
Patterson, James                        Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel
Pearce, Jackson                          Sisters Red
Smith, Cynthia Leitich                 Blessed
Westerfeld, Scott                        Behemoth
White, Kiersten                           Paranormalcy

Vermont Reads

Katherine Patterson                      The Day of the Pelican

Biography/Auto-biography / Memoir

Ackerman, Deborah            The Zookeeper’s Wife
Ahmed, Farah                    The Story of my Life
Anonymous                       It Happened to Nancy
Anonymous                       Go Ask Alice                               
Beah, Ishmael                             A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Bernstein, Harry                 The Invisible Wall
Brown, Cupcake                 A Piece of Cake
Fleming, Candace               The Great and Only Barnum:The Tremendous Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum
Frank, Anne                       The Diary of Anne Frank
Heiligman, Deborah             Charles and Emma: The Darwin’s Leap of Faith
Hoose, Phillip M.                 Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Houston, Jeanne                Farewell to Manzanar
Jimenez, Francisco              The Circuit
Kamara, Mariatu                 The Bite of the Mango
Krull, Kathleen                    Leonardo de Vinci
Mah, Adeline                      Chinese Cinderella:  The Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Myers, Walter Dean            Bad Boy
Pelzer, David                      A Child Called It
Polly, Matthew                    American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch
Rhodes-Courter, Ashley        Three Little Words
Roose, Kevin                     The Unlikely Desciple:A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University
Scott, Robyn                      Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
Sheff, David                      Beautiful Boy
Sheff, Nic                          Tweak
Shields, Charles                  I am Scout
Small, David                       Stitches: A Memoir
Sparks, Beatrice, ed.           Annie’s Baby
Ung, Loung                       First They Killed My Father / Lucky Child
Walls, Jeannette                 Glass Castle, Half Broke Horses
Welch, Diana and L. Welch   The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir

 

Classics and Classic Connections

Adams, Richard                  Watership Down
Alcott, Louisa May               Little Women, Little Men
Austen, Jane                     Pride and Prejudice
Bradbury, Ray                    The Martian Chronicles
Bronte, Charlotte                Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre        
Dickens, Charles                 Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities
Doyle, Arthur Conan            Sherlock Holmes stories       
Homer                              The Illiad
McCullers, Carson               The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Pasternak, Boris                 Dr. Zhivago
Patton, Alan                       Cry the Beloved Country
Rand, Ayn                         Anthem
Remarque, Erich Maria         All Quiet on the Western Front       
Shakespeare, William            Othello, As You Like It
Stevenson, Robert Louis       Treasure Island
Smith, Betty                      A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Swift, Jonathon                   Gulliver’s Travels
Vonnegut, Kurt                   Slaughterhouse Five
Lester, Julius                      Othello (retelling)

Cover Image Fantasy / Science Fiction

 

