YA Graphic Novel AMERICAN AMERICAN BORN CHINESE

Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in popular culture.

YA Fiction CLAYTON D THE BELLES*

In a world where Beauty is a commodity only a few control, one Belle will learn the dark secrets behind her powers, and rise up to change the world.

HIGH SCHOOL

Suggested Reading List

YA Fiction ADEYEMI T CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE*

Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land in this West African fantasy.

YA Paperback ASHER J THIRTEEN REASONS WHY

High schooler Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide.

YA Paperback FORMAN G IF I STAY While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and young-er brother, Mia weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

YA Fiction ALBERT M THE HAZEL WOOD

When Alice's grandmother, the author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies, Alice is threatened by people who appear to be characters from her grandmother’s book.

YA Fiction BARDUGO L SIX OF CROWS* Criminal prodigy Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams—and save the world from destruction.

YA Fiction GARBER S CARAVAL*

Scarlett is invited to Caraval, a mysterious and legendary performance in which she must locate her sister in the five days be-fore the game is over.

YA Fiction ALBERTALLI B SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA Not-so-openly-gay teen Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate.

YA Paperback BLAKE K ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD*

Cas Lowood’s job is to dispatch the murderous dead, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a ghost unlike any he has faced before.

YA Fiction GOO M I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE

A disaster in romance, high school senior Desi Lee decides to tackle her flirting failures by watching Korean television dramas.

YA Paperback ALEXIE S THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN

Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school.

YA Fiction CAVALLARO B A STUDY IN CHARLOTTE*

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson descendants Charlotte and Jamie, students at a Connecticut boarding school, team up to solve a murder mystery.

YA Fiction GRAUDIN R INVICTUS A group of time-traveling teens races through history to try to stop time and the multiverse from unraveling.

YA Fiction ALI S SAINTS AND MISFITS Janna tries to make sense of events when her best friend's cousin—a holy star in the Muslim community—attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.

YA Fiction CHOI M EMERGENCY CONTACT After a chance encounter, Penny and Sam become each other's emergency contacts and find themselves falling in love over text.

YA Paperback GREEN J PAPER TOWNS Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo takes him on a midnight adventure and then disappears.

*First in a series

YA Fiction LACOUR N WE ARE OKAY

After leaving everything behind in California, eighteen-year-old Marin must confront her grief and the truths that caused her to flee her home.

YA Fiction PAN E THE ASTONISHING COLOR OF AFTER After her mother's suicide, Leigh travels to Taiwan determined to find her mother, who she believes turned into a bird.

YA Graphic Novel SPINNING SPINNING

When Tillie falls in love with art—and a girl—she begins to question whether she really belongs in the close-minded world of figure skating.

Fiction LEE H TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

A young girl growing up in Alabama in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.

YA Fiction REINTGEN S NYXIA* Emmett accepts an interstellar space contract but learns en route that to win the promised fortune, he and nine other recruits face a brutal competition.

YA Paperback STIEFVATER M THE RAVEN BOYS*

When Blue Sargent, who comes from a family of clairvoyants, meets Gansey, a boy from the nearby private school, she becomes embroiled in a strange quest.

YA Fiction LOCKHART E WE WERE LIARS

Spending the summer on a private island with her cousins and a boy named Gat, Cadence struggles to remember what happened last summer.

YA Fiction ROWELL R ELEANOR AND PARK

The story of two star-crossed misfits—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

YA Fiction THOMAS A THE HATE U GIVE

After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr’s life is complicated when the police and others try to discover what happened that night.

YA Fiction LU M WARCROSS*

When Emika hacks her way into the opening tournament of the Warcross Championships, she glitches herself into the game as well as a sinister plot.

YA Fiction SALINGER J THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Holden Caufield, knowing he is to be ex-pelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did there.

YA Paperback YOON N EVERYTHING EVERYTHING

When a new family moves next door, Maddy, a girl who is literally allergic to the outside world, begins a romance that challenges everything she's ever known.

YA Fiction MCMANUS K ONE OF US IS LYING When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four students, all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case.

YA Fiction SCHWAB V THIS SAVAGE SONG* As the heirs to opposing sides in a warring city, Kate Harker and Augustus Flynn should never have met. A Romeo and Juliet-esque fantasy blurring good and evil.

YA Paperback ZUSAK M THE BOOK THIEF

Death tells the story of Liesel—a young German girl whose book-stealing talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding in the midst of WWII.

YA Fiction MENON S WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI When Dimple and Rishi meet at a sum-mer program, Dimple is avoiding her par-ents' obsession with "marriage pro-spects" but Rishi hopes to woo her.

YA Graphic Novel SPEAK SPEAK: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL

After calling the cops on a party over the summer, Melinda starts high school as a social outcast. Only Melinda knows what really happened that night.

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