Summer 2018

CUA Media for Young Adults: Reading List

Two Required Books

  • Essentials of Young Adult Literature, 3rd edition (Short, Tomlinson, Lynch-Brown, Johnson) ISNB-13 978-0133522273
  • The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

READ FOUR OF THE FOLLOWING TITLES (at least one by each author) to prepare for a Socratic Seminar later in the term:

  • All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven, The Fault in our Stars by John Green, Looking for Alaska by John Green, Paper Towns by John Green,Turtles All the Way Down by John Green, Between Shades of Gray by RutaSepetys, Out of the Easy by RutaSepetys, Salt to the Sea by RutaSepetys

READ TWO OF THE FOLLOWINGREALISTIC FICTION TITLES:

  • Shine by Lauren Myracle OR The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider OR If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth ORThe Serpent King by Jeff Zentner OR The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith OR Dear Martin byNic Stone

FOR THE FOLLOWING 15GENRES, SELECT 10 BOOKS BUT EACH OF YOUR 10 MUST BE FROM A DIFFERENT GENRE:

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE:Code of Honor by Alan Gratz ORThis is Where it Endsby Marieke Nijkamp OR Girl Underwater by Claire Kells or Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller OR Now is the Time for Running by Michael Williams
  • CHARACTERS WITH EXCEPTIONAL QUALITIES: Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco Stork OR Mockingbird by Katherine Erskine OR Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper OR Rain Reign by Ann Martin OR Girls Like Us by Gail Giles OR The Memory of Light by Francisco Stork or Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling by Lucy Frank OR The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
  • DYSTOPIAN: Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness OR Unwind by Neal Shusterman OR Ashfall by Mike Mullin OR An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir OR Flawed by Cecelia Ahearn OR Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
  • FANTASY: Michael Vey: Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Evans OR The False Prince by Jennifer NielsenOR Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers OR Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A.S.King OR The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye OR Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor OR Wishtree by Katherine Applegate OR Ink, Iron, and Glass by Gwendolyn Clare
  • GRAPHIC WORKS: Yummy: the last days of a Southside Shorty by Greg Neri OR American Born Chineseby Gene YangOR Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs OR This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki OR ANY volume of the March trilogy by John Lewis
  • HISTORICAL FICTION: Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly OR Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow OR Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick OR Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross OR All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr OR Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott OR Beck by Mal Peet OR Refugee by Alan Gratz OR Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson OR The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
  • HUMOR: Don’t Get Caughtby Kurt Dinan OR I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil… by Josh Lieb OR Bad Decisions Playlist by Michael Rubens OR The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
  • MYSTERY: Stolen by Lucy Christopher OR Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick OR Fake ID by Lamar Giles OR We Were Liars by E. Lockhart OR With Malice by Eileen Cook OR Too Shattered for Mending by Peter Hoffmeister
  • NONFICTION: Every Falling Star by Sungju Lee OR Bus 57 by Dashka Slater OR Vincent and Theo: the Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman OR Journeys: Young Readers’ Letters to Authors Who Changed Their Lives (Library of Congress)
  • REALISTIC FICTION WITH LGBT FOCUS: If I was Your Girlby Meredith Russo OR Unbecoming by Jenny Downham OR I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson ORTwo Boys Kissing by David Levithan OR Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli OR We Are Okay by Nina LaCour OR They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
  • ROMANCE: Written in the Stars by Aesha Saeed OR Trouble by Nan Pratt OR Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell ORThis Raging Light by Estelle Laure OR The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
  • SCIENCE FICTION: Zeroboxerby Fonda Lee OR Scythe by Neal Shusterman OR Across the Universe by Beth Reavis OR Unwind by Neal Shusterman OR Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld OR Warcross by Marie Lu OR Nyxiaby Scott Reintgen
  • SPORTS: Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher OR Leverage by Josh Cohen OR The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen OR The Crossover by Kwame Alexander OR On the Road to Find Out by Rachel Toor OR Hit Count by Christ Lynch OR Biggie by Derek Sullivan OR Backfield Boys by John Feinstein
  • URBAN FICTION: Tyrell by Coe Booth OR How It Went Down by KeklaMagoon OR All-American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely OR The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas or American Street by IbiZoboi OR Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
  • VERSE WORKS: The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle OR Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Weatherford OR My Book of Life by Angel by Martine Leavitt OR Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson OR Death Coming up the Hill by Chris Crowe OR The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

PLUS one or two additional student-selected young adult works.