Abbot, Ellen Jensen             Watersmeet
Anderson, Laurie H.             Feed
Black, Holly                        Tithe (series)
Blubaugh, Penny                 Serendipity Market
Booraem, Ellen                   The Unnameables
Bradley, Marion Zimmer       Firebrand / Mists of Avalon
Bradbury, Ray                    Fahrenheit 451
Bray,   Libba                      A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, Sweet Far Thing, Going Bovine
Brennan, Sarah Rees           Demon’s Lexicon
Card,   Orson                     Ender’s Game
Carriger, Gail                      Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel
Cashore, Kristine                 Graceling, Fire
Cast, P.C and Kristin            Marked (series)
Chima, Cinda Williams          The Wizard Heir
Clare, Cassanddra               City of Bones (series)
Clayton< Emma                 The Roar
Clement-Moore, Rosemary   Highway to Hell
Colfer, Eoin                        The Wish List
Collins, Suzanne                  The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay
Crichton, Michael                 Prey
Crowley, Suzane Carlisle       The Stolen One
Currie, Ron                        Everything Matters!
Delaney, Joseph                 Revenge of the Witch
DuMaurier, Daphne             Rebecca
Enzensberger, Hans             The Number Devil
Farmer,  Nancy                  Sea of Trolls
Fisher, Catherine                 Corbenic, Incarceron
Flinn, Alex                         Beastly
Fukui, Isamu                     Truancy
Funke, Cornelia                   The Thief Lord
Gaiman, Neil                      Anansi Boys, The Graveyard Book                               
Garcia, Kami and M. Stohl     Beautiful Creatures
George, Jessica Day            Princess of the Midnight Ball
Giles, Gai                           What Happened to Cass McBride
Gill, David Macinnin              Soul Enchilada
Golding, Julia                      Dragonfly
Goodman, Alison                 Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
Griffin, Adele                      Where I Want to Be
Grossman, Lev                            The Magicians
Hardinge, Frances               The Lost Conspiracy
Harris, Joanne                    Runemarks
Hautman, Pete                   Rash
Hoffman, Alice                             Green Angel. Green Witch
Huxley, Aldous                             Brave New World
Jenkins, A.M.                     Night Road
Jinks, Catherine                  The Reformed Vampire Support Group
King, A.S.                          The Dust of 100 Dogs
Klass, David                       Firestorm (sequel: Whirlwind)
Knox, Elizabeth                   Dreamquake (Dreamhunter series)
Larbalestier, Justine             Liar
LeGuin, Ursula                    Gifts (series)
Lowry, Lois                        Gathering Blue, Messenger
MacHale, D.J.                     Pendragon series (Book #1: The Merchant of Death)
Marillier, Juliet                     Wildwood Dancing
Marr, Melissa                     Wicked Lovely (sequel: Ink Exchange)
Marriott, Zoë                      Daughter of the Flames
McKinley, Robin and P. Dickinson      Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits
McMann, Lisa                     Wake
Mead, Richelle                    Vampire Academy
Meyer, Stephanie                Twilight (series)
Miller, Kirsten                     Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City
Moran, Katy                      Bloodline
Nance, Andrew                   Daemon Hall
Napoli, Donna Jo                 Daughter of Venice
Ness, Patrick                      The Knife of Never Letting Go
Nix, Joan L.                       Sabriel (series)
Noël, Alyson                      Evermore
Novick, Naomi                    His Majesty’s Dragon
Oppel, Kenneth                  Airborn (Skybreaker)
Paolini, Christopher              Eragon  (Eldest)
Patterson, James                Maximum Ride (series), Witch and Wizard
Pearson, Mary                             The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Pferrer, Susan Beth             Life As We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone
Pierce, Tamora                  Trickster’s Choice (series), Melting Stones
Pratchett, Terry                 Nation
Pullman, Philip                     His Dark Materials trilogy (Book #1: Golden Compass)
Rodda, Emily                      Deltora Quest series (Book #1: Dragon’s Nest)
Rosoff , Meg                     How I Live Now
Rothfuss, Patrick                 The Name of the Wind
Rowling, J.K.                      Harry Potter (series)
Ryan, Carrie                      The  Forest of Hands and Teeth
Sedgewick, Marcus              My Swordhand is Swinging
Selfors, Suzanne                 Saving Juliet
Shan, Darren                     Cirque du Freak (series)
Shusterman, Neal               Unwind
Simmons, Michael               Finding Lubchenko
Smith, Cynthia Leitich           Eternal
St. Crow, Lili                       Strange Angels
Standiford, Natalie               How to Say Goodbye in Robot
Stiefvater, Maggie               Shiver, Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception
Stroud, Jonathon                Bartimaeus Trilogy (Book #1: The Amulet of Samarkand), Heroes of the Valley           
Swanwick, Michael               The Dragons of Babel
Tanigawa, Nagaru               The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Taylor, Laini                       Lips Touch: Three Times
Thompson, Kate                New Policeman
Tolkein, J.R.R.                    The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings (series)
Turner, Megan Whelan        Attolia (series)
Vizzini, Ned                        Be More Chill
Warn, Rachel                     Numbers
Waters, Daniel                             Generation Dead
Whitcomb, Laura                A Certain Slant of Light
Wooding, Chris                   Poison
Wooding, Chris                   Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
Yancey, Rick                      The Monstrumologist
Yep, Laurence                             City of Fire
Zevin, Gabrielle                   Elsewhere

