The Summer before 7th Grade

Red Kayak
Climbing the Stairs
My Most Excellent Year
Postcards from No Man's Land
The Outsiders
The Schwa was Here
That was then, this is now

The Summer Before 8th grade

Close to Famous
Peeled
Rules of the Road
Boy
More about Boy
Going Solo
The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New world
Marching for Freedom

The Summer before High School

Speak
Catalyst
Where she went
What happened to goodbye
Just listen
Wil Grayson, Will Grayson
Fire
Incarceron
Sapphique
Eon
Eona
Between Shades of Gray

YALSA's Teens' Top Ten

2011

Drought
I am J
You Killed Wesley Payne
Zombies vs. Unicorns
The Lost Gate
The Clockwork Angel
Love, inc.
Matched
Nightshade
Crescendo
Lies
Hex Hall
The Iron King
Red Moon Rising
The Sky is Everywhere
Before I fall
The False Princess
Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel
Sisters Red
Blessed
Behemoth
Paranormalcy
Mockingbird

Take a look at some of the most popular books in my classroom. They run the gamut from “dark” to hysterical.

• Revolution
• Going Bovine
• Bitter End
• Between Shades of Grey
• Life, After
• Spilling Ink
• The Thief
• Shipbreaker
• The Princess Diaries

Airborn

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

Black and White by Paul Volponi

Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America by Jim Murphy

Bloodline.

Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer

Breaking Dawn.

Breathing underwater - Flinn

Brisingr

Can't get there from Here - Strasser

Cathy's Book: If found call (650)266-8233 - Stewart

Charlie Bone

Chinese Cinderella - Mah

Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Chosen by Chaim Potok

Angel of Death, Circle of Blood by Alane Ferguson

Cirque du Freak

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Daughter of the Flames.

Devilish - Johnson

Devouring & Solstice by Simon Holt

Dope Sick by Walter Dean Myers

Dreamland - Dessen

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Eternal

Extras by Scott Westerfeld

Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going

Feathers

Feed by M.T. Anderson

Firegirl - Abbott

First Part Last by Angela Johnson

Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter

Geek Charming.

Go and Come Back

Going for the Record - Swanson

Great and Terrible Beauty

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

How to Ruin My Teenage life - Elkeles

I am the Messenger

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

Inkheart trilogy

It's kind of a funny story - Vizzini

Just like that - Qualey

Key to the Golden Firebird - Johnson

Killer’s Cousin by Nancy Werlin

Lincolns

Living Dead Girl

Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Margaux with an X - Koertge

Melting Stones.

Moves Make the Man

My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr

My sister's keeper - Picoult

Mysterious Benedict Society

No more dead dogs

Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Octavian Nothing

Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

P.S. I love you - Ahern

Perks of Being a Wallflower

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

Pigman by Paul Zindel

Plain Janes

Porcupine Year

Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

Prom anonymous - Nelson

Returnable Girl - Lowell

Rules of Survival

Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer

Runemarks.

Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

Secret Keeper - Perkins

Secret Life of Bees

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar

So Yesterday

Sold - McCormick

Someday this Pain will be Useful to You

Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Stargirl

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher

Stoner & Spaz

Sunrise Over Fallujah

Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray

Tears of a Tiger - Draper

Tender Morsels

This is What I did - Ellis

Trouble begins at 8

Truancy

Truancy: Origins

Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead

Wake

Washington at Valley Forge

We are the Ship

Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block

What I Saw And How I Lied

When You Reach Me.

Wherever Nina Lies

Whirligig

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