SUMMER READING LIST
HIGH SCHOOL
Provided by the Enoch Pratt Free Library
The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odysseyin
the New China by Matthew Polly
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
The Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers
Ball Don’t Lie by Matt de la Pena
The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper
Beacon Hills High by Mo’Nique
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klaus
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
Born In Sin by Evelyn Coleman
Broken China by Lori Aurelia Williams
Burn by Suzanne Williams
Caramelo, or, Puro cuento : a novel by Cisneros, Sandra
The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
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Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Does My Head Look Big in This? By Randa Abdel-Fattah
Double Helix by Nancy Werlin
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
First Part Last by Angela Johnson
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Gil’s All Fright Diner by A. Martinez
Glass by Ellen Hopkins
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Grace After Midnight by Felicia “Snoop” Pearson
He Said, She Said by Kwame Alexander
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride
Homeboyz by Alan L. Sitomer
How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford
The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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The Huntress by Malinda Lo
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
I Beat the Odds : From Homelessness, To the Blind Side, and Beyond by Michael Oher
Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Letters to a Young Brother : Manifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper
Letters to a Young Sister : Define Your Destiny by Hill Harper
Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography by Andrew Helfer and Randy DuBurke
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
My Jim by Nancy Rawles
My Own Worst Frenemy by Kimberly Reid
Nevermore by Kelly Creach
Night Road by A. M. Jenkins
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Nothing to Lose by Alex Flinn
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream by Sampson Davis
Panic by Sharon Draper
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Patterson Heights by Felicia Pride
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Pinned by Sharon Flake
Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins
Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Song Yet Sung by James McBride
Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans by Roland Owen Laird
Stitches by David Small
Street Love by Walter Dean Myers
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Twists and Turns by Janet McDonald
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
The Walking Dead by Robin Wasserman
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
What Happened to Cass McBride? by Gail Giles
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