Graphic novels

Busiek, Kurt and Alex Ross   Marvels
Colfer, Eoin                        Artemis Fowl
Jacobson, Sid                     The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
Jemas, Bill                         Ultimate Spider-Man, vol. 1 Power and
                                       Responsibility
Kibuishi, Kazu                     Amulet: The Stone Keeper
Mariko, Tammaki and Jillian   Skim
Pyle, Kevin                        Blind Spot
Satrapi, Marjane                 Persepolis
Small, David                       Stitches
Spiegelman, Art                  Maus I and Maus II
Tan, Shaun                       The Arrival, Tales from Outer Suburbia
Trudeau, G. B.                   The Long Road Home
Vaughn, Brian                     Runaways (series)
Vaughn, Brian                    Pride of Baghdad
Yang, Gene Luen                American Born Chinese, The Eternal Smile

Non-fiction 

Arbur, Said Hyder               Come Back to Afghanistan
Almond, Steve                   Candyfreak
Bartoletti, Susan                 Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow
Beers, Thom                     How to Customize Damn Near Anything
Benchley, Peter                 Shark Trouble
Benanav, Michael              Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold
Blais, Madeleine                In these Girls Hope is a Muscle
Bradley, James                  Flags of our Fathers
Byrne, Rhonda                             The Secret
Canfield, Jack                     Chicken Soup for the Soul
Casey, Susan                     The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Survival and Obsession among America’s Great White Sharks
Chandrasekaran, Rajav        Imperial Life in the Emeral City
Covey, Stephen                  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens
Deem, James M.                Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii; Bodies from the Bog
Dendy, Leslie and Mel Boring Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Expermenters in Science and Medicine
Finkel, David                      The Good Soldiers
Fleischmann,  Paul              Phineas Gage
Frank, Mitch                      Understanding September 11
Gallo, Donald                      Owning It: Stories about Teens with Disabilities
Gourevitch, Phillip                We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Gray, Theodore                  The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
Hantman, Clea                   30 Days to Getting over the Dork You Used to Call Your Boyfriend
Hersey, John                     Hiroshima
Jansen, Hanna                   Over a Thousand Hills
Kamkwamba, William and B. Mealer TheBoy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
Koff, Clea                          The Bone Woman
Lehman, Carolyn                Strong at the Heart
Mann, Charles C.                Before Columbus
Margulies, Philip and M. Rosaler Devil on Trial
Mason, Nick                       Inside Out
Morgenstern, Julie               Organizing from the Inside Out for Teenagers
Mortenson, Greg                Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time
Murphy, Jim                      Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
Nelson, Peter                     Left for Dead
Owen, David                      Hidden Evidence: 40 True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve them
Parrado, Nando                  Miracle in the Andes
Partridge, Elizabeth              Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary
Paul, Eddie                        The Cars of the Fast and the Furious
Polly, Matthew                    American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of the Crotch
Philbrick, Nathaniel               Revenge of the Whale
Ralston, Aron                     Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Rodriguez, Deborah             Kabul Beauty School
Rogers, Fred                      The World According to Mister Rogers
Schlosser, Eric                    Chew on This
Schmemann, Serge             When the Wall Came Down
Sheets, Bob                       Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth
Stark, Peter                       Last Breath: The Limits of Adventure
Stone, Tanya Lee               Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
Swanson, James L.             Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
Tarbox, Katherine               Katie.com
Vose, Ken                         Inside Monster Garage
Vowell, Sarah                     Assassination Vacation
Walker, Sally M.                  Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland

