Grade 9/10 Suggestions
Literary Texts (*Indicates biography or memoir)
Warriors Don’t cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High*
Melba Pattillo Beals
The Hiding Place*
Corrie Ten Boom
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened*
Allie Brosh
The ABC Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Agatha Christie
Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption*
Katie Davis
Mexican White Boy
Matt de la Pena
Runner
Carl Deuker
A Northern Light
Jennifer Donnelly
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
The reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old boy with Autism*
Naoki Higashida
When I Found You
Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
Legend
Marie Lu
Sunrise Over Fallujah
Walter Dean Myers
Good Enough
Paula Yoo
In Stitches*
Anthony Youn, M.D.
Informational Texts
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens: Simple Ways to Keep Your Cool in Stressful Times
Richard Carlson, PhD
The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make
Sean Covey
I Like Giving: The Transforming Power of a Generous Life
Brad Formsma
Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
Alex and Brett Harris
Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count
Richard Nisbett
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
Rachael Simmons
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Naomi Wolf
Grade 11/12 Suggestions
Literary Texts (*Indicates biography or memoir)
The Eleventh Commandment
Jeffrey Archer
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
Kindred
Octavia Butler
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Sphere
Michael Crichton
This Lovely Life
Vicki Forman
The Racketeer
John Grisham
Unbroken*
Laura Hillenbrand
The Family: a Journey into the Heart of the Twentieth Century*
David Laskin
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10*
Marcus Luttrell
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
This Present Darkness
Frank Peretti
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader*
Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind*
Biz Stone
The Glass Castle*
Jeanette Walls
Informational Texts
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Gregory Boyle
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Susan Cain
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James Loewen
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Amy Stewart