Historical Fiction

Alexander, Robert              The Kitchen Boy
Almond, David                  Fire Eaters
Alvarez, Julia                     How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,  Before We Were Free, In the Time of Butterflies
Anderson, M.T.                  The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing (series)
Auel, Jean M.                     Clan of the Cave Bear
Avi                                   Crispin (series)
Bagdasarian, Adam             Forgotten Fire
Barrett, Tracy                    Anna of Byzantium
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell     The Boy who Dared
Beareat, Ibtesau                Tasting the Sky
Bennioff, David                   City of Thieves
Benson, Ann                      The Plague Tales
Boyne, John                      The Boy in Striped Pajamas
Brooks, Geraldine                Year of Wonder, People of the Book
Bruchac, Josheph               Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War II
Cadnum, Michael                The Book of the Lion
Chambers, Aidan                Postcards from No Man’s Land
Chevalier, Tracy                 Girl with a Pearl Earring
Choi, Sook Nyul                  Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Chotjewitz, David                Daniel Half Human
Clements, Andrew               I Tell a Lie Every so Often
Cooney, Caroline                 Enter Three Witches
Cooper, Michelle                 A Brief History of Montmaray
Cormier, Robert                  Heroes
Crow, Chris                        Mississippi Trial, 1955
Cullen, Lynn                       I am Rembrandt’s Daughter
Cushman, Karen                 The Loud Silence of Francine Green
Dallas, Sandra                    Tallgrass
Davies, Jacqueline               Lost
Dickinson, Peter                  A Bone from a Dry Sea
Doig, Ivan                         The Whistling Season
Donnelly, Jennifer                A Northern Light
Dowswell, Paul                    Battle Fleet
Draper, Sharon M.              Romiette and Julio
Eggers, Dave                     What is the What
Ehrlich, Gretel                     A Blizzard Year
Fine, Anne                         The Road of Bones
Fletcher, Christine               Ten Cents a Dance
Foer, Jonathan                   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Follett, Ken                        Pillars of the Earth
Friesner, Esther                  Nobody’s Princess, Nobody’s Prize
Garden, Nancy                   Dove and Sword: A Novel of Joan of Arc
Geras, Adele                      Troy
Godberson, Anna                The Luxe (series)
Grant, K.M.                       Granville Trilogy (Blood Red Horse, Green Jasper, Blaze of Silver)
Gratz, Alan                        Samurai Shortstop, Something Rotten
Grey, Christopher                 Leonardo’s Shadow 
Hausman, Gerald & Loretta   Escape from Botany Bay
Hautzig, Esther                   The Endless Steppe
Hearn, Julie                       The Minister’s Daughter
Hoffman, Alice                   Incantation
Hoopen, Mary                    News from the Dead
Hosseini, Khaled                 The Kite Runner,  A Thousand Splendid Suns
Jordan, Hillary                    Mudbound
Kelly, Jacqueline                  The Evolutionof Calpurnia Tate
Kidd, Ronald                      Monkey Town
Klein, Lisa                          Ophelia
Larson, Kirby                     Hattie Big Sky
Lester, Julius                      Pharaoh’s Daughter
Levine, Kristine                   The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
Little, Melanie                     The Apprentice’s Masterpiece
Magoon, Kekla                   The Rock and the River
McKernan, Victoria              The Devil’s Paintbox
McLaren, Clemence             Inside the Walls of Troy, Waiting for Odysseus
Moranville, Sharelle              A Higher Geometry
Myers, Anna                      Tulsa Burning,
Nanji, Shenaaz                   Child of Dandelions
Napoli, Donna Jo                 Sirena (series), A Stone in Water (series), Bound, Alligator Bayou
Oaks, J. Adams                  Why I Fight
Otsuka, Julie                      When the Emperor was Divine
Park, Linda Sue                  When my Name was Keoko
Patterson, Katherine            Bread and Roses
Peet, Mal                          Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion and Betrayal
Sayres, Meghan                 Anahita’s Woven Riddle
Sheth, Kashmira                 Keeping Corner
Smith, Sherri L.                   Flygirl
Spinelli, Jerry                      Milkweed
Stockett, Kathryn                The Help
Tinti, Hannah                     The Good Thief
Vreeland, Susan                 The Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Welsh, T.K.                       The Unresolved
Westerfield, Scott               Leviathan
Wulffson, Don L.                Soldier X
Yolen , Jane                      Girl in a Cage, Queen’s Own Fool
Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn        Floating Circus
Zindel, Paul                        The Gadget
Zusak, Markus                             The Book Thief

Realistic Fiction

Adlington, L. J.                   The Diary of Pelly D.
Alexie, Sherman                 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Anderson, Laurie H.             Prom, Twisted, Wintergirls
Aronson, Sarah                  Head Case
Asher, Jay                         Thirteen Reasons Why
Barnes, John                     Tales of the Madman Underground
Bauer, Joan                       Hope was Here, Peeled
Bennett, Cherie                  Life in the Fat Lane
Black, Holly and C. Castellucci (ed.)  Geektastic, Stories from the Nerd Herd
Block, Frencesca                 Weetzie Bat
Brown, Jennifer                  Hate List
Budhos, Marina                  Ask Me No Questions
Burg, Anne E.                    All the Broken Pieces
Cabot, Meg                       Avalon High, Jinx
Caletti, Deb                       Honey, Baby, Sweetheart; Searching for Prince Charming
Cameron, Peter                  Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Castellucci, Cecil                  Boy Proof
Chen, Justina                     North of Beautiful
Chaltas, Talia                     Because I am Furniture
Clarke, Judith                      One Whole and Perfect Day
Conner, Leslie                    Waiting for Normal
Craft, Elizabeth and Sarah Fain        Footfree and Fancy Loose (series)
Crane, E. M.                      Skin Deep
Crutcher, Chris                   Deadline, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Curtis, Paul                        Bucking the Sarge
Davis, Tanita                     Mare’s War
de la Pena, Matt                 Mexican Whiteboy, We Were Here
Deaver, Julie R.                  Say Goodnight, Gracie
Dessen, Sarah                             Dreamland, The Truth about Forever, This Lullaby, Lock and Key, Just                                Listen, Along for the Ride
Doctorow, Cory                  Little Brother
Dowd, Siobhan                   A Swift Pure Cry, Solace of the Road
Downham, Jenny                Before I Die
Dunn, Mark                       Ella Minnow Pea
Efaw, Amy                        After
Ellis, Ann Dee                     This is What I Did
Farmer, Nancy                             The House of the Scorpion
Fitzpatrick, Becca                hiush, hush
Fleischman, Paul                 Whirligig
Flinn, Alex                         Breathing Underwater, Breaking Point, Diva
Forman, Gayle                             If I Stay
Gallagher, Liz                     The Opposite of Invisible
Garsee, Jeannine                Say the Word
Going, K.L.                        Fat Kid Rules the World, Saint Iggy
Goobie, Beth                      The Lottery, Hello, Groin
Green, John                       An Abundance of Katherines, Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns
Griffin, Paul                        The Orange Houses
Haddix, Margaret                Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
Hahn, Mary D.                   December Stillness
Halpern, Julie                     Into the Wild Nerd Yonder
Han, Jenny                        The Summer I Turned Pretty
Hautman, Pete                   Godless, Invisible
Headley, Justina                 North of Beautiful
Herlong, M.H.                    The Great Wide Sea
Hernandez, David               No More Us for You
Hornby, Nick                      Slam
Hurwin, Davida                   A Time for Dancing
Hyde, Catherine                 Pay it Forward
Jenkins, A. M.                    Repossessed
Johnson, Angela                 First Part Last
Johnson, Louanne               Muchacho
Johnson, Maureen              13 Little Blue Envelopes, Suite Scarlet
Juby, Susan                       Alice, I Think
Kantor, Melissa                    Confessions of a Not It Girl
Katcher, Brian                    Almost Perfect
Kjelgaard, Jim                    Big Red (series)
Klass, David                       You Don’t Know Me
Kluger, Steve                     My Most Excellent Year
Korman, Gordon                 Born to Rock, Swindle
Knowles, Jo                       Lessons from a Dead Girl, Jumping off Swings
Kyle, Aryn                         The God of Animals
LaCour, Nina                      Hold Still
Lansins, Lori                       The Girls
Lee, Marie                         Finding My Voice
Levithan, David                  Boy Meets Boy
Lieb, Josh                          I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President
Lockhart, E.                       The Boyfriend List, Fly on the Wall, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, The Treasure Map of Boys
Lubar, David                      Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie: A Novel
Lyga, Barry                       Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
Lynch, Chris                       Inexcusable
Mackler, Carolyn                 The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
Madigan, L.D.                    Flash Burnout
Malloy, Brian                      Twelve Long Months
Marchetta, Melina               Jellicoe Road, Saving Francesca
Maynard, Joyce                  Usual Rules
Mazer, Norma Fox              After the Rain
McCormick, Patricia             Cut, Purple Heart
McDaniel, Lurlene                Until Angels Close My Eyes, Don’t Die My Love
Meminger, Neesha              Shine Coconut Moon
Miller-Lachman, Lyn             Gringolandia
Monninger, Joseph              Baby
Myers, Walter D.                Monster, Sunrise over  Fallujah
Na, An                             A Step from Heaven
Noel, Alyson                      Saving Zoe
Oates, Joyce Carol              After the Wreck I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings and Flew Away;
                                      Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
Ockler, Sarah                     Twenty Boy Summer
O’Neill, Heather                  Lullabies for Little Criminals
Paulsen, Gary                    The Car
Pearson, Mary E.                Scribbler of Dreams, Adoration of Jenna Fox, The Miles Between
Peters, Julie Ann                 Define “Normal”, By the Time You Read This, I’ll be Dead
Philbrick, Rodman                Freak the Mighty
Picoult, Jodi                        My Sister’s Keeper
Prose, Francine                  After
Quick, Matthew                  Sorta Like a Rockstar
Rapp, Adam                      Under the Wolf, Under the Dog; Punkzilla
Rebeck, Theresa                Three Girls and Their Brother
Reinhardt, Dana                 How to Build a House
Resau, Laura                     Red Glass
Runyon, Brent                    Surface
Scott, Elizabeth                   Living Dead Girl; Love You, Hate You
Schreiber, Mark                  Star Crossed
Slade, Arthur                      Tribes
Stein, Tammar                   Light Years: A Novel
Stolarz, Laurie Faria             Project 17
Stork, Francisco                  Marcelo in the Real World
Strasser, Todd                   The Wave, Give a Boy a Gun
Stratton, Allan                    Chandra’s Secret
Tashjian, Janet                  Gospel According to Larry
Thompson, Kate                Creature of the Night
Trueman, Terry                 Stuck in Neutral
Tucker, Todd                     Over and Under
Valentine, Jenny                 Broken Soup
Vivian, Siobhan                   Same Difference
Vizzini, Nick                        It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Vorhees, Coert                   The Brothers Torres
Vrettos, Adrienne Maria        Skin
Wallace, Rich                     One Good Punch
Warman, Jessica                Breathless
Weeks, Susan                    So B. It
Weingarten, Lynn               Wherever Nina Lies
Weiss, Laura                      Such a Pretty Girl
Werlin, Nancy                    Impossible, Rules of Survival
Westerfield, Scott               Uglies, Extras, So Yesterday
Williams-Garcia, Rita             Jumped
Wilson, Kevin                     Tunneling to the Center of the Earth

Wittlinger, Ellen                   Sandpiper; Heart on My Sleeve
Wyatt, Milissa                    Funny How Things Change
Yee, Lisa                          Absolutely Maybe
Zarr, Sara                         Story of a Girl and Sweethearts, Once Was Lost
Zulkey, Clair                       An Off Year

Cover Image Sports / Adventure 

Alexander, Caroline              The Endurance
Carter, Alden                     Love, Football and Other Contact Sports
Cox, Lynne                        Swimming to Antarctica
Coy, John                         Crackback
Crutcher, Chris                   Athletic Shorts, Deadline
Fainaro-Wada, Mark            Game of Shadows
Hobbs, Will                        Wild Man’s Island, Downriver, River Thunder (sequel)
Jeter, Derek                      Game Day
Jones, Lloyd                      Mister Pip
Klass, David                       Danger Zone
Krakauer, Jon                     Into Thin Air
Lupica, Mike                       Heat
Lewis, Michael                    Coach
Lipsyte, Robert                   Raiders Night
Makaelsen, Ben                  Touching Spirit Bear
McKissack, Frederick            Shooting Star
Miller, Timothy and Steve Milton      NASCAR Now
Murdock, Catherine             Dairy Queen, The Off Season
Myers, Walter D.                Hoops, Slam, The Outside Shot
Nelson, Kadir                     We are the Ship: Story of Negro Baseball League
Ortiz, David                       Big Papi
Parrado, Nando                  Miracle in the Andes
Patterson, James                Maximum Ride: School’s Out - Forever
Pena, de la Matt                 Mexican Whiteboy
Read, Paul                        Alive, The Story of the Andes Survivors
Rock, Peter                       My Abandonment
Rosoff, Meg                      The Bride’s Farewell
Smelcer, John                    The Trap
Smith, Andrew                    In the Path of Falling Objects
Smith, Roland                     Peak
Sweeny, Joyce                   Players
Swenson, Julie                    Going for the Record
Tharp, Tim                        Knights of Hill Country
Volponi, Paul                      Black and White
Wallace, Rich                     Playing Without the Ball

Suspense / Mystery

Abrahams, Pater                Reality Check
Alphin, Elaine M.                 The Perfect Shot
Bredes, Don                      The Fifth Season
Broach, Elise                      Desert Crossing
Brooks, Kevin                     Road of the Dead, Being
Carter, Ally                        I’d Tell You I Love You but Then I’d Have to Kill You, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, Heist Society
Cooney, Caroline                 Fatality
Cormier, Robert                  After the First Death
Couloumbis, Audrey             Say Yes
Deaver,  Julie R.                 The Night I Disappeared
Doctorow, Cory                  Little Brother
Doyle, Arthur Conan            Hound of the Baskervilles
Ferguson, Alane                 The Christopher Killer, The Angel of Death, Circle of Blood
Ferraris, Zoë                      Finding Nouf
Galloway, Gregory               As Simple as Snow
Giles, Gail                          Shattering Glass, What Happened to Cass McBride
Grisham, John                    The Brethren
Jaramillo, Ann                     LaLinea
Jinks, Catherine                  Evil Genius
King, Stephen                    Just After Sunset: Stories
Lanagan, Margo                 Red Spikes
LeCarre, John                    Absolute Friends
Ludlum, Robert                   The Bourne Identity (series)
Madison, Bennett                Lulu Dark Can See through Walls
Mazer, Norma                    Missing Girl
McCall-Smith, Alexander       The Ladies’ Number One Detective Agency
McCaughrean, Geraldine       The White Darkness
McDonald, Joyce                Shades of Simon Grey
McNamee, Graham             Acceleration
McNeal, Laura                    Crooked
Morgenroth, Kate               Jude
Pierce, Tamora                  Bloodhound
Plum-Ucci, Carol                  The Boyd of Christopher Creed
Roman, Gordon                  Son of the Mob series
Sorrells, Walter                   Fake I.D.
Stead, Rebecca                  When You Reach Me
VandeVelde, Vivian              All Hallows Eve (13 Stories)
Watson, Jude                    Premonition
Werlin, Nancy                    The Double Helix
Westerfield, Scott               Peeps, Uglies
Winspear, Jacqueline           Maisie Dobbs
Wynne-Jones, Tim              A Thief in the House of Memory,The Uninvited
Zusak, Markus                   I am the Messenger

Verse

Barlow, Toby                     Sharp Teeth
Burg, Ann                         All the Broken Pieces
Bryant, Jen                       The Trial
Frost, Helen                       Keesha’s House, The Braid, Diamond Willow, Crossing Stones
Glenn, Mel                         Split Image
Hemphill, Stephanie             Your Own Sylvia
Hesse, Karen                     Aleutian Sparrow, Out of the Dust
Hopkins, Ellen                     Crank, Glass  
Nelson, Marilyn                   A Wreath for Emmet Till
McCormick, Patricia             Sold
Myers, Walter Dean            Street Love
Roy, Jennifer                     Yellow Star
Smith, Kristen                    Geography of a Girlhood
Sones, Sonya                     Stop Pretending, One of those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies, What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know
Wild, Margaret                   Jinx
Wolff, Virginia                     Make Lemonade,True Believers